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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09

TO BREAK UP, A COLD WE HAVE
EVERYTHING BE IT FOR OLD OR
YOUNG: WE MAKE A SPECIALITY
Of ;rttRoN,c. HAcKEY COUGHS,
wE~cAN RELIEVE At ONCE AND
USUALLY cuRE-oUR WINTER
T0NlcS WILL MAKE AND KEEP
|You FEELING WELL.
FOR HEALTH, QUALITY AND
PRICES BUY At
|Spau|ding's Drug Store
hAlLOWELL, NE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09

Workmen are engaged in painting the
interior of the Johnson House. New
carpets are also being laid in the halls
and cOrrid,:S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09

Mrs. William NJ. Palmer arrived home
last night from Rumfcrd. where she has
been attending the State Baptist conven-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09

Mrs. c. A. Knight and daughter
Catherine went to Greene yesterday for
a few days stay
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
cArGHr WITH THE GOODS ON.

DR.. II. w. Wiley. chief chemist of
the Department of Agriculture, is get
ting what is coming to him and the
press and public are taking pains to
see that he gets it in full measure.
DR.. Wiley has been exceptionally busy
for several years extolling temperance
in eating and drinking n pointing
out a long list Of things which should
be Stunned. He has found deadly
germs in the lobster, has placed ice
cream under the ban, tabooed booze of
all kinds and linked salads and under
takers as synonymous terms. He has
placed pie in the list of pestilences and
has provided poison" labels for about
everything that the average citizen
would care to eat or drink. He has
issued special warming against heavy
eating during the summer months.
The public has stood for these warn
ings and accepted some of them, but
that time is now happily passed. DR..
Wiley was discovered in a Washington
restaurant recently, OhS DllSISi ih6AJ hOl
evening, doing full justice to two i'm
perial crabs, a porterhouse steak with
mushrooms, a special salad, and a
quart of musty ale" 1t should be ex-
planned that the Imperial crab is
peculiar to Washington. 1T is almost
as large as a lobster and one of them
is usually looked upon as sufficient to
disarrange the digestive powers of a
fair-sized dinner party. Two of them
ought to lay out a section gang. Sup
plement that with a steak, a salad and
divers mugs of heady ale and follow it
up with the proof that DR.. Wiley is
still living, healthy and rugged, and
no further proof is needed that the
eminent chemist has accomplished his
own undoing. He has lost his power
to terrify. Hereafter the hungry man
will order his meals to suit his appetite
and his purse, with contemptuous dis
regard of Wiley's warnings.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
Not Colonel wetmore's Way.

st. Louis Times (rep.G
Since Colonel Nose Wetmore has taken
charge Of the financial department Of the
democratic national campaign, the COM
mittee has been singing low on the 30
cent and 81 contribution idea; nor is there
much talk about depending on the farmer
for all the sinews Of democratic warfare.
Colonel Wetmore, he IL known, is not a
SO-cent man in the campaign business. His
own contribution to Colonel Bryan and
the cause have always run into large fig
ures. There is small reason to believe,
therefore, that he will tolerate in other
leading democrats an activity and generos-
ity less pronounced than his own. Colonel
Wetmore, too, is likely to put the kibosh
on some of the Fairview talk about re-
fusing corporation money. The colonel is
a corporation man. He knows, just as
knows, that there are sood corporations as
well as bad, and that any inhibition against
campaign contributions will sound like
demagogy 10 the sober-minded. II even a
wicked corporation desires to contribute
TO the democratic campaign it can do so
through an individual. and neither Colonel
Bryan nor Colonel Wetmore will know
how to turn it down, even If he were so
inclined.
The friends and neighbors of Colonel
Wetmore here in ST. Louis do him the
credit OF believing that there will be small
talk OF poverty in the democratic camp
after tho grand old octopus hunter has
put on fun steam,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
Personal NOTES.

