The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-04-14


team at Brunswick April Sth, and Bates
won the debate from New York City Col
iege at Lewiston the same night. Rah!
rah! rah!
People never grumble more than they
are doing now, or had more reason to
feel satisfied.
This item is from the joke column in
the Atchison Globe, but many true
word is spoken in jest.
When an aeroplane chauffeur drops it s
all up with him. -EX.
We should say it was all down. We
have heard of a man trying to lift HIM
self by taking hold Of the seat of his
pants, but we never heard of anyone
falling up.
Capt. SOL" Jacobs. who was reported
a short time ago as pollock fishing on the
Maine coast and having poor luck, landed
the first mackerel of the season at Fort
ress Monroe April 9th. He had l247 fine
mackerel, taken off Cape Hatteras.
The ". L. Douglass Shoe Co. has closed
the plants it has been operating IN MARI
boro. Mass, and Springvale, Me-, and
will concentrate it's manufacturing in
Brockton The company employed $50
hands in Springvale and had weekly
pay roll of 81, 800.
\ correspondent, whose letter is pub
lished on another page, tells US that
Southern California is Gods country;
Ed. Clements, in writing from Okla
.homa. saws that is Gods country; we,
who live in New England, know that this
is Gods country, and this leads to the
conclusion that our whole country is
Gods country. and that we should ap-
preciate the privilege of living in It and
show our appreciation by our works.
Searsport has Used the King split log
drag this spring with GOOD results, and
the contrast between the roads in that
town and connecting roads is said to be
very great. The Journal has several
times published cut of this drag, with
instructions for making and for its use.
1t is simple and inexpensive, which is
perhaps the reason why it is not used in
some places. 1t does not require six
horses and three or four men to operate
it, or cost s., 900.
We print on another page some inter-
,esting facts and figures concerning the
State road built last year, and which has
been pointed to by the mayors followers
as evidence of what he has done for
Belfast The impression sought to be
conveyed was that he had personally
built this road out of his own pocket for
the good of the community. The figures
show, however, that the cost of this road
was 81, 21S. 10, of which the State paid
1919, and the city 81, 1893. 70. The tax
payers, not the mayor, the property
owners and business men, paid this
81 1893 49, As we do not find the mayors
name in the list of delinquent tax payers
he probably paid his poll tax of So, but
that would not all go toward the State
road. Unjust be spread over the so or 60
Thousand dollars appropriated for schools,
fire department, lights, and the general
expenditures of the city.
Al the April meeting of the city gov
eminent the mayor said that ''the pro-
posed entire change of the board of trus
tees (of the Free Library, appeared to
MIN TO be on the ground of political play
or some other Interior purpose to him I'M
known y But what about the political
play and ''ulterior purpose involved in
the removal few years ago of Rev. Ash
Aey A. Smith, Ben Hazeltine, Chas. S.
Bickford and Charles P. Hazeltine? Were
they not thoroughly efficient, and were
any complaints regarding their ability
or integrity" ever received? 1t was the
bequest of P. R. Hazeltine that gave to
Belfast its Free Library, and the least
the city could do would be to retain on
the board Of trustees a member of that
Family as long as one remained. But the
mayor was after the spoils, and not for
the first time, and a board was chosen to
do MS bidding. They removed the JAM
Tor, but further proceedings were arrest
ed by the freely voiced indignation of the
citizens generally. The present mayor
when holding the office in 1895 had
Eooard Of library trustees of his choosing
and proposed to remove Miss Pond who
mad been the librarian from the first and
whose efficiency none could question, to
make a place for one of his sympathizers;
but a member of the board, whose vote
was essential, absented himself from the
meetings and the scheme fell through
And this is the man who talks about
political play" and ''ulterior purpose"
mayor who would depose an exception
ally well qualified board of trustees Of
a political institution to secure the
petty spoil of a janitorship.
From the initial number of the mayors
personal organ some one has been assail-
ed in every issue-business men, profess