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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
Never Bet Nor Rattle.

To our earnest Republican friend who
wants to know our opinion as to the result
in the approaching election, with the view
of accepting or rejecting Democratic
offer to bet, we give the advice, better not
bet, The Republican prospects are full
of encouragement, and we see no other
fate for Cleveland but defeat and political
retirement. But could we read the pre-
else figures which will be sent over the
wires of the Nation on the evening of No
vember 6, showing every Northern State
for Harrison, we would still repeat, don't
bet 1t is not a good practice, and be-
sides, the Democrats will then feel suffi-
ciently unhappy without losing their
money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
Dough Face Democrats.

The Philadelphia Times is one of the
principal Democratic newspapers of the
country aud a strong supporter Of Cleye-
land and Thurman. 1t would have pre-
ferred that its party should not have made
war on Protection, but since it has been
put squarely on the Free Trade platform,
the Times stands by its party and eats ITS
former words. 1t has become champion
Of the Mills bills and Of the Democratic
candidates. Here is what it said in its
leading editorial on November q, 1857
less than year ago:
Speaker Carlisle twice packed the House
Committee of Ways and Means in the inter
est of free trade--that is, tariff revision on
free trade basis-and he thus made tariff re-
vision or revenue reform impossible. Had
not the Morrison horizontal tomfoolery been
defeated in the winter of 1884, Mr.. Cleve-
land would not have carried single North
ern state; and if Speaker Carlisle shall put
the blatan. free trader Mills at the head of
Ways and Means in the next House, with
committee in sympathy with its chairman,
President Cleveland and his party will be in
a hopeless minority in the House from the
day the committees are announced and New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana
will be as surely Republican as Vermont in
1883, with the Virginias, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Louisiana doubtful and chances
largely in favor of the Republicans.
This declaration of the Times was made
only two weeks before the present Con
gress met. Within two weeks Of its ut
terance Mr.. Carlisle was reelected Speak
er; he proceeded again TO 'pack the
IIanse Committee Of Ways and Means in
the interest of Free Trade he put "the
blatant free trader, Mills, at the head of
the Ways and Means with Committee in
sympathy with its Chairman; this ''bla-
tant free trader and his Committee at
once entered upon the work of making a
Free Trade bill-that is, tariff re-
vision on Free Trade basis'-and, 10
and behold the Times which in November
had denounced the packing" of the Com
free trader" turned right about face in
December and became their subservient
follower. Other Democratic newspapers
and thousands of Democrats have radi-
cally changed their ground in the same
manner They could not stand the party
pressure and the mulish concet of
Grover Cleveland. There are doughfaces
| now as there were in pro-slavery days.
But their former language shows their
real convictions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
The Republican Tide in New York

The light of reality is beginning to
dawn on the Democratic leaders. Even
the New York supporters of Cleveland
are seeing that the tide is against them
The New York Herald has long been
conspicuous advocate of Free Trade and
of its candidates. Recently. since the ar
rival home of Mr.. Bennett from Europe,
the correspondent of that newspaper. sent
out for the special purpose of gaining the
most accurate information, has been tour
ing through western New York with
the view of aseertaining the Democratic
strength in that section. He finds the
Protection sentiment SO dominant that he
telegraphs to his paper contidentally that
New York City will have to meet Re
publican majority north of Harlem river
of something like 10000. New York,
with Long Island and Staten Island, gave
Democratic majority in round numbers
of 60, 900 in 1884, and $4,000 in 1850. If
Cleveland had the exceptional popularity
of Tilden and the Democratic factions in
New York were harmonious instead of
belligerent, they might hope to overcome
a Republican majority in the State of
10000. As il is, the estimate of the New
York Herald correspondent is well based
prediction that the electoral vote of New
York will go Harrison and Morton. OF
course, the object of this truthful revela-
ton of the situation is to arouse the DEM
ocrats to desperate effort to regain lost
ground, and especially to arrange their
difficulties and quarrels in the city of
New York, so as to overcome, if possible,
the immense Republican majority outside
of New York and Brooklyn. But it is too
late. Besides, the Republican tide has
reached the two great cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