Miss Anna Peck, the American mountain
climber reported lost in the Andes, is back
among friends, ready TO do her best work
for the magazines.
An Irish solicitor requests in his will that
his widow enter a convent and spend the
remainder Of her life in prayer. She might
very appropriately do this-in prayers Of
gratitude for her release.
immigration into the United States con-
tinues in very small volume-the July fig
ure Of 27,57O arrivals representing a yearly
rate OF only about $4,000 compared Will
the rate OF over 100000 prevailing before
the panic.
To celebrate it's lSth birthday, the Balti-
more American began the publication Of an
afternoon paper named the American Star.
II wrinkles merrily at birth and promises
to remain a shining fixture in the local
armament.
Hall Game, the novelist, mas bought up a
considerable portion OF the Isle OF Man,
the place of his birth. and has become
the most important parsonage in the quaint
and historical island. He has a keen BUSH
ness sense and his purchases of land show
a shrewd knowledge OF values.
Mrs. John w. Kern, wife of the demo-
cratic candidate Tor the vice presidency,
declared the other day in an interview
that she is in favor Of the suppression Of
the army canteen. She believes in prohibit
ton. and declares that she does not in
tend to have any wine on the table or
ocktails on the sideboard in the Kern
household whatever ~happeEs'
Donations to charity must be very large
in these days TO attract special attention.
But little notice was taken by the press
Of the fact that Benjamin Rose OF Cleve-
land, o.. who died recently in England,
left 100000 for founding institutions for
the aged ana for deformed children in
Cleveland. One Of the buildings is to be
named IN honor OF the testator's son, who
was drowned.
John r. Redmond, chairman Of the Irish
Parliamentary party, and Joseph Deylin.
NJ. p. who are expected TO arrive in New
York from Ireland about september Is,
will he rendered q reception by the United
Irish Clubs OF America. Messrs Redmond
and Devlin are oming 10 this country ss
representative Of ireland 10 the convention
Of the United Irish LeSEue OF America, 20
be held in HostG
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

ing democrats of every kind and condition
to give the money that is absolutely neces-
sary to conduct the camaisn. A month
has passed since the convention adj
Journed, and although the party managers
have made it plain to the people that
they look to the people themselves to
supply the funds for the campaign the
response to their entreaties has been 50
feeble and so scattering as to force the
conclusion that not one man in a thou
sand in this part of the country cares a
rap whether Taft is defeated or not.
Such pitiful contributions as have been
reportd from South Carolina have come
from four or five cities and towns. In
one city with a population of 1000 forty
or fifty persons have given sums of 81
to so cents each. and we have seen no
single contribution from any individual
in this state of more than IS.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
THE FRAUD UPON THE POPULISTS

as 10 keep mn fusion for the sake of pros
tige and spoils. although they were really
democrats. II would have been moro cred
liable for them to 80 directly over to tho
democrats. but that would not do for them,
as they could better demand as alleged
popuiists under fusion.
It 10 true that a large majority Of those
In Nebraska still claiming to be populists
arc for Bryan for president and will not
support Watson under any circumstances,
but even with that fact it is not warranted
in doing what has been done.
Watson is the regular populist nominee
and is entitled TO stand as such in Ne
braska. but he Is worked out Of his rights
by those schemers AS all know. the peo-
pie do not vote direct for president. but
vote for electors put up for the presiden-
tisl candidates. In Nebraska the scheme
worked is to have the same names Of cleo
tors filed on the peoples independent
ticket as Is filed on the democratic ticket
and those electors arc the Bryanites, so
that when one votes the p~opuIist ticket
and thinks he is voting for Watson. he is
simply voting for BRYAN, for all votes cast
for those electors will be counted together
regardless of what party name cast under.
Everybody knows that a large majority
Of the populists Of Nebraska are for Bryan
and they are entitled TO vote for him II
they see fit, but it Is an unprincipled act
to prevent any populist voting for Watson
If he so chooses. BY the scheme Of the
Bryan crowd a populist must either vote
for Bryan or he must vote for the electors
on some other ticket than his own. As
the populist nominee Watson, by all fair
ness and right, is entitled to stand as the
populist nominee in Nebraska and have
his electors up, but he Is not permitted 20
by the scheming of that bunch Of Bryan
ties. II Is unprincipled and should be re-
sented by ell genuine Watson populists.
The matter was taken up by Victor Rose
water, who is national republican commit
teeman for Nebraska, and while he did It
from purely selfish motives, vet his protest
Is well founded. He objected to Douglas
Shawvan, a democrat of Boone county, as
a populist elector, so as to get the matter
before the secretary Of state. His grounds
for remonstrance were as follows:
l. Because said Douglas Shawvan is not.
in fact, affiliated with the peoples indie
pendent party.
q Because the names signed to the petit
ton asking that the name Of the said Doug
las Shawvan be placed upon the ballot Of
the peoples Independent party are not
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

