Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-26
TAKE THAT !"
Plum Trust Whacked with the Rod
PIaisted's Had in Pickle.
Ne Applies II Vigorously Tales Oh Of Sehoel
that Are Readable.

The several and respective sunsets, that
continued to glorify this part Of the country
since the eventful day on which Cleveland
named the next postmaster for Augusta,
presented no ominous signs for the scrutiny
of the astrologers. They were not sufficiently
ruddy to betoken gore. There were mutter-
ings about the Ides of March. But to the
casual observer there wasn't even .
suspicion Of . snickersnee being drawn
among the Democratic brethren Of this COM
munity. The harmony was so oppressive
that you could hear pin drop.
Why it was even told abroad that Editor
Plaisted had ordered it that not one drop
more of gall should enter into the compost
ton of the ink he ehed than the
original recipe called for. The sub
{ ription list of our esteemed con-
temporary, the New Age, did not fuctuate.
Its sales were reported steady until Thurs-
day afternoon when they began to ascend
the scale. Copies of that paper we're in de-
mand. Democrats who hadn't conversed
amicably for weeks were seen to converse
excitedly.
It will be remembered that months ago
the story got abroad that the members of
the Democratic State committee had arro-
gated to themselves the distribution of the
Offices in this State ana that most Of them
were candidates that they having sworn to
stand by each other could go each into his
own bailiwick and say unto the lesser lights,
,.Get We into the attitude of humility, sup
port me for the plum I'm after or not even
a taste of the windfalls shall be yours.
Not only that but must have money, and
he that antes not is marked man."
1t was also understood that they arranged
to have all who visited Washington step
around and say to the President and heads
of the most important departments, "What-
ever you do in Maine recognize the organ
ization."
These were some of the reports in circu-
lation then, but it was scarcely thought that
they would be verified later on the best of
Democratic authority.
What Editor Plaisted has been thinking
to himself in his sanctum the past two
weeks is Of course unknown to the public.
Whether he would have come forth and
posed as the reformer of the Demo
cratic party at this late day, or whether the
sirill pibroch of the disconnected clans
would have issued from his sanctum, had
not circumstances favored, must remain
conundrums. Evidently, however. the res
ignation of the Democratic State commit
teeman Of this county, Hon. f. l.. Jones'
set the wheels in motion.
DEMOCRATIC STATE)
COMMITTEE OF MAINE,
WArERvILLE, Jan. "a, 1894.
+. f. Beane. ESQ.,, Secretary Democratic
State Committee.
Dear Sir-I herewith file with you my
resignation of member OF the State COM
mittee to take effect at once.
Four years service as member has led
me to believe that the Democratic organic
alton of this State is being used to further
personal ends and not conducted in chan
nels looking to beneficial results for our
party especially is this to be noticed since
others won national victory for us.
Never having been in the past, and not
intending in the future to be candidate
for any federal Office, perhaps makes this
the more apparent to me.
believe that the men chosen by the
A.. ham
on he State committee are chosen for the
purpose of advancing the interests of the
party in conducting compaigns looking to
Democratic success at the polls.
Res specially yours,
Signed f. L. JONES.
Apparently Mr.. Plaisted could not read
the above and be entertained at the same
time with visions of contentment under the
heel and fourth-rate favors at the hands of
the plum trust" He says the letter should
receive careful consideration. $50 it
should" say the Republicans who have read
it. He says that Mr.. Jones has been
obliged to take this course or sacrifice his
self respect. Here, then, is an opportunity
for sympathy and congratulations. It's too
much, and the New Age very pertinently,
not to say abruptly. remarks
"Distasteful as is the subject, we feel it
our duty to the thousands of principled ad-
herents of the Democratic party of Maine,
to ventilate the actions of this little band of
conspirators, who have srrogsted to them
selves a power unprecedented, undignified
aud I'M Democratic in the parceling out OF
Federal patronage in this State, course
calculated to briog discredit upon the ad-
ninstration and disaster to the party IN
Maine
The editor then points proudly to the
campaign of the Democratic party in this
State last fall and somehow the reader in
fers that to the opium trust" is not due oil
the glory.
The latter part of the article in the New
Age il as follows:
Hardly had the glorious news OF Demo
cratic success been received BY glad PEG.
pie before the State committee assembled