Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-14

Senator Robertson of New York re-
ceived an enthusiastic reception at the emo
of last weeks session on his way home.
Going by the way of. Chatham and the
Harlem railroad, crowds turned out to re-
ceive him at almost every station. This
he interprets as the expression of .
marked anti-third-term feeling among the
republicans of that section.
From the Bangor Wing and Courier.
The Retrenchment Business.
After meditating upon the matter for sew
eral days, the Bangor Commercial has con-
ciuded that it cannot find time to answer nor
space to publish our article on ''Retrench-
ment and Reform" but that paper disposed
of it yesterday in these words:
ssWe shall not wallow through such mess
of figures and decisions"
This is a very abrupt though exceedingly
convenient method of getting rid Of stubborn
facts. in the presentation Of which we showed
clearly that the fusion claim that they are the
party of ''retrenchment and feform." is de-
fusion and lie.
Without attempting to touch even the
margin Of our article by way of reply to the
facts and figures we presented, the CONNER
cial makes this statement:
"The republican legislature received the
State under more favorable Auspices than did
the fusion legislature. 1t has appropriated
over $50, 900 less than the appropriations for
1879, vet it has increased the State tax S720,-
900, and will probably make temporary
loan Of $500, 900 more
The ''mOre favorable auspices under
which the republicans received the State
Government were these: The fusionists
tax sufficient to meet the demands upon the
treasury; and when the republicans took the
government they found that the tar imposed
by the fusionists lacked just sS7, S43 Of pay
ing the expenses of the fusion government Of
1879.
VERY favorable auspices indeed. The fu-
sionists had not only drawn every cent Of
every appropriation, but they left as legacy
to the republicans bills to pay amounting to
Ss7, s43. The republicans were of course
obliged to meet this demand as well as the
$40, 900 it cost for the fusion steal, and other
extraordinary expenditures, aggregating $780,
600, and they did it with an appropriation bill
less by 800, 900 than the appropriation bill
of the fusion legislature OF 1879. Or, in
other words, had it not been for the careless
and extravagant rule of the fusionists, and
their base criminal transactions, the appro-
p,-iafion this year, under republican rnie,
rould hare been 1920, 900 less than that Of
last vear under fusion rule, and the State
tax would have been correspOnding'y de-
creased Does the Commercial understand
that?
Another word. Iu regard to the CONNER
cials reference to temporary loan OF
$500, 900, we have this to say. Is the editO-
of that paper so ignorant of recent legisla-
tive proceedings as not to know that
this sum is not raised for current expenses
| The sum of 1901, 900 the Legislature author
| lied to be raised in u per cent. bonds. tOpay
the 1907 .OOo of public debt that comes due
| in August And as the debt was incurred to
llquidate portion of the expenditures Of the
democratic rebellion, democratic newspapers
ought to be very modest in referring to it.
Has the Commercial any more figures to pre-
sent? Perhaps it can give us the items OF
the expenditure Of that six thousand dollars
that Garcelon drew from the State Treasury
the last day of his administration, how it is
that a fusion Councillor can draw $75 for
travel for July 20, 81 and 90, when he is in
Augusta every hour of the three days; and
then. if it has time. tell us what became OF
the 81 900 which Mr.. Swan says he received
last winter If it cares to go into details il
might enlighten us concerning Attorney
General McLellans charges for hotel and
hack fares 1t is unfortunate in attempting
to grapple with the more serious matters OF
State finances, and had better cOnfine itself
| To those