schuyler Free Lance. edited by John c
sprecher, once legislative leader
Of tho populistsD
There is an alleged peoples independent
party IN Nebraska and has been since
1890. 1t is a part OF the populist party Of
the nation and has taken part In the ma
ttonsl conventions G. that party since and
Including 1882. The party goes by different
names in different statos. and while It is
called the peoples Independent party in
Nebraska. it is called the peoples party
In other states. and the populist party
in still other states. But in spite Of the
several different names in the various
states. it is all known nationally as the
populist party.
This year, IN regular convention assem-
bled in St. Louis. the populists nominated
Thomas +. Watson Of Georgia, for presi-
dent. being the same nominee OF four years
ago. And to that convention went a dele
cation Of alleged populists. but who are
really masquersding democrats who hold
on TO the party machinery for the sake OF
fusing with the democrats each year in
this state. That so-called populist delega-
ton from Nebraska went to st. Louis I'M
der instructions to vote for Bryan for
presidential nominee and with a determine
ton OF gaining their point as to nom
nation or raising a row and finally
boiling the convention, and they carried
out their part OF the program.
At the national populist convention the
Nebraska delegation bolted when they
could not head off the nomination Of Wat
son In the interest of Bryan, and came
back to Nebraska and put forth a state
ment as to the alleged cause Of their bolt.
Instead Of openly telling the truth they
tried to make out that that national con
vention was stuffed against Bryan and
that there was something crooked as TO the
framing Of the platform and a lot Of such
stuff, but It was all buncomb.
SO far as the action Of those populists
were concerned up to that point, while it
was not very creditable to them, it was
a matter OF criticism rather than censure.
but since then they have done something
that ought to be denounced and condemned
by every fair-minded man. regardless of
politics.
1t is a we'll known fact that fusion with
the democrats killed off the populist party
in Nebraska and while It drove many out
of the ranks and into the republican and
other parties. many more went directly
into the democratic ranks. while few still
hung to the old name and organization so
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

names Of electors. in fact. affiliated With
the peoples independent party.
g. Because said petition and nomlnelioL
statement on behalf Of the said Douglas
Shawvan are not filed in good faith, In the
interest Of the peoples INDEPENDENT party,
but. on the contrary, are designeo no
calculated to pcrpetrate a fraud upon the
electors OF Nebraska, and under false pre-
lenses and by deception to divert votes TOT
the presidential and vice presidential nom,
inees OF said peoples independent party api
to deliver such votes to the presidential ana
vice presidential nominees OF the demoora'lc
objection is also herewith made to the
use OF the party designation peoples IN
dependent" party by said Douglas
for, the reason that ne does npI r,neenls',
independent" party placed In nomination AZ
lis last preceding national convention, .regu-
larry called and held IN , tSs Guy h,;t OF on ~ the s'C con-.
trary. Is openly pledged to vote Tor cenul-
dates OF the democratic party
The matter came before Secretary Of
state Junkin and he decided that under
the law fusioD was permissible and the
names could 20 on the official ballot. the
secretary Of state was undoubtedly correct
but while legal It is none the less q fraud
While IL would be possible for individual
populists to file as candidates for electors
VINO were genuine Watson men, but that
element would outvote them at the polls
by all voting the populist ticket, as Is per-
missable under the primary system.
This act means that Watson will have no
electors i'm Nebraska and that no one here
can vote for him. Many will he fooled and
while they think they are voting for Wat
son electors. are really voting for Bryan
electors. 1t is a dirty. unprincipled deal
and is on par with the record that re
form" crowd made ever in this state.
Committeeman Rosewater addressed
open letters to Bryan regarding the fraud,
but Bryan said that It was not worth
while paying any attention to. Bryan Is
a great fellow to talk about purity In pol
tiles, but IL don't apply to him. He talked
much about campaign Doodle, but when II
came out that in 1904 Jim Dahlmsn secured
$4,000 from wall street to use in Nebraska,
Bryan simply felgned ignorance and shut
up like a clam, although he was, as usual,
well in charge of the Nebraska campaign
and his brother-in-law was the democratic
state committee chairman and had the
handling of the funds.
This scheme to head Watson off and to
deprive him of any votes in Nebraska is
rank and will do that outfit that always
is bowling about purity and reform
no good.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

