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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
1 Republican State Convention
WILL BE HELD IN
City Hall, Portland,
Thursday, Apr. 18th, 1896,
At Eleven O'clock a. M .

for the purpose of selecting six candidates for
electors of President and Vice. President of
the United States. and four delegates at large
and four aternates to attend the National Re-
publican Convention, to be held at St. Louis.
Missouri, on Tuesday, June 18TH 1896. and
transacting any other business that may prop
erly come before it.
The basis of representation will be as fol-
lows: each City, Town and Plantation will be
entitled to one delegate, and for each seventy
five votes cast for the Republican candidate
for Governor in 1894, additional delegate,
and for a fraction of forty votes in excess of
seventy-fve votes, an additional delegate.
Vacancies in the delegation Of any City,
Town or Plantation can only be filled by res
ident of the County in which the vacancy
exists.
The State committee will be in session in
the reception room of the hall at nine O'Clock.
on the morning Of the convention, for the pur-
pose OF receiving the credentials Of delegates.
Delegates in order to be eligible to participate
in the convention, must be elected subsequent
to the date of the call for this convention;
and delegates, under this call, should not be
elected to the State convention to be here
after called for the purpose Of nominating a
candidate for governor.
All electors Of Maine, without regard to past
with the sentiments expressed in the call of
the Republican National Committee for the
Republican National Convention, are cordial
ly invited to unite with the Republicans OF
the State in electing delegates to this Conven-
ton.
Per order Republican State COMMITTEE.
JOSEPH H. MANLEY, Chairman.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary.
Augusta, Maine, Jan. %, 1895.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
Told by a Turk.

All Turks are not to be classed a.
fends, although their religious fanaticisin
S calculated to make them such. There
are humane subjects Of the Sultan and
me of them, an intelligent official so it is
claimed on excellent authority, has writ
ten and signed statement respecting the
Armenian massacres. From this ii appears
that the loss Of life and restitution have
)een moderated rather than overesti-
mated, for in the province of Harpoot he
says there have been SO, 1884 deaths, over
$4,000 houses burned and $3.50 are
destitute.
He says fear was spread among the
Turks that an Armenian principality was
90 be established. This fear was cuu-
ningly encouraged by many officials. The
Armenians did nothing to provoke the
nassacres. Very many Of the Turkish
ilicials aided and participated in them.
Turks and kurds uniting the horrors of
which ne shows to have been all that they
nave ever been represented. The object
vas to obliterate the Armenians AL
though he does not say so, the natural
Inference is, indeed it is difficult to draw
my ether, that the Sultan has ali alor q
tnstigated in devious ways the atrocities
which have so appalled, all Christendom.
and in the face Of which ali Europe has
'ctsd the part of cowardly Ensyc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
Don't Prevert History.

Now that DR.. Jameson and companions
have arrived in London, been accorded q
popular demonstration within the solemn
precincts of the English court room and
have gone forth on their own recogniz-
ance, interest in the affair will not be SO
general until the trial begins, and then
the chief interest will be in the nature of
q curiosity to ascertain by what techni-
calities the freebooters will get clear of
severe punishment. TIE popular approval
is not to be wondered at. DashinR
courage, even bravado If mistaken for
pluck, is sure to win this kind of appro-
val. The rights in the case are little
needed at the first outburst and in the
case of DR.. Jameson will hardly ever be.
There are those, who assume to pass
dispassionate Judgment upon the affair,
who credit Jameson with chivalry for
going to the rescue of his countrymen in
the Transvaal. This eeems silly when we
stop to think that the Out-landers were
really in no danger Any such rumor has
been e1ectually disrroved by the conduct
OF President Kr ,uger and the Beers since !.
also by the fact that the Outlanders did
DOT make any genuine attempt to aid
Jameson's party as they surely would
nave done had their case been at all
desperate. Jameson's raid is worthy Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
j0nns0n'S Anodyne Liniment

Just as much approval rs raid of train
robbers upon the United States mail ser
vice, and no more 1t matters not if the
Out-landers do not have all the privileges
they believe they should. The raid was
undoubtedly for booty and political ends
The barbarites committed by jameson
raiders in the war with the natives few
years ago afford an index of the character
Of the expedition. There is no occasion,
we're such attempt ever excusable, to per
vert history In Jameson s behalf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

Evidently they knew what they were
about. The accommodating Judge, Miss
Flagler belongs to prominent family,
held court At an unusually early hour to
permit the criminal to appear and plead
guilty to an exceedingly light charge. OF
course she did not wish to appear there
before the common people, that would
have been dreadful! Possibly too, this
aesthetic young woman may be spared
the knowledge that good many, who
think straight, regard her deed rs murder
committed in the heat of passion and be-
been for life instead of for three hours.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
Cleaning Hairbrushes.

