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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-14
MONROE.

Jefferson Nealley, a prosperous farmer,
who has lived about 40 years in this town,
has sold his large farm, finding the care of
it too much for himself and wife, He will
remain in the house for the present. -. Mrs.
Merton Haley is here on visit from Mas
sachuSetts, where she has a position in a
hospital. -. The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs.
Woodman. A nice lunch was served and
new member added to the roll. Mrs.
Lewis Richie remains very poorly....F. L.
Palmer and Leslie Simpson will attend the
Sd District Republican Convention in Wat
erville and the State Convention in Port
land. Colds are quite prevalent. Capt
Nathan Woodman and Frank Hamm are
among the afflicted. The School Commit
perintendent. MIR. Twombly taught the
High School last year and gave good salts
faction. John Jenkins will take charge of
the town farm April 18th, his bid of $500
having been accepted by the selectmen.
Monroe will hold its third town meeting
this spring April 18th. One article in the
warrant is to see if the town will vote to
let the lower Town Hall for High School,
and if SO, how much will the town raise to
equip the same.
CARK'S CORNER (Palermo).
Mrs. Mary Stark Bachelor, aged SO,
whose home is with her daughter, Mrs.
Horace Black, is in very poor health.
While visiting friends in Cambridgeport,
Mass, some three months ago she fell
down some steps injuring herself severely
and though able to get home she is very
feeble, gaining but slowly. She has been a
remarkably active woman for her age, going
about great deal and entertaining much
company. Last year she kept house for
her son, VIM. H. Seaverns, in Baltimore,
Md. She is descendant of the illustrious
Stark family. her mothers uncle being Gen.
John Stark of Revolutionary fame.
Louise Carr and Sallie Simpson have re-
turned to Coburn Classical Institute
Waterville, after passing pleasant vaca-
ton with their friends. Nv. A. Nelson,
Rodney Nelson, H. L. Black, VIM. Osgood
Rufus Rowe and Samuel Marden are hav.
ing their wood cut with gasoline engine
&c. w. Studley and C. II. Black have
caught some fine pickerel in the "French'
pond. Carl Delany's horse was severely
cut last week going through a snow bank.
IOd oil Dven0na2a Galns0
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-14
SWANVILLE CENTER.

Edward Curtis, who lives just over the
line in Monroe, broke his leg above the
ankle last fall. There was something
wrong about the setting of the bones and
he has had to get about with crutches
He went to Boston Monday to have his leg
broken and reset. Henry Beals is very
low. -. Katherine Scrbner spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. F. Serb
ner, in Searsport.. We are glad to see Mr..
Albert Damn about and attending to bust
ness again.. George Furbush is at work
for Charles MARI. Curtis & Littlefield
hauled Horatio Marr's fire-wood and Lew
ellyn knowlton is manufacturing it at the
door,. f. A. Robertson and James Mar
den, who have been on the sick list, are
able to be out. James kneeland of Sears
port is at work for Mr.. Beal. 80. George
Beal and wife of Frankfort were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Beal Sunday. Calvin
Webb, who has spent the winter with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Webb, has returned
to Massachusetts,, where he has employ
ment.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-14
CENTRE MONryILLE.


Embert Wentworth visited his uncle,
J. W. Wentworth, last week. Exavier
Sprowl has ordered new windows and
blinds for his house. Allen Goodwin is
about to repair the interior of his house,. ..
Charles Palmer has been at work the past
two weeks for Frank Jones of Searsmont,
who is laid up by rheumatism.
NORTH PALERMO.
FIR nix Norton, who has collected cream
for the Branch creamery for the past two
years, has given up the route and one of
the Peavy brothers is to take his place.
Ezra Hilbert is carrying the mail from
North Palermo to Branch Mills for F. A.
Wood, at present. I'D. H. Black started
for Boston Monday, where he will work for
few weeks. NJ. D. Blaisdell and San
ford Greeley are doing quite business
making maple syrup this spring. Miss
Clara Belden has returned to Belfast after
short visit at home. Fred Brown was at
his uncle's, Fred YOungs' Saturday..
Will Soule is working at John Black 8
while Mr.. Black is working in Boston,.
Briggs Turner is shipping his hogs to Bos-
ton markets.. Mrs. Hannah Merritield is
on the sick list with the prevailing distem-
per.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
NTH the Long Boo
'.Eye Nature's Walks, Shoot Folly as IT Files"