THE DROP IN REVENUE RECEIPTS,
Government statisticians are en-
gagged just now in figuring the eco
nomic effect of Industrial and com
mercial depression upon the nations
internal revenue receipts. Distilled
liquors have had a tangible influence
on the of all nations since
Bacchus and Gambrinus were en-
throned in the days OF neurological
tradition. In this country, since the
close of the civil war era, the revenue
receipts from the tax on intoxicating
liquors alone has amounted to about
100000 a day and this has been
swollen to more than 81, 900, GOO a
day by the tax on tobacco and its
products.
Recently there has been a marked
decrease in the internal revenue re-
ceipts, the tax on liquors alone
amounting to nearly Sic, 100000 less
since last October than the receipts of
the corresponding period the year be-
fore. Prohibition advocates may find
COuSOldllOu III Tue bldNlblltb bhON lhB
that the consumption of alcoholic bev-
erages has decreased more than 10
per cent in the last year. 1t may mean
that the nation is growing more tenn
perate and then, again, it may mean
that men drink less in dull times than
they do under normally prosperous
conditions. The experience of 1895
would tend to support the latter as
sumption, as the consumption of alco-
holic beverages reached the lowest
point in the nations history at that
time and the nations were
accordingly decreased.
Aside from the temperance feature
of the situation, the decrease in ma
tional internal revenue rec eipts gives
the lawmakers at Washington food
for serious thought. The government
has been liberal with its appropria-
tions of funds for various public needs
but a halt will have to be called in that
direction, however pressing the needs,
unless some provision is made for rails
ing more revenue. With the resump-
ton of normal business conditions, the
customs receipts may make up this
shortage, but the question is one that
will have to be carefully considered
when congress gets ready to revise the
tariff and reduce the schedules that
produce customs revenues, in the face
of decreasing internal revenue receipts
and increasing demands for more
funds with which to carry on the va
rious public enterprises.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

According to the accepted teachings,
greater love hath no man than he
who lays down his life for his
brother. That, perhaps, Is the
accepted test, but a poor negro of
Alexandria, Va, has offered a substi-
tute that, contrary to the usual senti-
mt on the subject, will very gener-
ally be accepted as something equally
as good" This poor negro has decided
that he will, give ten days of his life in
order to save the life of his dog.
The story, as told in the telegraph
dispatches, is far from complete, but
the salient features are not disputed.
1t appears that Edward Grooms Is a
negro laborer, more or less shiftless
and improvident, depending upon to-
days effort to satisfy today's wants,
with no thought of the morrow and no
trouble or worry about yesterday. Like
most members of his race, Grooms
owns a dog, and there the details are
again lacking, but it is taken for
granted that the dog, like its master,
lacks pride of ancestry. Its pedigree
Is not recorded, but it is clear that a
little thing like that did not bother
either the dog or It's master. Grooms
loved the mongrel and the dog gave
the dumb tribute of loyalty, so COM
mon with its kind and breed, to its
master. That's just a way dogs have.
But evil days came to Grooms and
the cur. The Alexandria tax collector,
a man who appears to have had no
thought above sordid dollars and his
idea of duty to the great common
wealth OF Virginia, discovered a source
of possible revenue to his state in
Grooms' pup, and promptly seized IT
and carried It to the dog pound, 1t
was a real compliment to Grooms to
discover that the great state OF Nir-
einta thought his dog was worth 50,
hut It lust happened at the time that
he was 500 cents short Of money
enough to return the compliment so
he wanted to know If there was
not some Nay in which he could square
the case with the law. The Judge on
the bench, representing the sacred
majesty of the law, decided that the
dog must be killed or that Grooms
must serve ten day in the chain gang
at ard work on the county roads.
that was Grooms' opportunity and
his test, and he accepted it like a hero
He is about now finishing up his serv-
ice of ten hot and toilsome days as a
builder OF Virginia country roads
tired. perhaps sore and weary but con-
soled and cheered by the thought that
when his time is up and he Is allowed
to return to his humble shack he will
find the yellow curve are taking il
for granted that the dog is yellow.
sharp-ribbed and nea-bitten-waggine
welcome from the doorway. Ii il
more than likely that Edward Grooms
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

