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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
The Blaine Mania.

| The last bulletin of the Democracy that
came out Saturday evening was lame docu-
ment. 1t is broadside of ten columns, and
in nine of those columns the burden of the
song is Blaine! BLAINE! BLAINE! The
Democracy of Augusta in political sense
seem to breakfast dine and sup on Blaine
They have Blaine ON the brain. Blaine seems
to haunt them in their wax ing moments, in
their dreams and in their sleep.
Mr.. Blaine is regarded as an important man
by the Republicans, but he is nothing in their
estimation compared with what the Democrats
picture him forth in their imagination. The
Portland Argus and the Maine Standard serve
up Mr.. Blaine in every issue. We fancy that
no number of the Standard can be found for
years without Mr.. Blaine's name figuring,
whereas in some numbers as many as three,
four, five, and even six columns are devoted
to him.
The readers of these papers must be very
eager to hear about Mr.. Blaine, and so we
suppose we will have it to the end! Our
readers would get very sick of hearing so
much about any one man, but we suppose the
Democracy find Mr.. Blaine source of mex
haustible interest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
q. S. Commissioner Bradbury in
IA dignified role.

At the democratic caucus on Saturday night
Mr.. James W. Bradbury, Jr., edited his
hearers by reading to them that brilliant piece
of wit known as "OWED TO OWEN" and
which forms conspicuous feature of that last
democratic circular. As the choice produc-
ton was already in print, Mr.. Bradbury must
have read it from pure admiration of his own
wit, or possibly, to be charitable to him, for
the benefit of that large proportion of demo-
cratic voters who don't know their letters.
And there is still another reason for Mr..
Bradbury's reading it. The great stroke of
wit that marks this production is the attempt
to ridicule an infrmity of speech which one
of the publishers of this paper is afflicted
with, and which has been a lifelong burden,
almost too heavy at times to be borne. In
the printed word this nfrmity is not plainly
conspicuous, but Mr.. Bradbury's oral render
ing of it was said to be very effective and to
have brought down the house with democratic
cheers!
And this is the height of democratic aspira-
ton. Rather we should say this is the depth
of democratic degradation! A young man
who preteads to be gentleman, and who is a
Commissioner of the United States, reads to
democratic assemblage some doggerel poet
ry whose every verse essays to ridicule an
infrmity which implies only misfortune, and
misfortune from infancy. Judge Rice must
feel proud to be nominated by caucus that
gives him Peleg o. Vickery for a colleague
on the ticket, and which cheers to the echo
a performance so degraded that the worst
s'roughs" of New York would scorn to de-
scend to it.
There is an old tradition of the nursery that
stammering comes from generation to gener-
alton through the initiative faculty, and child
rem are early warned against the innocent
mimicry which might entail it. We could
not have it in our heart to wish Mr.. James
w. Bradbury, Jr., so harsh punishment for
his cruel and causeless mimicry; still less, if
God in his dispensations should permit him to
be so afflicted, could we ever wish him to meet
with a fellow being that would show towards
him the brutality that he exhibited on Satur-
day towards him who pens these lines.
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Interesting Statistics.

A friend of ours who is curious about such
things, assures us that in the last Democratic
circular the name of "Blaine" occurs sixty.
three times, and the personal pronouns she
and ''him," referring to Mr.. Blaine, one hun.
dred and seventeen times.
And in the last two issues of the Standard
he says the name of Blaine" occurs two
hundred and twenty-three times, while in
finding out how often "he' and SHIN oc
Cured he fairly gave up the count in dispair
"There are more vessels now built thar
are wanted"
H0a0hIO1l's LETTER. 1865
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
California Victory.
GROWS BETTER AND BETTER !
State Republican by $500
Majority p!
San Francisco Republican
by $500 MajOrity
See details in a telegraph column of the
Glorious Republican Victory in California!
Let Maine do likewise to-day!
Once for ALI!

