Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-29
GALLANGER SCORES BUsIEL.
Calls Attention to la,ter's Own Record
Ready to Answer All Charges.

Concord, N H., Oct 2S.-The first Re-
publican rally of the campaign in this
section of New Hampshire was held, to-
night, and much interest attached there
with on the understanding that the diff
culties between Senator Gallinger and ex-
Gov. Busiel would be aired. Congress-
man Gillett of Massachusetts, spoke upon
national affairs and Naval Officer James
Q. Lyford on local issues. 1t was during
the address of Senator Gallinger that he
made references to the charges against
him filed with the cival service commits
sion at Washington by Charles A. Busiel
of Laconia. Senator Gallinger said he
had decided to briefly reply to the accusa-
tons made against him, and in doing so
said:
II have come in and gone out before
the people of Concord for four years.
have been with you in your homes, your
churches and your halls. l have been
connected with the Republican party
since the days of Abraham Lincoln. /
state and of the nation. Now, for the
first time i'll my life, l face a criminal
accusation abrought against me by
n9% not sr waom and am ehaged With
more fitting place for me, tonight. than
this platform would be the prison cell
What l,, is the charge? That ! have accept
of New Hampshire to the craftsmanship
Of their state committee and have to the
best of my ability discharged the duties
Who Is the man who makes this
charge? What is his record? How clean
are his hands? Ostensibly this charge
comes from Charles A. Busiel of Laconia
recently Governor of New Hampshire
How did he become Governor? | will not
accuse him.; He accused himself at the
he said boldly that he had issued thou
sands of railroad passes to influence po-
litical actions: He admitted that he had
violated the laws, and now he brings
himself. forward as a reformer. ] never
saw before SO humiliating spectacle as
that man standing before the assembled
intellect and integrity of the state ana
boldly declaring that he had violated its
| laws That is the man who attacks my
| integrity.
u will not weary you in detailing the
methods used by that man in becoming
Governor and in attempting to supplant
me IN my seat in the United States Sem
aye | VIII not weary you with telling or
the hundreds of dollars he spent in that
vain attempt
Senator Gallinger quoted the passage
IN scripture which commands the man
| who had taken aught wrongfully to re-
store in four-fold. Senator Gallinger read
from the Manchester Union the letter OF
Mr.. Busiel to the civil service commits
| sion, accompanying it with a running fire
| Of sarcastic comments.
| There stands the man." continued the
| senator, lone the one hand his conscience
on the other hand his fealty to the Re.
publican. party. There he stands strue-
Cling with himself. Finally conscience
| prevails and he writes this letter to the
| civil service commission. 1 neither fear
| that man, nor do respect him.
| Elsewhere in this paper appears an
interview with another gentleman who
| is greatly disturbed at what I have been
doing. l will simply remind that gentle
| man that In 1894 there were Just as many
Republican of1iceholders as there are. to
] day. and | will simply refer him to the
books of the treasurer of the state com
mittee at that time
Il will say to these gentlemen that il