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congressional Campaign. Waldo County
Men. Public Buildings.
Especial to The Republican Journal.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 18th. About
the most precious acquisition these days
in the eyes of the Republican President
makers who throng the Capitol is dele
gate. These officials are being created just
now in divers sections of the country, and
there will be more and more Of them daily
and weekly till list of nearly 1000 is made
up. For the supporters of the rival candi-
dates for the Republican nomination dele
gate for the time being seems to be even
more important than member of Congress.
OF course that exaggerated comparison will
gradually dwindle, for by and by it will APP
pear who is likely to be in the majority and
who in the minority. The Maine members
of the House are not entering into the
strife with the same spirit as some of their
colleagues from other States. They believe
in some deliberation in the selection of a
candidate for the highest office in the
world, and furthermore believe in leaving
the selection of the Maine delegates to the
respective conventions. So the four repre-
sentatives from Maine are on-lookers OF the
rivalry for delegates. While they are very
Interested spectators they are not pulling
and hauling or burrowing in the ground to
perfect plans by which one candidate or
another shall secure an advantage in their
respective districts.
Among legislation for the benefit OF the
no vii that Gov
ernor Burleigh has been favorlng this
winter is bill which provides for more
generous recognition of the volunteer OF
ficers of the war now ON the retired llst.
Gen. John G. Cobb of Portland was recent
ly here IN behalf of such a measure, in which
number of Names volunteer officers are
interested Gov. Burleigh accompanied him
around the Capitol, introduced him to mem
bers whose influence would be helpful, and
otherwise did much to start that bill along
toward favorable consideration.
Nowadays the Governor is beginning to
pay some attention to the plans for the Re-
publican Congressional campaign through
out the country. The House Republican
caucus the other evening unanimously des-
ignated him for another term as a member
of the Republican Congressional committee,
each State having one member of that body.
Gov. Burleigh has served on that committee
for number of years and has become close
ly Identified with the careful preparations
that are made by it biennially for the re-
election of Republican House. part of
the time he has served Oh the executive
committee, which has to do with the more
important work of preparation. AS this Is
presidential year and the election in
Maine coming very early it will be regarded
by the country as significant, and efforts
will be made to run the four Congressional
campaigns in Maine very thoroughly, to in
form the voters Oh the issues and to roll up
good majorities. The Congressional COM
mittee will rely largely upon Gov. Burleigh
regarding the necessary work in Maine.
Friends of Eugene V. st. V. Sargent, a
Searsport boy, will be pleased to learn that
he recently secured transfer to Cuba,
where he will soon be located MIR. Sargent
has been a member of the 10Th Company,
Coast Artillery Corps stationed at Fort
Monroe, Virginia. He has been DESTROYS
of being transferred to the Cuban service
and on recent visit to Washington called
on CONGRESSMAN Burleigh relative to the
matter, and the latter was able to secure
his transfer, as shown by the following
letter:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF.
The Hon. Edwin Z. Burleigh, Al. c.,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Governor Burleigh: Your personal
note of the day before yesterday was duly
received.
1t gives me pleasure to obtain from the
Chief of Staff authority to order the re-
quested transfer OF young Sargent, IN
whose career you are interested, and beg
to enclose a copy Of the order in his case.
Very sincerely yours,
WIN. p. DUvALL,
MajOr-General, GeDer ! Staff,
Assistant to Chief of Staff.
Among the bills recently introduced
by Senator Frye in which Maine people
will be interested is one providing for d
river. The bill provided for the expendi-
ture of the sum of $4,000, Including pur-
chase of site, construction of buildings and
ponds, and equipment, at some suitable
point at or near Gardiner, on the Kennebec
river, to be selected by the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor"
Friends of J. w. Farrar of SearsmOnt,
who is one of the government officials in the
census Office, will be interested to learn
that he has been selected to 60 to Maine
during the coming summer to take up some
of the governments work in that State.
Mr.. Farrar has been in Washington num-
Der of years and his Waldo county friends
will be pleased to learn that he will have
an opportunity to visit his native State for
few weeks.
Representative Burleigh, seeing how
hopeless it is to persuade the House to
make any considerable appropriations for
Maine projects this winter, is proceeding
upon new tack He is ''laying pipe" for
the future. For instance, one of the Cover
nor's lines of activity is public buildings.
Very quietly, but none the less effectively,
he has been at work for nearly ten years
providing Maine cities and the larger Maine
towns with adequate public buildings.
When the late Representative Milliken was
in Congress he made great progress in that
direction. He became chairman of the
Public Buildings Committee and was con-
stantly pushing some bill to the front for a