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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-15
Calamity HOwiers.

ed by Miss Bertha Mellen at the
Alliance picnic, last Friday. 1t is
needless to say it was well receiv'
cd
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men -
If any reliance could be placed in
the partisan journals of the day,
this should be REGULAR CALAMITY
CRowD-a crowd of lazy, worthless
loafers, and broken-down political
hacks, who have been kicked out of
all respectable political parties, and
who have congregated here under
the faded, frayed-out flag of calam-
lty. Did you ever know a man to
become dissatisfied with an old par
ty and leave it that the party he left
did not claim that he was kicked
out because he wasn't decent? The
Kansas City Journal, Topeka Capt.
tai, and Wichita Eagle say that's
the kind of crowd you are but
you don't look like it. | am sorry
to dispute such popular papers, such
excellent authority, such truth-tell-
ing, God-fearing educators of pub
lie sentiment, but, really there's
something wrong somewhere, and |
don't believe it's in the crowd Pm
talking to. / must say you look far
more like band of men and women
who are animated by grand and
worthy purpose, a determination to
protect your homes and loved ones,
your state and the nation, from the
encroachments of monopolies and
the ravages of despoilers. If l
were to believe the reports Of your
political opponents, you would be a
crowd Of whining, grooming, howl
ing political and financial mendicants
and out casts "a rabble of moral and
social cut-throats, who do nothing
but white dry-goods boxes, and
talk heresy and treason. don't
believe it. / haven't seen jack
knife in this crowd to-day, and |
haven't heard a word of treason.
They say you are the tools and dupes
of political tricksters-the blind,
deluded followers of corrupt and
ffice-seeking demagogues. | don't
believe it. | never faced an audi
ence of men and women who look
ed to be more capable of running
their own business--and the old
parties too, for that matter-and the
time is coming when you will do it.
They know it, and that is what ails
them. They call you infationists,
fiat-fools, robbers, anarchists and
rebels. Yes, REBELS they'll new
err forget that word. Strange they
never got acquainted with you till
you stopped voting the Republican
ticket. But l don't believe any of
this. | don't believe there's man
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-15

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

fills two pages with its illustrations
| Very apropos for the time of year is the
Famlly Doctors paper on Sea-Bathlng
| also, My Struggles with Camera To- 70,
TINS is the time of year when cameras Ill
| the land. Descriptive articles, stories,
| fashion letters and full Gatherer brings
the number to close.
The September Popular Science
Monthly opens with the concluding part
of DR.. Andrew D. Whites paper on &C.
ography, in his Warfare of Science series
The disbelief of the medieval theologians
that men could live on the opposite side
OF the globe is the chief subject of this
chapter. DR.. Charles c. Abbott con,
tributes an illustrated article testifyine
to the skill of the Delaware Indian as an
Artist, and puts in evidence figures of
carved gorgets, masks, and various other
objects. The number contains also one
OF Prof. Huxley's trenchant papers, on
The Decline of Bibliolatry, in which the
conviction is expressed that merely
nominal belief in the Bible is rapidly dis
placing the old practical belief. Prof. J..
S. Kingsley describes The Marine Biolgi-
cal Laboratory, at Woods Holl, giving
pictures of its building and of the inte-
riors of some of its work-rooms. Under
the title Infectious Diseases: Causation
and Immunity, DR.. G.. M. Sternberg, u.
S. A. tells what has been learned in this
field up to date. Prof. Joseph Jastrow
presents a Further study of Involuntary
Movements, supplementing an earlier
paper on this subject. The article is ac-
companied by thirteen tracings of the
movements described. The trouble at
the Carnegie mills gives timeliness to
Conrad Reno's reply to Edward Atkin-
son, on The Wage. contract and Personal
Liberty. Mr.. Reno advocates compul-
sorry arbitration through State tribunal
as the remedy for labor disputes. There
is an interesting account of Mica and the
Mica Mines, by G. Hanford Henderson.
Some very strange occurrences are de-
scribed in Mr.. William A. Eddy's paper
on Incalculable Accidents. M. Jules
Rochard writes on Tobacco and the
Tobacco Habit; M. Charles Henry on
Odors and the Sense of Smell; and
Frederick A. Fernald describes recent
Changes in Chemical and Geographical
Words, that have been made in the in
terest OF simplicity and uniformity.
The Culver for September has for it's
opening article Those Other Mothers who
devote their lives to the care of children
not their own. Jonah is the subject of
the fifth of the sketches of Spiritual Fail
ures. Then we come to an interesting
account of Bath and its Memories, by
Herbert Russell, illustrated with charac-
teristic sketches of that quaint old town.
One would scarcely think that there was
variety enough in Aims Boxes to make
an interesting article on the subject, but
there is, and the illustrations that ac-
company the article are proof of the
statement. Professor W. G. Blake con-
tributes an essay on the subject, Are the
Conditions of Life. Improving? My Ex-
perences as asSunday School Teacher
are continued, and will prove to be those
of many young enthusiast. Stories,
serials, special articles, poetry, and big
bundle of Short Arrows make up the
contents or this number.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Serial Barbara Merivale opens
Cassells Family Magazine for Septem-
Der, and is followed by practical paper
My Wood-Carving Experience. The
Well in the Cockoo's Grove describes a
picturesque summer resort in Wales So
well that whoever reads it will want to
visit the place. How Wilderness Be
came Garden is another of those practi-
cal papers for which this magazine is
conspicuous. Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell,
author of In Tent and Bungalow, By a
Himalayan Lake, etc., begins story in
this number called Lady Lorrimer's
Scheme which promises exceedingly well
Shoe Prints is the title Of a poem that
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

