The Republican journal., 1882-05-04
The Professional Agitator.


Who's that fat fellow with red ribbon,
good Clothes and gold-headed cane:"
why. don't you kHow?"
| 'NO: who is it,"
| swell, that's President Walsh"
''What does he do?"
"Oh, he doesn't do anything; he's a working
man" lOmaha Republican.
| These are the loud-mouthed fellows who Or
ganize strikes and who secure elections to Con
greSs, etc., as the workingman's friend.
4 Bangor correspondent of the Boston Globe
| says
CHANGING over the Republican papers of this
state observe that they are seriously canvass
ing the question as to whether they will be able
| to pull their ponderous load through at the next
| september election. The doleful wall of these
| organs conveys a strange sound to Democratic
ears, accustomed for the last twenty years to
listen to the roll call of from 10000 to 10000 Re
| publican majority. officially announced to the
whole country by the late Mr.. James G. Blaine.
This sort of stuff may 20 down with the edit
| ors and readers of the Boston Globe-a paper
which has not been particularly noted for verac-
| ity-but everybody in Maine knows that '.the
| doeful vail" must have been evoked from the
inner consciousness of the Globe correspondent
| or nave come from Fusion organs like the Prog.
| Age. which see defeat before Them The re-
| verse of this correspondents statement with re-
| gard 70 the Republican press of Maine is true.
II Is confident. and has reasonto be, with regard
| 10 the September election. but it does not pro-
| pose to allow over confidence to prevent its do
| ing its whole duty during the coming campaign.
| Inc sketch from the Congregationast tell
| ing how IN increased attendance at church was
secured. recently published in the journal. so
| interested one of our readers that he has hand
| ed Us paper containing an article supposed to
| relate to TIL" same question. But find on
| reading IT, that il is satire aimed at sensational
preachers generally and apparently at the Rev.
Mr.. Talmage, in particular. who figures as DR..
| D1>haWay Chrome and who in the course of
| the sermon put into his mouth. procams his
| Prc>bytcrani>m. and says: 1T was long. tor
tuol> road ~ which came up hither from Epis-
| copul Methodi>m by way of Protestant Metho-
diSm Baptism (under the water) and Congrega-
| tionali>m." DE- Chromos exposition of the
| tent. or rather. answer to the seeming enigma
| "iloW to fill our Churches, j. Fill our pull
| pits" But if the churches can only be filled by
|
Newman. and ralmage type it will appear to
most people that the cause Of religion is not
likely t. be greatly promoted by the increased
| attendance thu, obtained.
| The attaches of the OSSipce Valley News Of
fee gave Il complimentary dinner to f. NJ
Yates, ESQ, editor Of that paper. at the Pearson
| House. Limerick, on Saturday last. The Maine
| Wine list was feature Of the banquet. com
| prSiug twenty-Scycn kinds of water and-water
The bill of fare, from the steam job print of W.
:. Holland. Limerick, is very ta>tefully eNecut-
cd. The writer remembers Mr.. Yates As editor
of the Marhin> Union i'll 1858 and fills bum
prr--of cold wa1cr--to drink to his health. hap
pinc>> aud prosperity.
| Darwin. the Scientist. died last Thursday at
his home near London. His theory that man
| originated from a monkey died number Of
! years ago, in the minds Of scientific men, as
| well rs the public generally. Darwin was q
learned man. but he has done more to elevate
| the monkey than he has TO elevate man. Cam
den Herald.
If that is true the editor OF the Herald ought
70 show greater respect for the memory of his
benctactor
If W. credited the item TO the Biddeford Jour
nal Nc found it 50 credited in an exchange, as
! We have no exchange with the Biddeford pa
| per Brunswick Telegraph.
You should read the journal as attentiyer as
we 10 the Telegraph. Then you would get
your clippings at first hand, and there would
| h. no mistake.
Somebody in The Home Farm aSks-..Is
| and we reply ycs-Salted beyond all reason. and
| much of it not half washed full of buttermlk
| positively iahby in look and greasy in texture.
| brunswick Telegraph.
You ought 10 try our Waldo county diaries.
Three million hogs i the annual count of the
| packing by Chicago firm. And still the popu-
! latlon shows no signs of diminution. Boston
| Transcript.
Perhaps it is kept up by emigrant~ from Bos-
| ton.
There arc now u elephants in the country
| Exchange.
This does not include the elephant the Maine
! Fusionists will have on their hands when they
| undertake to re-ecct GOV. Plaisted.
Chase 4 >anhorn, Of Boston. tea and coffee
dealers, have prepared and published little
| 'o"N Witch llle! axe distributing among retall
Sroc"r> II teIl> All about coffee. not forgetting,
! Of course. 4 hint rs to where to buy it,
| 4 despatch TO the Argus saws the Straight
| Grecnback Committee have decided 10 cal q
| srote Convention in Rangn, NAV, 2otb 10 ,,o,,,
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