The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-15
RoCKLAND, August IS, 1872.

approves.
RoCkLAND, August Is, 1872.
The campaign was opened in this city
on Saturday evening by the Republicans.
by torch light procession of the Tanner
Club The torches numbered IS by actu-
al count, of which II were carried by
men, 16 by boys OF from $ to 10 years of
age, and 3 by 'colored gemmen." The
procession was greeted by applause by
| the Democrats, and rdicule and jeers and
| oaths by the GRANTEES, and after passing
| through single street, skunk into their
den, and disappeared.
| On Monday the Republican County
| Convention was held. There had been
rumors for fortnight that a democrat
had been bought by the Republicans, who
consented to betray his party for the price
of the nomination for Senator The sud-
den disappearance of Moses Webster ct
| Ninalhaven, and the announcement that
he would not return until after the con
vention had acted, pointed strongly To
him lis the guilty individual. MIR Web
ster is one of the firm of Bodwell, Web
ster 4 Co, the granite firm at Ninalhaven,
| and is also the one of the largest owners
OF stock in the Bodwell Granite Company,
which with the Dix Island Company, and
| Ben. Buffers Gloucester Company. Com
| pany, compose the largest Granite Ring
in the United States, and are and have
been for years fattening on their great
contracts with the government The
Ring" have the n. Y. post office in
charge. and also a portion of the new
State department; and it is rumored that
MARK lIartwell, the government IN
spectOr at Ninahaven, assisted by Hale.
We're able to coercc Webster into creating
! himself the only Grant democrat in Maine,
by hints II an investigating Committee
on granite contracts He lelt compelled
to concede To their demands and then
precipiately fled the State unable 10 en-
counter the Scorn and contempt his tel
low citizens
The nomination was forced through the
convention, although to do SO the head OF
Hon. Hiram Bliss Jr.. OF Washington
was rolled in the basket Hiram has ably
represented the northern section ut ihe
county IN the Legislature for The past iom
years, and had been promised the Senator
Shipasareward for his ,killlul and success
tul services against the Cobb Lime 60 mo
nopoly last winter. by the way the Cohb
Lime Co., and the Bodwell Granite Co.,.
are part and parcel at the same monopoly,
their offices being in the same room, and
their Stock holders being 81 neNtrirably
mixed. that It's impossible 10 Tell laJher
from which, except by the fact that one
monopolizes the lime and the other the
granite OF Maine,
To furn ish suitable bob to this newly
constructed kite Ephraim NJ Wood WAS
nominated for Judge OF Probate with +
+. Pierce Esq, Is his Register.
For Sheriff Ike Hobbs. the hermit Shy
lock OF Hope, was nominated against the
protests of his town, they being satisfied
Ali'tt ny w lttNl INV plllt iJl liit lNllitll-
al power it would give HIM over the puol
fellows upon whose estates he has mort
cages. For Treasurer Editor Spraguc.
OF Free Press notoriely, was selected. this
place being given him to induce his with
drawal from the legislature in SAVIOR of AN
ambitious, and rising (and reliable it
paid, young politician. For Register OF
Deeds, George Warren White the present
inefficient incumbent was taken, ana the
candidate for Co. Commissioner, did not
lind anybody who knew
What q reception for Uncle Nose"
Webster, Ye Gods!' Wrapped up in
the same sheet with Pierce and Hobbs ana
Spraguc and White What a sayory per
tune! what a fragrant boquetl Such
load would sink the oldest soldier in the
Republican or any other party but to pile
such Il Quartette upon the back OF i baiky
green recruit, is to kill him ut the start
In the afternoon commenced the speak
ing of the campaign. Gov. Noye-, ot
Ohio, opened with the leading speech.
which was rePIete with stories and Kept
the audience in good humor. Jim"
Blaine followed in It short speech filled
with his usual sophistry and cunning, mis-
representations of plain sentences, gliding
over those portions that lemoIish criticism
of the whole, and then wickedly dstort-
ing the obvious meaning Of the gnrbled
remainder
'For way. that are dark and tricks that nrr yam
! name the Speaker, and that maintain
But he can't practice hi, little juggieries
much longer upon the people OF Maine,
for one Tom. Lang, the Bill Nye" of the
third district has
"Gone for the heather Chinee,"
and the display of ''waN ON his nails ana
the rich contents of the Glowing sleeves"
of that dexterous individual is likely In
furnish abundant occupation for his prcu-
liar talents in his own home during the re
mainder of the campaign.
In the evening was another torch light
procession with the band, the torches
numbering fifty, and the bearers hay Ing
considerably grown in statue Since Sttur-
day. The demonstration drew togethera
| crowd which was thus led into the hall to
| listen to Hale Now Hale rs IN orator is
not a success, and his attempt to hold an
audience is a failure He is nice look
ing young man. His every hair is par
trularly laid, his beard carefully comhed
and trimmed his attire taultless and his de
meanor almost clerical in its primncss and
soberness. But he murders the Kings
English and the rules of logic in about
| equal proportions; OF perhaps he imagines
that no one ont OF his chosen State OF
Michigan ever heard of logic, or possessed
any reasoning faculties. Many Hepabi
cans here, however, can pnlNt out hls