Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-07-18
Delegate" heard from-A few
Questions for the Honorable Mr..
Thing to answer.

Questions for the Honorable MIR
Thing to answer.
WNsLow, Me-, July 10Th, 1879.
To the Editor Of the KeaneJec Journal:
So Mr.. d. IL. Thing the Office seeker, has
written letter, and says lie, and while de.
claring that every statement in my letter IN
your issue of July 9TH is totally and absolute
lv false, wishes to know where obtained my
information. He also tells you that he has
been a greenbacker since 1861, and he
said in his speech at Fayette, Saturday, July
9Th, has long known the republican party to
be corrupt.
Iwould ask Mr. Thing if such is the case,
WHY did he stay in that hard-money party of
corruption, and wait for few men of princi-
pie to come out and define their position?
why did he stay in that party that was heap
ing all manner OF abuse upon these men, who
stood out unfinchingly and with their talent
and means built UP the party in this County,
built it up until it was ready to elect its ticket,
(Which would defeat his republican party and
stop his republican pap?) and then in his
great greed for Office. and to make sure of
his election put up democratic job, and by
packing the convention, and misrepresenting
the facts, take the nomination away from
these men, who had shown themselves men,
and in place of straight greenback ticket that
had proved itself true, give the greenbackers
of kennebec, an out and out democratic
greenback coalition ticket, ticket that is
equally acceptable to the democratic party as
to office seekers of the greenback party!
And does Mr.. Thing say | lie when say he
was no man of honor to do this! And does
Mr. Thing say this is false? if SO why did he
hold consultations with prominent democrats
in different parts of the county, and why was
he seen so often in their company before the
convention at Gardiner?
And does he deny that Mr. Winn is a dem
ocrat? That's what the greenbackers of Ken
nebec want to know. The National Tribune,
the greenback Office seekers organ, Maine
Standard, and democratic Baby organ, all
printed in one building (three heads with but
q single thought three hearts that beat as one, }
are loud in denouncing my communication,
but in so doing they only further illustrate
the saving, that ''tacts make one mad" that
they are mad is very plainly seen, rs is also
fact that they are all in the same boat, steer
ing for the the same object, Power and the
Spols of office, the same policy that the
republican party has been following, and
which the democratic party has been fighting
for and now this new greenback party start
ing out upon principle, and built up pure and
unauthorized, (n this county at least, with
the one object in view, that of turning cut of
Office all these corrupt politicians, to satisfy
the personal ends of few unprn-
ciplcd men like this Thing, must 60 back
upon its platform that opposes the election
all Old Politicians to Office ard especially
those in the employ of the government
at the present time, and nominate
n Il ,,,,,n ,,1I .NtH.
holder, at the present time, and man, who
though greenbacker, and believing in soft
money since 1861, and all the time knowing
the republican party to be dishonest, would
not leave that party as long as they had the
power to keep him in office, but contrary To
his idea upon the money question: he must
stay in that dishonest party, and hurl epithets
at those few men of genuine honesty who did
dare to come out show their colors, and stand
by them.
And so he staid, until, not because he was
tired of hard money, or dishonesty. but be-
cause he knew that the republican party were
tired of that kind of Thing in Mt. Vernon,
and because the greenbackers had east forty
| three thousand votes, he Topped, and that is
''How the Old Thing works" Not only must
the greenbackers of kennebcc do this, but they
principle and vote for Mr.. VIM, democrat,
must, to make his election sure, sacrifice their
because Pillsbury, Andrews & CO., say so ;
they both have their little axes to grind in
the Senate next winter, and as they nominal
ed Thing and VIM, lone good turn deserves
another" you know. As for the mess of old
printing material contained in the Standard
building, they no need to have put themselves
out much, if they knew my communica-
ton to be the production of the local editor
of the Journal, AS to publish Mr.. Thing
demo-greenback delegation from Fayettc, as
| did not represent myself as being n dele
gate to the convention from Fayette, and
will only say IL have moved from where
live now and among greenbackers of prin-
ciple the "Iarvest is good"
DELEGATE.