The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-03

The Pennsylvania Democrats will go
to Kansas City solid for Mr. Bryan
Later on Pennsylvania will 60 into the
electoral college solid for President Nc
kinley.
The foreign shipping interests. which
are all opposed to the pending shipping
BILL seem to have given up the hope of
defeating its passage by the present
Congress.
The burning of the magnificent CON
yentiom hall at Kansas City was public
misfortune Nobody wished such i'll
luck to the party that makes speciality
Of calamity.
Five to ten per cent. voluntary increase
of wages has been granted by the Leslie
Lumber Company of Michigan City.
Thus does prosperity make itself felt in
the West
American manufacturers are sweep
Ing everything before them in Siberia.
When we have established a great com
meIcial mart at Manila. our expansion
in the Orient Will be unparalleled.
Democratic sympathy for the people
IT Porto Rico. like Democratic sympathy
for the Beers. is stimulated largely bv
Democratic eageness to place Mr..
BRYAN in the White House.
llr SENATE Is likely to pass the ship
ldne hlll before adjournment. The feel
ug seems 10 he general that the rehab-
llitdt5rl III oar merchant marine in the
folrau -iadr can not be begun too
>oolL
Lincoln. the home of Colonel Bryan.
elected the Republican municipal ticket
the other day by the largest majority it
has returned i'll years The Colonel has
a good-siztd bunch of enemy's country
right at home
The Democrats of Raleigh, y. c.. have
Endorsed the Hon. Julian $. Carr the
millionaire tobacco manufacturer. for
United states Senator The Democrats,
however, are violently opposed to mil
lionaires i'll the other party
The Occur D'Alene mining riot in
Vestlgation continues to elicit nothing
but commentator for the action of
Governor >teunenherg in trying to up
hold law and order The dastardlv
outrageS committed by the rioters ap
pear the more coWardly as the testimony
increases.
The Hon. J. G. $ Blackburn presents
a singular position. II tile election
which gave Governor Taylor majority
OF Tie kentucky votes was irregular.
how can Mr.. Blackburns title to a seat
in the United States Senate, which was
secured through the same process, be
deemed perfect
In lo!2 the people voted for change
In the four subsequent years they found
themselves without a cent of change.
rms year they are content with the
change they have III their pockets and
won throw away the substance for the
shadow again even to please the Dem
ocratlc party of pessimism.
Representatives Lentz and Sulzer
continue to waste the time of the other
members of the Committee on Military
Affairs, which is investigating the Idaho
mining riots. They are not wasting
their own time, as it is worth nothing.
Nagging and scoldng witnesses is the
height of their intellectual capacity.
There was an increase of S1S342. 7l5
III the amount of money in circulation
III the nited States during March, the
total being. April l, S2o21 PA 5O6, or
s26.12 per capita of the popuation On
July /, 1896, it was only s2l 10 percapita,
but that was under Democratic manage
ment of our national affairs
During tle last half century, British
steamships have received in subsidies,
for carrying British mails, $3.50 600, 900.
British steamships are consequently
more numerous than those of all other
nations combined American subsidies
amount TO very tritiing sum compare
lively. Consequently American steam
ships are nearly as scarce as hens
teeth
The Hon. Charles A. Schieren, former
mayor of Brooklyn, has returned from
a trip throughout the West and declares
that the business men of the country,
without regard to former political be-
liefs, are content to let good enough
alone. Mr.. Schieren voted for MI
Cleveland on one occasion and is looked
upon as one of the leading German
American citizens Of New York