Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-10-28
ve condition of our further con-

imperative condition of our further con-
nection with any newspaper in Bangor,
were not conducted by the friends OF
Mr.. Hamlin" but by prominent citizens
who thought with perhaps too much gem
erosity) that our management of the pa
per for nearly five years had been such as
to merit public confidence and to afford
assurance of its future usefulness under
our control. To those gentlemen, who
acted solely by their own volition and who
were actuated solely by their desire TO
have the leading and favoritc newspaper
of this city continue under the control OF
what they deemed honest, independent
and trustworthy hands, we are indebted
for personal courtesies, for words OF APP
proval and encouragement and for friend
" influence of q character which would
have scorned the idea of placing US under
other obligation than that OF honorable
friendship.
We never have been. are not nov, and
do not expect to be. under any obligation
whatever, pecuniary or otherwise, beyond
the ordinary civilities of life, to Senator
Hamlin or his friends. He would never
think of attempting to exercise, and could
not exercise if he desired, the slightest
control of the course of this paper upon
any imaginable subject 1t is hardly nee
essary to say that he never made such an
attempt, but we may add that he has
ever been chary OF that counsel which we
would sometimes gladly have taken with
a distinguished fellow-citizen of so long
experience and familiarity with public al
fairs; that we cannot now recall even q
single suggestion from him, intended to
:: in tho nnarly five
years of of our management of this paper.
During the whole of that period there has
been no time when we doubted that his
candidacy for the Senate would command
the practically united support of the Re
pubicans of this section, or when we lelt
that this paper should do otherwise than
Join most cordially in that support.
In the face of the foolish ISLANDERS refer
red to we do not feel that it infringes in
the slightest degree upon our dignity to
state in the most explicit language at our
command that in purchasing the absolute
and unquestioned controlling interest IN
this paper which we, Ghe Editor,
whose name appears at the head
of these columns) now own, the
only pecuniary obligation under which we
were or are placed was and is to one gen
tleman in this city, personal 1flenu anu
relative, who never had a political aspira-
ton in his life; who has not now nor ever
had the slightest connection with any po-
litical clique, cotere or faction; who
takes as slight an interest az is possible
for good citizen in the Senatorial or
any other political contest; whose rela-.
tons with Senator Hamlin are simply of
that casual nature which exists between
fellow-townsmen who has no axes Of any
character to grind; and who would as
soon think of cutting off his right hand as
of using our grateful appreciation of his
friendship as preteXt for the least inter-
ference with our editorial course. Aside
from our own convictions, an honorable
consistency, and proper Difference for
public sentiment, there is nothing what
ever. in our relations with Senator Ham.
lin or any other human being to prevent
our abandonment of his support to-mor-
row, if we should choose to take such
course. If there is any journal in Maine
whose conductor enjoys more absolute
independence than the Editor of the Wing
and Courier, we shall be happy to con-
graduate him upon his good fortune