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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
Stupendous as II is Glorious.

The triumph of right principles in
Maine on Monday is as stupendous as
it is glorious. 1t grows more impress
sive as the returns are completed ana
receive camer and more careful con-
sideration. Even now it is almost too
early to comprehend the magnitude OF
it and to fully appreciate the tremenu-
Gus influence is must exert throughout
the country.
It is the voice of the people that has
spoken. 1t will so be understood by the
more intelligent all over the land. 1t
is a libel against his native State that
Mr.. Sewall uttcrs. when he says of it;
This is d shot from the great Repub-
Iican battery charged with ammuni-
ton from the gold power of the East
against the producers of our country.
He knows those are producers, who
have spoken. the brain and Drawn OF
a State where millionaires are few and
where the tolers are many and capable
of registering their will inundated by
none. No people are better qualified to
weigh all sides of the questions at issue
or to render more unbiased Judgment,
representing as they do all classes OF
industry and approaching from daily
experience the interdependence of all
interests. Moreover they have spoken
Of ix-io nj
and by the dictates of sound sense and
as people in the face of grave issues
and freed from partisan prejudice
speak from the heart. 1t is as honest,
as intelligent, as patriotic as it is over
whelming.
This triumph is shared by men who
never before voted other than Demo-
cratic ticket and who voted this time
solely to express their convictions re-
specting national issues. Two years
ago half of the Democratic party staid
at home because of disgust at some of
the results of their partys work. This
year Sraver pcrils threatened and many
of them felt their duty could be man
fully performed in no other way than
by coming out SQuarely against those
who had stolen their party's organiza
ton for purposes 50 dangerous that
they menace the honor of the nation.
They did this without organization and
ut a State election. This feature of the
vote in Maine is one of the most signi
ficant for the people of other states,
where the bolt will increase in volume
and effectiveness through organization
and concentration.
Another feature of the returns will
have counterpart in the trend of
sound sentiment in the nation; we re-
fer to the way the size of the ajority
holds up and increases rather than di-
minshes with fuller returns Places
that were regarded as StrongholdS of
what silver sentiment there was have
responded to the common impulse, the
appeal to uphold a nations credit, d
nations laws and a nations judiciary.
This is an example that we feel Will
bear fruit In November we shall see
it reflected in those states where now
this reputation and revolution craze is
noisiest
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
The Maine Election.
lROStOn Herald.D

The heavy gun that Vermont fired
two weeks ago on the Republican side
found a full echo in Maine yesterday
In the latter state, as in the former. the
Republicans bettered their most san
Suine hopes and rolled up plurality
far in. excess of the widest claims
made On their side They bankrupted
precedent and drove political arith-
meticians to despair. The action
of Maine and Vermont makes it plain
that in this presidential contest the
six New England states. for the first
time since 1885, are to stand shoulder to
shoulder in the front line of the Repub-
lican column. Their assured unanimity
is a very significant indication. Ii
proves that the intelligent and conser-
VatiVe sentiment of the country is
massed in an irresistible tidal wave fol
the destruction of the Popocrat ticket
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
A Magnificent Victory.



Two years ago the Republicans with an
exceedingly popular candidate Tor COY ao
crnor carried the State by over ~, ov
plurality. plurality nearly liW0 IN
excess of any received by Il previous cam !,
di,late for governor. 1t was not expected
then that that plurality could ever pc
duplicated. much less increased. But the
returns this morning show that It mas
been Increased by at least 10000. In the
last presidential year the Democrats OF
this state pollcd in the September eiec-
ton $1,000 votes. Their vote yesterday
will scarcely exceed 30000-nearly nan
the voting strength Of the party has dis-
appeared. The cause of this tremendous
slump is to he found in the refusal OF
nearly half the party to give their ad-
hcsion to the Populistic and anarchistic
features of the Chicago platform me
free silver craze has led half the Demo
Gratis TO temporarily abandon their party,
and to either vote the Republican ticket
or not vote at all while the exodus from
the Republican party on account of it is
so small as not to be discoverable.
1t would be uhtruthful 10 claim the VIC
tory OF yesterday as a purely Republican
triumph. 1t was a victory for honest
money and orderly government and Il
great many Democrats setting the
claims Of patriotism before those of
their aid the victory would have been
much less sweeping and impressive.
They are deserving Of honor and no Re
publican will begrudge them generous
need of praise.
1t would be difficult to exaggerate the
effect which the magnificent triumph of
yesterday will have ON the country at
large. 1t Is not too much to say that 1t
ensures the triumph of Mckinley ana
honest money in November and sounds
the death knell of Organism The tidal
wave which started in Vermont is roll
ing on. gathering strength as it proceeds.
and by November Will have acquired such
force ana size that II will overwhelm the
forces of dishonesty and anarchy that
took possession of the Chicago convcn-
ton and sought to plunge the nation into
and diShonor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Maine has an agricultural population,
which has been told that it was suffer-
ing, it has an industrial population
that has suffered for four years; it has
large and varied business interests that
keenly feel the effects of maIadmin-
istration at Washington and the de-
struction of confidence by political
buncoers and it is typical, in proportion
tC its size and population. of the most
intelligent and advanced portions of
the country. This is the Maine that
has done in advance what the country
will do in November, put it's seal of
condemnation on Organism and all the
mischievous influences and elements
for which he stands.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

