Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-29
Political Notes.

The case Dugald Crawford. the dry
goods merchant. charged with having at
tempted TO interfere with his employees in
the exercise of their political rights was
tried before Judge Murphy al ST. Louis.
Wednesday,. The. prosecution did not
the accused and he was discharged on a
,echnicality.
Five special trains, each bearing a
branch of the Mckinley sound money
expedition, left "a St. Louis, Mo.
Wednesday for a thorough speech max
ing tour of Missouri and Kansas. The
main lines of the Missourithe Wabash
the Missouri. Kansas and Texas, the
Fresco and the Burlington railways il
the two states will be traversed. Every
section of both states will be reached
by the special trains. The itinerar.
will consume five days.
The Republicans of Kearny township.
n. Y, expect much pleasure in seeing
James Abbott, a. well-known citizen OF Of
Arlington and a strong Bryan man. eat a
large and freshly killed crow Immediately
after the result of the. election as an
nounced.. On Monday night. Mr.. Abbott
entered into wager with John Clark
son. a builder of the town. that he would
eat the largest crow that could be sho,
in the Arlington woods il Bryan was de-
feated. Clarkson engaging to do the same
thing if Mckinley was defeated The wa.
ger has caused much amusement and a
committee of arrangements has beer
formed to procure the bird and witness
the feast.
While sitting on the platform at the
Bryan political meeting held at latter
sails, Chicago Tuesday evening, Vice
President Stevenson was overcome by the
heat and was compelled to withdraw from
the stage. Fearing that he might faint
the Vice President had his cab called ana
went at once to the Palmer house Ir
leaving the stage door at the place of thu
| meeting. Mr.. Stevenson asked the assist
ance of the policeman who was on duty
ter saw him safely away in his cab
| After arriving at the hotel, the Vice Pres
| dent still felt the effects of his illness
but he was able to go to his apartments
| without further assistance and he did no
| think 1t necessary to call physician.
No serious results are anticipated.
Senator, Buffers paper at Raleigh. N
c.. Tuesday. attacked those Populist.
fusion with Republicans. 1t says: Don't
| for the sake of common sense. for the
\ sake of consistency. for the sake of de
| cency and honesty. vote for any man OF
| the son of any man who will utter any
! slanderous statements against Popuiist.
| from one end of the state to the other
Stop calling yourselves Popuists. Gel
out of the party of honest men and &c
into the crowd where you belong. for We
| believe we speak the living truth wher
we say no man is wanted in the ranks OF
L
body of Populists who will not supper
that policy which gives us the greatest
power and influence. In the state and
nation we have always known where We
We're at We want to know this year and
also hereafter.
Postmaster General Wilson said.
Tuesday night. concerning the last let
ter of Hon. Tom Watson, which was
addressed to Senator Butler: "All the
mail for senators and representatives
is sent either to the Senate or House
post office. AS soon as it is received
by us it is sent down into the base
ment of the post office building where
| number of men are employed, who
do nothing else but handle the con-
gressional mail. They send it to the
Capitol and from there it is delivered
Had the letter been handled by our
carriers it would simply be preposter-
Gus to say that it could have ben held
for eight days. 1t could not. That is
simply all there is of it. / don't know
the custom followed at the Senate post
Office
Professor Bateman of Auburn, doesn't
take any stock in. the story in the
Wednesday morning paper where Chair
man Butler of the national Populist com
mittee says Mr.. Watson's letter of ac-
!
office for want of sufficient postage and
That he had not been notified of the fact
by the post office authorities 1T is All
nonsense, says Mr.. Bateman. Y know
. mat the fault is not with Tom Watson
II anyone is at fault it is Chairman But
Ter himself. Tom Watson knows how tc
write letters and send them, and besides
understand that the post office authori.
ties deny that the delay can be attributed
3. 10 that department. | am tired of the
whole performance of the so-calied Demo
cratic reformers and some of our Popu.
list would-be leaders. Thousands of pom
glists VIII not vote at all at this election
Lhey can vote for Bryan after all tha
mas happened since his nomination.
predict pr i that there will be a large falling
or in the Populist vote in this State.
shall be surprised if we poll over 400 O,
/: 2 Wu . votes. The only. fault l find witt
that he would get up and at EN-. / woull
n ike to be in his shoes for about an HON
long enough to get hold Of a pen anr
!, write something. I'd let the people know nov
nal. ''ui
The Edgar Thomson steel works a,
y Braddocks, Pa. will resume onerations