Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-15
KENNEBEC JOURNAL.
CAMPAIGN EDITION !!
FOR 1875.
To be issued Three Months, Begin
ming Juno 81, Closing Sept. Is.

The great political contest is pressing rapidly
upon us. This Centennial Year Of the Nation is
to decide whether tt principles OF ll76 OF the
administrations of George Washington and Of
Abraham Lincoln, are to be maintained, or wheth-
er counter revolution representing the political
dc ctrines of John c. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis,
and the Confederate Democracy, shall prevail, and
thus in large degree undo the best results of the
war for the Union, which cost so much treasure
and much precions blood. For the first time
silce the flames of civil war were lighted by the
leaders of the Democratic party that political or
ganzation has now the control of the National
House of Representatives, and the prevailing ami
mus and drift Of the ma ority of that body we'll may
fill the patriots of the uion with alarm 1t is clear
ly obvious that all the worst elements which have
opposed the principles and objects Of the Republl
can party the last fifteen years, have combined
with the determination by fair means or foul, by
fraud force, to obtain control of the National
Government and put it on the track in which it
moved in the DAYS of Pierce, Davis, Mason, and
Slldel. The party which is in this aggressive at
tltude towards the tried friends Of Liberty, the
Union and National Faith, is under the complete
control of the Southern Confederates and Tam
many Hall. Ill., Lamar, and Beck of the South
ern Democracy, and Eaton, Tilden, and liendrlcks
OF the Northern Democracy, represent the identl-
cal political dogmas of the National admnstra-
tions of the eight years Immediately prior 10 the
Rebe lion. The success Of the Democratic party
in 1876 would be to place the National Govern
ment under the absolute control of the Confeder
ate pOllt1ClanS anu tue Cnlel5 Oh 1alnLn I1al
Never a more dangerous and insolent combination
| tOuted before the American people. This threat
ened revolutionary reaction must be met by all the
patriotic and vigorous determination which ear
nest and resolute freemen know how to call into
action. Not only must all the results of the war
be malntained-a rescued and reconstructed na-
ton and emancipated race-but the plighted
faith of the Republic as to National bonds and
specie currency, must be preserved against all
| assaults, come from whatever quarter they may
Our circulating medium at the earliest practicable
period must be brought to the par of gold, no
| backward steps must be taken, but FORWARD must
be the signal word of all friends of the country
for Treason, and National Dishonor in respect to
| our Finances, belong only to the Vocabulary Of
| thoughtless and unprincipled men.
To counteract these pernclous dogmas of the
enemy, to the zeal and inspire the efforts of
all true friends of the Union and National Justice
| throughout the State, there should be at once q
more general and liberal circulation of Republi-
can papers. 1t is the purpose of the pro-
prietors Of the Kennebec Journal to make it re-
| promising discussion of the political issues and
duties of the pending campaign. The assistance Of
some of the abest political writers of the State has
been secured, and the Republicans of Maine NAV
calculate there will be vigorous pushing all along
| the line" of whatever will fairly tend to splendid
| triumph in September and November. The voice
of Maine this great contest, will be potential
| and it must be emphatically pronounced on the
| side of the Union and National Honor. She is
one of the first to speak. Let her voice be one of
substantial encouragement to her sister States en-
gagged in the same great struggle.
In order to aid much possible in dissemi
mating sound political information on the issues
before the country, the undersigned will publish =
"a ~ II UINN DA UDEUl