CBangor Wing ana Courier)

tpdHSpI w HlS anu COURIER
At this writing we have received
sufficient returns from the State to in
dicate that the Niagara Of popular en-
thusiasm has broken loose and the
Democratic Populistic Communistic-
Anarchisticfree silver combination has
simply been swallowed up. The voice
of the people of Maine to the tune of
forty or fifty thousand will reverberate
from one end of the land to the other
and will cause heartfelt rejoicing
among the loyal voters of every town
city and hamlet in the United States
Maine has not only joined hands with
Vermont in support of those principles
of sound government menaccd by the
Chicago convention, but has even sur
passed the glorious verdict recently re-
turned in that State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Frosty.

Monday proved a frosty day
When all men were invited
no cast n vote. and yet they say
Some tender crops We're blighted.
The crop of silver men was struck
And if you'll please remember
The crop today not worth a shuck
viii be rotten in November.
The rust that struck the growth in Maine
The growth that now Is ,dyin
win spread out from the home of Blaine
And reach the home of Bryan
East. west north and south the haze
If YOU will please remember
VIII smother the dying silver craze.
Between this and November
JAY EFF BEE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

pains caused by Ovarian and Womb
troubles. l cannot express my graft
tude. hope and pray that other suf-
fering women will realize the truth
and importance of my statement, and
accept the relief that is sure to attend
the use Of the Pinkaam Medlcine"--
Mrs. JAMES PARRISH, 2501 Marshall
St., N. E.. Minneapolis, MINI.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
CAN'T RUN his OWN OFFICE.
Mckinley and Hobat's Picture Gree, v;s;,.
ors to Arthur Sewalt,

IN Arthur ScwaIrs New York office,
,he only campaign pictures are tbnea
.! Mch ihlcy and Hobart. They arc
olspiayad conspicuously over the hig-
Gcst desk in the front office ono =.
Whlch MI Sewall himself might sit 70
ne came to New York, and beneath arc
the legends, American Protection for
american Industries" Honest Money
LOT American Workingmen. Tho
ounces occupy the top floor of No a,
f.asl IWenty-third street On the
once door are the painted words
American Merchant Marine Associa.
non" and then in big letters Arthur
'eWall, president; Alexander X. Smith
secretary
IL rather startles one to open a door
win the name Arthur Sewalr' on il
ana be confronted by pictures of Nc
hlhiey and Hobart. However. Mr.
HeWail own son is out against him
ana as ne cannot carry his own family
It IS not 50 surprising that he cannot
carry his own Office. Mr.. Smith il
seems, like young SeWall, it a stancb
Mckinley man. Talk about St. Holm
he Martyr, Sewall will soon dism,te
the title with him.-New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

campaigning were insufficient for the
popular comprehension Of the arguments
In its favor.
The difficulty of the situation was i'm
menscly complicated and increased by
the disorganization and disruption OF the
Maine Democracy. consequent upon the
realignment of the party at its second
State convention on an nncompromising
and unqualified endorsement of the chi
cago platform. after the June convention
had declared with equal emphasis for the
gold an1a rI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
The Election.


The party lines We're erased yester-
day and the voters of Maine responded
to the patriotic call for its country's
sake,
Heavy. dark. threatening clouds
overhung this section. hut ii seemed as
il the dull background was intended for
the brilliant political result to be
painted upon il later
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

The Popocratic attempt to make the
country believe the anti-sound money,
anti-Suprcme court, anti-Iaw and order
OF the Chicago platform were not what
Maine voted to rebuke is the
siliicst gable and will deceive no man
VINO has got brains enough to vote.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

1T was down in Waldo county that
Mr. Hanson was to go out into the re-
mote Businesses of his county teach
ing the gospel of Popocracv. His re-
turn from the woods has not vet been
heraldcd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

No notice whatever VIII b taken Of an
Ngned communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
IRRESPONSIBLE for the preservation Or
vsturn Of rejected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and Advertisements to
nLrsItlh l. FLINT. Publishers, Au-
gusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

If Nebraska were to have an election
now perhaps Mr.. Bryan would not
have an opportunity to complain of
Mr.. Sewan!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

judging by his vote Bateman might
have devoted his entire fine TO ,,a,t;,,
Bryan notified and in flaying SewaI,
II he did anything else he has nothino.
to show for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Those remarkable individuals who
declare the vote in Maine has no ma
uonal significance should explain the
vote in Bath
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
JAY EFF BEE.

