The Republican journal., 1882-12-28

are requested to forward the sums due.
Congressional Apportionment
OF all the plans yet presented for Congress
>ional apportionment of the State, those of the
editor of the Age seem to us the most remark
able. In last weeks Age he says. ''We present
the following plan, which it seems to us would
involve the least division of counties" He then
presents two plans, the first of which divides
Sagadahoc between the first and second districts
| and Lincoln between the second and third dis
trcts. His only district made of entire counties,
according to this plan, would be the fourth, but
the third district, in which Mr., Rust resides,
would be strongly Democratic.
| Mr.. Rrst's second plan makes the first district
| divide oxford county: the second district di-
viGts Oxford. kennebec and Somerset: the
third district divides kennebec. Somerset and
Penobscot and the fourth district divides Pen
obscot, but like his first plan this has the virtue
of making the third district the same in which
! Mr.. Rust resides. strongly Democratic
InaSmuch the Age says of these plans that
they ''involye the least division of counties"
| llltl no tllUIl IL lidut 10 XIV titlltl pdllN
| advantage over the other this is, we repeat. il
remarkable appertionment. Mr.. Rusts oppor-
| tunity to 90 to Congress was in 1873. when by
a reasonable and proper effort he might have
been nominated in place of Mr.. Murch. We
| have often regretted that he did not then avail
himself Of his opportunity for we have never
doubted that he would have made representa-
ent incumbent who defeated his nomination.
But we think at this late day Il fair and wise
| Legislature will not make such a wholesale
cutting up of counties a> Mr.. Rust proposes,
in order to give him a second chance As Con
gre>sional candidate.
Making the two eastern districts of Washing
ton. Hancock. Waldo. kcnnebec. Somerset,
! Pi>cataqui>. Penob>cot. and Aroo-tooh coun-
ties. and the two western districts of the rc-
naming counties of the State. would almost
equally divide the population. These two dyi-
sion> can also be divided each into two districts
Of almost equal population without dividing
more than one county in the entire state. and
the relative party strength would vary but lit
tie in the several districts. This would accom-
integrity of counties make substantially equal
division of the population and be just towards
both political parties.
Ex-senator Dorsey is himself furnishing ey-
dence that most people will consider conclusive
as to his completely in the star route thevery.
He offered no defence when he could haze
he published later in the newspapers. and
| which. necessarily. could have no weight
whatever. And now he has given out for
publication the confidential letters which pass
ed between himself, Gen Garfield and others
during the campaign of 1880. Mr.. Dorsey was
then. and we regret to say. is now. secretary of
the Republican National Committee. He was
assigned to important duty in Indiana. and nat
urally consulted. and was advised by the Pres
dential candidate of his party. The letters
show that Gen. Garfield was anxious to win
the fight. and it would have been strange if he
had not been. Not only were his own interests
and ambitions at stake, but the interests of the
party he had served so ably and so faithfully,
and which had honored him with nomination
to the highest office in the gift of the people.
And why should he not consult. advise and i'll
struct the secretary of the National Committee:
That he did is certainly nothing to his ,liscredit
while the publication Of letters which any hon
orable man would regard as confidential. is
most discreditable to Mr.. Dorsey. The fact
| that the latter held confidential relations BY
reason of his position. to the late President
does not prove that the ex-senator is guitless
! of star route frauds and furnishes no grounds
for exempting him from prosecution under the
indictments found against him. What, then.
could he have hopcdto gain by publishing these
letters? Did he think that by smrching the
memory of the dead his own unsavorv fame
| would be ceansed? If so he will be sadly dis
appointed. There is nothing in the letters or in
| the explanations and insnuations of Dorsey
| himself which can diminish by one ota the love
and reverence the American people have for
him who was stricken by the hand of an assas-
sin in the maturity of his powers. AS the New
| York Times well says dorsey on trial as a
| thief and conspirator parades his former init
macy with honest men as evidence of his own
| innocence or of their guilt. 1t is too Late
Even Mrs. Burnett's most devoted admirers
have been constrained to admit that her serial,
| Through one Administration" now in course
| of publication in The Century Magazine. has
been wearisome reading. The opening chapters
promised well, but the succeeding ones have
| been dreary, monotoneus and provoking. Bare
of incident. they simply conveyed the impress
sion of something disagreeable in store. In the
January number, however, Mrs. Burnett seems
! to have taken fresh start, and introduces two
| new characters, who serve to emphasize her
| disapproval of the spoils system. A government
| clerk had married on S15 month. and was in
dulging in the dream of buying a home out of
| this modest salary when he loses his office be-
cause the place is wanted for some one else
Arbuthnot tells the story to Mrs. Sylvester
at is very cruel" said Agnes. 1T is very
| hard
1T is as cruel as DEATH said Arbuthnot
| at is as hard as Life That such a thing is
| pOssible-that the bread and home and hopes
| of any honest human creature should be used
as the small change of power above him, and
| trafficked with to sustain that power and iiX it
| in its place to make the most of itself and its
| greed, is the burning shame and burden which
is Slung around our necks, and will keep us from
standing with heads erect until we are lightened
of it,"
| And then Arbuthnot and Mrs. S. east about
! them for ''intluence" to get another place for
the deposed clerk; but we hear nothing of
competitive examinations, so that they cannot
|