We publish in another column an
opinion from Mr.. William II. Looney
which disagrees with til, nion re-
Gently given by Secretary of e.ate Fessen-
den to the effect that the provision of the
Australian law which forbids candidate
to be voted for to be an election officer
at the election at which he is to be voted
for applies only to election clerks" and
does not affect selectmen who are cleo
ton officers under the constitution. OF
course the opinion of Mr.. Fessenden was
in no wise conclusive in this matter.
That is to say in spite of Mr.. Fessenden's
opinion it would be within the power of
the Governor and council to refuse a
certificate on this ground and of the
House of Representatives or the Senate
to refuse a seat on the same ground. We
shall not undertake to pass upon
comparative merits of the opinions
Mr.. Looney and Mr. Fessenden. Each
makes out pretty good case. But it
will readily be seen that if Mr.. Fessen-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The city agency is, in the opinion of
Mr.. Ingraham, and good many other
people also, little better than a legalized
rum shop. 1t is constantly held up by
these people to public Reproduction as a
great promoter of intemperance. We
are inclined to sympathize with their de-
nunciation of that institution. Now if
ONE legalized rum shop does as much
mischief in town as they say, what would
be the effect of score of such institu-
tons? Certainly the bad effect of the
one would be greatly intensified. Yet it
is curious fact that the gentlemen who
are most profuse in their denunciation of
this one legalized institution for selling
rum are proposing to set up an indefinite
number. A licensed saloon is nothing
but legalized rumshop, like the agency,
except the restrictions put upon it are
not SO severe as those put upon the
agency. The agency is forbidden to sell
except for medicinal or mechanical pur-
poses, and if the agent obeys the law,
liquor can be obtained there for other
purposes only by Misrepresentation. But
no such restriction is put upon the legal
lied saloons which the license advocates
propose to set up in its stead. Liquor
may be obtained from them for any pur-
pose; yet the advocates of these licensed
saloons say their object is to promote
temperance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

