The Republican journal., 1900-05-31

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was Gen Joseph Wheeler, who spoke
II Boston last year.
senator Hale continues to make war
on the Republican Administration The
other day in the Senate, after one OF his
cha racteristic outbreaks, Senator Spoon
er was moved to say: ut is a little tire
some to me to be called upon on this
side of the chamber to reply to a Demo
cratic speech Hale retOrtetl that he
was as good a Republican as the >ena-
tor from Wisconsin: which very many
viii doubt and among them a very
large majority of Maine Republicans.
senator lOar, a good man gone wrong.
sometimes gets ON the track again and
rerea his old-time self, as when lie
disposed the other day III the senate of
the tNaddle about the nittd states
having inst become a great power. The
Uuited states" he said, came out of
tile War of 1872 Il trst-class power and
she has been a ilst-rate power ever
sincr-t power that has kept off the
whole OF Europe from North America
and the West Indian Islands, except as
It was there before *'# There has not
been a country since that time, great or
small. That has ventured To tackle us,
and there is no country on earth, great
or small, that would not have got out of
any trouble with us by diplomacy rather
than by war"
Strange are the mutations of politics.
Ed ward n Merrill of Skowhegan, can
didate for denomination as representa-
tive to the Legislature and aspirant for
reSentatives at the next session, was
turned down i'll a Republican caucus,
Saturday, Edward p. Page receiving
513 votes to ;'4} for Merrill. Mr.. Merrill
served in the last legislature and near
the close of the session announced that
NE would be a candidate for the speaker
an active canvass. Hon. Joseph H.
Mauley was the other leading candidate.
and Mr.. Merrilrs friends have predict
ed ttaj he would give the Augusta can
ddatt a close rub. Whether outside
influence WAS brought to bear on the
SkoMhegan caucus to slaughter Mr..
Merrill and put him out of the speaker
ship race. OF whether his defeat was due
to locHl causes we are unable to say Mr..
Merrill took his defeat in good part and
moved to make the nomination of Mr..
Page unanimo1lS.
The attorney general of New York
decides that the American Ice Company
is an illegal corporation: and he will
proceed against it to prohibit its doing
business in New York. The case is
getting interesting, and there is much
speculation as to whether prohibition
will prohibit and as to how the law will
be enforced. After the Democratic de-
nunclatlOn of trusts it is a little singu-
Lar but perhaps not surprising, that the
most powerful Democratic organization
in this country. that of Tammany Hall,
should be deeply concerned i'll this ice
trust The New York Journal Dem y
not only credits Mayor Van Wyck of
New York with holding shares of the
American Ice Company's stock to the
par value of. $500, 900 but AYERS that
Judge Augustus Van Wyck, the May
0r's brother, holds IA similar amount;
that John +. Carroll. the acting leader
Of Tammany Hall. holds five thousand
sha res. valued at $500. 900, and that the
chairman and another member of the
dock commission. constituting a ma ajor-
ity of the commission, each hold five
hundred shares, valued at $50, 900. Some
papers suspect that the dock commits
sionerS holdings may have some connec-
ton with the complaints of the small
independent dealers that they cannot
get dock Accommodations and have to
land their ice in Jersey City and bring
it to New York by the ferries. The
matter of supplying ice to a community
like that of the great city of New York
is a little different from purveying the
usual needs of humanity, for it is prac-
tically necessity that the poorest must
have as well as the richest, and the re-
suit of extortionate prices are exceed
ing disastrous. The Brooklyn Eagle
Qnd. Dem) says that ''Tammany has
made one of the worst blunders in its
record in this ice-trust matter" because
Sin this monstrous profit being made
upon ice the victims of the extortion
are the poor
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