The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-02-03

liC otPOSieiSAi w WIN ~
election of Senator Hale comprises the
Waterville Sentinel, the Portland Press,
the Maine Democrat and the Lewiston
Journal. Politics certainly make strange
bed fellows. Outside of these ''organs"
the prevailing sentiment both in and out
of the State is that it would be extremely
unwise to dispense with the services of
so able and experienced legislator. This
is the opinion of men who are not per-
sonally friendly to Senator Hale, or who
do not approve altogether of the position
he has taken in some public matters.
But they realize that Maine would lose
in influence and prestige by sending a
new and untried man to the United
States Senate.
The Bangor Commercial recently pub
lisheG an excellent editorial on the coun-
Try newspapers, which the publishers Of
Che big dailies are endeavoring to drive
out Of existence by saddling upon them a
large proportion Of the deficit in the pos
tai revenue. President Jones read the
editorial at the meeting of the Maine
Press Association in Portland last week
and the Commercial shoIld have had q
vote OF thanks or round of applause
had there been enough members pres
ent to make themselves heard. Con-
gressmau F. E. Guernsey writing from
Washington TO the Commercial in COM
mending the editorial in question says
THE average country newspaper has
difficulty enough in trying to survive and
the government does well to assist in
continuing its existence. 1t fills most
important place in the lives of the coun-
try people that the great metropolitan
dailies will never be able to fill
Readers Of Turf, Farm ard Home can
not fail to realize that there is a good
deal Of horse sense in that paper. This
Is due to Mayo, eff course. You cannot
fool him on 4 horse, or on horse trade;
and there is tradition to the effect that
wears ago, when an amateur in the bust
ness. he got the best of a professional
horse dealer. Then as to agriculture,
Mayo knows the business from the
ground up. As boy he used to drive
the cows to pasture barefooted-we
mean Of course that Mayo was barefoot
ed-and he has followed the pillow; for
business or to pick up angle worms with
which to 90 a-fishing. With this early
education as a foundation, his travels
about the State as an inspector of pris-
ons and jails give him opportunities to
interview farmers and compare and dis
cuss farming methods, and as he is a
close observer and has retentive mem
Dry he acquires in this way good deal
of matter for his paper which is inter
esting even to the nom professional
reader.
The question as to whether Obadiah
Gardner of Rockland intends to be a
candidate for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination this year has been def
initely settled by that gentleman him
self He was in Augusta last week and
when the question was put to him by a
Kennebec journal reporter he replied:
Il am certainly not gutter and ex-
poet to be candidate for nomination
for governor before the next Democratic
convention. | have understood that |
am not considered desirable candidate
by certain members of my party in the
Kennebec valley, but am not the kind
of man that retires under fire nor do
| propose to be thrown out of my party
by the scruff of the neck by men who
have been formerly Republicans.
Now let Brother Pattangall of the
Maine Democrat put that in his pipe and
smoke it. This declaration will also
enable Hon. L. M. Staples of Washing
ton to decide where he is at. He has
said that he does not care particularly
for denomination as Senator and would
De candidate for the gubernatoriai
nomination if Mr.. Gardner did not want
it, but if he did he should be for Gardner,
1t looks as though the Watervillians had
bitten off more than they can chew.
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.