Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-30

u'oAS suS SoH'SutlOu speak PLAINLY LOT I6r1u
for revenue only, and for the abolition Of dis
abilities in the Southern States, no as to re-
establish close relations between the South
west and Northwest, but no one can tell
What will be the result OF these efforts. When
It y asked what Horace Greeley can do with
such doctrines, it il asked in return what he
can do without the men who will support
them and insist upon them. There is every
prospect that II the free traders insist upon
their programme. there are to be lively times
in Exposition Hall this day week.
Matters MS to candidates seem to be getting
more inharmonious than ever. As before
stated, Missouri viii howl fof' Bfowb, Ohio
icr Adams, and Illinois for Trumbuu and Da-
Wis. The Adams letter has added to existing
complicatioDs-few republicans admiring iasa
brusqueDess, but some prominent democrats
objecting strongly TO its tone. The Adams
men, however. are still the only ones who are
confident their fayorite will win, and yet in.
sist upon ii, although utterly unable to give
any reason for the faith that is in them. The
plain truth is that this is political chaos, and
any attempt to guess what, if anything, will
come out of it, is simply absurd.
The Herald says it is now generally be-
lieved that Davis is not possible candidate,
also that the Western freetraders have taken
the alarm and will rally strong for Trumbull
and Brown. Adams will carry New England
and Ohio and nothing else.
The Tribune says the first delegations on
the spot are those Of Missouri and Kansas
Adams stock is high. Some delegations are
for Chase. "The letter of Charles Francis
Adams" says the Tribune, ''has created a
fiutter. The Missouri and Kansas delegates
say it ruins his prospects for nomination here,
While the republicans having no sympathy
with or interest in the convention speak high
ly of it, and the Cincinnati reunion and re-
formers regard it generally as manly, frank
and courageous. Many think it would have
been better understood, had the letter which
called it out been published with it."
There has been lively breeze already in
Cincinnati occasioned by signs among the
Germans of opposition to the Convention.
The following from the Globe gives the facts
The Germans have had little disturbance,
and read Mr.. Hassaurek out of the reform
ranks. Mr.. Fred Hassaurek is the editor OF
the Volksblatt, German republican daily
here OF very large circulation. He was to
the extent of lending his name, at least, one
of the original Cincinnati reformers. Under
Mr.. Lincoln, he was minister to Ecuador.
Mr. l.. Markbreit, his half brother, is now,
under Mr.. Grant, minister to Bolivia. Mr..
Hassaurek has been non-committal in his pa
per. To smoke him out, the German reform
organization appointed him member of a COM
mttee to look after German interests in the
Reunion Convention.
He came forward with letter in reply to
the notice of his appointment. In this he
tells them that he hopes the May convention
will make such nominations as will command
his and their support, but he says he must be
free to suspend his Judgment "until we all
know what the result has BEEN" He would
not support Judge Davis, but intimated that
Charles Francis Adams with such platform
as he suggested in his letter, he might sup
port. This did not suit the Germans. Mr..
Hassaurek was not considered suitable man
to represent them, so they rejected him, and
appointed the Rev. Thomas Vikers to serve
in his stead Hereupon some of the most in
fuential Germans took the floor and assever-
ated that they were with Mr.. Hassaurek
They were not going to be made blind tools
OF clique. A Mr.. Goeppen, who has been
in the Legislature, and is a man of influence,
took his hat and left the hall, remarking as
he went. that he, too, might be counted out.
The minority on Mr.. Hassaureks side was
numerically small, but in point of influence
large. Here is the beginning of rupture.
Where the end will be can be more easily told
in the future than foretold in the present.
DEATH OF a SUCCESSFUL NAN.
The Boston Advertiser says. ''the death of
Paran Stevens in New York on Thursday.
terminates the career of one of the most sue
cessful men of this country. He was born in
Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1902. Start
ing in business there, his abilities soon out
grew the limited field which was there afford
ed, and he came to Boston and turned his at
guished success won for him later the title of
the sHOtel King of America" Before the
days Of the great hotels he established repu
tation as sterling landlord at the New Eng
land House in Blackstone street, and when the
Revere House was built he was selected to
conduct It, Afterwards he took charge of the
fremont House also, and making them both
popular and paying establishments, he laid
the foundations of his large fame and fortune,
He was subsequently connected with the
Battle House at Mobile, the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in New York and the Continental Hotel
in Philadelphia, and at the time of his death
was erecting an immense family hotel in New
York. Every enterprise in which he engaged
was success, and there seemed to besome-
thing almost magical in his prestige. His
prosperity was due entirely to his business
sagacity and his great executive abilities, and
it was commensurate with them. He accu-
mulated great wealth, which he used in
generous aud large-hearted manner, endow-
ing school in his native town, and aiding
many worthy objects. He was man of fine