The habit of the Standard and of Demo-
cratic circulars, in attributing editorials in
this paper to other sources than the legitimate
and avowed one, is impertinent, petty and
childish. The publishers of this paper are
three in number, and as business firm are
able to conduct their paper according to their
own notions of propriety, and they are solely
responsible for what appears in its columns.
As a glaring example of the absurdity of
this course, we may mention that the editorial
in reference to Judge Rice-so laborfously
attributed to another was never seen or
known in advance of its publication by any
one except the particular editor of this paper
who penned it and the compositor who set it
up. And we have no reason to abate one jot
or title of an expression in that article. We
repeat that that the candidacy of Judge Rice
brings the Maine Central into the political
arena-and more than this we say that the
motive of the Democratic party in nominating
Judge Rice was just as palpably to secure
Railroad influence, as the nomination of p o.
Vickery was to secure the so-called Labor Re-
form influence. Make the most of these dec
larations, gentlemen, and for their RESPONSE
BILE author you need not look outside of this
office
We are not to be twitted about free passes
or any other favors received from the Railroad
company. Recognizing and acknowledging
the obliging courtesy of the company, we are
conscious at the same time of equal courtesy
in return; and we wish it distinctly under
stood that we are not debtors to the Maine
Central Railroad, either in pecuniary sense
or on the ground of courtesy. And, in con-
clusion, we think the republicans of Augusta
can stand Judge Rice's candidacy quite as
well MS the Maine Central can,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
A Mass Meeting without the N

Last Saturday night in Meonian Hall met the
and Patricks, and Morton right mad, and four
young Repubs looking sheepish and sad. Twas
a motley old mixture of Coppers and Pats, with
the four newly converted Vickery flats-a
mass meeting twas named in the bills on the
street-drop the m from the mass and you
have it complete. Scribe Choate called
to order with cane of hard pine the crowd
that just numbered one hundred and nine I'M
terrified coppers, and fifteen young boys that
assembled to hear the Grassland make noise.
To carry along the ridiculous sham, Hiram
the scribe, then announced the programme
Peleg the title of president" bore, of ''Vice
Presidents, ten or a dozen or more. But
what was very remarkable fact, V. P.s the
convention entirely lacked-save the four
sickly looking "Peleg o Peels'' who appeared
as uneasy as a basket of cells. There was
then introduced without any applause, Judge
Rices colleague in making the laps-the
founding the coppers are nursing so warm,
that their linen will presently suffer much
hai LII. W HeIeupUu, Ill HIS ouHudy pest
meeting clothes dressed, the Statesman, who
knows how to feather his nest, arose in great
pomp, and straining hard to look sage,
winked at a man by the name of Sam Page.
Samuel then did begin to converse on the
subject of labor-the workingman's curse
twenty dollars day, and expenses all paid,
are the wages of Sammy while plying this
trade. Our reporter regrets that he couldn',
hear more, but copperhead smells drove him
out of the door, while the four young repubs
who had got sold so cheap, looked as silly as
if each had been stealing a sheep.
The Judges companion in matters of state,
the learned and cultured o Peleg the
Great, the fortunate buyer of fremen's hose,
who gets percentage when nobody knows
has promised to do, as a matter of course, fol
his copperhead owners, their nastiest chores
or else they would not have instructed theil
Pats to vote for him as pay for four silly flats
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
WHAT Il REAL LABORER THINKS
AND KNOWS.

