Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-05-24
THAT PORTLAND ADrERTISER LET.
PORTLAND. Saturday Eyn'g, )

IER
PORTLAND, Saturday Evn'g, May %, 1875.
To tie Editor ofthe HenneJec journal.
knew my first communication would touch
Mr. Richardson on the "raw." am not surprised
therefore to see his wriggling response in your
paper of this morning. He acknowledges now
that the &c, NJ letter from Augusta, went to
the compssitor in his own handwriting, but still
he rc-asserts the existence Ct that man in buckram
"of character and POS ion" VITO is the real author.
At last accounts Mr.. Richardson IS understood TO
be busily engaged hunting up an accessory Gttfr
tie .fact-some fellow III Augusta who is sufficient
ly mcndacious to assume the authorship and thus
attempt to lie Mr.. X. on: Of an ugly scrapa. Pro-
baby he will succeed il finding the CONVENIENT
substitute, for know some Of Mr. Richardson's
pals in Augusta who would be mean enough TO do
even that The public, lowevel, has settled down
in the belief that Mr.. Richardson, as first stated,
manufactured the fal>ehood" and he is now hor-
riby mortified in being caught and exposed Pass
him around.
Mr.. Richard on does not help himself out Of his
falschood by the petty little assertion tina. "i is
now conceded that the vote confirming MIR. iiobey
was dictated by Mr. Blaine" BY that assertion
he shifts the issue and makes very groundless,
very ungentlemanly and very silly fling at the five
honorable councillors who voted for the confrma-
ton, and who would scorn to have any vote dcta-
ted by any man. Mr.. Rs first assertion, made
without qualification, was that Mr.. Blaine was IN
the Council Chamber when the vote was taken
That is now shown to be a falsehood on the testl-
mony of three councillors-and seven could be
had if necessary-and it is now farther evident
that Mr.. r richardson himself manufactured the
falsehood."
Guilty men always expect that spies are round
them, and "some spy has discovered" he
says, chat the c. NJ. letter went to the com
pos itor in his own handwriting" Let me
tell Mr.. Richardson some other things
that another spy discovered. Tired of abusing
and manufacturing falsehoods" about MIR. Blaine,
the brilliant thought occurred to Mr.. Richardson
several months since, that he would utterly crush
that gentleman by giving orders that Mr. Blane's
name should never appear in the columns OF the
Advertiser. Subordinates on the Advertiser were
instructed to quote no article containing any RET
erence TO Mr.. Blaine-and to rgdy exclude his
name even from the kilograms of the Associated
Press. This practice was kept up with the utmost
assiduity for some months. 1t was peculiarly
noticeable at the close Of the lac session Of Con-
gress, when Mr.. Bane's name was very conspicu-
ousy in the Associated Press dispatches for several
days in connection with the brilliant proceedings
at the adjournment of Congress. But not word
about Mr.. Blaine appeared in the Advertiser, and
to utterly suppress his name it was necessary for
Mr.. Richardson to exclude from his columns all
the closing proceedings Of the House of Represcn-
tatiyes. Was Mr. Richardson disappointed in the
sensation that this course was expected to
create? and does he find that somehow people do
learn something about Mr. Blaine without the
aid of the Advertiser: Has Mr.. Richardson in
deed found that he has only been playing the part
of the little dog barking at the moon, and that the
moon has kept right on And now, judging from
his communication to your paper, the little dog
has changed his bark into whine.
Let me congratulate you, Mr. Editor. on the
keenness of your editorial in this mornings paper
exposing Mr.. Richardson's wriggling-so keen in
deed is it that this communication seems unneces-
sary and would not be written except for the pur-
pose Of letting people on the kennebcc know that
the false petty scandalous, malignant course of
the Advertiser towards Mr.. Blaine has no sympa-
thizers in Portland except among set who
contemplate in numbers as they are in motive, and
of these Mr.. Richardson is .fdcile princeps.
BRAMHALL.