Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-08-15
4ailg genr.ebef 5ournal.
Augusta. Wednesday Morning, August 10
From the Philadelphia Press
A War Cry with Variations.


A War Cry with Variations.
The democratic party, having lost its
old principles and acquired no new ones,
has been provided by the New York Sun
and its imitators with compendious bat
tle-cry which needs no principles in the
phrase "The republican party must CO.
Our vivacious contemporary repeats this
sentence with the monotonous regularity
of "Polly wants cracker" which the
new democratic war-cry aptly resembles
in expressing at once an ever-present ap-
petite and an earnest desire for its gratii-
cation but in its constant repetition of this
slogan the Sun fails to give its readers the
benefit OF the arguments which. in the next
campaign, are sure to accompany this new
version of the old democratic creed. the
party for the offices and the offices for the
democratic party. A very brief acquain-
tance with affairs will enable our demo-
cratic contemporaries at once to give IN
formation to their readers and point to
their new cry after this fashion,
The public credit was never higher
The republican party must 90.
No national debt was ever paid off
faster-The republican party must 90.
The currency of the nation was never in
sounder shape-The republican party
must 90.
Manufactures have never before been
more extended than under republican
protection-The republican party must
90.
The Federal revenue was never col
lected with less cost-The republican
party must go.
The per cent of loss by official defalea-
ton in the last ten years has been less
than under any democratic president
from Jackson to Buchanan-'rhe republi-
can party must go.
A republican House in the last two
years reduced the burden OF Federal taxa
ton four-fold more than the democratic
majorities extending over six years-The
republican party must go.
The republican majority in Congress
has passed law which makes merit the
test of admission to the public service
The republican party must 90.
Ex-Agricultural Commissioner lie Due,
in letter to the New York Tribune, con-
veys the gratifying news that the native
American ostrich has appeared. The par
ent birds which arrived in this country last
fall from the Transvaal. Africa. are now.
and have been since the beginning of last
winter, in Southern California. where
they have proceeded to increase and null
tiply and replensh the earth with ostrich
es. On their native heaths the ostriches
commit their eggs to the vivIiying inlu-
ences of tropic sun. In Southern Cali
fornia patent incubator is preferred by
the guardians of the birds. and even rs
neer American ostrich emerged from its
shell and still lives to bear testimony to
the glorious climate of California.
The Iowa republicans opened the cam
paign Saturday with a great meeting.
which was addressed by Senators Allison
and Wilson and Governor Sherman. The
Governor discussed State politics. and the
senior senator reviewed recent legisla-
ton in Congress at some length. Gen.
Wilson gave his whole time to the tenn
perance question, and said the present
contest in the State is the offspring of an
earnest non-partisan effort to protect home.
family. manhood, peace and prosperity
from the ravages of their deadliest foe
License. he said. gives the saloon lawful
status. and it is used as cover for viola
tions of law 1t always has been so and
always will be.
Sir Henry Thompson, the Loudon sur
gesn. recognizes in fish a combination of
all the elements of food that the human
body requires in almost every phase of
life. more especially by those who follow
sedentary employments. To women he
considers fish to be an invaluable article
Of diet. but he scouts as a complete
tallacy the notion that fish eating increases
the brain power.
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