Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-08

perfectly proper and legitimate ways TO
urge the success Of their party"
In no case has the party organization
an thing 70 do with selecting candidates
for Office. This would be wholly i'm
proper thing for any party committee 10
do a. an organization though individual
ly the members Of 1t may have personal
preferences and give expression 20 them
In any manner they choose. To be 9
rnemter Of = party organization does not
|dlsqaaIify man from personal partici-
patton 10 politics. though he should al
ways bear in mind that the organization
i.seif mas, be for the whole party ard
entirely free from en,anglepen.s a. re-
sp-cts nominations. Speaking Of the
the Republican state committee Of
Maine Mr. Maniey says;
$50 FAR a. the state committee Of The
Republican party in this state is con
cerned what ia its machinery We know
Of none other saye the members of the
state committee, Of the congressional
committees Of eseh congregational dist
rie,. Of the county committees, OF the
city and town committees. So@ the
state committee has for several years
published In a little pamphlet, the names
II every member Of these committees
with their address. and this pamphlet has
been forwarded to every Republican who
desired a copy, that they nigh know just
who we're members OF every committee,
and every citizen il left free TO communi-
cate with them upon any political subject
he desires. The State committee has been
.crHpulously careful not 10 oyerstep the
bounds Of propriety and not to assume
any power not specifically delegated to It
After the election Of President Harrison,
when IL was known that the Republi
can party was to come back into power
| in the Nation, a resolution was mani
mou.ly adopted by the committee, ex
pressing the sense Of the committee, that
| it would be improper for any member Of
the committee in hi. official position az a
mend any man for public Office. We be
| lieve the spirit Of this resolution has
been adhered 10, and We do not believe
that any member OF the state committee
has, in his official capacity, ever recon
mended man for appointment. OF
course members Of this committee have
"a private citizens in their various local.
ties taken part In the contests for Office
IA other citizens have, but they have
never sought to use any position the
committee conferred upon them, In rec
ommending or endorsing any applicant
for federal or State appointment"
Mr.. Manley's article bring, out very
| clearly the fact that the party organi-
zation" In Maine ia not, and from the
very nature OF things cannot be, In the
hands Of any special man OF men that Ii
Is published in book form and ia as ac-
cessiblc to one member OF the party as
to another. Organizing ability can come
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TO no candidate through the party Off
Gals He must possess it himself. should
he be successful he will lind himself a
member of the ring or the machine.
| Should he fail the other fellows would
become the ring and the machine"
In any event it il simply the Old eondi-
ton Of the "ins" and "outs" dgnihed
BY another name. Under our system of
government these change about so fire
quentlv that the one OF to-day may be-
come the other of tomorrow. There
seems 10 be but one philosophie course
Ia political life and that l. to eheerfully
accept The logic of events whatever they
may be Most every man that follows
this course will have his day and pass
out of the line. In the political army
the van guard muat always be n mere
skir,nish line compared with the great
thIong behind them.