Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-18
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letters In order as published in The Era
No. /.
MECHANIC FALLS, juno g 1873.
Editor Fla Il doubt il there is village in th,
State. that has so many GreenhqckerS. according
10 It's size Mechanic Falls The question much
discussed here il, who shall we nominate for Con
gle-s to succeed VIM p. FRYE. The hest man
must be nominated we cannot succeed Scion
Chase ard Mr.. Fogg are both spoken Of, hut
neither of them can roll the strength Of their own
party. Thomas Il. Swan, Esq, of this place,
would obtain thousand more votes than either
of them. Mr.. Swan acted with the democratic
party until last fal when he voted the Greenhsck
ticket. He i popular, honest. good speaker and
a sound lawyer. II he will allow his name to be
used as candidate this village will 90 solid for
him everv time in the convention.
Very respectfully, p r. NJ
" Neither of them Chase nor Foggl can poll the
strength of their own party! - Thomas b.
Swan Of this place would obtain thousand
more votes than either Of them ="
Did you ever What, tell the people right out
that all the circulation of 'Chsse's Chronicle, "
all the mighty eff ~ of the old hero have
worked so against him that he cant poll the
strength of his own party And then the
Ajax Of the party, Mr.. Fogg, too, all his oratory
been for naught' 4 question of arithmetic
comes 10 here. If Swan can poll thousand
more votes in the district than either
of these two champions, since no sane man be-
heves that any Gteenback candidate obtain
one-halr that number in the district, what is the
real strength of Chase or Fogg?
Then comes letter No. 2.
SoUTH PARIS, June 6, 1873.
Edito, E,a,-I nohre that YOU say in your pa
per that YOU can furnish speakers to address
Gtecnhack meetings. Who is your best speaker,
and what does he charge above expenses &c
have nominated a good man for Governor; now
everything depends upon nominating the right
men for Congress In this district, think we had
better nominate Thomas Is. swan. lie would get
u larger vote than either Chase or Fogg.
Respectfully your, J. y.
Then No 8.
BETHEL, June |, 1873.
Mr.. Edito'-What commission do YOU pay
agents to get suh.c,ihcr, for you; could get IA
number here. The Grcenback cause !. growing in
oxford county, and if the proper nan Is nominal
ed for Congress. VIM. p. Frye will be defeated.
r. Il. Swan, E,q, OF Mechanic Falls would get
more votes than any other person, if he would
take the nonir alton and canvass the district
Yours truly, c. |. r.
Followed BY NJ. &
WILTON, June 3, 1873.
Mr.. Edior-I received paper all right lat week
Who would be the best man to nomnate for Con-
gress. in this District believe that Thomas b.
Swan would not only be the best, but the strong
est candidate.
Truly yours. J.. ID.
How childlike and bland? "Who would be the
best man to nominate for Congress in this Dis
trct% Why address the imported Colonel from
Ohio for this advice, when the father of all the
greenbackers was so near at hand
Let the Colonel tell these inquirers something
about the fading light of this humbug theory in
the west from whence he came so recently. If
this sor, of thing had been done by any of the old
political parties, we should have called it political
uggery, forestallng opinion, packing the con-
vention, &C.; but of course being the work OF
these New Era politicians who ignore all old tao
tics and do nothing hut what is so honest so geFy
nice, of it is all from the genuine simplicity
OF their pure hearts.
Like as it has been in the West, where those
who first started the idea, have faded out of
sight, where the cause itself has already become
unpopular, so here in Maine soon this,
Solon Chase, whose bugle blasts have been heard
echong over the hill tops and throu III the valleys
by night and by day, is already fading, fading
from view, and losing that terrible firm hold he so
recently had upon the hearts of the laboring
classes.
Perhaps they have been contrasting his present
moonshine theories with what he wrote eleven
years ago, and discovering such an awful differ
ence they have concluded that he is not so safe a
leader after all.
In closing, wouldn't it be maj ,sic stroke of poll
lev for Maine to swap w. =. Frye and Eugene
Hale, both of whom to day occupy conspicuous
leading positions in Congress- for any Of these lat
ter days Saints, that have been named to succeed
them Maine has never yet shown any such fool
shness, and neither will it at the coming election.
HARD CASH.
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