The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20
Plaisted's Pronunciamento


This cOmmunstic campaign document,
substituted for the dignitied and practical
State paper the people of Maine have
heretofore had from their Governors,
hardly calls for serious criticism. To pc
ruse it for evidences of craftsmanship, or
even Of common sense, would be as futile
as hunting for needle in a hay stack.
There is little in it to commend, but
much to condemn. AS a whole it is an
| offence against propriety and an Insult to
the intelligence of the average citizen. 1t
is revolutionary and pernicious in its
teachings, and bears internal evidence Of
| having been written by a demagogue Of
demagogues. Placed as it must neces-
sarily be in the archives Of the State, it is
some consolation to know that it will
pillory its author as an offender against
the civilization of the nineteenth century.
The future historian, delving among the
records of to-day, will naturally wonder
ildl Stl vi Il man lllN tttlltl iItlN Dttll-
whose first step on assuming the Govern
orship of the good State of Maine. was to
seek to arouse class prejudices to de-
n0unce the men who had built railroads
and established industrial enterprises,
''to urge schemes no better than repudia
ton" to hold up the opinions of the Su-
preme Court to ridcule to derldc and
defy the constitution, and to misrepre-
sent the citizen soldiery as mcnaring the
liberties OF the people.
Those who listened to the egotiStical
and demagogical utterances Of Gen Plais-
ted in this city on the 9TH Of last Septem-
Der, cannot have been greatly surprised
at the tone and sentiments of his address
on taking the Gubernatorial chair. There
/ are however, certain allowances to be
made il respect to stump speeches which
are not permissible when state paper is
in question. In this so-called message
are found the same stale plattudes, the
same rant and fustion, which half dis
persed the open-air meeting here on the
afternoon of Sept. 9TH, and the same dis
play Of eg0tism, communism and dema-
| gogism which disguised the hearers of
Gen. plaisted in lIayford Hall that eve
ming. His speeches then and his mes
sage now furnish cumulative and conclus-
i've proof that he is both unworthy and
unfit to be the Governor Of Maine: and
the shame The State has brought upon
itself by the election Of such an EXecu-
tive Will be deep ana lasting. Garcelon
was bad enough. but Paisted, upon his
own showing, is tenfold worse.
| It's all settled by the polticans-the people
having had hut little to DO with it--that Eugene
| Hale is to be Senator in place Of Hannibal Ham
| lin. [Waterville Mail
The people had as much to do with it
as with the election Of any United States
Senator; and that is good deal Mr..
Hale was unanimously nominated and
has since been elected by the unan-
imous vote of his party. But such
declaration as above is not surprising,
coming from paper which characterizes
Plaisted's demagogical message as "a
bold, independent, and strong state pa
per-" The Mail has fallen into evil ways.
Thus far poygamy has been tolerated for many
years IN disregard of our laws. There is but one
way to overthrow it. and that is by excluding the
lrI11S frT,rr1 oil
gresham to juror and constable. Philadelphia
Times
The Times is Democratic paper. and
the policy it recommends is precisely that
suggested by President Hayes in his last
message, and which the Prog. Age, as a
defender Of polygamy, unsparingly de-
nounced. But the Times. though on the
wrong side Of the political fence, does not
60 astray on moral questions We can
not say as much for the Prog. Age
Gen. Plaisted had hardly warmed the
| gubcrnatorial chair before he began a
quarrel with his Council. A point was
strained to declare him Governor. rather
than have it appear that the public will
had been thWarted, but that should be
the end of concession Now his hands
and teet-and, if possible, his tongue
should be tied by every constitutional
means Accord him the courtesy due to
the office he holds, but show him no favor
personally. He is entitled to none.
Aside from the question whether Gov
ernor Plaisted has not violated his oath
OF Office i'll his assaults upon the judiciary
and in his attempts to bring its decisions
INTO contempt, it is certainly in question
able taste for him to assa'l the Supreme
Court when it is remembered that but for
its decisions he would to-day be a disap-
pointed office seeker instead of Governor
of Maine.
The Wing calls attention to the fact
that the fusonist Governor who found so
much time and space in his Inaugural to
lecture Gen. Garfield on propriety, to dis
cuss the financial affairs of the United
States and to advocate the doctrines of
communism, had no word in behalf of
Temperance or of the great Educational
interests of the State
The Philadelphia papers wisely decided that
Sara Bernhardts hat was indescribable.
Well they might, when four New York
dailies described the hat, and each gave
to it different style, shape and color
Probably some Of the reporters are color
blind.
"On the Fusion line, y says Scion Chase,
"the Greenback party will go out ofsight"