Watcrville Mail: A brilliant young
free silver Democrat was discussing his
pet theories Sunday on the electrics
Finally he said: well, the Lord reign
eth" The lady he was addressing
quickly answered, You'll think so
tomorrow night after election"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16


until l took Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Oh! what
a relief it is, not to
have that tired feel
ing day after day, in
the morning as much
as at night after a
nard days work, and
to be free from al
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Doubtless Bryan will say that if he'd
had time to have visited Maine it would
have been different.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Beyond a doubt Llewellyn Powers
has been chosen governor of Maine
Eastern Argus.-It would certainly seem
%
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Thomas b. Reed is just the kind of a
congressman good many first district
Democrats wanted to see elected,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
OH! WHAT A RELIEF.

~ suffered with terrible pains in MY
left ovary and womb. My back ached
all the time.
" l had kidney trouble badly. Doc.
tors prescribed for me, and l followed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Billy Sheehan has been nearly as long
as Hill in looking before leaping. but
when he did jump he jumped hard.
Now watch Hill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Harper's Weekly: The game laws of
Maine have been so effective in pro-
tecting the deer from undue destruc-
ton that these animals are now seen
in many places where they were
almost unknown 20 years ago. Last
week 26 deer We're counted in an hour
and Il half on the borders of Il single
lake in the RanSeley region. From
the vicinity of Bangor the following
story is reported on good authority:
"A farmers boy was sent to the pasture
after dark to drive the cows home, ana
finding that one animal in the herd
Jagged behind, he threw stone at it.
Thcreupon the supposed COW turned
about, revealing its true character as
bull moose and chased the boy some
distance up a tree" Another story
comes from Lake tmbaSoE. To the
effect that a party of fishermen, camp
ing out, We're so disturbed by the Del
lowing of COW moose that they were
forced to get up in the night and drive
her away with sticks and stones. In
short, Maine, from the sportsman $
points of view is fast becoming like
that tabled land where the only things
to complain of We're the noise of the
nightingales and the litter of the rose
leaves.
The sardine factories are still at it
With herring cheap and plenty.
New Sweden had not a vote to throw
against honest money.
This is what Mr.. Reed said when the
enthusiastic Republicans of Portland
called upon him Monday evening:
Centlemen-I told you long ago that
Maine would make her own record.
She has done SO, l asked you when
you were here last to give Il large ma
jority and you have done SO. / do not
think you did SO because l asked you
to for you always have ideas of your
own and know how to carry them out
one thing perhaps is to be regretted
You have helped to settle a little diff
Guilty among the Chicago Democracy
The ticket has two. let us say appen-
dages. One of them has now disap
pcared. Sewall's star sinks and Wat
sons rises. At least it seems SO but as
neither of them are stars of first mag
nitude it may be a little uncertain
What does this result mean? The West
is said to be different from the East,
hut | have not found it so. Too many
Maine men, too many, have gone West
to build up their country for anybody
to say 50. They will do as well as we.
| congratulate you on this great ma
jurity. 1t was a victory which belongs
to good men of both parties and cannot
fail to do good to the whole country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

AS Maine goes so goes the Union"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

He" Darling. we'll have a lot to
contend with when we are married"
She-"Yes. dear,wel have each other"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Maine meant business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16

Nothing like it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-16
PRESS MMENTS.

Maj. Dickey never surrenders.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18
ASSEMBLY HALL BULLETIN.
Meetings to He Held by Organized
uahor This Week.

