Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-28
The Greenback Candidate who
thinks POOrhOuses are the Prop
or Places for Soldiers Orphans.


Senator in Waldo county. denies in com
; munication to the Standard that he said
last winter in the House that the poor.
house was good enough for soldiers or
phans. and endeavors to make it appear
that he was in favor of a generous appro.
priation for the Bath Asylum. There is
not a person who was present in the House
and heard the debate about the appropria-
ton for the asylum that does not know
Lamson says what we charged him with
saving The facts in the case are simply
a. follows:
4 resolve was reported from commit
tee which had examined the matter
thoroughly, in favor of an appropriation OF
$1,000 for the support of the Bath Military
and Naval Orphan Asylum. This was
$1,000 less than the appropriation of the
year before.
When the resolve came before the House
I.amSon moved to reduce the amount to
$1,000, which. had it been done, would
have abolished the institution. for il could
not have been sustained on so small sum.
In support of this amendment-whichw was
an indirect way of killing the asylum
Lamson made the remark that the poor
houses were good enough places for sol
diers orphans.
Mr.. Locke of Portland made an indig-
nant reply to Lamson, saying that from
''whathe had heard that morning he was led
"to think we had forgotten the days when
''our boys in blue shouldered their mus
"kets and marched to the defence of the
.old flag We promised these men that
1--WE would care for their orphans. Are
''we going back on that promise? This is
mot matter of charity. but Il debt more
"sacred than any on earth. If we havn't
"got money enough in the treasury to pay
ait let u put a tax on and raise sufficient
"slm" Mr. Weeks of Augusta and others
followed in support of the appropriation,
while Mr.. Poor of Sebago supported the
amendment offered by Lamson, saying in
substance that the soldiers had received
the pay and bounties for which they were
enlisted, and the State was under no obi
cations to take care of their orphans.
At length Mr.. Simpson, of Searsport,
brother grcenbacker with Lamson, and
from the same county. arose, and in the
most excited manner and voice opposed
and denounced Lamson saying:
ale regretted to see the
position taken by the gentle
man from Freedom (Lamson).
The same spirit that would
reduce the appropriation
would not have permitted the
comrades of that gentleman'S
Lam>on) son, who had been
a member of his simpsons
regiment, and had died in the
swamps of Louisiana, to con-
tribute towards carrying his
remains to New Orleans, and
embalming them and send
ing them home"
This comparison of the meanness of
Lamson with the generosity of the men
who had contributed to pay the expenses
of sending home the body of his son for
bnrial, overwhelmed Lamson and his mean
proposition. He withdrew his amendment,
and the resolve approprating $1,000 passed
by vote of SO in favor to 46 against,
and among those voting aqainst the re-
solve is found recorded the names of
JAMES ID. LAMSON of Freedom, the
greenback candidate for Senator of Waldo
county.
Lamson speaks in his scurrilous article
in the Standard about calling 'attention
''to few facts unearthed in the investiga-
elton OF the State Printing swindle" etc.
We have published in the columns of the
Journal the full report of the committee
of investigation, and we will send Lam
son as many copies gratis Of that report
as he desires, in order that he may show
the voters of Waldo, if he can, wherein
it has unearthed any swindle by the State
Printers for the last fifteen years While
he is upon the subject of State Printing he
had better explain. at the same time, why
a man so much in favor of economy as he
was that he wanted to send the orphans
of soldiers to the poor houses in order to
save a few thousand dollars to the State.
should have favored giving the State
printing to the highest bidder. at IA loss to
the State of several thousand dollars
Was it more important to put few thous-
and dollars into the pockets of +. F. Pills
/ bury & Co., than to take decent care of
the orphans of the men who sacrificed
their lives to save this government
Pillsbury's Standard ApOlOgizing
for the MurlererS of Dixon.