The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-30
letter of Acceptance.

| FOR 20. treasurer w l. Lr-NANOA.
letter of Acceptance.
We give to the readers of the Journal
| in another column, the response of oul
candidate for Governor to the official no
| tication of his nomination. 1t IS care
| fully written and well expressed endorse
mcnt Of the state PLATFORM and an accep-
lance of the labors and responsibilities o.
| the position which the writer assumes
Mr.. Williams contesses preference for the
quiet enjoyment of private life. Indeed
those who know him best are well aware
of the sacrifice of feeling and inclination
which he makes in response to the call
made upon him by the nominating con-
vention. But he is not man to put his
hand to the plough and look back. He
will he found Jealous in the work that be
has accepted. Those who carefully OBJ
serve party conventions, and their results
at the polls, we'll know that those candi-
dates who persistently seek nominations
are not the ones who most commend them
selves to the sut1rages of their fellow cit
liens. There is a feeling, and very just
| and proper one, that the office should seek
| the man, not the man the office. Mr.
| Williams has the respect of a large num-
Der of the citizens of Maine, outside the
party that has placed him in nomination,
and will receive their cordial support
We shall not be surprised at his election,
but venture no prediction in these dis
turbed and uncertain political times.
1t is noticeable that some of the Repub-
lican papers of the state, the especial or
gans and supporters of Senator Blaine, are
attacking Mr.. Williams. A very proper
and effective reply to this is found in the
columns of the kennebcc Journal, when
Mr.. Blaine was its editor in 1857 Mr. Will
Hams was about to fill the vacancy oc-
casi0ned by the resignation of Gov Ham
lin, consequent upon his election to the
L. $. Senate, when he received from the
pen Of Mr.. Blaine this unreserved en-
dorsement-
1t is especially fortunate for the people of this
State, in view of Mr.. Hamlins contemplated and
necessary retirement from the Gubernatorial Chair
that ii will be well, so able and SO honorably
filled by the gentleman on whom the constitution
dcvolvcs the office. Mr. Williams belongs to that
q of ntry bn
AFFINITY to illustrate and adorn almost any station,
are yet content to leave office and place to others
and to wait until they are literally forced into posts
of dignity and honor.
Nominated for the Senate during his absence
from home, and without the slightest knowledge
that such a movement designed he accepted
the position rather III obedience to an unmstaka
bic expression OF popular will than from any de
sire of the honor it conferred
His elevation to the Presidency by his fellow
Senators was alike unsolicited and even undesired
by him.
He is therefore by the force Of circumstances
and without single turn OF his hand to attain the
place. soon to be made Governor Of the State of
Maine.
MIR. Williams is worthy of all the honor which
the occupancy of the Gubernatorial chair can be-
stow. he is a gentleman of mature age being
well turned of forty. Of ripe culture, of extensive
and accurate political information, a sound thinker
and an able writer and above all a pure minded
honest man.
He has all the requisites which can be demand
ed for any public station and we congratulate the
people of Maine that in vacating the Gnbernatorial
Chair MIR. Hamlin contdes its cares its labors and
responsibilities to a successor as trustworthy and
reliable as himself
1t makes no difference in respect to the
compliments bestowed, that Mr. Williams
supported Samuel J. Tilden last year, and
is himself at the head Of the Democratic
ticket this year. He is in mind, character
and public esteem the same man as when
the above unreserved endorsement was
published.
And now Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Baum is waging war against nepo-
tism. He has issued circular to all col
lectors of internal revenue, directing them
not to allow within their several collection
districts more than one person related to
the collector to hold an internal revenue
appointment, and forbidding the employ
ment under them of more than two per-
sons related to each other The results
of an investigation by the Commissioner
as to the number of relatives holding
revenue offices are very peculiar, and
show most astounding development of
nepOtism in some sections of the country.
This is more especially true of the south
eln states, New York, Pennsylvania and
New England. In one district in Ken
lucky there were 81 persons related to
each other holding revenue offices, out of
some 40 appointments. In one of the
New England districts there are five or
six. The Northwest is more exempt from
this abuse than other section of the coun-
try. Federal officials in view of the re-
ductiOn of force and of salaries, the
Presidents order, and now Commissioner
Baums circular, are not having a par
ticularly happy time.
Bro. Emery of the Bangor Commercial,
has had rich joke played on him, al
though it is an old one. His SUBJ taking
advantage of his absence down the bay
on fishing excursion, has put his paper
in against the regular Democratic candi-
date for Governor, bitterly assailing his
letter of acceptance, and virtually advs-