Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-07
The Democratic Soldier Trick.

The Democratic Soldier Trick.
The democratic party, approaching the
fact that the question presented to the
country is whether the people are will
ing to trust that party again with power,
have conceived the idea of organizing
clubs of democratic soldiers to be paraded
as an evidence of the existence of patr-
otic element in the party of disunion, re-
bellion, and Andersonyile atrocities.
They have accordingly attempted to mi
tiate what the party managers call The
Soldiers and Sailors Reform Association
composed chiefly Of democratic officers
who joined the army for social position or
political preferment, and whose hide
bound copperheadism even the war failed
to remove, and the bounty-lumper who en-
listed for pay and deserted to play the same
game over again. By gathering up the
dishonorably discharged officers and sol
diers, who of course have grievances
against the republican party. and the
skulkers, camp-followers, and substitute
brokers to be found in the purlieus Of the
large cities, they hope to present a sufli-
cient soldier "reform" element to save
the democratic character in the Northern
and Eastern States.
Personal disappointments and unappre-
ciated civic ambitions may gain these
schemers few additional recruits to the
motley gang who are anxious to show
their sympathy for the Ku Kux ruffians of
the South, and their utilization with the
rebel apologists of the North, but there is
little danger that the great majority of ex-
Union soldiers and sailors can be induced
TO rally under the rebel flag, or that they
are likely to be led astray by the virluous
protestations of short-haired and shoulder
hitting "civil service reformers" Of Tam
many Hail.
jeff Davis Private Secretary in
Maine.
The person advertised as Col. Fellows
in democratic posters. and speaking in
democratic meetings in this State, is the
former Private Secretary of Jefferson Da-
Wis, man who served his master in his
course of bloodshed and cruelty against
the loyal men of the country. This conf
Dental friend and servant of JEFF Davis is
sent here by Mr.. Tilden to teach the PEG.
pie of Maine how to vote.
We venture to say there is not loyal
man in the State who does not feel insult
ed by his presence here as a speaker.
| Yet the democratic leaders are SO enam-
ored with the Andersonville butcher, so
in love with the traitors and rebels OF the
South, that they are ready to lick the dust
from the shoes of this satellite of jeff.
Shame on the men who have no more de-
cency than to send such wretch to in
strucl the patriotic people of Maine.
They are worse than he is if possible.
The democrats had abundance of money in
Vermont and spent it freely but it hurt more than
it helped them. A letter from Rutland to the
New York Times, written the day before election
said:
From some source or other nobody knows
whence, the democ ats in this State have been
supplied with an abundance Of money during the
campaign, such as they never had before. 1t GER
lanly was not raised here, and the supposition is
that it is a portion of Tildens bank account,
saved up by cheating the Government out Of its
income tax. It ha, been freely used everywhere,
especially in the larger towns, and every demo-
Gratis boy has been furnished with Tilden ban
ner, and sometimes with pasteboard picture OF
cold Usufruct." In addition, great efforts have
also been made in the large towns to naturallze
all the foreigners who could be scraped together,
including, it is said, large number of cramps"
In Rutland alone over three hundred foreigners
have been nsturalized in the last month. The re-
publcans have witnessed these things, and they
have made up their minds to turn out tomorrow
and give the democracy one more Waterloo de-
feat.
Michigan democrats are afraid that their voters
might paseihly forget the names of their Presi-
dental candidates, they instruct them according