inc water used must be warm, not hot.
anu care must be taken not TO allow the
backs of the brushes to get wet. It spoils
them and rubs off the polish. A little or
binary washing soda or household am.
monla should be used in the water. the
latter by preference, as the former is AMI
TO give yellow color to the bristles. II il
pest always to wash two brushes at the
same time, as by rubbing the bristles to-
gether the dirt is more easily and effectunl-
y removed than it can be by simply dash
ing the brush up and down in the water
Aiterward rinse the brush in water 70
when good teaspoonful Of common salt
mas been added. finally having a basin Of
quite fresh water The brush should then
be dried well with towel and ba mt h,
an open window. Never dry it by stand.
ing it near fire. ~ s't'nu'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

NOW that Miss Flagler has spent three
hours in Jail, really social call upon the
oailer's wife, and her father has paid n
hne OF $500 all because she shot and killed
. httie negro boy, who reached throupb
the renee surrounding her fathers garden
perhaps the least said about It is b.s.
But one cannot avoid the conclnsior .h.+
the law in the District of Columbia--..,d.
from the imposition of the three hour cor.
nnement in Jail amounting to nothing az.
oeps IN name-sets lower price on the l,fe
Ola colored person than it did In slave.,
days. II has been claimed for the OIL,
snat she did not shoot to hit and aver,
excuse that could possibly be imagined
was offered. But her attorneys preferred
20 rely upon the leniency of the iude,
IMAM 60 have the case tried upon ;,s
merits and if merely accidental man,
slaughter have the fact established
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

II we may judge from the efforts of the
Democratic party, not excepting the adj
ministration, President Cleveland and
Postmaster General Wilson have forgotten
all about the threats they made when the
German tariff was juggled into law
Then they were to continue their free
trade agitation until doonsday. But it
was the doomsday of their party Now
they have dropped it with a celebrity sug-
gestive Of burned fingers. They have put
1t behind them; they have muffled the
din of the workingman's dinner pail
which made such q chatter four years
ago. Nor is this strange Nothing but
trouble for the Democratic party as we'll
as the country has come Of their tariff
agitation. 1t was one of the gravest of
the many grave blunders for which his
tory holds the Democratic party account
able
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

China is suffering from tho rayages OF
a disease, supposed to have been caused
by the filthy conditions in which these
Mongolians live. Whatever may be
thought OF the feasibility Of winning
Chinese from Buddhism there ought to
be no difference of opinion respecting the
need of so modifying their religious
notions that they shall no longer attribute
gods but shall have knowledge of some
OF the more important rudiments of
hypiene
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
Presidential Electors Must all be
Chosen in State Convention.
HEADQUARTERS
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE,
AUGUSTA, MAINE, JAN. %, 1896.

To the Republicans OF Maine:-Prior to 1892
two Presidential electors at large, correspond
ing to the two United states senators, were
nominated in State convention. and the re-
naming electors, corresponding to the mem
bers Of the United States House Of Represen-
tatives were nominated by the several con-
gressional district conventions
Tue passage Of the Australian Ballot law en-
tirely changed the pro. edure. Under the law.
all Conventions are portion Of our election
system and this ballot act requires that can
didates to be voted for by the Voters through
out the whole state must be plsced in nomina-
ton by Convention representing no less a
constituency than the whole state. Hence, all
the candidates Of . party for Presidential cleo
tors must be nominated in state Convention,
and have therefore included in the call six
electors.
III. MANLEY, Chairman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

If the President intends to recognize
ably reserve it for q trump card to play
just about the time of the Democratic
national convention. There is, however,
just as good reason for according bellig
erent rights now as there can be four or
five months from now.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
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On the theory that starving person
is irresponsible there may be forgiveness
in the camp Of the unterriicd. for
the recreant Democrats of a Biddeforti
ward, who refused to comply with the
dicl1er" for citizens ticket. This CON
tumacy is regarded as death blow to
the opposition to Mayor Hamilton
That WAS a goodly gathering of the
Sons and Daughters of Maine at Washing
ton, d. c., Wednesday evening. 1t is
stimulating to State pride to read the
list of distinguished sons and daughters
present on that occasion.
Speaker Reed despite his numerous
affairs, is said to have time to satisfy
most of the autograph fiends. His secre-
tary arranges it so that when the speaker
has leisure quarter of an hour he may
sit down to the task of dashing off auto
graphs by tho wholesale for future de-
mand, which is sure to come, in fact, Of
ter anticipates the supply. Mr.. Reed has
been obliged to make the rule that he
will respond only when a 2-cent stamp is
enclosed with the request. Il can spare
the time and the paper and the pen and
the ink, :" he says, "but cannot afford
the 2-cent stamp to send It," He gets
many more requests for autographs than
Allison or any of the other candidates,
which In itself indicates something of his
relative position in the public mind Init
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