Every one for himself and God for US all
If you do not help yourself no one will help
you; to rid yourself of dyspepsia. consump-
ton or malaria, all the help you need you
will find in Warmers Log Cabin Hops and
Buchu Remedy. $50 doses sl00. Try it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20


Mr.. Roger Q. Mills, who has made him
self 40 conspicuous in various sections of
the country by telling people that they
should make war on Protection and not
allow themselves to be humbugged and
controlled by the manufacturers and work
ingmen of the North, is finding plenty OF
business on hand at home. The more So
Der and better Informed men of Texas are
not willing to see the industrial interests
and prospects of the whole country Grip
pied and retarded in order to crafty the
partisan prejudices and designs of the men
who have forced the Democratic party on
publicans of Texas opposed to the dogmas
and schemes of the Golden Club agita-
tors, but thousands of Democrats will not
be driven by the party lash to make war
on the Protective tariff. Mr.. Pendergast,
the chairman of the Democratic Commit
tee of the Texas district now represented
in Congress by Roger Quarles Mills, is
making it decidedly warm for that individ-
udi' ia II lttttI refusing 10 support Mills
and announcing his intention to throw his
influence for the Independent candidate,
Mr.. Jones. Mr.. Pendergast says;
In this matter the party lash has been used
III vain against me as it has been against
many others and it may be in their opinion
that AMI very bad Democrat. Yet | never
have been an ardent Prohbitionst and then
a violent ant-prohibitionst turncoat, as Col
Mills has been nor have publicly denounced
other Democrats who have been my support
ers because they differed with me on a ques-
ton which the Democratic State convention
declared was no test of their Democracy, as
Col. Mills has done. | have never been a
knownothing, and denounced Democracy as
Col. Mills has been and done | have never
been Wing and supported its doctrines
against the Democratic party, as Col. Mills
has done. | have never been a Greenback-
er, making Greenback speeches and been
whipped back into the party ranks for the
sake of Office, as has been done by and for
Col. Mills. | have not been an office holder
for 10 years, and drawn about $75 900 from
my people. and then gone to another section
of the country and made speeches to the cap
italists telling them that by the passage of
my bill they would make ) per cent. more
than they now make under the law, thereby
attempting to injure all, and ruin some of
my people, as Col. Mills has done in the
wool question. | am not in favor of vic
ious system of legislation that enriches one
section and people, as Col. Mills has done.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
FREE TRADE OR NOTHING.

WILL Abhbh Wv NV idlNO'
So long as Colonel Henry WatterSOn goes
around The country making speeches for
Grover Cleveland and the Mills bill voters
should keep in mind these choice extracts
from his editorials in The Louisville Courier
Journal
We demand tariff reform and we set our
faces in The direction Of Free Trade"
The Democrat who is not a Free
Trader should 90 elsewhere.
The conflict between Free Trade and Pro-
lection is irrepreSSihle and must be fought
out TO The bitter end. We spit upon COM
promises and propose neither TO ask nor 10
give quarter"
The Democratic party, except in the
person Of imhecleS hardly worth mentioning
Is not upon The fence. Il iSa Free Trade
party Or il is nothing
There can be no cooked up platform and
10 compromise candidate"
The black flag is up. No quarter will
be asked and no quarter will be given"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

Mr.. George William Brown will on Sat
urday next retire from the chief Justice
ship of the Maryland Supreme Court. He
was Mayor of Baltimore at the out
break of the Rebellion, aud figured con-
spicuously in the trouble that arose over
the passage of National troops through
that city. He spent the last year of his
term as Mayor in prison in Fortress Mon
roe and Fort Lafayette. 1t is well for
Maryland and for the American Judiciary
that such man has retired TO the shades
of private life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
FOR PRESIDENT,Af
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
OF Indiana.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
LEVI P. MORTON,
Of New York.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS

