Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1890-09-16
ascslsss cAluvsY.

4 personal friend. a native 70 Maine
nov rr.i,lsni In The West, kindly send.
"a. marked copy % the Chicago Herald
% scpt. 10Th. The Herald, Ike mc.t Of
the Democratic papers, l. rcckle-s With
rage over the election ~ the Maine man
whom obstructionlsts have vowed 90
hate hccagss h. wants Congress 90 ~
hu.lne-. Instead % e,str-efisg business.
The Herald deyotes over column 70 its
nrst page and half column Of It, val
liable % editorial space % the ialss and
Wild charge. % open bribery which our
esteemed contemporary, The Portland
Advertiser, has curtly answered In a
small space a. follows;
Wild charges % bribery In the frst
district are made BY the correspondents
IL ssVeral sensational New York paper.
LIT them make up a case, take u into
court and prove Il. II they can. lutil
they DO 80 their statements will simply
- laughed At. This from the New \ ork
Times, q paper hitherto regarded Ahov.
such business. Il q sample - the absurd
accusations made: 'ln the town 20
Wells vote buying was carried on almost
openly. The ruling price paid Tor yotes
for Red wAs siO. hut In exceptional
case. a. much A. SIS was offered" IN.
return from Wells sufficiently expose.
the fAlsity % the statement. The vote
% Reed In that town MAS 80 In lS>>,
while this year u was -, decrease %
-. The Democratic vote stood - last
Monday o. 81 two wears ago. The fall
Ing OF WAS Almos, equal On both Side,
and the Democratic majority In Wells
l. only seven les than h~for. With
vote. going AZ sl0 % SIS apicc., the
Republicans ought rcally % have had
more % show Tor their money. The
motive of these rccklsss charges l. OBJ
yiogs enough. II l. % find a prvteNt
for contesiing the election In this dis
trict. II cannot - done on the Saco
and Biddefort cases, and therefore the
CRY Of "bocdle" l. raised.
In Ia rcckless anger the Herald cannot
stop with DEFINING the people % Mr..
Reed. distric, alone. bat gccs on 10 In
sali every citizen and every native -
Maine In an editorial from which Ne
quote:
Maine was originally Democratic. and
this fact wAs the principal reason why II
VAS sei apart from Massachusetts,, to
which Il belonged. and made a state. IL
remained Dcmocratic with few eNcep-
lions until lSSt. and Il VAS during these
years that Il enjoyed L. greatest pros-
pericty. prOdnC-i L. most celebrated men
and became noted for the industry, thrift,
Intelligence and morality 20 It, people
With the beginning - the emigration
westward the Dcmocratic vote decsned,
and with but one exception no Democrat
has carried Il sine, the year last men
toned. In lS!+ and In lss> John Quincy
Adams carried u. and Ia i>gO Il gave Tip
T--CAnoc and Tyler. too, plurality 81 3ls.
In every other year until lssl Il was
Democratic. and mo.t ~ It, Governors,
Cougrcssmen and senator's acre jefsr-
souiAns.
A great change has come over the pcc-
pie. The cities and towns that once
were made famous az the homes of FREE
men are now largely dominated By a
purchasahle and allen element that
trafiics In politics A. ether men do In
commodities. Of this Ignorant and
vicious class. controlling a state that i
In Il. decline numerically, intellectually
aud morally. Blaine and Reed arr AZ
leaders.
How beautiful State Maine would
have been In the Herald. eye had Il de-
feAtod Mr.. Recd last Monday IL !. din
cult 20 imagine. 4. 20 it, decline
numerically the following official des-
patch from Washington will show:
w.sIINGrO>. september 1.-The
CENSUS Office to-day announced the popu-
lation % the folio~ing elite. with the
Increase; BANGOR, Maine, 1900, In
Crra-e. An: Rockland. Maine. -,lJs,
increase. s3s. The population - the
entirc state ~ MAineis given a. ca, ~.
an increase In ten years % l.JO or l.75
pr cent.
Maine. decline intellectually and
morally charged by the same writer 4.
founded on IN. same fact y q. Il. num-
erieal decline.
Way up here In bsnighiod Maine.
where ''the cities and towns that once
were made famous az the homes % free
man are now largely dominated by a
purchasable and alien element that
trafiics In politics a. oth-r men do In
commodities We have now and then
waited Ia us vague rumors from the adj
yanced Intelligence % the Democrats
wards Of the cities % New York aud
Chicago teaching lessons OF the morality
and purity Of politics which exist. In
these great oenters.