But the fact of chief interest to the consumer
is that the Mckinley bill, by raising the price of
wool. forces upon him a cheaper and less dura-
hle quality OF materialin the garments he buys.
Argus.
But few days ago you declared that
the Mckinley bill had not raised the
price of wool. You said Mckinley prom
ised the farmers that it would, but in
stead of doing that, you alleged that wool
had constantly fallen in price, and Judge
Cleaves declared that wool had not been
so cheap for quarter of a century as
since the passage of the Mckinley bill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

denis view should not be accepted by a
Governor and council or the legislature
and Mr.. Looney's should, and some OF
the representatives appearing to be
elected should be shown to have been
selectmen when they were voted for
their right to sit in the legislature would
be in jeopardy, and it is among the posi-
bilities that there might be enough of
such cases to change the complexion of
the legislature. All the danger which
arises from this conflict of opinion can
be avoided if such men as are candidates
for the legislature or for county officers
and are holding municipal offices which
make them under the constitution
election officers will resign their munich
pal offices. And that is course it seems
to us should be recommended and urged.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
THE sHERIFF's ENFORCEMENT.

The Democrats are assiduously circu-
lating in the country towns the story that
Sheriff Cram has ''let up'' in his en-
forcement of the prohibitory law. The
purpose of the story is evident A great
many Democrats in the country have been
disguised by the brazen campaign which
Mr.. SWEETS friends have been making for
free rum; and were threatening to vote
for Mr.. Cram. This disaffection among
the country Democrats had become so
great that it was found necessary to
check it, and so this story was invented.
Now everybody in Portland knows that
the liquor law is being enforced by Sher-
iff Cram as vigorously today as at any
time during his administration; and the
person who asserts that such is not the
case deliberately lies. The records of the
courts show that during the month of
August the average of liquor seizures has
been greater than it was in July, and the
average of convictions of rumsellers on
search and seizure complaints very much
larger. In July the sheriffs made 1873
seizures. In twenty days of this month
they made 1874. In July IA rumsellers
were convicted on search and seizure
process. In twenty days of August an
equal number had been convicted. The
court records show, instead of decline
in the activity of the sheriffs an increase;
instead of ''let up greater strin-
oancV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

Though the Biddeford ring has no use
for MI. William A. Roberts, Chairman
John Bernard Donovan, who possesses
that admirable and somewhat rare trait
in a public man, lively recollection of
past services, finds one to put him to and
places the Biddeford agitator upon the
stump in Kennebec county. MI. Rob-
erts is an entertaining talker, and has a
large fund of lively anecdote to draw
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The Democrats had no trouble in pay
ing the expenses of the government be-
fore 1860 under low tariff, remarks the
Argus. Perhaps not. But the government
had not then been saddled with the cost
of Democratic rebellion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The PRESS argues on the assumption that
there is only one kind of wool grown in the
world. But Mr.. IngrahaTn and Judge CleaveS
are better posted. The increased product of
our domestic wool does not at all lessen the de-
mand for certain grades of foreign wool which
are indispensable in the manufacture of carpets
and some other articles of universal use.-Ar-
gus
Well we will take your assumption,
that the Increased Importation of wool
has been Of kinds of wool not produced
in this country. Then it follows, doesn't
it, that there has been an increased de-
mand for this wool, and therefore an in
crease in the manufactures in which it
is used. Now you have been alleging all
along that the Mckinley bill had re-
stricted the manufactures in which wool
was used, and SO has Mr.. Ingraham,
The truth is esteemed contemporary,
you are all mixed up in the wool ques-
ton. Only few days ago you declared
your belief that the effect of tariff on
wool was to cut down the price. A few
days after you declared your belief that
the Mckinley tariff would have put up
the price of wool, but for the fact that
there was an unusually large crop.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The Portland municipal off1ce-holders
are beginning to feel the burden and
heat of the campaign. The barrel is
getting low, and money must be had for
torches and things-so a fresh assess
ment, it is said, has been levied, and
there is some grumbling over it's col
lection.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

According to the Argus the Democrats
propose to arrange the tariff so that the
wealthy will pay the bulk of the ex-
penses of the government. Was that
what Mr. Mills was about when he inn
posed duty on sugar and rice and a
duty of As per cent 0d ualorem on ready
made clothing?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
upon-indeed it is his penchant for tell
ing stories out of school that has cost
him the favor of the Biddeford leaders.

