Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-27
A Liar Convicted.

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when il thinks lie will ansser its purpose
In its last issue il says;
"As re predicted last week. Mr.. Blaine
remarkable speech has made the county
practically unanimou. 10 lie rejoieings owe
the success Of Grover Cleveland, If we ma!
Judge by the echoes Of the press-republica'
a. we'll a. democratic. The Blaine organs il
the State. the Boston Journal and Cincinnati
Gazette applaud his platform Of Hate, Sec
tionagisrn ard Discord. With these excep
tons Mr.. Blaine receives no comfort from th'
press Of the country. The New York Tribune
even Is silent"
This is a specimen Of the lying TO Whiet
the New Age is addicted Mr.. Blaine
/, speech has been published and commended il
the highest terms BY the republican press OF
the whole country. The democratic and
maQEump papers have assailed it with Vehe-
mence, became Il IS a shot that goes crashing
through the timbers Of the old rotten hulk Of
democracy. 'fTh> New York Trl5Vns, eren
is sllent " says the New Age. In order 10
show what falsehood this il we copy the
following article from the Tribune, published
Immediately after Mr. Blaine's speech was
uttered in this city:
Mr. Blaine TO the People.
Mr. Blaine speaks. az he always does, with
power This time he gives expression 10 the
convictions Of the loyal people throughout the
North. His speech has nothing of self in il,
betrays no trace OF personal feeling, and is
more calm aud just in tone than the utter
ances Of his victorious opponents. But it ia
/ irresistible in reasoning. IL points the North
ern people to the true cause of their defeat
viz the suppression Of free government at
the South.
| This speech will naturally give offence 10
| those who have deliberately conspired 70 turn
over the Government % Southern hands. For
such men, the Northern traitors who fill the
place today that the despised copperheads
| filed during the war, il cuts like a whip-lash.
| II is too much TO expect them TO be silent !;
that they howl is natural Neither for them
nor their outcries can the indignant loyal
! North afford to care. Its duty is 20 consider
wha, shall be done TO protect the rights Of the
! people and the welfare Of the country. What
Mr. Blaine has said will give direction to the
thoughts and efforts Of the republican party,
| for IL calls attention to one issue which hes
now become of vital importance.
More important than all others this issue
| has been from the first The bunder Of the
North is that it has charitably hoped to avoid
| IL. In mistaken brotherly kindness, it has
| INDUCED the belief that the evils at the South
would presently pass away. that the consider
alton Of economic questions would incline the
| Southern people to forget their hatre1s and
their desire for vengeance. that the growth
Of diversified industry at the South would
| lead 10 the development Of economic tenden-
ces in harmony with those of the Northern
] a. =.
tons there would no longer be a disposition
to suppress free suffrage. This charitable
hope led to the reaction against the policy of
General Grant ten years ago, led to the with
drawal OF troops from the South prompted
the republican party in its course during the
past eight years, and aroused the hope that
| in the late election States which had become
one in interest with the Northern COM
munities would through freedom of
elections unite with them in political
action. But all these hopes were dsappoint-
ed. The prosperity of Virginia and West
| Virginia depends as clearly upon the main
tenance Of the republican policy as the pros.
perity of Pennsylvania or Ohio. and yet the
people Of those Southern States were not
permitted to express their will. Louisiana,
intensely devoted to the protective system,
realizing that its greatest industry would be
destroyed IN month il q democratic policy
should prevail, was, nevertheless taken BY
the throat by the New Orleans ring. and its
electoral votes cast in defiance of the will
of its people for the election of Cleveland.
These things convince the Northern mind
that there can be no decision of any economic
or other question upon its merits by the free
voice of the people of these United States
until free elections at the South can be
secured. The earnest endeavor TO interest
the Southern people by argument in
measures and policies which concern
their prosperity. and thus to induce
them to cast aside the vindictive spirit which
has trodden free suffrage under foot, has
definitely failed. II has been made in good
faith. II has been made for eight long
years, in two successive Presidential cam.
paigns, and in several sessions OF
Congress. IL has been seconded by some OF
the worthiest and ablest men at the South
Ii has caused. in some quarters, such an
uprising of Southern sympathy with the
protective policy that the change, in Louis
lana, for instance, was called by democrats q
revolution. Yet the voice of the people ID
suppressed a. completely as before. The
resnlt is, as before, that band of vindictive
Bourbons cast the electoral votes of the
Solid South, not as the people please, but a,
they please. With 1853 electoral votes in the
hands of these men to be cast, no matter
what the people want, they require only Al
electoral votes from Northern States, and
these the cities of New York, Jersey City AM
New Haven are trusted to give.
For once the conspiracy succeeds. 1t i.
well. Its success conpels the Northern
people to think once more of eternal Justice
They have been wrong to forget that the
voters of the South require protection in then
rights. They have been mistaken in trusting
10 the magnanimity or the self interest OF
those who now cast the electoral votes Of
the Southern States as they see At. The
result will compel people of the North to
consider more seriously than ever what mas
be done to establish and guarantee sell
government in all the States of the Union.
So much for the lying New Age and it.
lying editor. From this its readers see how
useless it is for them to place confidence in
such paper. Here is lie made out OF
whole cloth, proved to be such, and there are
scores of statements in the same issue of the
paper lust as false as this