Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-04-14

From the New York Tribune.
New Hampshire ''Debauchcry.' -

From the New York Tribune
New Hampshire "Debauchcry."
New England is in dreadful bad way
And particularly New Hampshire. We
get the news from Kentucky. Between
1.-THE sherry and the champagne" The
Louisville Courier Journal solemnly di-
rects attention to the fact that intemper-
snce exists to an alarming extent in New
Hampshire and that the tendency of the
republican party is toward debauchery
and vice. 1t may be expected presently
that from out Of the best known county of
Kentucky, to wit, Bourbon, there shall
come, between the hiccups, a wall and a
lament over the prevalence OF intemper-
ance in New Hampshire, while the prayer
Of the Kentucky father. ascending with
the smoke of the Illicit still, bears up
ward the petition that his sons may never
be demOralized by the contagion Of New
England example. The Courier Journal
has heard that the republican Officials of
New Hampshire. ''have been charged
with debauchery;" and that ''even little
Nashua boys took whiskey to the High
"School and endeavored to get the girls
drunk" Upon the same authority the
case is cited of "a boy of sixteen who was
rapidly going to drunkard's grave.
And 1t is said 1.-THE girls spend their
'money at the confectioner's buying
"brandy drops"
The charges are credited to Judge
"Sawyer," who is said to be "prominent
Republican" And it is added that s.he
"made the startling assertion that there
"are eight whiskcy sellers to every
clergyman in New Hampshire. And he
'called attention to the fact that minister
''of the gospel, who is trustee for Dart
"mouth College. drinks and smokes in
''public places. and did so the other day
"when he went to Massachusetts to assist
''in ordaining young man to the
ministry" This state of things seems to
have excited profound feeling in Kentucky
where 1t is looked upon as only "a trfling
sample of the general propension of the
republican party toward vice. and the
Courier Journal--which is in the habit of
giving to moral reflections. such space as
remains after renominating Tilden in a
column and a half; denouncing Mayor
Baxter as au finland despot' in another
column and half-both double-leaded-
and giving the daily list OF obituaries re-
sulting from the use of double .barrelled
guns in court rooms-proceeds to say that
New Hampshire is State which rolls
"up republican majority year after year !;
claws, morals. etc, are controlled by the
''members of the sacro-sanct party; vet
I'VE have this damning confession from
republican Judge. showing that society
''there is horribly debauched, and that
"even the children cry for whiskey and
get It,"
1t is to be regretted that the editor after
calling attention to the '.debsuchery" in
New Hampshire and 1.-THE general propen-
sion. Of the republican party toward
vice" should not have proposed some rem
edy. He only leaves it to be Inferred that
the cure for this general propension'' is
to drive out of power the '.sacrosanet par
ty" which debauches society to such an
extent that 1.-THE children cry for whiskey,
land they get it," Might it not be we'll
to make it subject for Congressional in
vestigation. with. say. Thomas Turner for
Chairman Of the Committee? +? Or how
would it do to colonize New Hampshire
from Kentucky Then the children might
cry their eyes out for whiskey and only
get the answer the boy did who cried for
the eleventh and last apple dumpling
which the old man had just struck into :
''Go way child, your fathers Sick