Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-11
The Lest Straw.


The publicity agent Of tho Demo.
cratic party IL giving the local Demo-
cratic campaign neafly his entire time.
Loss bsfoss the campaign opened he
dssosaksd the Augusta column In the
waAervills Sentinel ana the front page
q the I'D fashioned New Age with
petty siurs Of the spiteful type so dear
to the heart Of the discredited. Upon
the spsAin6 Of actual campaign activi-
ties hi began, as vas expected. q
Series Of mud exhibitions. 80 becom-
ing and 90 necessary to the Sentinel
and to the New Age as fragrance to to
q rose.
In ancient Parthia wild and crazed
persons were not confined; the popu-
lace upon discovering a maniac with
dfsw into the ho1se and from the doors
and windows cfeered the unfortunate
persons on in his career Of mental and
physical eontortions until he became
exhausted both mentally and physical
". whereupon the populace again went
about the routine Of the day and gave
no further attention to the maniac I'M
til such time as he undertook another
rampage after long rest. Similar
treatment has been accorded the
Democratic publicity agent. BY those
in sympathy with him and by those
not in agreement with his series Of
bitter acknowledgements Of partisan
hatred he has been urged on, for the
applause Of his kind and the disgust Of
his honest opponents are like tonics to
the type Of mind which works not
upon logical issues but upon mud
mounds of deceit ard artful lies.
The populace did not confine him
nor restrict him; like the men Of
Parthia the sane residents of Augusta
knew he would throw himself in the
course Of time and remove himself from
the municipal and the coming State
campaign through exhaustion of the
faith Of the people in him and must
certainly fall by his own weight. No
one believes the cry Of wolf" issuing
from the typewriter Of a mistaken
writer who naturally believes every
little robin that sings of a June MORN
ing Is a wolf, lion, or seadragon.
Wrestling with himself in the last
throes Of his painful pestilence Of
abusive slurs, he did, as all expected
he would, accumulate that weight Of
hatred which threw him and threw
him for long. long rest. He has
written with SO great burden of
venomous prejudice that he has dis
counted the political statements Of
himself, the Sentinel and the New Age
The last straw that broke the back Of
this human with two stomachs for
partisan hate, was weighed out Friday
III this columns Of the New Age. 1t is
not necessary to repeat the libel con-
tanned therein to throw the fellow
who found his pen mightier than him.
self and got thrown by it: if it were
necessary the Journal would not dare
reprint it. Suffice it to say that he
hurls green mud in a red rage at the
character Of the men composing the
viles administration, typifies the
whole body Of the city government as
'1ow-toned," and declares that the
Republican State Committee is to take
q hand in the election with the money
Of well known citizen Of Portland.
He is such counselor as Iago, but
instead Of killing the Moor his sus-
picion and hate have thrown him even
as when In the days Of Parthia wild
men ran amuck and sank in bewild-
cred faintness amidst the smiles of
onetin1e friends and the pity Of sup
posed foes.