Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
18th June, 1904.
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The Hawthorne Memorial Statue.
(Springfield Republican,

springfield Republican,
The erection Of memorial statue TO
he graduated, with tonsfellow, iona,
iH is is someth E VI wn nth dul :
is one of the excellent examples of the
small college whoTs n nSet t mas !, nor
perhaps a question whether it is well TO
make the Statue represent the young ,:
Myth AL h R Ris
circular proposes. The college youth was
not the great romancer, whose superb
eountenance is so well known. but some
that this is just their idea and that the
several sculrtors consulted approve;
Each has in oneaway or another re
lows the combining 9ftruth in portrature
with n certain idealEsm too often difficult
or Impossible in lprtrait -statuary; and
these lines a figure may be produced beau
tiful as a work Of art. appropriate rs Il
memorial and inspiring IS an embodi-
ment of youth or genius.
Apple Blossom Time in Maine.
Bangor Commercially
What panorama of glory would have
been a drive this week over the hills and
down the valleys through the red-apple
counties of Maine-the sight of the mag
nilcent orchards from Waterville down
the east side of the kcnnebec to Chelsea.
hill Si in 1H ali to- ' Mamchester. Win
throp and Readtleld; to Chesterville pass
ton, down to Green and Turner. then back
through Ltchfield and Monmouth to the
OaklandS at Gardiner. Miles upon miles
of tree bouquets; millions upon millions of
TASKS of the choicest perfume. TO
breathe such an atmosphere would recall
the word pictures of Ruskin and Bur
rougEs: to see such blOSSom-loaded trees
would be to repicture the color-touch of
the most delicate artist.
What gift it was to this country when
brought over as it was by the governor
of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1879
From that one tree We have become the
world. Our yearly production exceeds a
hundred million barrels and Col.
Matthews, he who keeps an account of all
that Maine produces, says that our own
State sent over to the old world. last year.
100000 barrelS-a liberal return for the
tree brought here in t629 by Gov. VIM
throp.
The Outlook.
brunswick Record)
Caucus returns continue to increase the
lead of VIM. T. Cobb in the contest for
the gubernatorial nomination. Some of
his friends claim that he will have more
than a hundred majority in the conven-
ton.
"Bosh" is the Word.
(Somerset Reporter)
~ SStii tic uit tio''e''S
OF late to find word to adequately con-
vey our sentiment in regard to the theory
advanced by certain anti-Cobb daileS
that the Republican State committee is
actively engaged in nominating govern
or and does little else. We do not find
the word to fit the case exactly. The
nearest Webster or The Standard comes
to it is the word "Bosh." The State
committee is made up of one man from
each county, selected at biennial State
conventions by the delegates of the, re-
spective counties. This body meets about
once year and members serve from
two years to dozen and in rare cases
greater number of years. They are in
the hands of the county delegations who
can swap them at any State convention.
Their political interests are precisely as
diversified as the sixteen counties; no
more so, no less. Any other body of lead
ing men made up of one from each count
ty would be just as likely to go into the
industry of making gubernatOrial nomi-
nations as the State committee. The
writer had II years connection with this
body of conspirators and was so obtuse
that he never cOmprehended his high
prerogative. He had the idea that the
work of the committee was to devise ways
and means to make the biennial Septem-
Der defeat OF the Democracy just as en- |
phatic as possible, and other members
talked Just that way and acted just That |
way. only n few years ago.