For PREsIDEsTIAL ELECTORS
For Electors at Large.
HORACE II. SHAW Of Portland.
SAMUEL ". CAMPBELL Of CherrYfsld.
Pyrsf Dfsfrict-MARK y. WENTWORTH.
Second Dsstrict-T. X. sfMOATOS.
Third Distriet-ALBEkTW ". CUSHMAS.
Fourth District-LAMBERT SANDS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio. and
West Virginia, being of especial excelleHce.
producing wares of the finest quality,
equaled by but few excelIed by none. They
consume the coal, clay, nint, aud feldspar
found in many sections of the country, fur
nishing employment to about 1900 laborers
and support to fully 10000 of our popula-
ton, and largely benefiting the entire COM
munities where the potteries and mines are
located, and, besides, the consumer of those
wares secures better articles and pays less
for them than ever before
Sen. Frye, in II speech in the Senate,
January 23d, 1855 says: Under the en-
couragement of olr tariff, that is a duty of
about SO per cent, the manufacture of glass
has increased enormously in this country,
employing thousands of men at good wages.
and yet you can buy foot of plate glass
to-day for 81 90 which cost So 80 in 1860.
For worsted cloths. In 1860 there were
three mills in this country. Wages were
low, business poor, production small.
We encouraged it with heavy duty, and
in 1883 we were running 1000 looms, en-
ploying 70 900 woi'kmen, consuming 80 600,
900 pounds of wool, producing $1,000. 900
yards annually, with pital of $40, O0O, 900.
During this time worsted cloths declined in
| price from 35 to 40 per cent. In 1882 the
duty was reduced. By vicious construc-
ton of the law, greater reduction of the
tariff still was made. Now one-third of our
looms are idle. In 1853 we imported little
less than $500, 0oo worth of these goods, last
year nearly s5,0OO00O If the President
succeeds in inducing Congress to still fur
| Their reduce the tariff. all of our mills will
close. We shall once more import all we
need from England, and the prices will 20
back to that of 1850.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
We Actually Do Not Pay More for
Articles on Account of the Tariff
But Less.

but Less.
President Cleveland in his famous me ssage
says; These tariff laws as their primary
and plain effect raise the price to consumers
of all articles imported and subject to duty,
by precisely the sum paid for such duties"
We have learned by experience as well as
by reason that the more manufactures we
have, he less is the price of manufactured
articles that competition lowers the prices
of everything but labor itself; that foreign
producers if left TO themselves to control our
markets, regulate prices to suit themselves.
beyond our CONTROL and that when we lower
prices by home competition, the foreigners
lower their prices to suit our markets. This
is shown in every instance, where we can
supply the raw material for manufacture.
Mr.. Kasson says again: "Bessemer steel
especially opened our eyes. England had
exclusively supplied it when it first came in
to use on our railroads, and it cost about
1925 ton. Some enterprising Americans
offered to undertake its manufacture here if
Congress would protect il with a duty of
s22 80 ton-afterwards increased by one
quarter of that sum. No sooner had they
commenced than the English dropped their
prices. The competitive contest went on,
without destroying the ever advancing and
improving American interest, until the steel
than the duty itself.
We have read the same story in the silk
industry, where the Americal competition |
came into existence because the purely rev.
enue duty was so high as to be protective.
Ii proved TO be sufficient, and our home |
competition, spreading over several States, |
forced down the French prices, and conse-
quently the American cost, from twenty-five |
to thirty per cent, under high revenue tar
iff In salt, and in most other protected ar
ticles, we found the same result of falling
prices. Thus the belief that protective
duty enhances prices was seen to be in the
long run altogether false. The annual price
lists proved the contrary. whenever American
competition was maintained"
Mr.. Goff of West Virginia, in speech be-
fore Congress, April 9th, lSss, says: AN
other great industry, the pottery, will be
seriously injured if this bill becomes law.
Under Protective tariff its growth has been
presenting one of the remark
able examples of the industrial development
by the Republican party. Pre-
vious to 1861, while we had common or
brown earthenware, we virtually had
no whiteware potteries. We now have them
in many of the States, those in Massachu-
sets, New York, Indiana, Illinois, New Jer-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
PLATFORM CONDENSED.
The American Creed.