legs are sore and chafcd from the
chains he wore during his ten days Of
service for the commonwealth OF ole
Virginia, but the chain marks will ap-
rear as badges OF high honor to every
man who loves a dog. Il was a fine
thing for Grooms to do, but If he
knows anything about a dog-and he
would not have made the sacrifice II
he had not-he has the consolation OF
knowing that the dog would cheerfully
have done as much or more for him,
had IL been in its power. There is moth
ing in the world more beautiful than
love. and It is not so common as to be
despised, even in the case of a negro
and his dog.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
a SOB For OFFICE.
Bryan ClumsiIy Revsmps the War Cr,
OF Tom Hendrick.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
AS an additional argument for a cnaass.
Mr.. Bryan silly urges: 80 long as the "
publican party remains In power It Is
powerless to regenerate itself. = - MOI
until the party passes, through a period o.
fastinS il the wilderness will the repubu-
can leaders learn TO study public questions
from the standpoint OF the masses" TRs
is but a pious restatement OF the brufi
call OF Thomas A. Hendricks in 1875, Turn
the rascals out; give us a look al the
books"
Has the republican party got TO wander
in the wilderness whose location and whose
Eloomlest recesses Mr.. Bryan can show
them, having been there, before it can
view public questions from the standpoint
of the masses? The republican parly
doesn't quite see hat. 1t has been appeal
ing to the masses and pretty successfully
for the last fifty years. Its appeal has
missed only twice in that time. II has
been sustained by the masses and II has
given the masses something in return Tor
their faith and votes. 1t has given them:
Freedom.
Protection.
Tn homestead and the irrigated farm.
Internal improvements.
The best money.
Law enforcement.
Prosperity.
While the republicans may have made
some mistakes, the party has had an
Identity separate from its errors. 1t always
has been able to correct its faults and re-
trieve its missteps. But 1t has nothing to
apologize for, nothing to retrieve in the
nomination of the statesman, William II.
Taft, on a program of principles inspired
by Theodore Roosevelt.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24

new YORK sun trep.).
A few weeks ago Mr.. Bryan and Colo
mel Jim Guffey of Pennsylvania were
blazing with serried columns AZ one
another while the friends of humanity
shuddered and the cause of the people
threw a tit. II was predicted then by
the cynical that Mr.. Bryan WOULD soon
yearn for Colonel Guffey for the same
reason that he yearned for the Hon.
Roger c, Sullivan OF Illinois. whom ne
took to his bosom after solemnly casting
him out of the fold he needed him in
his business.
Sure enough, the messengers of peace
are c~onfabulating. Mr.. Bryan is said TO
have expressed regret for his 'misunder-
standing" His voice trembles with har-
mony and his lips flow with honey. There
are no rancors in the vessel Of his peace.
Why should good democrats quarrel until
after election?
The fact seems to be that the Hon.
James Kerr, the supplanter OF Colonel
Guffey, can raise the wind he prom
ised. He talked in hundred thousands,
we believe. The last time his subscrip-
tlon list was shown ii called for only
$4,000. Colonel Guffey is a friend OF the
mammon of unTighteousness. He IS Of
and close 10 predatory wealth, and Mr..
Bryan pines for him
Thus Is Guffey preferred 10 Kerr; The
money put above the man.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-24
The Drift TO Taft.

Boston TrarscTlpt Irep,J,
Following the bolt of the Baltimore Sun
comes the editorial announcement Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the old line democratic
organ of the Ohio valley, that 1t sees no
hope for Bryan in TIE west. The wish is
doubtless father Of the thought. In Gin
%clnnati, Mr.. iTaft's experience thus bellies
the saying about the prophet not being
without honor, etc, sustaining instead the
less familiar proverb OF antlpodal import:
in my own city my name, in a strange
city my clothes. procure me respect" In
Mr.. Tsft's case, however. there are no
strange cities.