The Republican journal., 1892-07-07

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New Age puts out this threat - If there
should be a mud Singing campaign in
this Congressional district this summer,
Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath, manager of Mil
liken campaign, surely cannot complain.
There is an abundance of rich sticky mud
on the other side that will hit the mark. -
go. Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath. of Augusta, is
out in a letter to his political friends an
nouncing himself as candidate for the
congressional nomination two years hence
from this district. $50. The famous two
| thirds rule has governed every Democrat
| &c national convention for sixty years 1t
was introduced in the convention, which
was held at Baltimore in 1882, when Jack
son and Van Buren We're nominated. 500.
Harrison and Reid flags now begin to float
in all parts Of Maine. 1t is the flag that
leads lis to victory......U Unless Grover
Cleveland pledges himself in writing, says
the Tribune, to turn over the control of
the federal patronage of New York to
Iammany hall, i'll case of his election, he
will feel the Tammany thrust between the
ribs next November in manner that he
Will not soon forget. The Waterville
Sentinel says of the coming kennebec
county convention: The personal let
ter method Of canvaSsing, which was 50
awfnlly bad as employed Ivy Governor
Burleigh, seems to have been pretty gen
orally adopted by most if not all the aspi-
rants for county office. If any herubli-
can haSn been favored with one he may
regard himself as overlooked. Since
the death of its great leader, Hon. l.. L.
Polk the Farmers Alliance of the South
appears to he disintegrating. Fusion. bar
ter, bargain and WirleSs management have
6pInorl liZrI Tho ,,,.r., ion and JaSt1
ed its influence, and from this time for
ward its absorption into 1he old parties
from which its members We're drawn will
be steady and rapid. .... Some of the news
papers made the singular mistake of con
founding the Democratic nominee fol vice
president with Dr. B. L. Stephenson, the
founder of the Grand Army. The nomi-
nee aforesaid was Il follower of Mct lellan
IN his political campaigns, but was never
i'll the army and therefore not in the G. A.
R...... General John Bidwell, of Califor-
MIA, was nominated for President by the
Prohibition National Convention Thurs
day. The vote stood Bidwell $50 Stewart
lTa, Demorest l4a, Bascom, OF New y ork,
,. J. b. Cranhll OF Texas was nominal
ed for Vice President. ..... The tariff plank
of the platform adopted at Chicago has
made every workshop and factory within
the United States a Republican campaign
headquarters. This is the apothegm
which is attributed to senator David b.
Hill as his comment upon the work of the
Chicago Convention. :. Bidwell and Gran
field is the Prohibition Presidential ticket.
completed after nearly all night session.
Probably the gentlemen do not expect to
be elected, and they will do well if they
get half OF the million votes which the
workers have been trying to pledge for
months past. .TheProhihitionist' first
district convention held in Portland, July
1st, nominated as a candidate for repres-
entative to Congress Rev. William =.
Pinkham, of Deering. James $. Clark
son, president of the National Republican
League has issued a call announcing that
the annual convention will be held at Buff
falo, \. Y, Sept. 1st. .... The Knox county
Democratic convention met at Rockland
Saturday at II . clock. L. X. Hunt was
made chairman, Z. II. Vaughn and d. ii.
Gilden, secretaries. Scventy-two dele
We're made: Senator, o. Z. Lyons. Ninal-
haven: clerk of courts, l.. +. Starrett
Rockland; judge of probate, }. =. Hobbs
Hope; register of probate, Daniel P. Rose
ThOmaston; county commissioner, Robert
l.. Thompson, Friendship; county at
torney. b. X. kalloch, Rockland; sheriff,
J. W. Gray, Rockland; county treasurer,
l.. W. Benner, Rockland. .... General Wea-
ver was nominated for President by the
People party at Omaha Monday.
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