Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-23
COR DOCTOR.

Agricultural College romance, ana this
time be goes for the two democrats
Franklin Smith of Waterville, and Will
liam K. Lancey of Pittsfeld, who he says
shared the plumber" He says "a rob-
berry was committed" and he "inds the
stolen goods in possession ofthe robbers"
This is hard language to apply to Frank
lin Smith, especially in view of the fact
that DR.. Jordan urged him upon the peo-
pie Of Maine for Governor in 1869 when
he was the regular candidate. and that
was three years after 1.-THE robbery was
committed"
What a shame it is that an honest and
conscientious citizen like DIR. Jordan
should even in an unguarded moment
have been betrayed into supporting such
man as Franklin Smith. whom be is now
compelled to denounce in the columns OF
the Maine Standard as sharing plumber
and being guilty of robbery"
And poor Bill Lancey! He has been
sharing in plunder' and guilty of rob-
bery"too And the Maine Standard so
parades him. What grand moral spec
tacle is presented in having the Maine
Standard. hitherto the very political Bible
of Lancey, hold him up to public. scorn as a
"sharer in plumber" and engaged "in a
robbery Had we ventured to apply
such cpithets to Smith & Lancey how the
Standard would have denounced US as
slanderers and libelers
But the pinch of the game as DIR. Jor-
dan tells us lies In the fact that he knows
twenty Bangor gentlemen who made an
effort to purchase portion of these lands
and did not get an acre! Precisely their
bids are all on file now at the State House.
They wanted eighty thousand acres at
torty.fre cents an acre and there were
other men that offered more. Here's the
pinch! Is DR.. Jordan the organ OF that
disappoi nted ring in Bangor who wanted
the land at forty-iive cents an acre and
couldn't get itP How much was the DR..
to get in case that bid had been success
full, and how much does he get now for
slandering the living and the dead who
did not permit it to be successful?
now THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
SCRIP WAS ADVERTISED.
When the Trustees of the Agricultural
College formally requested the Governor
and Council to sell the Land Scrip the FOL
lowing advertisement was published:
STATE OF MAINE,
Executive Department.
Augusta, Dec. 81, 1865,
SALE OF UNITED STATES LAND SCRIP.
Proposals will be received till the first day OF
March by His Excellency Samuel Cony, Govern
or of the State of Maine, for the purchase OF the
land scrip issued to said state for the endowment
of . college for the benefit Of agricultural and me-
chanic arts in quantities not less than i've thous-
and acres. Terms, cash, payable in lawful money
at the office of Treasurer OF State OF Name at
Augusta, or ct the Suffolk National Bank, Boston,
in twenty DAYS after notice issued Of acceptance of
offer. The scrip to be delivered at Augusta.
Right to reject proposals reserved
An offers will be directed to the address Of the
Secretary of State, Augusta, Name, and endorsed
on the outside Proposals for Agrlcuitrsi college
Scrip. EPHRAiA FLINT, Secy OF STATE
The Report of the Executive Council
certified to by Secretary Flint says this ad-
vertisement was published for more than
two months ''in the state paper published
at Augusta, in the Boston Daily Advertis-
err, in the New York Journal of Commerce,
and the New York Daily and Weekly Tri-
bune. in the Chicago Tribune and the st.
Louis Democrat, which was accordingly
DONE"
In Gov. Cony's message January LIST,
1866. special attention was called to this
advertisement and thus it was made wide
" prominent and public. Besides it will
be seen by the papers selected that it was
brought to the attention Of all persons
throughout the whole country likely to.
purchase lands, being advertised from
Dec. Fl to March 1st, ten consecutive
weeks in Maine, in Boston, New York.
Chicago and St. Louis.
But you cant get any Democratic paper
in Maine to publish these simple facts.
Honest souls! they have no time for such
light amusement as telling truth to the
people.