We believe In a free ballot and In having
every vote counted.
We believe In protection for projections
sake, and we are not ashamed Of Il.
We believe in aboHShing internal taxes
created for war purposes.
We believe in The direct protection Of
American labor against cheap foreign labor
We believe in tree internal competition.
We believe in railroad regulation.
We believe In homeSteads and good home
stead titles for citizens.
We believe In home rule for big and IN.
telligent territories.
We believe in a double monetary stand.
ard.
We believe in The utmost facilities for
education, as worth all they can cost.
We believe in a big merchant marine and
IN American ship yards.
We believe in a good navy. good coast
deiencsS and good water routes for commerce.
We believe In making other nations re-
spect our rights and pay for all they get
from US.
We believe in protecting American citl.
zsns against foreign interference, not only at
home, but in any part Of the world.
We believe that nothing is TOO good for
The soldiers who riSked their lives 10 save
The country, and saved it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

In addition to that chief remedial measure the
use of Hostetter's stomach Btters-persons suffer
ing from acute bilious attack will facilitate re-
covery by the use at first of milk and lime water
and thin gruels, and by very gradual return TO
the of solid food. Fatty substances should be ex
cluded from the diet Blue pill is remedy of doubt
full safety, particularly If there be and vomit
ing frequent concomians of liver trouble. The Bit
tiers provided its reformatory action be not retarded
and married by gross indiscretions in diet, will soon
restore the equilibrium of and action of the liver
stomach and bowels, all three disordered BY bilious
ness In all forms of malaral disease which In every
one of its phrases presents indications of liver trou
Bile, Hostetters Stomach Bitters is the foremost of
specifics. The light OF over thirty years experience
also shows II to be a fine remedy for rheumatism
kidney troubles dyspepsia, nervousness and debility
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

"THE PRESENT CONDITION OF
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES SHOWS
THE FALLACY OF THE FREE.TRADE
DOCTRINE THAT THE PRODUCTIONS
OF A COUNTRY ARE RAISED IN PRICE
BY PROTECTIVE DUTIES" -Report Of
President Of German Commission to L. S.
Centennial Exposition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

"UNDER THE SHELTER OF A PRO.
TECTIvE SYSTEM THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES HAVE ORGAN
lied A POWERFUL INDUSTRY WHICH
RIVALS THAT OF ENGLAND IN CHEAP.
NESS."-RePort of French Commission on
Uaifed States Centennial Exposition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
From the London Standard. I

Mr.. Cleveland demands in effect that there
shall be tariff for revenue purposes only
No tinkerng with the tariff win suffice; no
readiustment of duties will do. The only
reform that common sense can accept is one
which unafectedly substitutes the principle
of unimpeded imports for that of tariff regu-
lations
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20

Beauty's chaplet none may wear
Unless teeth show ample care,
Gums so healthy, hard and red
Lips like roses fragrance shed.
These by Sozodont made sweet
Every sense with gladness greet.
octl6deod&wiwfir
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08
Money Made Keepinr Hens.

Hundreds OF farmers who never kept an &C.
count, would Kill every 'pesky hen" on the farm,
fit was not for the "women folks. Tine women
intuitiveiy know that the hens do not seat then
heads of every six MONTHS" but properly Kept
pay better than any other farm animals.
This Is true. 4 record, simple to keep, so II
would be used and show the facts in detail,
would prove that every hen paid a profit, They
could be made TO pay, from one TO three dollars
each. Mr.. James l. Burgess, Nashua. n. H., re-
ported to the Nashau Telegraph, that his wife
made a clean net profit last year, of S9659 for
eggs alone. from only sixteen hens. He thinks
her success was largely due, to using Sheridan s
Condition Powder, a much advertised preparation
to make the hens lay.
Do your hens pay like that? Do you want to
learn how TO make them pay better? Are you In
delicate health, and want 10 poultry
raising, for the sake Of open air employment? If
so, get some reliable advice how to do it. A new,
enlarged, and much Improved edition OF that valu-
able book, the farmers Poultry Raising Guide
mas Just been printed. 1t contains much very
practical information.
Among the many new features, which every
person who keeps hens should have, is blank
records and accounts for each month of the year.
1t also contains q long series of very valuable ar
ticles, by A. +. Hunter, 'How to Make Money
With a Few Hens" or him The Lowell, Mass,
journal says: ''The most sensible poultry ltrrI-
ture we have read we lind under tn name A.. +.
Hunter. lie evidently knows what he /, talking
ABOUT" These two features alone, are worth ten
times the cost of the book; which The publ ihers,
J.. S. johnson & Co., % Custom House ST., Boston,
Mass, send, postpaid, for only % cents in stamps.
There Is re lily no way that persons on a farm
or near a large town can secure a cash income,
a cash income, with so little effort, as by keeping
a few hens. For such, this book is very v~aluasle.
send to johnson K Co, for testlmonia l circular.
~ NJ lf4EhHnn nj nuh Aaaa aana. al
believe the farmer Poultry Raising Guide, which
l received with a large can of Sneridan's Powder
(alt for fl.201 contains more practical knowledge
Tor a person raising only a few fowls than many
poultry books which cost TWO lollari.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08
FARM NOTES.