opposed all kinds but we will the other
and withhold when
Kicked hard by strong and indignant that the of his
trousers IS forced up into his hat,
It Nebraska early and Nebraska paper
There fall Of the beautiful yesterday the die
tionary! us "<5e
One of the socialist assistance
have free docoge 6 pills person. ptocrat
ticket OF Rockefeller and Addicks
The lawn mower now has the laugh o shovel
Mr. Pease OF the Anoka Union politics. He outlines certain action
calls Adam asz in fathely manner:
Mr. Bede informed that his constituents this believe
such doctrine and understand he rcuates it, An
explanation is in order from the little runt'
Speaking of politics it this the Duluth popounds the
that be successful in Minnesota politics be
for back nearly every
another in his CAREER This looks like funk old fend
s@.>~a~ ~~~ IL u .U&"
The GAINESVILLE Argus tells the the freedom obtained
Crazy Hoss that worked overtime Sundays
profits like hired hand the dinner table, After fttng and worrying
for the farmer suddenly that he
handling the by the hot end So like gentleman and sells 100
of his 2ooacre farm He out of debt has balance the
local bank and have the wife and boys and for
the first time good many years he is really enjoying te When he
gets hold of dollar belongs him. The only decent
game to the document other fellows land and
let him break his neck What's little extra land compared with that
Portable feeling at eventide? I'LL.
When Larry Ho writing for the Times 1898 and
fayed necke and fnged pans his palms, Indians who
boots into Tav nddn b l ti s IN his rence THAT all
writing rather asne performance and the product Of
tai anea Larry hoever persisted his aau and got fired quit
something
called value Of
by the Atchnon Globe that in that
throws all his FORM when he calls
poecal
ing Te the hills Beloved is mon This
rather pretty but the practical Of ubbmg would have
already appliance which might have been pulled
off by touching button the eadoad Of the bed You remember
that old the Persian that all
loaf OF Bread tou and small Wilderness This have
been aradse enow for Omar the beverage held OUT
that hou' would have mighty slim show for her 3S
markeddown bonnet at the Babylon bargain
that touches nearly that of Arthur Uon the
university poet The other Mr. inspected garden its sad
dsae There stood the rake and there the wheel
the uess dbses of the
momnu Did the bard ugle with the rake? Nay He down
beautiful itself carefully
''ltera1ia.' But did it chop the wood? Again.
Still rather the It will be found literary Re-
mains Vol. XII, Page 221. AIR.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21

While the story has to do with much
the same locality, times and disturbances
as "Order No. H. by Caroline Abbot
Stanley, the stories are wholly d;ssmilar.
Mr.. Marshall's; book is chiefly historical,
while Order, No. H. is almost wholly
romance, tho in an accurate historical
setting. 1t must be confessed, also, that
Mr.. Marshall lacks skill as a story-teller,
tho that is not to say that 1.-THE Enter
ing Wedge" lacks interest. It's chief in
terest, however, lies in the history it
gives of the stirring times when slavery
and freedom were battling for Kansas.
Mr.. Marshall lived for several years at
Lawrence, the scene of one of the gross
est crimes Of the war, and knew many
of the men who participated in the events
he describes, so that his story is based
largely upon frst-hand testimony. His
estimate of John Brown has more than
usual interest. He says:
His object to fight and kill He was
fired with wild frenzy against slavery. = He
had persuaded himself that shareholders should
be disseminated, like the Canaanites of old,
who had filled to the brim their measure of
iniquity. That he the victim Of
a species of insanity was long since admitted
by most of his friends. The killing and mutila-
ton of five proslavery men (the Doyles and
others) near Osawatomie by Brown and his
band is now a well-veriied fact of history.
Those who. knew him best hold that
was the determination of the stakeholder. 1t
appears quite evident, from his own utter
ances that making Kansas free state was
scarcely a secondary consideration AS the light
of passing years shines upon his cratic life, it
becomes more and more apparent that his move
ments in Kansas and elsewhere had for their
object the precipitation of a conflict between
the north and the SOUTH thus affording OPP
portunity for Finsurrection among the slaves,
with all its consequent bloodshed and devasta-
ton. ...'. sE,'l+..s.~.- g. ...'.- 49,.
|. The author believes that Browns course
in Kansas retarded rather than promoted
the cause of freedom there.
An interesting. footnote to mention OF
Quantrells raid is to the effect that among
the relics Of the Kansas Historical society
is bone from one of the legs of the
famous guerilla. It's authenticity is
vouched by the secretary Of the society
"The Entering Wedge" is the second
book from the pen of Mr.. Marshall The
first bore the title bud"
TX The Uneasy Chair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
HOME RULE THE ONLY WAY
To Make a Charter That Is Adapted to
Present Needs.

