Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-08
A Cheap Whine.

Cheap Whihe'
"Many personal letters such as the
above which we publish by PERMISSION
attest the position that the Lewiston
journal holds with the People. Is our
friend says, the penalties are heavy.
Just at present we are being publicly at
tackled in our private business. and IN
personal character but personal ana pr.
vate letters similar to this which we
have received from great BODY OF the
men of Maine who constitute the cause
of moral progress more than repay any
ANNOYANCE therefrom. Men come and go
Principles endure The cause of Progress
sives In whatever name. will triumph and
the political adventurer who Is tooI %
the Powers of Piliage and who sees notn.
ing ahead of him except personal power
and wealth will have to go.
The above is the editorial comment
following Progressive effusion in the
Lewiston Journal. There was nothing
remarkable about the letter. 1t was
specimen of letters always appreciat-
ed) that come to every newspaper. The
Editor of this paper has a file OF thous-
ands of them preserved for reading in
his declining years while watching the
chickens and onions grow. and to back
up his references to when l was edi-
tor of the Kennebec Journal" etc.
And as a companion file to those let
ters of appreciation, are more than ooo
columns from the Lewiston Journal,
every column of it filled with consum-
mate cussedness aimed at Senator Bur-
leigh and other of Names most noted
and best loved men. Every paragraph
of these 600 columns breathes hatred
for those more successful and respected
the insidicus back stabbing of moral
coward whose disappointment had been
dwelt upon until diseased mind pic
tured every man scoundrel except a
few chosen and exaggerated Idols. Year
after year the prerogatives of once
great and respected newspaper We're
debaucled into daily domineering over
the Maine press, and a consuming pas
sion for ciapper- clawing public men.
No infamy was too great with which
to covertly and confusedly charge SEN
ator Hale and all other men who rep
resented Maine in Cangress.
For dozen years the Kennebec
Journal its owners, editors and friends
have enjoyed (?) more than their share
OF this consistent abuse and. at last,
determined to bluntly state the facts
concerning the Lewiston Journal and
its editor. There is neither rancor nor
hitterness-only pity-in these plain
facts People who have read the Lew
iston Journal or who have attempted to
read it in recent years, will recognize
the justice and truth of our position
and sta tements.
Now the editor of the Lewiston jour
nal cringingly whines that he is being
publicly attacked"
God pity the bigot. for the wicked
can pray!
In the same editorial column follow
ing his whine, same issue, the L. J.
publishes the following-Would you
| call it fair or even decent reference to
| a man whom the public knows as wei
as ii does Hon. John A. Peters,:
' Last year Mr.. Peters was accorded the
unusual honor of being elected to the
1 Legislature for a third term. He was
| chosen Speaker. and every progressive
| In the House voted for him. His record
shows him to be man of most progress
sve ideas, and an advocate OF progress
sise policies. Throughout the session b.
was supported not only by Republicans