The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-09-03

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| The Women's Hospital Aid will meet
!, with Mrs. T. B. Dnsmore tomorrow, Fri
| day, afternoon at $50 O'Clock.
| The steamer Castine will make an excur.
| sion next Sunday to Stockton Springs. leav-
ing Lewis wharf, Belfast, at p. M, giving
one hour at Stockton Springs to inspect the
| big piers and the largest potato house in the
world. Fare for the round trip 40 cents.
For further particulars ask or telephone S.
G. Swift, Belfast.
PooR's MILLS. The social has been post
| poned to Thursday, Sept. 18th. There will
| be supper and short entertainment.
| Five cents admission. Mr.. and Mrs. F..
| Rankin of Lincolnville were guests of MI.
and O. A. Wade last week 80. Mr. and Mrs.
| Carson of Providence, R. l.. visited Mr.. and
Mrs S. A. Payson recently. Miss Rice OF
Rockland is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
| Merriam and other friends.... Mrs. Grace
| Patterson and daughter 1saphene, who have
| been visiting Mrs. PattersOn's parents, Mr..
/ and Mrs. A. S. Jackson, left by boat Mon
day for Boston en- route for Los Angeles,
/ Cal 80. Mrs. O. A. Wade spent few days
| last week with friends at Temple Heights.
-. Mr. and Mrs. S. A Payson visited their
! daughter, Mrs. Leslie Ames of Lincolville,
recently. Arthur Thompson went to
| Bristol, Me-, lately for week. Mrs. E.
| A. Mckinley is quite i'll, but is more COM
! Portable at this writing. Miss Hazel Will
son is at home from Augusta on vacation.
Mrs. Annabel Underwood is away WIS.,
iting friends. Mrs. A. K. jackson has re-
turned from Northport Campground, where
she had been for three weeks outing....
Mrs. George Daggett and children visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson of Lib
erty, the past week.
THE REPUBLICAN CLUB. The attend
ence at the meeting of the Young Mems
Republican Club last Friday evening was
, the largest yet, and the secretary reported
the enrolment of a number of new men,
bers. The young men are becoming inter
ested and enthusiastic and the instruction
they receive from the able speeches along
the lines of good citizenship is preparing
them for the public duties that later will
devolve upon them. The speaker on this
occasion was Hon Arthur S. Littetield of
Rockland, a brother of Congressman Little
field, but who does not shine by borrowed
light He is a man of marked and acknowl-
edged ability, and logical, eloquent and
convincing speaker. The limited space at
our command precludes any attempt at re-
porting or even summarizing this able adj
dress and we can only present few of the
salient points. A telling one was on the
attitude of the Democratic candidate for
Governor on the temperance question. Two
years ago, when Mr.. Gardiner was looking
for reelection as master, he declared at a
meeting of the State Grange: 81 wish here
to go on record as being entirely and I'M
reservedly in favor of the prohibitory law
of Maine" This year, when seeking the
Democratic nomination for Governor, he
said: "Better rumshop ON every corner
for the next twenty years than hypocracy
under prohibition" The speaker well said
that Mr.. Gardeners position on the temper
ance question seemed to depend on what
Office he was seeking. When seeking the
Office of Master of the State Grange he was
for prohibition, but as the Democratic CAN
didate for Governor he is against prohibit
ton and in favor of license. Mr.. Little
fields references to Sheriff Carleton brought
forth the heartiest applause, showing the
estimation in which that official is held by
his fellow citizens. Mr.. Littlefeld said, in
discussing the Sturgis law, that Waldo
county had been put to no expense under
that law because it had had a sheriff who
had done his duty. He did not know
whether Sheriff Carleton approved of the
prohbitory law or not, or whether he
thought the liquor traffic might be better
regulated in some other way, but he found
that law on the statute book and his oath OF
office required him to enforce it and he had
done so to the best of his ability. He did
not think there was in the State sheriff
who had lived up to the letter and spirit of
his obligations as Mr.. Carleton had done,
and Waldo county was to be congratulated
on possessing SO faithful an official. In
this connection it may be added that Hon.
W. R. Pattangall in addressing the Demo-
cratic meeting in the Opera House last week
spoke in complimentary terms of Sheriff
Carleton Mr.. Pattangall's contention was
that the prohibitory law could not be en-
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enforced the law in Waldo county as well
as it could be DONE The efforts the rum
sellers are making to secure the defeat of
this official would indicate that his work
has been pretty thoroughly done. Mr.. Lit
tlefield told how the Sturgis law came into
existence. The constitution provides that
the governor ssshall take care that the laws
be faithfully executed" and yet he is given
no power to compel officials to do their
duty The Sturgis law was enacted to meet
this emergency. The speaker said he did
not wholly approve of this law. LII place Of
it the Republican platform favors conSti-
tutional amendment to give a governor
power to remove derelict sheriff and re-
place him with man of the same political
faith who will do what the people elected
the other man to do. The Democrats are
tremendously concerned over this plank,
claiming that it is taking away the rights of
the people, but they seem to overlook the
fact that it cannot become law until the
people have said SO themselves. 1t is not a
matter that Republican Legislature and a
Republican executive can accomplished is
a plan that cannot become operative till the
people at formal referendum have agreed