Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-27
Few Plain Facts.
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Editor HdteFrtE&s SsAstHets
Certain ssherents Of Al sspi;ant for COR
y,es,ioosl honors in this district. who re-
Gently visited this section to do missionary
work in bis behalf, based their opposition
10 Governor BarIsizh upon the allegation
that be 10 not citizen Of the Third Dis
,rlc.. They did not deny thu. he Governor
had always been 8 epuiaf candidate or
that he had made an able and business-ltke
chief executive. Their one stick srs u meet
related TO the question Of residence.
c,nfsss il looked TO me 70 be the rahe
lame force-pu: Of parties hard rssnsd for
political ammunition VIII you kindly in
form me whether they had the slightest
foundation for their assertions and oblige
SrALwARr REPUBLICAN
Readheld, Oct. l6, 1891.
The persons who made such talk 81 our
correspondent speaks of must indeed be IN
desperate straits for political smnuni-
ton" We presume they did cot charge
IN with being an unnstursijzed foreigner,
Yet such charge would be fully as true
and a. sensible ~ that his residence In This
district hss not been such as to make him
4 citizen The constitution OF Maine re
quires but = three months residence TO
qualify an elector. Governor Buleigt
nas lived 10 Augusta almost long enough
to make a man : votsr if born there He
hss .sided 10 that city ia the peighborhood
Of tssnty yesrs-moie Than eighteen We are
cu e. sure-or above half the time since be
became Of sge, and be is now along in lhe
a fti,s When the next Congregational cleo
lion occurs be will have resided there with
his family ard paid taxes at least dtzsL
years
Probably a quarter part OF the voting
residents of Augusta have not lived there
longer than the Governor has. A little more
than ten years ago he purchased homestead
IN that city with the avowed intention q
m sking it bis permanent home. He has since
D, coma q lsIgs o~per of real estate there,
iacludigg 8 busIcess blcck on Water stree
and for coma years his name hiss sppesred
n The list of Augussa's he,viest taxpayers
[, would seem a. though the Governor had
.uffi GENTLY at c1orsd himself in this dis rict
ID slieIc t the most uufeasoosbte cNpef as
10 bis ci,.z4n.hip. The fact is his INTEREST,"
Are centered here. His eldest son is abe
ed!tor and one Of the propretofs o
he KENNEBEC JOURNAL. His eldes'
daughter is the wife Of prominent
oung ply stefan Of the city. Another son
will probably settle there at the close of
his Law studies, and whatever may be the
out come of this congressional faht the esp
i.sl will still be favored as Governor Bur
l-ieh's permanent home. IL he shall re-
ceive the congressional nomination next
year he will have resided with his family
in Augusta four years longer than Mr..
Blaine had resided there with his family
when he entered upon his distinguished
public career, yet nobody was ever silly
enough to raise the cry Of non-residence
against him.
II lie supremely ridiculous for anybody,
however desperate their political projects,
TO attempt to make capital, and excite pre-
dice against candidate on the ground Of
oon re sdence who has lived, moved and
bad his being in the district for near
twenty years and has resided with his fam
lily, voted and paid taxes in it for more
han q decade. Such clap trap is dis
grace to its promulgators and like
some other method. to head ID the Cover
nor's aspirations, will return to plague the
Inventors. The voters Of the Third Dis
trict ore not wanting in common sense or
.pirit Of fair play and We believe that they
It cognizs the Governor as fellow citz.n
and Ia view Of his sterling Character and
good record as = public servant will be
proud to proclaim him arepre, eaiative one.