The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-08-30
Political Points.

Many Ohio Germans are satisfied with the
Scott law.
The democratic party is Il party of bosses,
says the st Louis Globe Democrat
Mr.. John G. Thompson, speaking of the Scott
law in Ohio, said That law is AS dangerous
to the democracy as dynamite bomb"
Judge Foraker is Il much faster speaker than
Judge Hoadly in the Ohio campaign. The
shorthand writers have hard work with him.
EN-Congrcssman De La Matvr, of Indiana,
has left politics, or rather politics have left him
so that he will occupy :: pulpit in Denver Col
Both Arthur and Blaine have considerable
popularity in Kansas, but neither is likely to
have Il delegation from that State in conyen-
ton.
1t is Il queer expectation in the belief of the
democrats Of Iowa, says the Iowa State Regis
ter, that lrishmen will unite under their free
trade banners and banners paid for by British
free trade money.
There can be little doubt about party lines in
Wisconsin. A large majority of democratic
editors favor tariff for revenue. and large
majority of republican editors pronounce in
favor of protection.
Illinois, loW. and Minnesota are three con
tiguous States which are to vote on the liquor
question at the coming election. In all three
of them the Republican party is committed to
restrictive legislation, while the Democracy is
pledged to free whisky.
The Democrats of Minnesota declare that the
maintenance of power by my political party
for an undue length of time is an assumption
of power inconsistent with Democratic princi-
Piles of government. That is, it is "undue"
when the Republicans hold Minnesota, but
not undue" when the Democrats hold Ken
tucky.
The people have come to believe, saws the
Reading Qnd.) Herald, that honest and efficient
men must be retained, no matter what the COM
pleXion of the administration may be. and they
Will not go in for a change which remains a
wholesale routing of those who hold the offices.
President Arthur has set an example in this
respect which the people approve.
Congressman Holman the suns candidate
for President, has been betted by cores
pOndent of the Chicago News, who describes
him as 4 souched-hat tobacco-chewcr who
talks nothing but politics. is narrow and pro-
Vlncial, knows little of the world, is easily i'm
posed upon and whose ideas of the wants of the
country are based upon the standard of an
Indiana district.
Gen. Joseph 4. Johnson, the eX- Confederate.
does not sympathzc with JEFF Davis views ex-
pressed in his recent letter. He said to a re-
porter that 1t was incomprehensible to him
how Davis could make a statement that if there
n"u occh Ho dtltlnpI lO reinforce 4 OrI summer
tnere would have been no secession. He sup
posed that there was not'a schoolboy in the
North or South who did not know better.
Up to last Monday, 81 $40 lbs. of raspberries
had been shipped from Fort Fairfield station.
This amount includes all from this section cX-
ceptlnS those being bought and prepared for
use IN Caribou by Mr.. Stetson of Medford,
Mass, who is doing an extensive business.
A tlt,t Etn n,,I
put up for shipment at Fishers potato house
tt. Fairfield. The raspberry crop will con-
tlnue about two weeks longer, and it is estimat
ed that over $4,000 will be distributed among
our people on account of this new business
Aroostook Republican.
There is a crisis in the Egyptian Ministry.
Siamese Embassy is coming to America
Twenty-Five Russian students have been sent
to Siberia.
The treaty with Corea has been proclaimed
by the President.
Coal oil in abundant quantity has been dis
covered in Colorado
Prince Bismarck's health does not permit him
to receive his friends.
Mr.. Forster strongly urges the necessity of
emigration from Ireland.
Some minor conflicts have occurred between
the French and the Annamies.
There is no sociability whateversat the Sara
toga hotels, and nobody speaks to anyb, dy
else"
The United States Minister to Corea reports
life there attended with many discomforts and
privations.
The Goth anniversary of the battle of Benning-
ton, Vt, was celebrated by the people of that
town, Thursday.