Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-10

all who respected themselves. We
had no respect for the Lewiston Jour
lnal or its editor, and we believe that
sny fair minded person of Maine, who
will frankly say that we have had
lample cause to withdraw our former
affections.
If our indignation at wilful, mali
cious and persistent stabs and in
lnuendo sometimes beils over in plain,
Understandable terms of Amerieen
English. it is because We so despise
a character sneak thief. colossal
hypocrit and studied distorter of truth.
induging in Rooseveltian expressions
| We would not stoop to handy words
with the man whose volumes of cray
en- abuse last year undermined the
health of one of Names broadcast
MINDED cleanest hearted men-a man
| who is ever ready to forgive and for
| get and who cannot find it in his heart
| to despise even his most craven OPP
ponent. But We owe it To our many,
and rapidly increasing list OF read
ers in the Lewiston Journals ieeat
territory, to make it plain that the foi-
| lowing from the Lewiston Journals
Saturday edition is only one more puff
of its pretense and fustian:
one does not reply to Noise:
Were our Augusta friend in a teh-
perate and reasoning state OF inlau' were
he not habtualy beside himself AT any
question of the sacredness OF the Bur
leigh party of Maine, we shoulu say ~
him once again, that freedom OF thought
and speech and the right to vote aGeo ~,
! ing to conscience have superseded the
slavery to bosses. That rule died at
Chicago in July, 1872
Were our friend in reasoning frame
of mind we should say with reference to
Congressman Dingley that If the Repdo,
lican party honored him: he returned
that debt by honorlng the Rep p;a aanl
science, all his truth, Were he alive TO-
day his conscience would revolt at the
deed of 1872 at Chicago and at the doinlh11
ion of the system and the boss. so SINAI
in the qualities of craftsmanship, but so
large in political trickefy.
Were our friend at Augusta in rea-
sonable frame of mind. we should say
to him that as newspaper the Lewiston
journal has long loved, supported ana
respected the Republican party whereas
now. today. it can do neither-because
the party is controlled, we believe by
those who have no conception of the high
purpose which once animated and con-
trolled it.
Were he not beside himself, we should
say that il is not Repubicanism that is
wrong. 1t is its bosses. Republicanlsm
has been seized upon and betrayed
But-as we said at the beginning. one
does not answer mere noise. One moves
away from it, especially if one has small
hope of its ceasing.
And in this case we can't see any en-
couragement for quiet, For our esteemed
friend in the above editorial suggests
nothing else to us except the old-fash |
toned fanning-mill that stood in the barn
floor at home, years and years ago. and |
that made the more noise, the emptier 1t |
got.
Indeed the freedom of thought and |
speech on the part of those who were
good enough for associates until they |
refused to join the hallelujah song |
and chorus for revenge, has not been |
wholly obliterated, even by the Lewis |
ton Journals hundreds of columns of |
abuse of such men as Governor Bur
leigh and all those who believe in his
integrity.
No manner in which Editor Dingley
can iuggle the English language has
been too mean to use upon any and
all who remained true to Republican
and refused to believe that
all their leaders and associates were |
swindlers and cutthroats. Yet when |
we, now and then, make a plain state |
ment of facts, the Portland Argus |
satirist, and the Waterville Sentinel
"purist," and the Biddeford Record
blunderbuss, and the Lewiston Jour |
nails ever blooming, rose scented, lily
white Lam nicer than-you, don't
YOU know artist join in medly about |
the way our language jars on their |
delicately attuned Democratic ears.
But our dear little Androscoggin |
friend need not bother to reply"
unless he finds his sluggish spirit
reallyn moving. but he is likley to hear |
some more noises when ii is nee
of fact way. We are not dealing i'll
frills or pretenses. We have lot or
truths to tell, off and on, about the |
Dinglcy love for the Republican
party and other things, and why he
and his organ can no longer love the
party, its bosses or even the hum
| BILE men who stand in the ranks, un-
| less they will turn traitor to all past
| associations and principles.
| The Republican party of Maine was
seized by its corrupt bosses" The
merry minute it refused to recog-
nize Frank Dingley as competent to
fill Nelson Dingey's shoes. They
have been Selling" and "betray ng''
and going straight to perdition ever
| since-according to the Dingley by
phenated Pidgin- English.
| After 400 columns in IA months. of
inane TRADE and idiotic slanderous