New-York tribune., 1901-07-07

QUEER CHANGES IN THEIR NAMEs-TIIE
DIPLOMATIC DOC TORS ENTRANCE
INTO BIDDEFORD POLITICS.

Lewiston (AIe) letter in The Boston Advertiser.
Now that the French Canadians have thor
huential and numerous portion of our population.
hey n nay haTe begun certain
Years ago the Yankees seemed 10 think that they
the CanaGian being entitled TO the right to ofrer
rebuke. The favorite name for the Canadian hay
Joe Quedaw' Every farmer who hired ono of
the apo!ogeuc individuals who came along in
blackboard seemed be willing give his
hired man no other title II he varied It. II was
the fact that all the STRANGERS from over the line
farmers to believe they all would answer TO the
As the Canadians began 10 settle here in Maine
and to enter the factories tho system OF mis-
calling them continued. The fact that none Of the
spelled bothered the Maine native born. The
names that we're fastened upon them and never
dernurred "Poulin' became ,Pooler Beaul!eu
name. name. "MIehae TherTT!auIt.' Mike T2rio' and
fractions that do not occur to even
worse; The queer part OF 1t Is that most Of the
names that the Maine folks have given them. Al.
'0s, 0Se a%aEs ~ KS the ee m4ne 2PPe@TS pei
J. H. Grondin allowed himself be called Groder.
medicine that he Compounded
4 little over a, year ago Dr. A. Jolly. OF Water
vile. commenced crusade among the French
Canadians Of Maine. He asked them to stand up
so. 1t has seemed rather queer in some towns and
cities to behold new names on the signs above old
Canadian fashion look much different that the
Frenchmen have Increased. their Maine neighbors
and their idoms. and the large majority Of people
Still it bothers some folkE to understand that
Don1e is to be pronounced Dunn: and that sros
Nearly one-third of the population of Lewiston
is French Canadian; To a certain extent they
cupy section Of the city by themselves. They
along nicely without interfering with their Yankee
neghbors or being inte-fered with They have
hHt fhn hon rh of afrt
pent AN, and their represeTtave at the legislature
conceded to them without question or. expostula-
ton The native Maine folk only ask that the
ndorsed by the rest of the ticket Inc" '"ey are
In Biddeford the recognition Of the French Ca
of the parties and the candidates were loath give
| contrary. to win the Canadian vote themselves
and convince the stranger people that they, being
to better advantage than Canadian. That excuse
that they would put a candidate Of their own in
| the field. When the matter was talked with
fearful of losing the Canadian vote agreed that
To- he entitled 10 an alderman Tben boueY m ng tg ny
| managers went on and explained how this, that
belonged to this that old party worker The
with managers went back and reported to the can
dldate of the Canadians and were very crestfallen
They realized that suavely, but none the less de-
| terminedly. they were being pushed aside and put
Their candidate however. told them to leave the
matter with him. He wns French physician. a
not been across the line long enough to get very
good control the English tongue. He appeared
at the general caucus. At the proper moment he
arose. laid his silk hat on the seat beside him. and
with winning smile started in
~ ban stan op; mon gentilhommes. he said,
"for spk on 20, bout som ting wat dose pippe
onto masef dat office of de h'aldermans.
wan Steel, does var fine, fars FRAT gentii-
hommes say wat dere ban var NANNY Of ma
countreemans on dis plac dey ban ought hav som
wan on dat ceety goyairment. Dey all ban say dat
| k.r fuir A. DIR de tTna ING u
tank dem YER mas fars r-rat gentilhommes Bot
den dey tell onto us dey not ban saw how dat
ting could ban done. Dey explain dat onto us
Ah-h-h, how eet might Var
tai onto us we not ban want dat ward All. non,
We not ban de peeg on dose ting. Den
str-rong Ireesh ward. We don want hav nottin's
to do dat ward. Var tr-rue! Den dat ward
wat nombaire tree. Dat hav' som Frenchmnns-
dat ban true-bot at var fine gentilhomme NJ sieu
MarPhee he ban do de wark for de party var
nanny yer an he should ban hav' de re-wnr-rd
an de tree ward, too. All var mas fars' FRAT!
Ah-h-h we don play de peeg on dose mattaIre we
Canadian De four ward dat ban de 'Meri-
caine ward SOM more. We don want nottn's to
wat do de warl long tam-M sieu Brackatt
eh? Eet onee ban de r-rat ting he hav' de re-
ward Zen ward nombaire eet ban de Irish
man an dose mans hav stood clos up to de partee
long tam. Nonl We could not ban ask dat ward
be geeve on us An de seven ward-to' t'ink. ST
yo' say. how we ban soch good wan on de partee
we ought TO hav ward-dat ward ali
ban promeese fore wat tam splk to yo
80, den. dat eight ward-ma gor', wat kind of
The doctor paused for reply. his face flushed
with his earnestness. his eyes shining with excite
ment.
Blddeford has only seven yards. and the deft
of his breaking off left the matter tust
where the humor OF the situation appealed to his
j there doctor mi