The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-09-16

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY THE
Republican Journal Publishing Co.
CHARLES A. PILSBURY. EDITOR.
RUSSELL &. DYER. EDITOR.
The State Election.
The result in the State has exceeded expecta-
tions. Mr.. Bodwell is elected by handsome
majority, our full Congressional delegation is
returned, and the Legislature is decidedly Re-
publican in both branches, insuring the cleo
ton of Republican to succeed Hon. Eugene
Hale in the United States Senate. The losses
in some directions are compensated by gains
elsewhere and the figures show that the State
is still strongly Republican, and may be relied
upon for larger majority in Presidential
year
The result in this county is disappointing,
but the situation is not so bad as it might have
been. The causes which handed Belfast over
to the enemy and led to the defeat, in part, of
the county ticket, are so well known that per-
haps the less said about the matter the better.
1t was stab in the back, inflicted by men who
for years have been pensioners upon the boun-
ty of the Republican party, and who could not
have done what they did in open and honorable
warfare. 1t will possibly appear that they
nave grasped the shadow and missed the sub
stance. Upon the gubernatorial vote the coun-
ty is Democratic by a small plurality but we
have elected five of the seven Representatives.
one senator, Clerk of Courts, and County
Commissioner, have made gains in unexpected
quarters, and will enter upon the next cam
paign under less embarrassing circumstances
than have prevailed this year.
The PASSPORT Standard warns the people of
that town that a good big fire is about due
there and wants to know how the place is pre-
pared for it. The answer is Just about what
must be made if similar question should be
asked in Belfast. ''Gve a fire half an hours
start in either of the large factories" says the
standard, land the two hand engines would be
little better than useless" Our contemporary
further says that every enterprising town in
the State is agitating the subject of establishing
system of water-works for the purpose of
protecting property and decreasing insurance
rates, and that PASSPORT cannot afford to run
it, present risks. 1t concludes:
The Very best thing would be to purchase
steam fire engine. 1t will cost something, of
course, but sidewalks, roads, electric light. gas
and water works cost something and the most
Wlde-aWake and prosperous towns have them.
me W"St efprnSite turUry torn can in
0alg@ IN is Il ffe. 1t is evident that the risk
from IRE is now ten times as great as it was
ten years ago and yet we have no better fire ap-
ltratu> than We had then.
The Marine journal of New York has made
an examination of the workmanship of the
English iron cutter Galatea and finds many
and garing defects. 1t SAYS:
There are plates on the GaIatea, at this early
period of her lifetime, that should be con
demned for racing surface, if not for absolute
weakness. We think this is not very much to
the credit of Clyde shipbuiIding in which the
want of experience cannot be urged in excuse
Tor bad work. Against the workmanship of
the tialatea we will pit that of the Priscilla and
challenge close inspection. either for strength
OF >moothneS>. or for model and performances,
for that matter. The American builders need
have no fear OF comparisons with such CLYDE
work as that Of the steel champion now the
subject of fair criticism on both sides the ocean.
Mr. Wadin's election as Clerk of Courts will
avert what might have been an unfortunate
complication. He will now be appointed bv
the Governor to fill the uneXpred term, a pc
tition to that effect numerousy signed by
members of the bar. having been forwarded.
l he election of VI. :. stiles, Jr.. of Jackson as
one of the County Commissioners is cause for
ronglatuatiOn. Mr. Stiles is admirably equip
ped for the position, and in the present state
OF the county finances such a man is needed.
There are still leaks to be STONED. and Mr..
NtlIc> may be depended upon to do what he
can 10 stop them.
The Riverside Pocket Series, saws the Ros.
ton journal, is a ''happy thought" of the pub
iHhefs. The little volumes are neatly and
strongly bound in stiff covers, which adapt
them for the shelf as we'll as for the pocket.
yet they are sold at the low price of fifty cents
Miss sarah Q. Jewett'> delightful volume of
New England sketches, Observation-Disclosures,
picturesque and strongly ndividualized-opens
the series, which is to contain some very choice
hc'io" and essays. Houghton, Mtin & Co.,
publishers.
Nlhch tells OF man who never found anything
to satisfy him down here below. When he
died he took his disposition with him, and in
the upper world he was as unhappy as he was
below. lie even found fault that his halo.
Didn't tit him. No doubt that will be the ex-
perience of a certain Belfast man when he de-
Scend> to the lower world, to which in common
estimation he is already ticketed He'll want
To boss the whole concern, hold all the sinecure
positions and pocket all the profits.
The May1owcr holds the America cup and
the English cutter Gaatea must recross the
Atlantic without the coveted trophy. In the
second race of the series Thursday a fog sbut
in and the wind died out so that the course
could not be sailed in the allotted time. and the
judges decided the race should be resailed, The
NayfloWer, as i'll the first trial, showed herself
superior to her opponent, and Saturday won
the race handsomely. The Mayflower is now
the fastest yacht atloat
The liquor dealers in this city are iublant
over the defeat OF County ATTORNEY Rogers.
ana are Boosting how much they contributed
to it. 1t is humiliatng to our temperance pco-
pie TO know that so-called prohibitioni>ts help
ed the rum sellers to Attain their end. Mr..
Rogers has been the first COUNT attorney for
years that was not controlled bv the liouor
dealers, and the county treasury will miss
him.
We have always maintained that the temper
ance men are in the majority in this city and
county. The result of Mondays election indi
Gates that this is not the case. When such
prominent temperance men as Billings, Pavson
and Rogers are voted down it looks as if the
rum element is in the majority.
One Of the nine delegates who composed the
Prohibition county convention had Democratic
ballots printed with his name on, and Thus
Went back on the rest of the ticket he had helm |
ed to nominate. There is said to be honor
among thieves but there evidently is none
among men hungry for office