Attorney General Harmon having
ment schomes are nothing but lotteries
and not entitled to the privileges of the
mails, let the law be enforced. If Uncle
the Louisiana lottery those schemes will
have a short lived career.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

compound of plutocrat and jingo," is
what the New York World calls Olney.
Then he is just the man to squander his
political fortune in leading the Democrats
to certain defeat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

The maddest man seen in Lewiston for
a long time was the fellow who tried.
few days since, to kill himself
with dose of aconite. When he re-
covered strength enough to speak
after the doctor had finished pumping
him out be. ''iawed' the doctor up hill
and down for his services.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

West Paris is tickled over the prospect
OK company to manufacture wooden
rims for bicycles. There are other com
munties waiting to be tickled in similar
manner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

cessna IN any part of the body ia in.
seantly relieved and permanently cnrea
py loans Ointment, tina sov.,o,,,,,
remedy for all itchiness Of the akin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

If they are TO be as good -natured as he is
and send the autographs at all they will
have to make similar rule
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

The annual banquets of the Maine
State Bar Association more than make
up for dry briefs the rest of the year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

Maine raises 10000 bushels Of blue
berries annually. This industry serves to
drive away the blues from many q ham
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

Would give us perfect health. Because
men and women are not perfectly wise,
they must take medicines to keep them.
selves perfectly healthy. Pure rich blood
IS the basis Of good health. Hood's Sar-
saparilla Is the one True Blood Purifier.
1t gives good health because it builds
upon the true foundation pure blood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
Yaily geaaebsf 5ptsrnal.
TERMS: 800 Per Year.

No notice whatever will be taken OF I'M
Vned communications.
Tn JOURNAL CANNOT BIZ HHLD RnsFoNsIDL1
tor the preservation or return Of rejected COM
municAtions.
Address all communications relating TO sub
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Tail Would wag the Dog.

Boston Herald, Dem.)
Senator Teller declines to be read out
of the Republican party, and then he pro-
ceeds to undertake to w8g the dog
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

HOODS PILLS are purely vegetable.
perfectly harmless, always reliable and
beneficial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-28

Saturday there is to be launched q
Bath schooner, the largest by 81 ton
that was ever built on the Atlantic coast
1t is the four-master, William B. Palmer
is 257 feet long, AZ feet in breadth an,
has gross tonnage of 1S05.7S.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
.RICYCLM CAVALRY.

An important test of the usefulness of bicycles for military purposes has just been made by the bicycle corps of the Twenty fifth infantry, U. s. A. That corps made the trip from Fort Missoula, in Montana, to Mammoth Hot Springs, in Wyoming, distance of 323 miles, in fifty-three hours of ac- tual travelling. The road they travelled was rocky hilly and in places there was deep sand, and during almost the en- tire time the wind was contrary. The soldiers carried with them an equip- ment weighing from sixty-four to eighty-four pounds, the average being 771a pounds. Under these circum- stances the speed was over six miles an hour, equivalent to a days march of some sixty miles over bad road Stonewal Jackson's famous marches, which earned for his troops the name of the foot cavalry, were in good WCdIASI ONSI ldllly 6OOu IOduS dIlu several times exceeded thirty miles a day, distance greater than an ordi- nary days march for cavalry. Troops which can move across country at the rate of sixty miles day will be new and interesting feature in warfare.
 But it is possible that after all the bicycle may not be as useful in war as it now seems likely to be. If some enemy should put taeks or broken glass in the path of bicycle corps it's use fitness would be seriously impaired.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
IMPERFECT.

Teacher-What is "to lie?" Johnny
 'To lie" is the imperfect form of "to fish. "-Cleveland Ledger.
 "Has Maude's head been turned by that fortune she inherited?" "No; only her nose. It has turned up about 15 degrees. ."-Cincinnati Enquirer. Paw, what is your busy day?"
 "Well, happy urchin, it is when I
 stay at home to rest and your mother
 gets me to do a few little odd jobs around the house. ''-Detroit Free Press Mother (angrily)-Joe Jefferson! How
 many times muss call yo' befo' I can
 make yo' hear? Joe Jeff-Dunno. Yo' stan thah an holler, and I'll sit here an count Truth
 What makes that hen in your back yard cackle so loud?' "Oh, they've just laid corner stone across the street, and she's trying to make the neighbors think she did it."-Union Signal.
 Chicago Daughter (coaxingly)-You
 will support Billy Bryan, won't you,
 papa?
 Chicago Father (tremuously)-Gre Scott who is he? Have you gone and got married again?-Puck. The young man who brides himself on being original was talking to Miss Ca yenne. ''Your mother seemed very much amused at that little story I told
 her last night" he said, self-approv- ingly. Yes" she replied. Ever since can remember, mother has laughed
 whenever she heard that story. Tit Bits.
 Honey-moonings. Angelina - And have you been thinking of me whsn you | were away? Edwin-Yes, dearest, I was thinking l about you so, about o'clock yester- day afternoon, Angelina-How sweet of you, darling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
FIAT "OV4TIONS,v v