Another Democratic orator who has
been sent out of this District for the
party's health is Mr.. E. c. SWEET, the
celebrated symposiarch of the Young
Mems Club. Mr.. SWEET is circulating in
the vicinity of Bangor, where his pro
nounced views on the liquor question
coincide with those of the local De-
mocracy, and where the frank expression
OF those views will not hurt Brother
George. During the latter part of
Orator Swett's stay in Portland he went
about the streets with muzzle over his
mouth, state of things very unpleasant
to man of his ELUSIVE temperament.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The Hon. Darius Fl. Ingraham used
to deliver an interesting lecture on archi-
lecture Perhaps it might furnish some
valuable suggestions for the new post
office.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The rumor that David Bennett Hill
has accepted an invitation to address the
Portland Democracy may be received
with glee by the Young Mems Club; but
hardly with unalloyed delight by the
Eastern Argus, whose relations with the
eminent New York politician have for a
considerable time been strained. Ex-
actly why Senator Hill should consent to
come down this way is not clear, for the
Maine Democrats, like the comics, are a
feeble folk, and it is hardly worth his
while to help in disorganizing them.
He is wont to fly at bigger game.
Should Senator Hill come down to
Maine he would naturally go by Port
land, where the Democrats, with the ex-
ception of few leading spirits in the
Young Mems Club, are of the Alexander
Higgins persuasion, and gravitate to
Bangor, in which city politicians of his
own kidney do abound-or break his
journey at Biddeford, municipality
grooming in the grip of a miniature Tam
many. But should he stop here Mr.. E.
c. SWEET should be sent for in all haste
to make the welcoming speech.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
FOR CONGRESSMAN,
For Presidential Electors.

For Presidential Electors,
At Laps-TH0MAS W. HYDE Of Bath, Will
LIAM N. NASH Of Cheryfeld.
First District ERNEST N. G00DALL Of SANFORD.
Second District C. WEDGEW00D Of Lewis
Ton.
Third Dishict-A. ". WILDES Of Skowhegan.
Fourth District RODNEY C. PENNEY Of Monsoon
For State Senators EDMUND B. MALLET oi
Freeport, GEORGE N. SEIDERS of Portland,
CHARLES M. WAREHOUSE of Wesibrook, WILL
lam N. COOK Of Casco.
For County Attonsy-CHARLES A. TRUE Of
Portland. .
For Sheriff LEAMDER E. CRAM Of Baldwin.
For Judge Of Probate HENRY c. PEABODY Of
Portland.
For Register Of Probate EDWARD c. REYNOLDS
Of Cape Elizabeth
For Treasurer DANIEL D. ChENERY Of Desing
For County Commissioner WALTER B. ALLEN
Of Yarmouth.
For Representatives to the Legislature THOMAS
P. SHAW, AUGUSTINE 0. SMITH, JOSIAH H.
DRUMM0ND, JR., WHITMAN SAWYER, CARROLL
W. MORRILL,, WALTER C. EMERSON.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

"This yer's no id picnic,' growled
the world-worn Uncle Billy in Bret
Harte's Outcasts of Poker Flat, as a
scheme of idyllic enjoyment was pro-
posed in his hearing. In much the same
spirit has the tally-ho suggestion been
received by the grizzled Democratic cam
paigners of the First District. Their
protests against what they term "a piece
of id foolishness'' have been for the
past week profanely earnest, and have
resulted, it is understood, in the aban-
donment of that novel and laughter-pro-
voking plan of campaign. The coach
will be returned to the livery, and the
ambitious young orators who were to
ride about footing horns made of British
tin, are already released
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23

The increase in the interest earn
ing power OF the UNION MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY for
the first half of this. year, compared
with the like period of last year,
shows an average increase of One
Thousand Dollars per month.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-23
THE PRESS
TUESDAY, AUGUST %.
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WHITELAW REID.

FOR GOVERNOR,
HENRY B. CLEAVES