real laborer sends communication to
the Portland Press, in which he denounces
the trash that Kimball has been sending out to
workingmen. He gives the following facts
that come within his own personal knowledge,
refuting the idea that labor is degraded in
this State:
l know that in my village, containing a
wooden mill, oil cloth factory and machine
shop, and other villages of similar size, that
the assertion far as these are concerned,
are utterly false. l have been here day la
borer fifteen years, and 1 know that every
man who has been here at work all that time
and been fairly economical and industrious,
has not only lived comfortably, but has
home OF his own or money in the Savings
bank or at interest Fifteen years ago. men
came here without dollar, and with no other
means but their own labor, who have now
comfortable and pleasant cottages, their own
too, and have raised up respectable families.
If you could visit this town, l could show
you on one street, dozen neat cottages, with
generous garden plots that have been built by
day laborers, and are owned by them. Fifteen
years ago we could not make more than half
the wages we now get, and some not more
than third, so that with my experience am
prepared to say that there never has been q
time in this locality when an Industrious and
prudent operative or mechanic could sup
port his family as well as now. To be sure
many articles are higher, hut S1.25 ten years
ago was not equal to $3.50 or SO now. In
deed, many articles that enter largely into
the family supplies are nearly as cheap as in
1850. The common materials of clothing are
nearly as cheap as at that time, and enough
better to quite make up the difference. Bread
is but little higher than at that time, and many
articles have gradually approached the prices
before the democratic war. These are facts
that appeal to every one Of us, and are plain
er than the assertions of demagogues.
So far as am informed these champion
Labor Reformers are not only the defamers
of our industrial interests, but are worn out
and long discarded political hacks, kicked out
of the old party for being either fools or
knaves, or both. They are not laboring men,
but having no hope of office any longer in
their old parties, hope to ride to success on
this new hobby.
MECHANIC.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

SIS there indeed" says the Philadelphia
Press, ''any beter evidence that the free
trade movemeAi in this country is inspired
and kept afoot by British manufacturers than
the fact that its organs strenuously insist upor
an increase Of the duties upon tea, coffee
sugar, and spices-articles not produced il
Great Britain-in order that the duties may
be removed from clothing, iron, carpets
cloths, and other articles largely manufac
tured in Englsnd.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
Keep an eye on the ballot-box.
Remember that democrats are given t.
double voting when they have a chance.

The valuation of Augusta for the year 1856
was just two millions of dollars. Between
that period and 1860 the country was mostly
ruled by the democratic party. At the end OF
ten years, in 1860, our valuation was So AGO.
600, an increase of 20 per cent, while the
general increase of the States was Ct per
cent. In that decade, therefore, under dem
ocratic rule and democratic policy, we fell 40
per cent. behind our sister cities and towns.
In the decade between 1860 and 1870, under
republican rule our valuation increased from
s2,4Go,ooo to s4,sso 900 nearly one hundred
per cent IL took ten years of republican
rule TO repair the losses and the damages
which ten years of Democratic rule had in
ficted upon Augusta.
Speaker Blame.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

And how is it about the decline in the stock
of a certain Beaten Hay Press Company, Mr..
Blaine ?-Mr. PiHsbury in last Democratic
broadside.
We fancy Mr.. Pillsbury has applied to the
wrong place for information. He can get all
the facts of the case by applying to Hon. Ar
temas Libbey, who was, and perhaps still is,
Treasurer of the Beaten Press Company, or
to Charles A. Lambard, Esq, of New York,
who originally introduced that investment in
to Maine!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
AID VICE FROM Massey.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MUST DO TO sue
CEED THIS FALL.
CONFEDERIT y ROADS, J
IL =. Il. 4 L L

CEED THIS FALL.
CONFEDERIT Y ROADS, }
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentuck0 :
August 20, 1871.
The outlook for the Democracy amt
jest ez good this year ez l shood like to
see it. 1t will take the closest kind NV fig
germ, an the best management in the
world, to make success, and | really
don't know ez it can be done at all There
amt much sense in our leaders. Tweeds
stealing In Moo York. tho not more in
quantity than spose he RELY wantid, was
dun too openly for the good NV the party
elsewhere; and besides this Their amt that
unanimity, the general oneness of senti-
ment in our ranks that Their had ort to be
this year. The fact is the democrisy COM
prehends altogether too much--it hez too
betty an assortment NV principles for any
one party to swing. | hev spent many
anxious hours on the question NV meetin
This truble, an hev at last decided on II
system NV work witch, eff follered out faith
fully, may give us that success we hope
for.
Our speakers. must tor once inform
themselves ez to the ishoos now before
the people. The old speeches witch we he'd
in Jaxon's time and witch we hev yoosed
ever sense wont du eny moar. We hev
got to git up new ones shure. All our ex-
temporary speeches must be carefully pre-
pared. A carefully prepared extempora-
ny speech is liable to run smoother than
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

