The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-11-17
Justice to Maine"

1TdNeller, concerning the prODaDle APP
pointment of Seth l.. Milliken, Esq, OF
this city, as Naval Officer at Boston, the
text for column of abuse of Maine Re
publicans. 1t spares neither the leaders
nor the rank and file. 1t charges our
present Republican leaders with having
provoked a rebellion which "buried them
under an opposition majority of 10000,
put Garcelon in the Governors chair and
sent Murch and Ladd to Congress-" The
Mirror says further: Last fall Maine
alone, among all the States, disappointed
reasonable Republican expectation. 1t
jeopardized the national election elected
Democratic Governor and re- elected to
Congress Murch and Ladd." Then this
amiable Republican editor devotes the
remaining half column of his TRADE to
enumerating the citizens Of Maine who
have held and now hold honorable posi-
tons in the public service, and to com
plants that New Hampshire has been I'M
fairly treated in the distribution of offices.
The Mirror concludes 10y declaring that
"Seth Milliken won't be the next naval
officer at Boston, and Tom Reed won't
be speaker, and Peters won't succeed Cliff
ford, and the pension agency won't be
moved from Conco1d.'
All this is very sad, as well as surpris-
| ing. 1t will be news to most people that
| Speakers are elected, naval officers and
justices appointed, and pension matters
decided in the office Of the Manchester
Mirror. But, really, the Mirror ought not
to be SO savage because Maine produces
so many men who honor the high stations
they are called upon to fill by the votes
of the people or the appointment Of the
President 1t may be the climate. it may
be the fish diet, but at all events we can
not help it, and if New Hampshire is un-
able to present men of equal calbrc aud
| like popularity we certainly will not be so
uncharitable as to tWit her on the fact.
We have often heard that in New !Iamp-
shire it is necessary to grind the Sleeps
! noses in order that they may obtain sus-
tenance from the scanty vegetation which
grows in the crcvices Of the rocks, and
we fear that the editor Of the Mirror has
not had his nose ground Of late, for his
beats have very hungry sound.
We should hardly have considered this
childish abuse Of Maine Republicans
worthy of serious reply. 1t is so evident
ly the ebulIition of soured and disap-
pointed man, is SO futile an attempt to
detract from the regulations of men the
nation has signaIly honored, and is so
grossly unfair to the earnest and honest
Republican voters of Maine, that it might
we'll be left to carry with it its own CON
demnatiOn. TO be ignored would perhaps
be the greatest punishment that could be
inflicted upon the editor Of the Mirror
and Guiteau. But Maine has found a
champion upon New Hampshire soil, in
the person of Hon. o. c. Moore, of the
Nashua Daily Telegraph, and perusal
Of the article captioned "Justice to
Maine" in the Telegraph OF the 9th inst
shows that our cause could not have been
entrusted to better hands. In the first
place Mr.. Moore declares that the Mirror
article does 'injustice to the Republicans
of Maine as a whole and in particu-
lar" and he therefore cannot allow it to
pass without a counter statement; and
knowing something Of Maine and Maine
Republicans he feels it his duty to
record his impressions, as he "can
only see mischief and mischiet-s work
to come from rupture Of the fraternal
relations that have so long existed be
tween the Republicans of Maine and the
Republicans Of New Hampshire"
Mr.. Moore then replies specifically to
the charges and taunts of the Mirror.
With regard to the Republican reverses in
this State from the Greenback heresy, he
says it "argues nothing against their skill
and fidelity" and that the rule the Mirror
applied to Maine would not hold water
elsewhere, not even in New Hampshire.
On this point Mr.. Moore-the conclusion
of whose article we give below-says-
New Hampshire, a few years ago elected Dem
ocratic Governor, but was it the fault of Senator
Rollins, who was then chairman of the State Com
mlttee or the fault OF any other prominent Re
publican! The labor reformers and Democrats
united and carried the State officers We're the
managing Republicans Of the State TO blame tor
that The Greenback heresy, through the per
sistency and ability OF some of its advocates, got
a strong hold III Maine and it spread like the
measles. 1t has had its run only it was a little
later in its run than the labor reform measles that
ran through New Hampshire until they ran the
Republicans out of office and the Democrats in
including two Democratic members of Congress
The way the Republicans of Maine have been
'petted and pampered" has been by calling such
men as Blaine, Hamlln, Frye Hale Milliken and
Reed to the front in every tough contest that has
occurred from Maine to Indiana within the last
dozen years. They never sulked: they never had
to be called but once either New Hampshire has
again and again been under obligations to them
and we do not know when or how we have fully
repaid the debt SO far know the Re
publican orators of no other State have done the
laborious, indomitable and effective work for their
brethren in other States that the Republican cam
paigners of Maine have done.
If the Republicans of Maine have ever had any
undue number of offices, they certainly have had
none that they have not filled with able and honest
men, who have brought strength and not weakness
to the Republican party of the nation. If the
Maine delegation have been able to secure more
officers than the New Hampshire delegation the
enterprise and zeal of our delegation in that
direction has been singularly overesimaed The
Mirror seems to forget that the pension agency
was taken from Maine and Vermont and conso-
dated at Concord, and it is wonder that Maine
felt little aggrleved it, she had two