When Organizer Heimerdinger, If
the American Federation of Labor, was
in st. Paul g. short time ago, advocat-
ing the formation of a local union label
league, he made the statement that
fully 95 per cent Of the manufactured
articles of all kinds on sale in this
city were Of the non-label bearing va
riety. This is remarkable statement,
when it is considered that st. Paul is
well up near the top of the list of what
are called well organized cities" but
the truth of it will become evident to
any one seeking union label goods. or
the dozens of labels representing as
many callings established throughout
the country, comparatively few are
known to the local buyer. While there
may be no difficulty in finding union
made cigars, and it is possible to OBJ
tain label-bearing hats and overalls,
there is not another article Of wearing
apparel, not mentioned above. to which
q union label is attached to be had
in the city. 1t has been said that a
sufficient number of cigars are annual
ly consumed in and distributed from
St Paul to employ 5.00e men. while
only about one-twentieth of that num-
Der are actually engaged here In their
manufacture, and Eastern non-union
and, in most instances, tenement house
products. largely supply the; difference.
The immediate reason fdfsghe exist
enee of this condition fs he absence
OF an organized demand fdsdabel goods
ana the probable cause cot the failure
-. - az &AYr
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

ed through the rock that not CLEAN
nor CLINT of them can be detected by
the naked eye. According to some
scientists this gold has been deposited
in the form of gas. Ages ago, say they,
there was ~ eruption in the bowels
OF the earth, at which time this gas
mixed with gold rushed up through the
vertical assures with great force and
soaked its way into the porous rock
in which the gold is now being found.
It was by this means that the little
bits of gold were dropped throughout
the rock, the precious particles being
so small that they could not be detect
ed Many of the old miners had no
idea of their existence, and their ex
traction now is only possible by means
of the cyanide process. There is plenty
of gold in salt water. Scientists say
that gold is generally diffused in the
waters of the ocean, and one eminent
chemist states that the sea water of
the British coast contains one grain
of gold to every ton of water. The
proportion is much larger in the Great
Salt lake, and the man who can invent
a cheap process of getting out such
gold will have a fortune.
Few people have any idea of the
queer forms in which gold is found
Dame Nature is the most wonderful Of
jewelers., and she has decorated the
bosom of old Mother Earth with gold
in a thousand different shapes. I saw
a box of gold nuggets and crystals
taken from the Little Johnnie mine
near LeadvilIe. Many of them would
have made beautiful brooches without
redecoration. Some appeared frosted
and others had been torn from the
rcck in the form of sheets and plates.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

fat pea to that of the head Of a pin.
Gold is also found in cubes and eight
sided crystals are common. Some of
the gold nuggets from the California
mines are shaped like moss. The Lit
tie Johnnie has produced a great deal
of wire gold. / have seen bits of rock
from Cripple Creek upon which, when
subjected to an intense heat the gold
would bubble out and stand up like
little gold pin heads upon the dark
stone. Gold in it's natural state is
usually mixed with silver. The new
Utah gold deposits are associated with
arsenic In the Mercur mine you find
quicksilver. and in South America it
is sometimes mixed with bismuth.
PLACER MINING.
have spent some time watching the
placer miners in different parts of the
West Placer mines was the chief
source Of gold production in the days
of 1S49 1t rs still carried on. but the
output is much less than in the past.
The chief placer mines of today are IN
Siberia, where the earth has some
times to be dug up in frozen state
and melted before the gold can be ex-
tracted. This is the case in some parts
of the Yukon river mines. The fact
that there is a gold placer is an evil
dence that there Is gold-bearing rock
near by, and miners pretend TO tell
from the character of the gold OF the
placer as to the nearness of the gold
bearing rock from. which 1t comes. If
the gold dust is very fine 1t Is sup
posed to have been carried a long dis
lance. If coarse, it is thought that
the lead is not far off, Some of the
first mining of California was of gold
scales which measured less than lis
of an inch in length and one ni1limeter
in diameter.
Placer miners usually find their big
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

gest nuggets in streams where the
powders are large. Where the streams
are fine gravel the gold is generally
small and scaIy. The biggest nugget
ever discovered in this country was
taken out of a mine at Carson Hill,
in Calaveras county, Cal. 1t weighed
1876 pounds and was worth more than
$4,000. A number of other large mug
gets were found in this same region,
ranging in value from 81 200 upward.
In 1855 nugget of gold was discovered
in Sierra county, Cal, worth $4,000,
and in 1850 a mass of quartz and gold
was picked up in Tuolumne county
which was worth $4,000. Outside of
California some of the biggest Jumps
of gold discovered in the United States
have come from the South. North
Carolina has produced three nuggets
ranging in size from 1872 pounds to 81
pounds, and in Georgia a number of
big nuggets have been discovered, the
largest of which weighed 737 penny
weights. iet AeF e
WONDERFUL AFRICAN, MINES.
Through the mining engineers whom
l have met here in the West and in
formation which has recently come to
the director of the mint at Washington
| am able to give some facts as to the
mines of Africa which are making such
change in the gold product of the
world. These gold mines are a sur
prise to geologfsts One famous man
said that he would have rather .ex-
pected to find gold in the fens of Scot
land than in the Rand district of South
Africa. William Weston leading
mining engineer of Cripple Creek, and
graduate of the Royal School of