Present Needs.
The charter of the city of Minneapolis
in substantially it's present form was
adopted in 1881, and prior to 1892 was
amended twenty times: In 1892 an
amendment to the state constitution was
adopted prohibiting special @legislation.'
The effect Of this act was to prevent fur
Their amendment Of the charter by the
state legislature, since such amendment
could only be effected by special acts re-
lating to the city Of Minneapolis. ~,
By another constitutional amendment
adopted in 1897, the legislature was per
mitted to pass general laws relating to
the affairs Of cities, the application of
which should be limited to cities of over
$4,000 inhabitants; and by the same
amendment all cities were permitted to
adopt "home rule charters by popular
vote. st. Paul and Duluth, having
adopted charters under this amendment,
are not dependent upon the legislature
for amendment of their charters, but
may amend the same under the provis-
ions of the constitutional amendment
and enabling acts. " #
1t is, therefore, impra cticable to OBJ
tain from the legislature laws designed to
amend the charter of Minneapolis, since
it would be necessary to make them in
clude st. Paul and Duluth also, and those
cities both oppose the passage of laws
whereby the legislature amends charters
which they have it in their own power to
amend to suit themselves. The net re-
suit Of all this is that it is impossible to
amend the charter of Minneapolis by an
act Of the legislature, and we must
either continue under the charter Of 1881
or else obtain for ourselves the privilege
of amending our charter by popular vote
thru the adoption of a "home rule char
ter under the constitutional amendment.
There is an impression that this city
| may adopt the so-called Howard char
ter" which is a form Of charter framed
largely by the city attorneys of Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul and Duluth, and is contained
in Chapter Of the General Laws Of Min
nesota Of 1895. Under this law the cities
already Incorporated were permitted to
frame charters under the act and adopt
| the same, first by vote of the city coun-
| Gil and afterward by popular vote; but
| the supreme court decided in 1896 Estate
ex rel. Childs VS.. Copeland, &C Mimi. 315)
that since the constitutional prohibition
! of special legislation it was incompetent
for the legislature to permit municipal
| tiles to exercise local option in respect
! to charter changes. 1t would, therefore,
be impossible to adopt the Howard char
ter, and the only charter which can be
adopted by the exercise of local option is
| that permitted by the constitutional
amendment of 1897.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
Talking for Reciprocity.

Wheat is doing some powerful talk
ing in favor of reciprocity with the
United States in western Canada.
There is difference Of about % cents
a bushel now between cash wheat III
Winnipeg and cash wheat in Minneapo-
lis. This difference is likely to make
some of the Canadian farmers sit up
and think. They perceive now that a
competition Of markets is worth some
thing. This year the American market
is largely independent of the Liverpool
market. If the Canadian farmer had
free access to this market he would not
today have to pay the price fixed by
but would be able to play
the American market against the Liver
pool market and get much better
price for his wheat.
1t is not likely that the market Of
some Canadian wheat on this side Of
the line would have much of an effect
ON the price of wheat here. England
is counting on the Canadian surplus
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
New Methods in Vogue.

