The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-15
The Bangor Commercial and Chair
man Brown
Bangor Commercial Of Thursday. j

Bangor Commercial of Thursday.J
The Commercial could afford to ignore the
very remarkable Associated Press despatch
from Watervill printed in this mornings
Whig in regard to the meeting of the Demo-
cratic State Committee last evening This
despatch declares that the "stupid and cow
ardly attack made ON the chairman by one
of the party organs in the State, has called
forth rebuke from prominent Democrats
all over the State. This and the mistake in
the appointment of the Postmaster at Lin
colnville Centre, and the comment thereon,
rendered necessary the present meeting"
The Commercial is under no necessity of
considering this remarkable language as APP
plying to or intended for itself, for nothing
that has appeared in its columns in regard to
Mr.. Brown is susceptible to the charge of
being either Stupid or ''cowardly," adjec-
tives which were evidently furnished to the
Associated Press reporter at Waterville by
Mr.. Brown or some of his particular friends.
The Commercial, however, is not disposed to
ignore the matter, as it might very properly
do. 1t is quite ready to accept the violent
language in question as intended for itself
and to see how far it is justified in the light
of the facts.
In the first place the article in the Com
mercial in which the propriety of Mr.. Browns
resignation was suggested, and which is the
stupid and cowardly attack" referred to in
the despatch, was printed Tuesday evening.
The call for the meeting was issued last
week and it is therefore quite evident that
Mr.. Brown, in stating that this ''attack"
rendered the meeting necessary, showed
himself destitute of the long memory which
it is so desirable for certain class of people
to possess.
In the next place the ''only prominent
Democrat who felt impelled to utter any
'rebuke" of the Commercials course toward
Mr.. Brown was Mr.. L. M. Staples of Knox
county, who has a grievance of his own
against the Commercial for the publication
in the latter of certain letter from ID. N.
Mortland to James G. Blaine, written in the
campaign of 1880, informing the latter gen
tleman that he had expended a certain sum
of money in the purchase of certain Demo-
cratic influence in that county.
During the meeting of the committee set
of resolutions prepared by Mr.. Staples, en-
dorsing Mr.. Browns course concerning the
distribution of federal patronage in this
State, were introduced, but Hon. d. r.
Hastings of Fryeburg, who was delegate
at-large to the Chicago convention, and 9TH
ers expressed themselves so vigorously in
opposition to their adoption that it was
deemed advisable to withdraw them, and the
only resolution which did pass the commit
tee in any degree comforting to Mr. Brown
was one declaring in effect that the commit
tee did not believe that he would recommend
man for post office whom he knew to be
an inmate of a Jail. Mr. Brown is entitled to
all the satisfaction he may be able to derive
from the passage of this eulogistic (?) resolu-
tiOn.
Another resolution of very pointed ma
ture was also passed by the committee, de-
claring in effect that hereafter any recon-
mendation for office made by the chairman
| as representing the committee must have the
| prior endorsement of the member of the
| committee from the county in which the
Office is situated. Mr.. Brown and some 9TH
| ers will probably have no difficulty in recog-
| nizing the drift and effect of this important
| little resolution