Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-22
Political Notes.

Only three more weeks to election.
Are you doing something to increase the
| republican vote next September
Have you counted your voters and made
preparations to get your absentees home to
vote
1t is expected that Seaborn Reese, young
| lawyer of Hancock county, Ca, will be the
successor of Alexander II. Stephens in Con-
gress.
Nearly every State in the Union will be
represented at the National prohibition con-
venton which assemblies in Chicago the odd
23d and oath of this month.
Mr.. Stubs. the republican nominee for
Senator of Franklin county, was born and
| raised in the town of Strong, the son of Judge
Z. NJ. Stubs. and is now about A years of
age. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College,
| in the class with Hon. w. w. Thomas, -Jr,
| of Portland.
Governor Plaisted has surpassed Garcelon
in his partisanship and has kept the affairs of
| the State in constant turmoil. The demo
| Gratis by renominating him ask the people to
| sanction this style of administration. The
| republicans ask them to put an end to it and
| restore the State to the peace and order al
ways enjoyed under republican rule We do
not believe there is any doubt about the an
swer which will be given next month"; Tri-
bune.
Somerset county is the largest wool grow
ing county in the State, having about l00, 900
sheep, largely Merino, and yielding well up
to 100000 pounds of fine wool annually
Farmers have besides four fourishing wooden
mills, and they are year by year brought more
and more to realize that the republican pol.
icy of protection is their strong hold in these
industries. There are not large number OF
tracks" between the two parties now appar-
ent upon the surface. but there are some well
defined ones in almost every town, and where
there are any, their toes are invariably point
ed towards the republican lines.-Somerset
Correspondence Boston Journal.
The democrat and greenback county COM
mittees, with their candidates. held a meeting
at the Biddeford House in this city Wednes-
day afternoon. The meeting was secret
one. but enough has leaked out to show thai
it was stormy one. No one who would ac-
cept the vacancy on their ticket for county
treasurer could be agreed upon, and the va
cancy still exists. How much blood money
was extorted from the candidates is not
known, but the sum was probably an insig
nificant one, for those who understand the
situation will not throw away their money on
the coordination" in this county this YEAR
Biddeford Journal.
Fancy General Samuel Cary standing up
before a fusion audience in Bangor and de-
nouncipg the veto of the refunding bill of
1881 by President Hayes. That was bill
which was particularly Objectionable to the
| sreenbackers, who voted against it with ali
| their might. General Cary is a greenbacker
| of the most pronounced type. On the pas
| sage of the bill it was opposed by Messrs.
Weaver and Gillette of Iowa, by Mr. de la
| Matyr of Indiana. by Mr.. Ford of Missouri.
Mr.. Forsaithe of Illinois. Mr.. Yocum of
Pennsylvania, and by Mr.. Murch of Maine,
| in whose interest General Cary is stumping
| the State. Did the faithful greenbackers
| commit a mistake, or has General Cary
changed his mind?-Boston 4dreytiser
| A reporter of the Lewiston Journal recent.
| ly had conversation with a leading democrat.
who remarked: II am a democrat, but can
| not stand such a strange alliance as we have
this year. shall not vote for Plaisted, and
you may mark my words, hundreds of Maine
democrats will quietly stay at home on
| election day" This antagonism to the
| strange alliance" is not confined to Lewis
| ton; it extends all over the State There
are democrats here who are disguised with
| the ''hashed mess" but do not say much;
but to a person familiar with their peculiar
arities il is not difficult to tell that they are
| in political trouble.-Naehias Republican,
General Weaver the gifted greenbacker
| candidate for the Presidency in 1850, sends a
letter of regret in response to an invitation
| to stump in Maine for Governor Plaisted.
The extreme urgency of work in his own
State prevents his acceptance of the request
General Weaver fervently declares that he
| cannot see the shadow Of an excuse for any
member of the greenbacker organization who
| refuses to support the entire fusion ticket in
Maine. Recalling his association with Scion
Chase in stamping for the fusionists two years
| ago, it is not plain to General Weaver why
Mr.. Chase declines to help Governor Plaisted,
| for both the ticket and the principles of the
greenbackers have been accepted BY the demo-
Gratis. General Viewers inability to grasp
the situation in Maine is complete and la
mentable. probably owing to the stress of the
situation in Iowa. 1t is doubtful if this let
ter turns single supporter from Mr.. Chase.
Rather the epistle, which is presented by the
democratic papers in large type, will confirm
the theory that jobbery of the most fragrant
kind IL to be used to carry Maine, if possible,
for the fusionists.-Bostoa Advertiser,