Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-11-26

we're served vish copy Of the vote BY the
Secretary July 9Th. In the next place your
contracts accompanied with specifications and
inscriptions had not been forwarded July sth
1881 as You formally presented them to this
| Association on that date. Thirdly before you
had got your courage up to the sticking point
to have your own gay in defiance Ut the A .
sociation 4 member Of your committee With
a copy Of your inscription in one hand and
our inscription in the other walked up and
down the streets of our good city inqui-ing
of certain gentlemen which they preferred.
And now once more for the record. Maj
John d. Myrick. member Of your sub-c"m-
mittee charged with the duty of preparing
| the designs and Inscriptions. was present at
| the meeting of the association of July l,
1881, when the vote was passed, and :hen
and there gave notice that at the next meet
| ing of the association, he would move re-
| consideration. and the record SO shows.
WY didn't he do ns The answer is obvious.
The committee had conceived the idea of be-
| coming law unto themselves, and there was
therefore no need of a Reconsideration; ;
they had only to ignore it.
At that meeting, Maj. Myrick made ex-
tended remarks in opposition to the vote, but
never limited that the inscriptions were al
ready in the hands of Mr.. Power. When
you submitted your contracts on the Sth of
July with a copy of the associations vote in
your possession, you never intimated that he
had already received the Inscriptions; and
even if he had them in his possession, you
knew he had taken no steps for the casting Of
the panels. Then Why did you not notify
him of the alteration? Gentlemen, this will
never do. There is a semblance of crooked
ness here that you can't explain away.
As to the statue representing cavalryman
with lst Me. upon his cap, we can only say
that although in very bad taste, and squint
ing somewhat towards one of your sub-com-
mittee on inscriptions, who, it is said, ' stood
for the picture" vet we are satisfied with it
as it is, if the members of the other cavalry
organizations are willing to acquiesce.
In conclusion, gentlemen, let US ask you
that you glance at that protest just once
more. Read the three articles it contains
the two first names attached, and allow the
remaining nine to disappear. Is not the re-
quest a reasonable one? The members of
the association learned that you had deceiv-
ed them in getting up the designs and inscrip-
tions for the monument-they had informa-
tion that Mr.. Power had not completed his
work according to contract, and the associa-
tion asked through its officers that you
would not complete the erection of the mon
ument until the association should decide
whether an alteration should not be made
in the understanding more. But you, well
knowing that you had gone contrary to their
wishes-and in defiance of their instructions,
and assuming that you could override all
obstacles, and trample under foot every one
who dared raise his voice against you. you
have gone on and completed the monument,
and now ask US to pay for it. All we ask is
to know the wishes of the association, and
we shall abide by them. We have never
assumed to do anything more.
The only questions likely to come before
the association, will be the following:
lst. Shall the Dedicatory Tablet remain
and perpetuate lie in honor of our noble
dead, or shall we take it off and set up truth
instead?
2d. Shall We accept the tablets bear
ing only the names of the fallen heroes, and
if accepted. shall we pay Mr.. Power full
price for his work as stipulated in the con-
tracts which he has failed to fulfill?
Sd. Shall the monument stand to COM
memorate the fallen heroes of the lst Maine
Cavalry, to the exclusion of all other cavalry
raised in the State?
MEMBERS OF THE "SOLDIERs'1
MONUMENT ASSOCIATION"