Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-11


day, the jury rendering verdict against
the great robber for the sum OF Sc, 537,-
1873 This is the same Tweed which
the Maine Standard defended when his
stealing was first published in the papers.
Il DECISIVE ANSWER.
The Democrats are going into the COM
ing Presidential campaign with the single
cry OF fraud. In the uproar and the
confusion of that camorous charge, they
hope to drown their own shortcomings
and induce the people to trust them with
power.
But the people will not be deceived and
deuded in that way. To this outcry of
the Democratic party they will answer:
What is there in your history, character
or spirit to inspire the belief that you
would do any better or as well? Have
you never developed any corruption !?
Have you never had any rascals, and.
what is more, stood by them when their
rascalities were knownp If the question
be simply one of honest administration,
what claim have you to public confidence &?
And besides, important as that issue is. is
it not the only one at stake. We want
guarantees upon other vital points. What
do the rebellious uttcrances OF your Hills
and fuckers mean? What does the mas
terry OF the rebel element in your Commit
tees portendp What are you going to do
about the $50, 900 of Southern war
claims presented by your members? And
how can you be trusted for single mo-
ment when. instead of taking an honest
position on the great financial question.
you yield to the rampant inhationists, pro-
pose to repudiate the national faith and
threaten to plunge the country into deep
er financial disorderp
This is the answer the people will make
to the Democratic cutlery. On the ques-
ton of fraud. taking the Republican par
ty at its very worst, the Democratic party
certainly has nothing better to show;
while upon every other question it is IA
tally wrong. And that will be decisive.
LNPEA or BELKNAP AR
RESTED
There is no doubt that the impeachment
OF Belknap has come to an end for the
present. Whether it will be resumed is
what no one can tell. The principal wit
ness, Marsh, fed the country Immediately
after testifying before the investigating
committee, and for want of him the inn
parchment must stop, as his is the only
reliable evidence against Belknap.
The democrats undertake to say that he
was frightened out of the country by Or
ders issued by the President and Cabinet
for the prosecution of all connected with
the Belknap bribery, but it is established
that he could have had no knowledge be-
fore his flight of the Cabinet meeting held
on the day he left, and Mr.. Blaine stated
in the debate in the House that he was
authorized to deny that any order had been
given by the Cabinet to prosecute any one
except Belknap. So the reports that the
action of the President and Cabinet
frightened Marsh away are baseless.
The truth undoubtedly is that the escape
OF Marsh was connived at by Clymer and
his democratic associates, or they perpe-
trated the great blunder of not securing
him while they had him in their power.
The Developments which have been made
connecting George II. Pendleton, the
democratic candidate Tor the Presidential
nomination, with Belknap in questionable
transactions are considered as having
something to do with the running away of
Marsh. He divulged just enough before
the investigating committee TO destroy
Belknap and cast the odium of his trans
actions upon the republican party. and
then he was permitted to leave SO that the
case would be where it is now-suspend-