The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-01-07

making six columns to page the COZ
ulnns being twenty one inches in length.
June -. lS45. it WAS enlarged to seven
columns to the page. and twenty-five and
a halt inches long. Editorially the paper
said: 1t is now one of the largest
papers in the state. This size was con-
tinued until April B 1868. when the paper
OF ninetecn inches IN length. The paper
n making the announcement said: "To
this step we have Been impelled chiefly
hv the state of business in the country.
which il eNcrtiM4 4 powerfully depressing
influence on the newspaper business by
,uttng off the great source of newspaper
profit it's advertising patronage. With
this source Of income dried up. and their
paper costing double the former price. the
publishers OF papers are compelled either
TO increase their price enough to cover the
deficiency "r to reduce the size of their
slcetS.
On December > lSG4 the journal ~u~-
pended rublcatim. EditoliallN Mr.
simpson said --Our friends may rest As
sured that yagls nest Summer IS soon
as the usual interest in the political
campaign iu This state >llall be awakened
the issues ot the Journal will lrecommenee,
provided The friends ot lhc cause within
the range ot it, circulation viii do their
duty in tine Way ut patronage
The journal did mon resumed pUblca
ton however until .iuly 20. 1866. when IT
appeared with seven columns to the
page, the columns being twenty-five and
a half inches long the exact dimensions
OF the sheet in 1873 wheu Mr.. Simpson
first took control. The paper was owned
by Mr.. Simpson and Mr.. j. y. McChntock
the latter being a silent partner. In 1865.
Mc( intork sold to Mr.. Simpson. March
o. 1871. the paper enlarged to eight col
umnS to the page and the columns We're
| heightened to twenty-five inches. Oct.
| Is, 1883, the paper again enlarged to nine
| columns to the page. the columns twenty
| seven inches in length. The Journal las
| always been folio until the enlargement
| to-day. when for the first time in its long
| career ii appears rs 4 quarto, seven col
umn> to the page OF twenty-five inches,
OF in uthcl words a paper OF titty-siX col
umn>
| During the lifetime ot The journal four
| papers iaNc been started for the avowed
| purpose OF killing this paper, but the Jour
nal published the obituaries of al of thc,n
| The Belfast Intelligenccr. started in 1886
! by Frederick F. ingalls, and edited by .Jo-
| >eph Williamson. was the first of these.
| At tie end Of one year the Intellgencer
MAS removed to- Frankfort, now Winter
port and died in 1850. In March. lS44
another rival ot the journal appeared call
ed the 'pcoples Advocate and Independ-
cnt Democrat. by Lewis Richardson's
Tie Hon. Nehemiah Abbott was it's editor.
! The paper died before completing its see
ond volume. June l.. lS54 the third ii
| val appeared, called the Maine Free Press
edited by the Hon. f. X. Smart. then col
|
| Usher. In 1851 the paper was moved to
| Rocllland and merged in the nited States
Democrat. under the name of Democrat
aud Free Press. Later it became the Rock
| land Free Press, and the present Rockland
| Tribune is the living representative The
fourth and last paper established to kill
| the journal. was the Belfast CITY
Press. edited by Emery Boardman The
paper was owned by a corporation and ap-
peared on Aug. ~. 1856. 1t was brought
into existence by the local railroad fight
1t was bought about two years and a half
later by the Age and merged in that paper.
\ most remarkable transformation took
place in the political complexion of both
the journal and Age. In 1873 the Ace
was published from the rooms now occu-
pied by the journal. and the latter paper
was Published in City Block The journal
was then Democratic and the Age Repub-
hcan. First the papers exchanged offices.
Mr. simpson. editor nf the journal.
bought the building where the Ace was
located and moved into it. the Ace
| going to the old quarters of the journal.
shortly after this the ltpers EXCHANGED
politics. the journal becoming Republican
and the Age Democratic. Mr.. Simpson
was firm advocate If hard money. and
when the Democratic party swallowed the
Greenback party, with lis paper mone1
falacles. he refused /" follow il. He
found himself drifting towards the har.
money Republican party and ON the Sd OF
July. 1870 hoiSted The name OF Daniel f.
| DaNls Ior Governor. and announced in 3
strong editorial his advocacy OF the prin-
| .;, H.. Il, ,