The Republican journal., 1874-03-12
The Terrible Democrats.

The pious soul of the kenncbec Journal
is in distress The Journal that sitteth as
a hen at the political centre of the State,
and gathereth all the institutions thereof
under its brooding wings and protecting
care. 1t matters not that some Of the eggs
thereof have not Matched. but are hindered
by sluggish parturition and peryaded bv
an ancient odor. The affection of the State
paper departs not from what is both radi-
cal and rotten. 1t scratches in the yield
ing earth for the sayory worm wherewith
its adolescent chicks may be nourished: it
picks for them the sustaining bug: il
cackles at the door Of the treasury for the
nutritious corn From the sources of the
great rivers to the ocean. from kittery to
Quoddv. doth this ambitious hen spread
herself. with a ceaselesS watch that like
the care of Providence * over all things
The Democratic hawk, lowering high in
air, with bloody speculation in its eyes and
hunger in its NAV, is the terror of that
honest life When the shadow of this
fierce bird falls athwart the ground, then
doth the official hen lutlie with fight and
squawk with the note Of warning The
motley brood that shelters in the stone
coop at Thomaston has Of late been the
object of Solicitude to this maternal
Shanghac She has seen the eyes of the
hawk on that parti-colored brood And
this is the way She puts it
There is 4 vast difference between publishing
communications i'll 4 newspaper alleging wrong
doing in public institution. and the moving of
an investigation that costs thousands Of dollars
to the State. Republican papers did publish
articles but il was the democrats who ordered
and insisted upon the inN eStigation. They do
not seem 10 he very much gratitied with the re-
suit. or they would not try to sllrk RESPONSE
hlity.
Now. to drop metaphor for a moment,
one would think that the republican Off
cals had simply stood aside, waving their
enormou, Legislative maiorites, the pos
session OF the executive and NJ, other Of
fees, and let the democracy run the ma
chine in this matter But. rs y matter of
fact, we find that Governor Din%lcv him
self suggested an investigation into the
affairs Of the prison In his inaugural
message he said
Inasmuch As ii i thought by some that it
would be more equitable 10 the public. and
more advantageous To the State, TO dispose of
the labor of the conyicts to contractors, | would
suggest that Your committee on that institution
INVESTIGATE TIE SUBJECT, and give a hearing
to all persons interested ip this or ANY OTHER
MATTER CONNECTED WITH THE MANAGEMENI
OF THE PRISON.
10 the ordinary mind, unlntluenced by
the finer and more subtle nourishment on
which the Journal feeds the chickens that
gather about its Intellectual dough dish
this would seem to be the only suggesting,
OF ordering, or insisting that was done in
the premises, with any power TO make il
self felt Disappointed politicians may
write, and newspapers may publish, and
minorities may desire TO inVcStigate-na
may order and insist-but unless higher
power 80 nrdainS there can be no inv est
tion
So, as arepnbliran writer charged fraud,
a republican paper published the charge,
republican Governor officially suggested
Investigation, and a republican Legislature
voted it-Whcre in the world does the re-
Sponsibiity of the democracy come in :?
VIII the oNer-carctul protector Of the
brood investigate, and see if this lame
chicken hasn't been Stepped CA by herself