Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-01
While the Drouth Continues.

to be jotting down their holiday an
nouncements.
While the Drouth Continues.
Bangor News.
Governors and members of Congress
pass through Bangor almost every day
without creating so much as ripple.
but when Bertram L. Smith drops
down from Patten and registers at q
hotel, the whole city takes an interest
in his deeds. His steps are logged
from place to place, and his every act
and his every word are recorded and
commented upon as if his mouth
dropped jewels. For the time being
the modest man from Patten creates
more excitement than a circus with six
elephants and two bands of music.
The Real Old Home Week.
Uewiston JournaD.
The train men say it seemed as
though everybody came to Maine for
Thanksgiving. They never knew such
heavy holiday travel Maine ward, as
last week.
Why Portland Prospers.
(POrtlanQ ArSuS).
The management Of our city affairs
has been solely in the hands of Re-
publican officials for the past eleven
years.
More Such Democrats Wanted.
Oath Times).
The Augusta verdict, as voiced by
the Kennebec Journal, is that Hob
sons lecture is the essence of robust,
wholesome Americanism.'' After he
delivered it in Bath we said that there
would be no question of an adequate
annual naval program if all of the peo
Pile of the country could hear him.
Nobody can hear the man without be-
ing convinced of his patriotism and
his logic. He calls himself a Demo-
crat We wish there were more of his
kind.
Sensible and Timely Advice.
Gardner Reporter ournaD.
We notice that Xmas meaning
Christmas, has begun to appear. 1t is
a barbarous way of putting it. II
would be hardly reverent or proper to
write X for Christ. 1t isn't much
more work to spell out the word, and
it would be much better in every way.
1t is custom with a good many peo-
pie to abbreviate everything they can.
and they ought to be dealt with.
Writing is difficult enough to read
when it is all put in. but when parts
of words are omitted, particularly If
proper names or technical terms, even
an editor can not make it out. especial
ly if dots and crosses are omitted. If
some articles were printed, abbreviat-
ed, capitalized and punctuated as
written, the writer would probably be
indignant, and the readers disguised.
Those who have so much business that
they cannot write a letter as it should
be, ought to have stenographer or
retire from business But at any rate
do not write it Xmas"
Same Here as to Sheriff Ham.
Q.ewiston Journal.)
Eleven months of Sheriff Cummings
first year are gone and he has gained
strength with all elements of law-abid-
ing people, by his faithful and consist
ent administration of affairs of the
shrievalty. With a sensible appre-
solve them by hard work. He has
made few mistakes. He has neither
prosecuted nor nulified. He has lived
up to the plain, simple letter of the law,
so far as any one man, with the means
at hand could have done it. His ad-
ministration, if it continue along the
same lines will demonstrate exactly
what the republican party in this coun-
ty processes to demonstrate i'm it's plat
form and to adopt as it's policy-faith-
full, impartial enforcement of all laws.
Senator Hale and Canada.
>(Portland Advertiser)
No recent utterance on this side of
the water relating to the Chamberlain
scheme for an imperial trade alliance
will be given more weight than that of
Senator Hale of Maine in Congress the
other day. The Maine senator sees in
the scheme of preferential duties, in
volving discrimination against the U.
s., the possibility of a resulting situa-
ton that will bring Canada into the
American union. He did not go into
details, but evidently basing his be-
lief upon the English situation and the
power of the y. S. to so retaliate as to
leave no other result probable, he made
the prophecy that Canadian annex
alton is but a matter of years.
Senator Hale is a man of broad eX-
perience and little given to enthusiastic
day dreams. What he sees to be the
probable destiny of our northern neigh
Dor has long appeared probable to
many thinking men. But no one looks
for annexation in the near future, and
no one endowed with good Judgment
wants it to come until Canada is ready
to seek it. If it shall come finally as
matter of destiny, naturally and with
out recrimination or bitterness, it Will
be welcomed on both sides Of the Dor
der. And Senator Hale predicts that
it will finally come because in the ma
ture of things, the future will snow
that only as a part of the U. ;. can
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