Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-09
has edited and published the Hallowel

has edited and published the Hallowell
Gazette with success.
We are confident that these tried and
energetic young men will disappoint no
reasonable expectations of the friends of
the Kennebec Journal. We commend
them to the public and to the Republi-
cans of the State. We trust they will
receive generous support.
All accounts for subscriptions of the
Journal pass into the hands of Owen and
Nash and should be paid to them. All
charges for advertising, whether by con-
tract or otherwise entered prior to this
date, are retained by Stevens and Say
ward and may be paid to either of the
partners to the completion of the con-
tracts
1t is hoped that all parties who have
any accounts or claims ON the firm of
Stevens & Sayward will present them
for immediate payment, and that all
who are indebted to them will make an
early settlement, for which purpose the
books will be kept for a few weeks at the
Journal Office.
For the present Mr.. Stevens will con
tinue his editorial labors ON the political
columns of the paper, though he conf
IDENTIFY hopes that the publishers will be
able at no distant day to secure the seq
vices of another to take his place and thus
give him that release which his wishes
and condition of health imperatively re-
quire
John l. Stevens,
John S. Sayward.
Augusta, May IS, 1865"
Mr.. Stevens connection with the paper
ceased the first of the following January.
On May s. 1888, Mr.. Stevens name
appeared at the head of the Journals
editorial page as editor. He had been in
fact its political editor from November,
1887. He remained editor n-chief until
July 1, 1889, when the following valedic-
tory appeared:
"GOOD BYE!
To the patrons and readers of the
Kennebec Journal it is proper for us to
say that with this issue we close the edi-
torial work which we have imperfectly
performed since early in November, 1887.
Connected with this paper January, 1855,
and during the eventful fourteen years
following that date, we sought to do our
duty to the public with fidelity. A large
number with whom we communicated
and whose sympathies we shared during
that important and ever memorable
period of the country's history have
passed from the theatre of earthly activity
across the river to the green fields be-
yond With the early friends and readers
of those exciting times, who still survive,
it has been pleasant to renew editorial
acquaintance, and to those who have
come later on the stage of active life, we
have spoken the words of faith and
duty. In terminating our present re
lations with them, and in assuming re
sponsibilities of another kind on the green
isles of the Pacific we will only say that
our political views, those which the Ken
nebec Journal has so long advocated,
seem to us as necessary to the welfare OF
the country as when we learned them in
our youth from LUTHER SEVER
ANCE, HORACE GREELEY and WILL
LIAM H. SEWARD, and as when they
were first embodied in the platform of the
Republican party of Maine and of the
nation. These principles and such Others
as new exigencies demand, will continue
to be advocated through the columns of
this paper with it's enlarged circle of
readers and it's increased opportunities.
Thanking the Republicans of Maine for
their repeated tokens Of confidence we bid
them farewell. John l.. Stevens"