ITEMS ON TOMATO CULTURE.-In
experiments in training tomatoes, ION.
Quoted last year at the farm Of the
Michigan Agricultural college, the
method that gives greatest satisfaction
consisted of a simple rack that was
continuous throughout the row. About
was driven or either side of the row
and fifteen inches from the plant, the
stakes when firmly driven standing
something over a foot high. A strip Of
old board was nailed neal the tops OF
the posts along either side OF the row,
Then edgings were tackled across from
one side to the other, four about each
plant and a foot apart. The plant now
found itself growing up between hori-
zontal edgings, and as it began to lop
the rack held it above the ground. Up
on this simple rack the tomatoes need
ed no tying nor training, and they
spread themselves freely to the sunlight.
The circulation of the air under the
racks YVES so free that there was no
unusual danger from rot. This is de.
cidedly the best rack tried. 1t wa
noticed also that the fruit ripened more
uniformly here than on the plants
which were tied to stakes.
On the same grounds some observa.
tons were made in tomato rot, which
makes its first appearance as a slight,
spotty discoloratlon about the apex of
the tomato, gradually extending and
becoming darker until the whole top of
the fruit sinks In. This disease attacks
the fruit at any time after 1t is a third
or a quarter grown. Tomato rot is of
fungus origin. Abundant use OF stable
manure appears to augment the dis
ease,
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08

The latest theory Of the mode OF
formation of ozone in the atmosphere
is that of G. Wurster, whose observa-
lions have led him to conclude that 1t
is formed by the action of clouds. He
states that when clouds are continually
formed from above they become highly
charged with this active form of o1y-
gen, whilst those formed from below
only contain it in notable quantity in
their upper layer. This theory has no
advantage over many others, it admits
of confirmation or lefutation both by
observation and experiment. Arti-
fetal clouds are easily formed, may be
confined in glass vessels, and there ex-
posed to sunlight. Ordinary oxonom-
eter paper contained In the same vessel
will at once display the formation or
ozone If it actually occurs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08

SHEEP not In the best condition for
breeding should be got rid of without
delay. Distemper, foot rot and other
difficulties in a flock cause too much
'abor. Only healthy ewes should be
retained. All others unless nearly well
should be destroyed.
Among mutton-eaters there Is an in
increasing demand for more lean and
less fat, as is the case with Down NUT
ton. And in parts of the world where
sheep are raised as much for their meat
AS their wool this is going to be a lead
ing element in the question of what
brand of sheep to raise.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08

IL is not to De assumed that the
English 'lifts" are the equals of the
American elevators, but the use of
compressed air for operating them is
sufficiently general there to indicate
that it may, to an extent. take the
place of steam or water here. In
Liverpool. London and other ports the
elevators in the big warehouses are
operated almost exclusively by COM
pressed air, which when exhausted into
various rooms Of the buildings serves
to ventilate and purify them. Another
advantage claimed for compressed air
IS its great elasticity. The elevators
run o smoothly and stop and start
less abruptly, and are less liable to
breakage when a quick stop is made
than when water Is used.