We anticipate the Standard in saying that
as we claim it to be impertinent and childish
to attribute our editorials to outside sources
we should not do the same with theirs.
But the difference lies in the fact that the
names of the publishers and editors of this
paper are conspicuously published in every
issue. The Standard runs anonymously, and
we are left to guess who may write its arti-
Giles. There is no imprint to indicate the
names of responsible editors in the Standard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

The nation has not decayed during the last
decade Boston Post.
No thanks to the ten democratic States that
seeded, or to the national democratic party
which prejudged the war for the preservation
of the nation failure, and during the whole
period consistently plotted to thwart every
effort of the republican administrations which
secured the happy result and are entitled to
the glory.-Boston Adregtiser.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

The Argus perpetrated shameless fraud
in publishing bogus letter purporting to have
been written by Mr.. Perham. 1t was fool
ish as we'll as base attempt to offset the secret
circulars sent out by Mr.. Kimball, and shows
to what desperation the disclosure drove the
Argus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

The Bangor Wing, which first exposed the
secret circulars of Kimball, and from which
we copied, holds the autograph letters to prove
the genuiness of its statments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
For Representatives to Legislature
]. PRESCOTT WYMAN,
SAMUEL TITCOMB.

The true Workingman's ticket has the
name of Sidney Perham at the head. The
dark lantern, secret circular, midnight
ticket is the G.. p. Kimball ticket.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Young men, let your vote count to-day
against the party whose iniquities cannot
bear the light of day. Vote Tor Sidney
Perham and the republican ticket
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Beware Of bogus tickets. Read Won,
ticket before you deposit it in the ballot
box.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Vote distributors should be dilligent
and watchful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

"Ships will do well enough and can af.
ford to pay duties.''
Houghton'S Letter, 1868.
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Augusta Savings Bank.
ORGANIZED IN i6A8.
x -
AUGUST 1. 1871.
sI,3JI, Js5.I3

Deposits made on or before the FIRST MON
DAY of any month will be placed on Interest the
FIRST DAY of the same month.
Dividends of the net earnings of the Bank. are
made Aug. /, and Feb. /, on all sums which have
been on deposit one full month before dividend day.
Money loaned to depositors at any time on
pledge of Deposit Book.
once In Savings Bank Building, No. 17i Water St.
iuly6.t&wtf w. II. SMITH. Treas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Bring to the polls all voters that need
assistance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

See that the names of both candidates
for representative are on your ballot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Vote early. The early vote counts all
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

The Baltimore American says that many
Maryland Democrats favsr demanding from
the Government pay for their .emancipatet
slaves, as suggested by the Richmond Wing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Look out for split tickets. Don't mutt
late your ballot
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Composed Of Dock Root, sarsaparilla, Rock Rose,
wort, Prickly Ash, Poplar Bark. Rhubarb, etc.
For Weakness, Loss OF Appetite, Jaun-
dice, Headache, Sour stomach, Piles Of
long standing, HumOrs, and all Diseases schich
arise from an unhealthy state of the Stomach,
Bo,eets, and Blood for which valuable Roots and
Herbs and the knowledge of their great service To
suffering humanity, man cannot feel too thankful
to Him who wisely provided US with all things.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11
Dissolution of Co-Partnership.

The Co-partnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned aud III. l.. Gushing, under the firm
name of Gushing Il Holmes, has this day been dis
solved by mutual consent.
PHI. HOLMES,
Augusta Aug, 9th 1871.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

Watch the polls. Look out for double
voting.
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Vote the whole ticket.
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A CARD.

The undersigned begs leave to thank his friends
and enemies for their generous patronage while 10
business with H. l.. Gushing, and hopes they Will
continue the same as they will find obliging and
gentemanly propretors. Although Selfish men
they are inclined to be generous with their custom
ers. L. ii. HOLMES.
aug26-ttf
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NOTICE..

The undersigned will continue the business lately
carried ON by Gushing Il Holiness under the firm
name of Gushing Weeks, at the old stand where
nice fresh fish is always found. -.u-.
CUSHING & WEEKS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-11

We have leased and fitted a part of the rooms oc-
cupied by Mr. Hendee the photographer where we
invite your attention to our new stock of
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1871-01-17
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