, 1874-07-10

who arc tho party In power, dotorminod not to b
beaten, will tako them at their word, and enforo
It to tho iottcr.
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THE INDEPENDENT pREss AND IT'S VIC
TINS.
Mr. Hannibal Hamlin, Of the stato Of Maine
has boon making IN address at Dangor and a.
was necessary for him to say sonething, this i
what ho said:
Tho so-called Independent" press has nothing t
do but Boanalizo tho Whole people, aud p,ibilo mon Ii
particular; It in tho food tl,oy 1.-Two on.
It is so long Bfnco We have aoen Afr. uamln!
namo In print. eithor In tho Independent pros.
or any other, TINT wo Ind forgotten there WAS .
sonator OF tho United statoB benying that pas,
ronynio. Being awaro, perhaps, that 1ia onl,
ground OF compliant against tho independent
press WIS Its failure to scaudallzo" him. lo pro,
coded to ronark TINT It (the preas aforesa,d) had
| mover accused him OF stealing, "but God knows
how soon they will " Very likoly. It may also
DO assumed thnt God knows how soon thoy won't.
They won't begin until he commences to stoal,
aud that will be the very tlmo whcn ho will bo
most oxasperated at finding his name tn print.
Generally, correct Judgment can bo formed Of
tho guilt or innocence Of public man under
accusation by observing bia contortions. II ho
is innocent, he will either not notice tho aoouga-
tton, or will mako q prompt and good-temperod
doninl II ho Ia guilty, ho will most likely roar
like bull Of Bashan, threaton nbol
suit, and utter como jargon about the
1fHhr$tNrQnaad ~ A1xr
Inns utterance ut Bangor, however, is not
to bo taken as evidence Of guilt, since 1o Inns not
boon undor accusation. It is evidently tho pro-
duct Of foeblo mind In dlro oxtromity for some-
thing to say. As ono representative OF tho
malovolont and scandalizing Independent proaa
wo BOY to Mr.. Hamlin Do for neayon's sako
rob olothos-lino. Got yourself indicted for
something. II It vas not given you to IIro the
Ephoaian dome, you can at lcast suck an cgg or
knock tho boards OF pig-pen. Dispel tic
everlasting monotony that surrounds tho scat of
Hamlin.
Whoever put Mr. Hamlin up to this brnying, It
affords tho toxt for I'LL observation on tho ro-
maskablo fact that tho Independent press, worry
fow In numbors as 1t Is, sooms to be Of moro &C.
count to the politicians than all tho Republican
and Democratic newspapers combinud. It is as-
Rumed by them that Republican newspaper
will not critioiso with any aovcrity Republican
of1lcoAolaer. There aro few exceptions, 1t is
trno, but. those exceptions are semt-1udepondent
newspapers and arc only tri1o loss licentious
and "acandallzlng" than tho Independent
press- II a Democratic newspaper aBsails
Republican ofucoholdor, no roply Is need
ed, OF courso, because TINT ia ita trade.
1ta vocation, according to tho low standard Of
modern politics. is to toll lies about tho othor
sldo' or to swap lies With tho organs OF the op-
posing party hut lot an Independent ncwara-
per- II 1T haTo any character Of its own, mako n
ohargo upon an ollcohodor' etthor Republican
or oomooratlo, and Homo begins to howl forth
With Ihon, and not TIL then, do TO hear loud
ob1urgations from Credit Mobilier gentry, sala- !
rS-grahoere, rlngmnstors, ct i'd genus on1nc, con-
corning tho depravity Of tho pross. Then, and |
not oofore' do "o witness efforts to muzzo tho