Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-07
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all ready for the contest? Are they alive
to the importance of the result Arc they
actively engaged in preparations Tor
bringing out fall republican vote? t.l
4 few days yet remain in which much
may be done to give the grand Republi-
can majority which we are able and ought
to give for SELDEN CONNOR. The Re-
publicans of other States are looking to the
result in Maine for encouragement. II
our majority next Monday shall fall below
what it was a year ago, the Democrats
will claim the prestige of victory. We
must increase our majority in order to
have that clear evidence of victory which
will ring over the country as an assurance
that the Republican party is still true to its
high trust, and will move with one pur-
pose and undivided and inVinci5lc strength
upon the State Rights Democracy-tha,
party now led and controlled by those men
who were leaders in the Southern Confcd-
eracy-leaders in that gigantic rebellion
which was one of the worst crimes agains,
Humanity and Nationality ever perpctrat-
in any country.
A glance at the position of parties us in.
dictated by the representative men at the
head of their respective tickets and
the principles to which they are committed,
is sufficient to convince every Republican
OF his duty to support his party in this
election With all his might. The dividing
lines between the two great parties were
never more distctly drawn than in this
contest. The peculiar traits of both par
ties are apty delineated by the leading
candidate of each.
General CHARLES w. ROBERTS, en-
tered the army as an officer. remained
about year. at the end of which time, in
the most gloomy period of the whole war,
he resigned because. as he said, ABE
LINCOLN WENT TO BED A WHITE
MAN AND GOT UP A Niger" and
came home to act in concert with the
worst copperheads in the State as an ally
of jeff. Davis. He holds to the pernic-
iors doctrine of State Rghts-the doctrine
t on which the rebellion was based. He is
of that party which despisos the word,
NATION, and believes that our constitu-
, ton is but league between SOVEREIGN
and INDEPENDENT States-a belief which
if it should again control the gov ernment
would be as certain to cause another rebel
lion rs that it was responsible for the last.
If we can believe the Bangor Commercial,
his Immediate home organ, he desires the
election of Mr.. Allen in Ohio, although
the consequence of that election would be
the triumph of imitation and rag money,
not only in Ohio but in the next democratic
national convention. General Roberts
voted for Mcclellan on IA peace platform
in 1864. for Horatio Seymour on a repudi
alton platform in 1868, and for Pillsburv
as governor and Marcellus Emery as rep
resentative in Congi ess--thc two most |
notorious aud disreputable copperheads in
the State. lie took particular pains at
the beginning of the campaign to avow |
himself an enemy of Prohibition. although |
that has long been settled as the policy of
the State. He is an advocate of free rum
and consider temperance "clog to |
business and to the prosperity of the
State. Such in brief is Mr.. Roberts. the |
candidate of the democracy for governor
The republican candidate, General Sell
DEN COMMON, has the record of a brave
soldier, an untiring patriot. honorable
wounds received on the battlefield. a spot.
less private character, liberal culture. and
a heart in full sympathy with the grand
principles of the republican party He
entered the army private at the COM
mencement Of the rebellion, participated
with distinguished gallantry in many of
the bloodiest battles of the war. won his
promotion by merit, and remained in ac-
| i've service until he was struck down in
battle by the bullets of the enemy, falling
n the thickest of the fight and was car
ried off the field as it was supposed in a
dying condition, but recovered after long
suffering, though crippled for life. A
noble record this. Shall not such men be
IL.