Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-01
Political Drift.

Sneaker Cannon has fallen victim to
the automobile habit.
The Missouri legislature threw bomb
at Senator Stone BY passing a bill repeal
ing the alum law which GumShoe Bill en-
ginecred for a fancy fee.
There are 10 he 80 republicans and l3''
democrats in the Fifty-ninth congress
senate there are TO be nftN-eiSht republi-
cans and thirty-two democrats.
The new governor of Indiana is tee
totaler. never enters Il saloon, does MOI
| use tobacco. is Il pillar in the NJ. th"diSt
| church and Teaches in a Sunday-schooi.
a Kansas ponulist editor who recently
had :! bath tub placed IN his house has
FASTENED 10 explain that he had 10 take
il On an advcI,tisinc, CLAIM! and proposes to
lIsc it only for decorative purposes
a ShreWd observer OF political conditions
in St. Louis and Missouri suggests rs an
iniallillt' REMEDY for democratic degrnei
;tcv the establishment of free public laun-
dries. based on the proposition that ''peo-
pie need clean clothes as well as clean
hOdicS''
There have been some unique incidents
in he bringing Of ELECTORAL votes 10 the
president pro tempo"e OF the United
States senate. The messenger from Cali
."rnia came with the ten votes of that
state .ewed into the lining oI his coat.
couldn't lose the votes unless he lost his
c,Ht.
Dennis .AIulvhill who three wears ago
from Il StokCr in an east side factory. be
came mayor Of bridgeport. Conn. has had
a bill prepared for presentation to the leg
lSlaurr a"w in session. providing Tor the
reduction of his Salar+' by Ont--third. The
81 larry is S3.N". Dennis is likely 10 be en-
tmined To determine his sanity
The smallest plurality r. corded in any
state in the union since the foundation Of
tn Governm"n, waS that OF Maryland
which on November y gave Roosevelt a
plurality OF 81. The vote IN senator Cor
cr. l@.44i. Roosevelt go, one OF the "eh,
electors for the state. Parker getting the
remaining seven.
\ day or two before election las. No
N"mh"r Mr.. Hcmenway IF Indiana. now
Sc nator-elect. ana Mr.. Hanly. now gov
crnor of the same state. took part in a
At Evansville. a noteworthy thing about
he event was that across the street was
he livery stable where Hcmenway once
worked i hoStlcr and directly in front
~ tn" theaier III" ain gas pipe of the
Evansville Gas company ran. !. Frank
fanny dug the ditch when this pipe was
la nj earning - c"n,s day
Michigan legislature. while those of Lou
island Mississippi. Florida and South
oaroina are composed entirely OF Demo
Gratis There is no Republican in The Ala
Georgia. one in the Texas house and onr
IN the Arkansas senate. To match ines"
here is Il lone Democrat in the Mort n
Dakota house and one in the Pennsyl-
xana senate. The solitary Republican in
ieAaS was elected over Democratic sa-
iutn Keeper IN Il ulStllct which Parker
carried about 3 TO !.
Political f",idS grow in Kentucky as
readily as the shotgun variety. Governor
i]eckham and Senator Blackburn are now
exchanging hot air bombs, which are not
designed to promote the peace The last
one tossed by Governor Peckham con-
iains this charge of shrapnel FOR owe.
thirty years he tRackburn) has been the
lneretricious beneficiary of popular indulg
"nce as Il member i'll the. two houses Of
congress and challenge any one in Ken
lucky or elsewhere to point to single
act Of public service in all that time he
mas ever rendered to his state. his coun-
try or his party"