Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-10-04
Republican BulldOzing In Gardi-
ner.
GARDNER, Sept. 80, 1880.

GARDISERs sept ~, 1851
To the Editor Of the Kenne5ec Journal;
/ hardly ever take up my quill to say any
thing, but when / do then all my neighbors
know somebody's got TO take raking.
Somebody's got to take a raking to-day Ms
ter Editor. Yes. I'm going to draw you and
the republican party over the Goals for what
you've been doing right round here in Gardi-
ner. I'm not going to speak Of the Internal
laws which confine two of our most respected
dimercrats in the cold, cold walls of the coun-
| ty Jail for the simple ofiense Of dealing out
| liquor to-their fellow men; no, nor will al
lude to the icy Indifference with which these
same republican officials exact enormous fines
| from the hard-earned income of many other
Of our most respectable rumsellers; for you
know, and the republicans know that those
temperance laws were made simply as clap
| traps for the fusionists-I mean dimercrats
| of course ard our jealous co-workers from the
greenback party. They were made with
malice Of fore-thought. 1t was commonly
known that all the rumsellers of our State
we're dimercrats, not because they desired to
make money out Of the traffic, bu: out of
feeling Of philanthrophy this party took upon
its self to supply the rum market. The poor
| man, even if he can't have food, must have
rum; the yonng man, in order to be respecta-
bic and obtain high situations of honor and
trust, must drink his whiskey. The diner
Gratis saw this, and most magnanimously un-
dertook to supply the want, and the republi-
can party out of pure spite enacted temper
ance laws to cot off this source of income to
| the dimercrats. But the real temperance
party Of the State of Maine see through such
gauziness. They understand who are their
| friends, and are coming over in multtudes to
the ~fusionists, led by their jealous
leader. Joshua Nye. No enlightened
community will endure the fining and
| mprsoning of their fellow citizens for
the mere violation of statute laws. What are
| statute laws compared to the freedom of men?
What if there are more paupers! The city can
better afford to care for the persons and FAM
| lilies of pauperizcd drunkards than that one
| of these rum-sellers should be confined in a
| dungeon cell What if there is more crime!
| Ii is better for man to have his throat cut now
| and then than that the man who sold the mur-
| derer rum should be fined or deprived of the
pure sunlight of liberty. tell you what, these
| laws are oppressive and the execution of them
| is an outrage on American freedom. But I'll
say no more this subject. Undoubtedly
you and the republican party are convinced
| of the errors of your ways in executing the
| laws of the State and infringing on this
| source of income to the dimercrats. If so,
| what have said is not in vain; and when we
petition that our rumsellers may be let out of
| jal so that their business will not be i'm
| paired, and that the fines of others may be
| returned you will walk up like little men and
| do as we ask If you don't. BEWARE I.
But the particular grievance which moves
my soul with righteous Indignation to day is
the fact that another statute law has been
| raked up out of the dust and ashes Of forget
funess by others of these republican officials
with which to blight the brilliant prospects
and tarnish the fair fame of a young diner
crat in this place. Every one knows that A.
G.. Chase is as quiet and inoffensive young
man as ever rode horse in fusion torch light
procession, or ever shot a oman-candle for
the enlightenment of dimocracy, and this IS
the young man that they have arraigned be-
fore police court for defacing republican
buildings Briefly stated, the cause of the
outrage is as follows: Mr. C had labored
hard all day, and naturally his pent-up feel
ings about II o'clock at night would find vent
in some funny trick Yes, he admits he was
| filled with a frolcsome. gamboling larkish
| kind of mood that ''would not down" What
did he do? Only hunt up apiece of chalk and
with one of his mates, mark windows, blinds,
| shutters, doors, brick walls, etc. etc, with
| those terrible figures, which will convince
| every ignorant mind in Christendom
of the dishonesty of Gen. Garfield, 800.
| Some of those confoundedly irritable repub-
| licans complained of this childish trick had
poor Chase indicted, and he was fined SO
and cost for one offence, and several others say
that they are going to complain of him. Now,
| tell you. it is shame. What if the walls
are little defaced? Better far wlite-wash
the whole building, better kick the statute
laws into the Kennebec, than fine Young
man for the harmless trick of covering a
brick wall with figures And further when
the lawyer for the defense was eloquentlv
pleading for this misguided youth, some Cf
those meddlesome repubs were vexed because
he used such expressions as these to his
brother lawyer :"What in HI are you driving
at? land shut up that clam mouth of yours
and wanted him committed for contempt of
court. They did this out of pure spite for
they knew that there was an election close at
hand, and that this man was the only diner
crat Barnum could trust in the city and they
wanted to deprive us of him. Oh. tell
you it's wrong. the whole thing is wrong
and until the dimocratic party comes into
power, we can't hope for a change. Not un-
til dmocracy is triumphant can the rumsel-
Ter hope to sell his merchandise nnmolested.
When that time comes we shall be able to
ride rough shod over every law that hampers
our steps. Then may walk up, cup up,
or tear to pieces any republican house and
snap our fingers at laws or city ordinances.
oh. who don't long for this happy millennium?
How car we 'groan and sweat under this
weary yoke" of law and order enforced by
republican officers? Let us have dimocratic
rule, free rum and tobacco, violating law, in
a word, communism, or let us go West so
far West that in the fertile regions of the
Sandwich Islands we may eujoy this high
life with spirits congenial to our own.
Yours Indignantly,