The St. Paul Dispatch called atten-
tion last evening in it's local columns
to some rather significant changes in
the manner in which the auditor S auc-
ton sale of state timber is conducted.
1t says that where formerly one clerk
was sufficient to take down the bids
received, six clerks kept the record of
the bids yesterday, and that these rec
ords are to be compared, verified and
attested under oath before being en-
tered upon the books Of the auditor s
office.
1t appears that some very singular
discrepancies have been discovered be-
tween prices quoted in the newspapers
in previous years-and in cases where
the newspapers agree with each other
and the records of the auditor s office.
That is to say, certain prices have been
printed in the newspapers as received
for timber, whereas the records do not
show these prices to have been paid.
Discrepancies of %his sort are calculat ed
to lead to remarks unfavorable to the
administration Of the auditors office,
and Mr.. lverson does not propose that
there shall be anything of the kind in
the future. He proposes to have the
records so kept that there can be no
question as to whether the price bid
for the timber is the price settled for
with the state.
1t might be noted in passing that
this is not the only change in the meth,
DDS of doing business in the auditor +
office adopted since the public exam.
liner began his investigation and report.
ed upon what he found.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21

the elements put those wires where
maintain they had no right to be cover
the house referred toy see no just rea-
son why the telegraph company should
not be responsible for the full amount Of
damages. Peter Mccormick.
The first underground wires ordi-
nance which established a territory with
in which all electric wires should be
taken down and placed in conduits or
ordinance, which greatly increased the
conduit limits, was declared by the
courts to be unreasonable The pres
ent limits include hardly more than the
business center of Minneapolis, that is
to say, Nicollet and Hennepin, First and
Second avenues S and First avenue N,
out to about Eleventh street, and the
territory from Cedar avenue on the south
to Plymouth avenue on the north be-
tween Third street and the river.
Within these boundaries the concerns
doing business with the aid of electric
wires are required to bury the wires by
the 31st Of December Of the present
year.
An effort to increase the area of the
present limits SO as to include some of
the better residence districts, but avoid
ing the Objectionable feature of the ordi-
nance knocked out by the courts has
failed to carry.
Lawyers say that if the concerns own
ing electric wires are trespassers on pri-
vate property they can presumably be
held responsible for damages caused by
the wires.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
The Underground Wire Ordinance.

To the Editor of The Journal. ~ ---..
Will T h e u r n a inform the public
what action, if any, the city council has
taken in regard to having telegraph
wires laid under ground? 80
Immediately after the tornado Of Aug.
20, the st. Paul papers gave a detailed
account Of the action taken by their city
in this matter, and some Of us, at least,
are DESTROYS to know what the rights and
privileges of telegraph companies are in
our city, and by what authority, munic-
ipal state or national, have they right
to put a network Of wires over a mans
house and lot. >usg Hts
In one case that has come under my
own observation during the recent tor
nado, these wires were blown down, TAX
ing with them shade trees and CHM
ney, and fell on the roof of a dwelling
house, loosening and tearing the shingles
to such an extent that it was necessary
to put new shingles on. The company ig-
nored the claim for damages which was
sent in, presumably because they con-
sidered the damage was caused by a Wis
itation of Providence or the fury Of the
elements, but as neither Providence nor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21
Confession of Weakness.