There is so much that is fraudulent about the campaign in which the Boy Orator is the chief figure that it is not surprising to read that the reports of his tours and speeches which have been sent all over the country by one of the press associations have been much ex- aggerated. One of the proprietors of the Omaha Bee is also a director in the press association which has sent an agent around with the Boy Orator. This press agent is also, it now ap- pears, the private secretary of the Boy Orator The Omaha Bee protests against the press agents work as fol- lows: As member of the Associated Press, the Bee was the first to remon- strate against the perversion of the ser vice in the interest of Bryan or any other candidate for office. The func- ton of the Associated Press is to trans init the news, not to circulate campaign literature and personal puffs. When the Associated Press appointed MT Bryan's secretary as it's agent to travel with Bryan ard report his movements and his utterances it was to have been expected that everything sent out about the Popocratic candidate would be distorted and magnified in his in- terest Judged by the reports which MT. Bryan's private secretary sent out through the Associated Press from this section, the tremendous ovations and triumphal receptions accorded Bryan in the East are to be taken with large grains of salt. All the way across Iowa the imaginative private secretary peo- pied every station with thousands and every water tank and railroad crossing with eager hundreds, giving vent to their exuberant enthusiasm. Such re- ports were doubtless highly gratifying to the silver organs west of the Rock ies. but they were an imposition upon Associated Press members, as well as upon the public.
 If the Boy Orator hasn't had the ''ovations" described by his talented press agent he has missed much. h. deed, he has missed about all he will get out of this campaign.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12

the campaign plans are being pulled to pieces by those most interested in up- holding them, and has practically come to the conclusion that Bryan is already defeated. Bryan has, according to the stories told, deliberately ignored the plans of the advisory committee, has refused to listen to it's requests, and has taken the bits in his teeth, doing as he himself thinks best and snub- ping the political leaders and friends who are trying to manage his cam paign. Chairman Jones, it is said, hereafter will have as little to do with Bryan as he can, and the modern Don Quixote may, so far as headquar- ters is concerned, perambulate the country at his own free will. One of the free silver leaders who is close to the national chairman, but whose po- sition makes him insistent on the with holding of his name, confesses that Senator Jones is more than distressed at Bryan's course.
 This condition of things is hot at all surprising. One of the fundamental principles of Popocracy is that every body should do as he pleases without regard to anybody else.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
HARD TO H.IS4GE.

Senator Jones, the chairman of the Popocratic national committee, is hav- ing as hard a time managing his grand aggregation of political curiosi- ties as an operatic manager has in managing grand aggregation of sing ing curiosities. The members of Jones' aggregation don't pay much attention to him. They know more than he does about politics and they know it. Es- pecially troublesome is his star per former the Boy Orator. It is now said that Jones Is both disgusted and dis heartened with the manner in which
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12

man should do, what presume he will do in any event-pray God every day to save this nation from repudiation, dishonor and anarchy"
 Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D.: This year several vital questions are submitted to the ballot t-box-questions that involve the financial integrity of our government, the stability of our supreme judiciary, the authority of the national government to suppress dangerous riots, the right of every la borer to receive honest wages (without paying tribute to an oligarchy of silver mine owners), and several other ques- tions of momentous icportanee. At such time no patriotic preachers tongue should be muzzled
 Hon. Neal Dow: "He who has the power to prevent sin and fails to do it, is himself guilty of that sin, whatever its character or magnitude"
 President William F. Warren, Boston university: As rule the best political service minister of the Gospel can render is that which incidentally re- suits from his personal influence as an enlightened patriot and high-toned teacHer or morals.
 Rev. R. s. Macarthur, D. D.: Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. If a man cannot take his religion into his politics, then his politics must be very bad, or his reli- zion very poor.'
 Hon. John E. Russell: "A minister of the Gospel may best use his influ- ence to calm excitement; he should also counsel moderation and suggest fairness in estimating the motives of those who do not agree with our views. Without discussing platforms he may always properly remind men that this is republic, carried on under con- stitution framed at critical period by wise men; it has been the sure founda- tion of our Union, and action under it, by the majority of the electors, is the only way to carry on our institutions" !"
 Bishop J. H. Vincent, Methodist Episcopal church: I frankly confess that I do not myself see any reason for the public discussion in the pulpit of the political issues of this campaign. Let the minister preach Christ His loyalty to righteousness, His love of the people, His courage and fidelity. and whatever else in His Gospel that will promote the love of justice and abounding goodwill among men.
 Hon. William P Frye, United States senator from Maine I do not believe that minister ought to divorce him. self from the rights, privileges and ob- legations of citizenship.