Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-27

to become . chronic symptom with this body
to look upon the long session as laches sea-
son and the short session as q negative sea-
som. e. in one there is plenty of time and
in the other there is little or no time for
business.
If this view really is to become chronic,
when our country is rapidly increasing and
the claims and demands upon congress are
constantly accommodating, what is to be ex-
pected of such condition in the futures
am happy to saw that, so far as am ac-
auainted with our Maine members in either
House, the above remarks do not in anywise
| apply. Indeed i, is often remarked here.
how active and diligent a set Of men Maine
| steadily sends TO congress. at is for TINS
reason" said a gentleman to me but few
days ago. that Maine members have
such influence in Congress. They are
able, active, persistent and generally sue
ce.sfn in what they undertake" In fact,
when formerly in the House. and (if | mis-
take mott now in tine Senate. Senator Frye
has shown his Impotence at the dilateriness
or. to saw the least. slow ness of COMPRESSION
al action This habit OF making speech on
every little subject which comes under con-
| sideration is getting to be unbearable espec-
| iallv when the simplest outsider can ace that
little common-sensed understanding and
action are all that such matters require.
When matters of grave consid-
Grafton come up. nobody objects to the
| largest liberty of debate. But you will be-
gin to think me chronic grumbler il con-
tinue in this way.
| The March elections in Maine are look
ed forward to with keen interest here as
they are regarded. some hat, as indicative
Of coming contests of the republican party
with its old rival-''the opposition in the
race of 1884 The republicans of the coun-
try wish to see the elements of their party
| united vigorous and successful in New Eng
land. They want the old time maJorities to
roll up there and then they are encouraged
70 work in the other great sections OF our
land and to expect victory. Not that New
| England is really essential, now, to victory,
for we must remember that she is getting
numerically to be a small factor of the great
whole; hut when the party is strong and
healthy in New England il is an augury OF
success elsewhere. 1t is to be hoped that
every republican in Maine will drop any
petty jealousy or bad feeling. any sore-head-
edness or sourness, and. king only at the
grand principles and steady progressive ideas
of his party, wheel into line and help to pre-
sent an unbroken front to the conglomerate,
aimless mass which it confronts We are con-
| fdent that this il going to be the action Of
every true republican in Maine and that the
spring elections will indicate an old-fashioned
victory in September.
The recent action of the committee on
| Territories favorable to the admission of
| Dakota, will evidently result in her speedy
admission to the Union as a State, thus con-
| firming my prediction of a year or more ago,
| in one of my letters to your paper.
now make another prediction, viz that
before the year 1884 comes in Washington
Territory will be admitted as a State. The
population of that territory is rapidly in
creasing-l00, 900 souls being already claim
ed, and the people of that far-off section are
already preparing to knock at the doors of
the Union. This will be of some interest to
Maine, as this coming sister state will
form the extreme north western as Maine
forms the extreme north eastern State
of our glorious confed,racy. OF course
| exclude Alaska, which in all probability,
will ever remain dependency. These two
| incoming States are progressive, and the re-
publican party is strongly in the ascendant in
| each. They will aid still more in overcom
ing any ''solid south" arrangement which
might be attempted But as things now look
there is but little danger of such an act be-
ing repeated. The spirit of progress, and as
q sequence the spirit of independence, has
seized that section, hence the disappearance
of political solidarity. f. J. Il.