Efforts to make Senator Nelson an
issue in the present campaign point un-
mistakably to one fact-the weakness
of the head of the republican state
ticket. h e J o i'm a showed yester-
day the absurdity of the argument that
Senator Nelson 8 election is endangered
by the result this year. That argu-
ment is nothing more nor less than a
dodge, and not even a good dodge. The
danger of a democratic senator from
Minnesota as the result of the defeat
of Dunn is so remote as to be ridicu-
lous.
When Mr.. Dunn s managers employ
this line of reasoning, they confess that
they are not able to meet the issue Of
the state campaign squarely. To do
so means inevitable defeat, for the vot-
ers of the state are thoroly aroused on
the subject, and on the merits of. the
proposition have already decided against
Dunn. The campaign in his behalf has
been one of defense and apology from
the first. 1t is bad enough that the
republican party should apologize for
| it's candidate. It would be worse for
the people of Minnesota to be. COM
PEELED to apologize for their governor.
This fact has sunk deep into the public
mind.
So we see the sorry spectacle Of the
managers Of Mr.. Dunn's campaign
avoiding the verdict as between him
self and Mr.. johnson, and compelled to
manufacture d scare in order to pull
their candidate thru.
The orators who are apologizing for
Mr.. Dunn are now acting under instruc-
lions, and are sounding a concerted
alarm to republicans everywhere. elf
you permit a democratic governor to
be elected,' they say, "the gobbleuns II
get Knute Nelson and Moses E. Clapp
You may not want Dunn, but you must
vote for him to save the senator's
The senators are safe already. Sena-
tor Clapp has pledged to him major
ity of the republicans in the next legis-
lature, and the party cannot have less
than two to one majority next win
ter, with the worst possible luck.
AS to Senator Nelson, his reelection
to che senate two years from next Jan
liary is as sure as anything can be in
politics. The legislature which re-elects
him will be a new legislature, elected
in 1906, and it will be elected on a Mel
son issue. The senior senator is the
strongest man in politics within the Dor
ders Of Minnesota, and his name at.
tached to candidates for the legislature
will assure the normal republican ma.
:iority.
1t is idle to fight the 1906 campaign
before the 1904 campaign is ended, and
voters who are caught by the senatorial
scare are easily frightened. Senator
Nelson will very properly be an issue
two years hence. He is not an issue
now. -tazs,
AS already remarked, this violent at
tempt to borrow trouble from a future
campaign to add to the assets of tht
present one, is in itself an eloquent con
} fession of the weakness of Mr.. Dunn !
case before the people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-21

There will be quite a shift in these
figures at the coming election, no doubt.
Dunn's strength is in the northern part
of the state, and in a dozen or so of the
counties he will run fairly close to the
rest Of the ticket He will get larger
majority in the eighth district than Van
SAINT did, and he may carry the ninth.
where the populist party has gone to
pieces and the democrats have failed to
gather the fragments. Nearly everybody
in the valley is a republican now, and
while there is large detection from
Dunn, it. may not be large enough to
lose him the district.
In the other congressional districts OF
the state the republican disaffection is
heavy. Four years ago there was
united party behind Van SAINT, and tia
Lind vote was due to his personal follow
ing. This year the Johnson vote will be
due in part to his personality, but mainly
to the rebellion against Dunn. There is
little disposition to question the result in
the fifth district where it seems to be
only a matter of Johnsons plurality.
There will not be much change in the
fourth district pluralities. In the sixth
district Dunn will run well in Morrison,
Cass and Crow Wing, but will run behind
! In the other counties, and will lose Stearps
by heavy vote. Johnsons plurality in
the sixth will likely exceed Lind's. In
the seventh district the strongest re-
is, in doubt. but from reports received
from republican sources. Johnson seems
| likely to carry majority Of the counties.
Southern Minnesota is the battle-ground.
Dunn and his leading campaigners are
making a desperate effort there to hold
the usual republican maiOrities They are
claiming the first district by a larger
plurality than four years ago. On the
other hand, the democrats claim conf
IDENTIFY that Johnson will wipe out the
republican plurality and run a least even
! in the district. The second was a Lind
stronghold, and Johnson will do remark
| ably we'll to run even with Lnd's record
| Of four years ago in that section. There
is much feeling there against Dunn. how
ever, and it is likely that Dunns lead in
| the district will be small, if any
| AS to the third district, the conditions
| Indicate that Johnson will carry it. The
original anti-Dunn feeling in the district
| has been reinforced by the resentment of
| HeatWole's friends. Johnson's personal
popularity will help him, especially in
| Nicollet and lie Sueur.
L. H. Borcher Of Osakis writes
| ournal rs follows:
| At political gathering here last evening of
| representative citizens. which was being ad-
dressed by Dunn enthusiast, a straw vote on
| governor was taken with the result that Dunn
| received votes and Johnson 80 votes. all pres
| ent but one voting. This in a strong republican
| town.
J. M. Freeman of Olivia, who was IN
| the twin cities yesterday, predicts that
johnson will carry the seventh district.
! He expects to see the strong republican
county of Renville go for Johnson by 500.
| Charles B. Cheney.