Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-08
The Third District Contest.

The Third District Contest.
| The Ellsworth American ia OUT in an
editorial urging the claims Of its eAiid;-
date for Congress in this district. The
souRssL has nothing to say personally
against Mr.. Wisweil or any other mfin-
her Of the comSipz;ion that Is opposing
the candidacy of6overBor Burieigh- Its
Republication is not Of the peculiar kind
that asserts itself in yenomons abuse
Of R-publicaD leaders. II purposes 10
TIE 10 good position to give the nominee
Of the1conventioD, whoever he may be,
3 cordial support. 10 entertains for Mr.
WisweH only the most Kindly feelings.
IL has been limited that he was to be
made The beneficiary Of the ostensible
condition Of .iiscord which other mem
bers Of the combination were to create
IN order that he nigh. come forward as
harmony candidate We do not he
| lieYe though, that any such 4
8cheme could be successfully worked in
any mans interests, anil We should not
care to believe that Mr.. Wiswell would
be party to anything Of the sort The
Jos gNAL has desired, from the start,
10 see this campaign conducted on lines
OF courtesy; but there have been per
sobs loud in their protestations Of hietity
~ the p<rty-who have obviously de-
| tefnincd TO drag lt down jdst AZ far
from that plane az they possibly could
Governor EurIs Oh and his friends are
not responsible for this. From
the very start they have
deprecated anything OF the
kind. When Mr.. Wiswells home
organ opened upsn Governor Burleigh,
very early lie the canvass, with an arti
Gle intended To bring discredit upon his
political methods. we felt that 10 was a
mistake to So invite a campaign on lines
OF personal diseourtesy. Our opinion was
very generally shared and expressed by
| the Republican pre-. Of the State. Ap
parsntly the friends Of Mr.. Wiswell
conceded the point, for bis home orga1
did not follow It up, and in this second
presentation OF his candidacy maintains
| Il tone OF courtesy and fairness toward
All the candidates. In this ~ rit we
are pleased 10 meet It, We are glad to
discuss this matter at all times without
| asperity and wiLhou: abuse. We confess
that the In situation which our Ellsworth
contemporary endeav0rs 70 bring to the
front under the disguise of SomeT
set county "hclief" that all the other
Candidates are unavailable because
OF the earnestnees with which they
Gems TO us suggestion tina,
r, ilects uniustly upon the Republication
of the Third Congressional District We
have had very many earnest contests
for various political ohltes inside the
PARTY in the history Of the district and
the fact has never before, TO our know
ledge, been held to disqualify contes
tants for party honors. It has been the
pleasing habit Of Third District Reput-
leans, when such battles were settled in
convention, TO come trgethcr and
give the successful man hearty support
at the polls. We do not believe the
present year will prove any exception to
the rule. We still have Sufficient faith
in the quality Of Third District Republi
clnisu to believe that il will present as
good q front at the polls In the coming
election as it ever has, anil elect its
candidates Ivy rousing maiorisies.
We regard harmony talk as an un-
called for impeachment OF Republican
ism that has never yet been found
wanting on election day. Surely no
man can well afford to rest his candidacy
upon such basis Aswc say the JOUR
NAI has deprecated di,courteous meth
ods. They are liable 10 provoke retail
iation. and are always best avoided We
have regretted the venom which the
Watciville Mail has sought to inject into
this Campaign--an ,ilort followed up by
political circulars, the responsibility for
which is no secret, about equally divided
between abuse of Governor Burleigh
and praise of his opponents --one Of
them in particular, being specially IA
vOred in this respect ~ course work
of this kind is to be deplored 1t is not
Rcpuhlicanisln. u iuyitsS style of
laupalgn that should be- avoidrd-and
invites il too in zach 4 way as to sug
gest to thinking men reason for SO
doing. We should be glad indeed TO see
everything of the kind discarded
in this campaign. but it is obvious that,
if it is to be kept up, it cannot, in the
very nature Of things, he altogether
ote sided, The responsibility Tor it
must rest entirely with those who have
iuaugurated and kept it IN. The JoI -
>sl will be ready to give the nominee
OF the convention hearty support. aud
il has no reason to doubt but what all
the candidates and their friends
will ID the same. Under
The circumstances, then we do not thlnk
that any candidate can be rushed to the
front on the ground that al his Compel
itors are unavsilable "
The city OF Ellsworth has been "lfh
out representation 10 bat one Cong "'s
of the nlted states since lN''J, p rod
OF t"enty-thFee years oa@ "i cur