The Republican journal., 1908-11-19

inch length in column, 50 cents for one week
and % cents for each subsequent insertion.
report is in circulation throughout the
State that at the coming session of the legisla-
ture an effort will be made to change the laws
relating to Jail sentences in cases of violation
of the prohibitory law, so that there shall be
no option for the Judge, but that the sentences
must be one of fine and Jail both.-Camden
Herald.
And this is as it should be. Under the
filming system the prohibitory law be-
comes nothing but license law with the
cloak of responsibility thrown around It,
Now let us strip off the cloak. Lisbon
Enterprise.
If that is done there will be no need for
Sturgis deputies.
In other columns we give accounts of
the launching at Bath of the new steamer
CITY of Belfast for the Eastern Steam
ship Company and of the visit OF Bel
fast delegation to the Shipping City,
where they We're shown every courtesy
and attention. 1t is now up to Belfast
to furnish a set of colors for the new
craft. ard when she arrives here on her
first trip she must be given royal well
come. When that time comes it is hoped
that conditions may be such that all our
citizens can join in a fitting demonstra-
zion.
What will be the effect of Bryan S third
defeat on his newspaper organ, The Com
noner? In looking over the issue of No
ve,nber 9Th one is led to wonder that such
a publication should have met with any
degree Of success. 1t is not attractive
geographically, it is not a general news
paper, a local newspaper or a literary
journal. It's editorial columns are filled
with short paragraphs, many of them
mere slurs at President Roosevelt. Most
of The space is devoted to Bryan and to
those opposed to him in politics There
are numerous publications at rs and so
cents year which contain more original
matter and which would interest more
people than The Commoner.
We had in type the comments of a
visitor on the State Prison at Thomaston
when the news cane of the reappoint-
menr bv Governor Cobb of Warden
Berues O. Norton. The following item
from the Rockland Courier-Gazette ex-
presses, we believe, the general senti-
ment, and it certainly does that of The
Journal:
Governor Cobb has renominated Bernes
o. Norton as warden of the State prison.
Warden Norton has given splendid salts
faction during his first term, and there
has never been the slightest doubt as to
his denomination. The Courier Gazette
extends its congratulations to Warden
Norton, his charges and the States tax
payers.
1t IS all over but the shouting,' said
Col Henry Watterson of the Louisville
Courier-Journal on the eve of the presi-
dental election. Then he eased his mind
ana exercised his gift of prophecy in these
Iurid words
The chink of gold cannot deaden the
sound Of the death-rattle in their throat
all the bonfires from He'll to Breakfast
cannot give q rosy flush to the death pal
lor that shines upon their cheek like
Beishazzar of old, they read the writing
on the wal-caught and caged-and they
exclaim, Woe, woe is me, my sin has
found ne out at last - D.. Slow music
Dim lights. Then the blazing aureole of
Democracy.
As a prophet Col. Watterson must take
his place with chairman Mack, and as to
his language above quoted it caused con-
siderable Worriment to his friends until
later a.iVices assured them of his return
ing sanity.