The Republican journal., 1875-11-18


ss-In sending money, state THE POST OFFICE
to which the paper is sent
The Belfast journal saws that the Democratic
party is not 50 foolish us to 90 into the cam
paign with any definite theory relative to the
currency or administering the government save
| the promise OF reform. That they will promise
The present generation Of the Democracy in lis
earlier days once had control of the general
government. Does the journal wish us to ac-
c"pt the administration of Mr. Buchanan rs Il
model of Il Democratic reform administration !:
In later years, the party has held several State
governments Has the journal discovered any
| indications OF reform through the agency of the
| Democracy in Ohio, Indiana Illinois or Mary
| land True. Gov. Tilden asSaled the canal
| ring in New York. but the noise he has made
about it and the recent failure of the Democratic
canal board To support him goes to prove that
| his Democratic associates cannot be trusted to
| sustain him. We trust the Journal will not
i,in>tance New York City. with its 81 900 Demo-
cratic majority, and its debt of more than one
/ hundred millions, largely contracted within the
past twelve years, us Il sample of Democratic
! reform. The next House of Representatives is
Democratic and who are the retormers who are
most prominently mentioned for the office of
| speaker: Mr. Kerr, who has a sort of negative
record for goodness, except during the rebellion
| When he mad Il positive record for badness, and
@rahberS. Certainly, the journal cannot eX-
poet people in general to take much faith in
! Democratic professions of devotion to reform
with the evidences OF the tendency of the De-
morratic partS leaders. Portland Press.
Our gentle contemporary will remem-
Der that the article to which it alludes
contained words OF counsel to Democrats,
that they shall not permit themselves to
be led OIL on false and frivolous Issues
but press squarely and constantly the
great living and important one of the
need Of reform. Mr.. Buchanan is dead,
and so are most of those who took part
in his administration. 1t has passed into
history. investigation will show that
whatever dishonest acts were perpetrated
by men under it were by those who joined
the Republican party as soon as the war
gave them Il preteNt, and have since been
among the most blatant Of loyal thieves
their state governments If professions
OF reform were not carried out, the REM
edy lies with the people of those states,
not with the voters Of Maine or of the
United States The same is true of New
York. We are talking of the need of re-
form in the administration of the general
government. The people of the states
and municipalities named have separate
remedies, which, when disposed to, they
can apply, without asking the approba-
ton Of newspapers either in Portland or
Belfast
Mr. Kerr needs no defence from US :;
and the attack of the Press comes W it'll
i'll grace from & paper that sustains Pres
ident Grant, whose most intimate Virginia
friend is the guerrilla Mosby, whose late
Attorney General was the confederate
Alderman, and who appointed General
l.ongstreet, Lees right arm" to the best
Office in New Orleans. The Press says
Randall and Wood took their part of the
salary grab Granted But who made it
possible ior them to pocket it? The vote
Of Il Republican House, Of a Republican
Senate, and the approval of Gen Grant,
stimulated by a bride to himself OF hun
'lrcd thousand dollars by its provisions
We propose that the Democracy OF the
country shall address itself to the work of
reform where it mas the power to reform
ignoring such false and impossible is
sues rs the Press would raise. The ap-
prehensions Of our contemporary need
not be 50 much alive to the coming speak
cr, whether or not he is to be u salary
gr;lbber; but should be directed to the
Investigations which that Democratic
House. when once organized, with its
power to send tor persons and papers,
shall make into the various departments
OF the administration. There are certain
to be some very ugly revelations concern
ing the innumerable scandals, beginning
at the White House, and running down
through all grades in all departments of
the public service. The people are like
lY to get some much needed information.
Let the Press utter the lamentations of it's
prophetic soul in that direction.
lhe journal ln1erS from our article charge
by us that the two democratic members of the
jury who were elected to office, made a corrupt
bargain with our city rumsellers, whereby their
influence as members of the panel was sold for
votes. This inference is false. The just infer
ence would be. that the course of the liquor
sellers in the election created an undue and i'm
DrODpT bias fhpIr favor in their minds TprO.
grcsSive Age.
That does not at all mend the matter.
Either theory is equally an imputation
upon men who had a duty to perform.
whose mouths were and are sealed as to
the particulars. If these men felt at lib
erty to make explanations, they could
doubtless give satisfactory reasons for
their course. The Age is therefore in
no reply.
There is another view of this matter,
fair and Just one, which entirely over
throws the party theory of the Age. The
prosecuting attorney was in the jury
room during all these transactions. 1t is
his duty to urge the finding of indict-
ments in eases which he presents for ac-
ton. He is the representative of the
state in its dealings with offenders He
is the proper medium of communication
between the grand jury and the court.
If members are guilty of sins of omission
or commission. it is the duty of the attor-
ney to call the attention of the court to the
facts, that they may be dealt with. Col.
Fogler, being Il Republican. could have
had no sympathy with the Democratic ju-
rors in any misbehavior of the kind charg-
ed. The fact that he made no complaint
to the court, Notwithstanding his presence
with the jury and full knowledge of its
acts. is conclusive AGAINST the theory of