The Republican journal., 1882-04-27

In its issue of April 18th the Prog Age ac-
cused the Democrats of voting for Jackson
for the past twenty years and of acting like
iackasses generally; and last week it published
an obituary of the Greenback party. 1t says
The idea which has all along been inculcated
by our greenback papers and speakers is that
the greenback party is a growing party. and
that it is destined finally to draw to its standard
the whole opposition to the Republican party,
and that, therefore, the party in this State
should keep up its organization. looking to the
absorption, finally, of the democratic party.
But this idea is wholly illusory The party as
third party is fast waning in all the States
as will be seen by contrasting its highest vote in
1873 with its vote in 1880 and in those states
where elections were held in 1891.
The Age then presents statistics to show that
the Greenback vote fell off two-thirds between
1873 and 1880, and that in the few elections held
i'll 1881 its prospects were not improved. This
is no doubt nearer the truth than the Age usual
ly comes; but it is rather amusing when it talks
of ''our Greenback papers etc. 1t is not very
long since the Age was blowing the Greenback
bugle as loudly as any of them. Our contem-
porary seems determined to be
always in the wrong
everything by starts and nothing long
Within twenty years we have quadrupled the
Journals services to the public and the expense
of publication. without material change i'm sub
scrlptlon price. while to-day we are giving our
advertising patrons more for their money than
we ever did before [Lewiston Journal
Practically the same may be said of the Re
publican journal, which is expending more
money to-day than ever before to enhance the
usefulness and interest of the paper and to keep
its mechanical department up to the highest
standard. An advertisement is worth more
when printed in good paper from new type,
with tirst-ela~s press and fine press work. than
when inserted i'll a blurred, dngy sheet, and
that this fact is appreciated by advertisers is
shown by the constant pressure upon our col
umns. Not Il week passes but that advertising
contracts are declined for want of space and
this, with growing circulation, will soon bring
about an enlargement of the Journal, which has
been for some time under consideration.
a comparison between the trial Of Mclean,
the would-be assassin of Queen Victoria. and
that of Guiteau, is not very favorable to this
country; but some recent illustrations of Eng
fish justice, in which wife murdercrs We're sen
fenced to very small fine or sent TO prison for
week or two, while the theft Of a loaf of bread
consigned the offender to penal >erNitude or a
term of Years in prison, certainly do not speak
very well for English judges and iure>. To be
altogether fair, however. it must be said that in
both countries there is need for reform in the
method of trying and Furnishing criminals.
\ very cold salmon steak. cut about ten inches
back of the shoulders, if the fish is Il large one
affords. just now, with cucumbers. which have
not been permitted for a moment to be ANYTHING
but cold, the finest dclicacy Of the season. m.
Y. Herald
To make the dish complete it should be gar
ni>hed with icicles, and the table should be laid
out of doors. on the north side of the house.
These city epicures don't know everything.
The city debt of Belfast is to be refunded at
per cent. Boston journal.
This is altogether too good news to he true.
1t is hoped to refund the debt at per cent. and
if that is accomplished it will be great thing
for Belfast.