Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-03-23
SMILEY & WASGATT
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TIN, GLASS AND cR0CkERY WARE.
Also oaher deeds = line. Any needing
Jig Saws and Designs for Brackets, Etc
WIN find them here They running Al
FIVE CENT COUNTER

the man stood here, and in a lonv
tion did not treat the case as thousb 1. -
avoiding it. And when in the first n..s = ~ sse
Investigation the rule had been snri;.s% ~ y
only legal testimony should be invarsS 11
his cousin, Oberon White, as he - ~ ~
called, had been shut OFT, Wallace p NJ
rose IN the presence OF the committee Al y:
clared that he did not want such action 49, :
that ne preferred that every man should ,es,;
fy, and that he should answer him wv
when Wallace K. White had testified. ,;,;ss
an account Of the interviews that haa1 ~ 49,
place between him and his cousin, and ~
ing the places where they had occur,sS !
WAS found that j. o. White had lea so-.
and he has not been heard from since -
nothing Is left except Swan and Harrim,s
ask any man here how safe his nsms -.
fame and reputation would be if II m;,s, - 3.
taken away by the Swans and the Harr;m.s~. .
that haunt the outer and corrupt yer,. :
human life? ApplauseJ Why, si-. N. -
|tleman from Wiscasset knows, az ire.
that there is honesty in politics as xsll
in everything else. There are men M - :.
engaged in political life who are irwin. !.
maintain consistent course, who, when ~,
and wrong hang in even balance, endesvo, !.
stand up for the right, who try in lon, ".
to be consistent. and not to cheat, and No, !.
lie, and not to be double-faced, and ~ h.,
perhaps after long period of public ,eT;.'
they die and are laid away with their fs,hs,.'
Such men hope to leave to their children Il.
heritage Of a good name. And who Of M
political life would be safe for momen, Z
on the testimony of the Swans and the W..s
rimans, all of that might be taken axsr, 4
Nman had better think twice before ha 49,
victs another Of foul doing and foul deed, !.
such testimony. And it is because Of ,ho..
things and because have studied the ops.
ton carefully that have stood hen.
for the purpose of maintaining IA
majority report. l am glad that the \.
port goes to the extent that it does. Il A..
clares not only that the charge has fiilel
but that the innocence of Wallace Win
has been established. Less than that vonI
not have been justice to that Young m,,
No halfway work would have done when hs
has been SO unjustlv assailed and when ths
wrath Of his assailants has been CATHERINE
thick and fast about him. II is "a comple,s
exOneratiOn. and sends him back to hi, neigh.
bors and friends with nothing resting upou
his name. And the gentleman from Mno--
what shall he ssid Of him! Laughter an
that there Is of a future, of another world. Il
perhaps of no account to him. But what shall
he the fate of man who not only engagesn
the work he has taking his own story.
but who, in addition To that. glories in Il, ard
stalks before the public and parades it-shs
man who Is engaged in getting up case d
bribery, taking another man info IT, to covtr
up still another crime that was being CON.
mitted.
Dickens in one Of his remarkable pseu
tells US that in one of the haunts Of crime b
London where they were sending out LITTLE
boys and little girls to engage in the task d
picking the pockets Of the unwary passers.hv,
there wss another figure, and he has d.
scribed the Swashbuckler who went into the
street, and while pockets were being picked,
frequently got up row with the policeW
cover up the performances Of his confedeaiu.
Laughter and applause. And the membr
from MinOt may get up here and may
20 into the history Of the past, and
may invoke Horace Greeley and Thomas VI
fers0n and Christopher Columbus for augh
I know but the House is thinking of W
chief instrumentality that he had in this plf
for getting mp bribery case that failed ad
the State is thinking of that, and % far ~ b
'isSe hH tiic uotISS vi Pcfsotis aHS wuefef s~5
are thinking of that. He may 20 hone .
his constituents. He may boast Of thtifif
lorsement. He may be able, under The a.
citement of the moment, to secure vhA
seems to be a temporary Endorsement he
may, by whip and spur. svag
men in to give him for the ~
being send-off in the way Of an elecsioas
some unimportant place. But, sir thatrera
was my birthplace. and there was my eA'i'1
youth passed, and l know the rock.bosn
integrity of that people who once formedspan
Of old Oxford county. know hov y ms
they are reared there in the common schocs
and in the academies, and that they arenuen
to respect truth and right, and that they =
taught to deride and despise evil. AN
know that while for time they may seen
trust unworthy servants. in the en- n
reverse will obtain; and the gentleman w
ind that year by year this will hang
him, and that like a chain in the gifdle q y.
maniac it will grow heavier and heav1 =
he lives, and that at last his people thefessf
ike the gardener in Shakespeare play, ~
Ill superAuous boughs that bearing ors.en
may live. And SO leave him. Gfea =
plausc.