Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09
Political Notes.

| Political Notes.
| Seven thousand signatures to petit
lions for official recognition of the ma
tional Democratic party in Kentucky
were obtained in less than two days.
| The fusion on the electoral ticket OF
| the second Republican factions agreed
upon at Columbus, S. c., Wednesday
| has been reconsidered and the whole
situation is as it was before
Col. w. T.. Hobson, an Independent
| Republican candidate for representa-
| tive in the Third Kentucky District,
has withdrawn from the race and an
nounces that he will support c. w.
Milliken, the national Democratic can
didate.
Dallas, Texas. dispatch says that the
COMMITTEES appointed by the Republicans
to harmonize the differences in the party
caused by the Quincy and Grant fac
tions. each nominating eleetors-at-large
has completed its work. 7. b. Hunt OF
the Grant faction and George G. Clifford
of the Quincy faction. were selected as
PRESIDENTIAL electors-at-large. Thirteen
district electors were chosen
The Colorado secretary of state.
Wednesday, gave a decision sustaining
the protest of the silver Republicans
against the use of the Republican
name and emblem by the Mckinley
party. Should this protest be sus-
tanned by the supreme court the Nc
kinley people will have no ballot in
Colorado. as they neglected to petition
before the time for so doing expired
Chief Hahn of the speakers bureau
of the national Republican committee.
has received a letter from Governor
Elect Llewellyn Powers of Maine stat
ing that the latter will speak at the
several places designated by the COM
mittee. He says further that he goes
West solely to aid the cause. and di-
reefs Mr.. Hahn to place him in any
part of Minnesota or Michigan where
he can do the most good.
Among the literature dispensed at the
Democratic headquarters at Washington
Thursday,was a letter addressed to Presi-
dent Cleveland by Henry Clay Smith
Madagascar, now consul at Santos
Brazil. against whose consular admins
tration complaints were recently filed
in request for his return to this coun-
try to explain them. In this letter Consul
Smith says that as the President has
made a rule forbidding office holders to
feels 1t his plain duty to take part in
| the present political contest, his consci-
ence leaves no other course open to him
but to resign his consulate.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan returned
to their home from the Chicago con-
vention large number of their neigh
bors. of both sexes and both parties
went to the railway station to meet
them and give them welcome home
Upon greeting Mrs. Bryan one of the
party.t the wife of a we'll known Lincoln
| lawyer. asked: What is going to b
the chief issue of the campaign Mrs
Bryan" The wife of the Popocratic
candidate replied without moments
hesitation: Capital against labor"
Senator Henry w. Blair of New
Hampshire spoke at Charlotte. n. c..
Wednesday night. He discussed pro-
lection at length and touched on free
coinage. He warned Populists not to
be swallowed by the Democrats and
urged the Republicans and Democrats
to fuse and capture the state He
made an appeal to the Republicans.
Populists and dissatisfied Democrats
together and suggested to young Dem
| ocrats to capture and take charge of
the Republican machine in North
Carolina
Congressman Joseph H. Walker of wor-
| cester. Mass. called at Republican head
quarters at New York. Thursday. Speak
ing OF the campaign, Mr.. Walker said:
! am very confident of McKinley's cleo
| tlon, ana If it was beyond any doubt it
would be scarcely less than traitorous to
the country to relax any effort anywhere
The assault upon the institutions of the
republic by the Poplists who captured the
Democratic convention in (rbic.luo &c 70
more serious than that made in the at
| TACK upon Fort Sumter, April II. 1861
| Every vote added to the majority for Nc
| kinley in November will aid in a more
thorough settling of the mementous ques-
| tons at issue. No word must be left I'M
SAID. no act unperformed which would aid
| IN maintaining in security the beneficient
institutions of our country as our fathers
| founded them
The following letter from a gentleman,
VINO is well acquainted with affairs in
| Nebraska and is capable of forming an
accurate estimate of existing political
| conditions is of especial interest
Just as soon as money can be secured
on real estate. this will be paid; hut at
| present 1t is impossible to get a dollar.
and look for no change until after cleo
| non. L trust the owners of Nebraska
mortgages will be patient and not add to
the modification its citizens are already
bearing in the person of its citizen, w. j.
| bryan. mlsrepresenting its interests 10y
atty, and honesty. We are not Anar-
chists | have travelled over three hun
dred miles of the South Platte country
by wagon since the nomina tons. and if
observation is worth anything the Boy
orator of the Platte. while admired as
an ornament. is not trusted as a states
man. This we know. that whereas we did
| have prosperity under the present money
system, now we have none Mckinley
VIII carry, Nebraska sure. He is gaining
III strength every day.
Ishmael the Hindoo iugeler. who is