The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-02

country, is the best that has ever been de-
vised." Now you must either repudiate
your position or repudiate the President.
You can't blame the South for desiring to
continue the best currency the world ever
saw. Isn't this position, after all, about
as absurd Us the other one, that it is very
wrong for the Democracy to seek to ad-
vance Southern interests? And while YOU
were imputing money dishonesty to Dem
ocrats, there sat within ten feet Of YOU the
editor of your own local organ, who is to-
| day an advote of rag money and imitation
| Mr.. Hale is alarmed at the number OF
Confederates in Congress. The country
| at large is glad to see them there. as the
| best sign of reconciliation and union
They are there under an oath to support
the Constitution. The country is now
their country Their interests and their
hopes are bound up in it, for its welfare
is their welfare 1t is a light to warm Il
patriots heart to see these men, so re-
Gently in arms against the Union, now it
sworn defenders We are sorry that the
representative in Congress OF this district
has Tor it no warmer OF more patriotic
comment than at is allowable There
is more generous treatment of gallant Of
| ticers in the south than in this section
| We remember. when Gen. Banks was
candidate for Congress last fall in Massa-
chusetts, that the whole power Of the al
ministration was used for his defeat ia
navy yard was corruptly colonized-Mr
Blaine, Mr.. Frye, and if we mistake not
| MI Hale himself went into his district t.
oppose him. But the people gave him 4
triumphant election. If the Republican
party could have had its way there
would have been one less Union officer
in that body. 1t is now laboring hard &c
defeat Gen. Roberts, another deserving
and gallant army officer.
We had hoped to hear from Mr. Hale
some reasons for the great business de-
preston and some promises of improve
ment; some explanation Of the enormous
government expenses; Of the needless
increase of salaries; of the third term
scheme; of the terribly burdensome tax
alton in state and nation. But there was
not one word He could not even indulge
in the illusions Of hope on these subjects
The attention of our readers is called t.
the dignlicd and sensible speech made by
Hon. j. G. Madigan. in response to ser
cnade by his neighbors and friends. The
denial Of the SANDER that he connived al
the alleged frauds in 1868, must be.accept
ed as final. In fact the foolish yarn reviy-
ed by the kennebcc Journal belongs to
that class Of evidence which proves toe
much. Pixies partisan report was quite rs
severe upon judge Peters as upon Mr.
Madlgan. No one believes for moment
that the Judge participated in such frauds
as are alleged Yet it is impossible TO
separate the two If one is held to be in
nocent. the other must be also. Judge
Peters was twice elected to Congress in
| that district, but no Democrat had the
meanness to revive this false and libellolls
tale concerning him. The blind malice
which set atloat that absurd story is evi
dence Of the alarm felt by the radicals at
Mr.. Madigan's popularity, and the teal
that the people of his district, without re.
gard to party, may elect him As q repre-
sentative man of the section.