The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-11-16

The Republican Journal
BELFAST. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER ls 1911
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Republican Journal Publishing Co
CHARLES A. P1LsBURY. pn Editor M And
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Bates went to Brunswick to root fol
Bowdoin-but, Maine won.
In view of his recent utterances il
would seem that Champ Clark's name
should be written Chump.
The Lewiston Sun proclaimed Larry
Godkin Americas greatest editor. -
Harper's Weekly says that Joseph Pulit-
ger was The greatest of Journalists of
his or any time!'
They will not be happy until they get
the rumshop legalized in Maine. Port
land Press.
Nor will the liquor dealers or brewers
be happy until the goods for which they
are paving are delivered
Bath may not be the biggest city in
Maine but it the best Just the same
Bath Independent
Bully for Bath-that's the way to talk,
but up this way we think that Beautiful
Belfast is beyond compare
The University of Maine is coming,
not alone in athletics, but in the practi-
cal education it is giving to our boys and
girls and the success which attends its
graduates in the various fields upon
which they enter. 'Rah for Maine
Carnegie has just given to the Carne-
gle Corporation of New York S25, 900, 900,
TO be used for educational purposes, and
his total benefactions to date are said to
be S2l7.500 .000-an incredible sum, to
the average citizen, to be in the control
Of an Individual. And Rockefeller is
credited with gifts aggregating $3.50, 00O,-
600.
Three of the employees at the State
House were dropped from the pay rolls
last week and an Augusta despatch
says: These three changes leave very
few Republicans in the ranks of the
earetakers of the big building" The
State house employees, many of them,
were veterans of the Civil War, and of
course would receive no consideration
from a Democratic government.
BY the way, it may not be too late to
note the fact that the officially declared
result of the September election vindi-
Gates the Associated Press returns giving
No majority. This was what appeared
from the figures as compiled at the time,
and the Associated Press stood by it's
figures. Portland Press.
Yes, and but for the Associated Press
We might have had another count-out.
A fire in Monson Wednesday night,
November Sth, caused the loss of one
life and destroyed property valued at
over $50, 600 A new gasolene engine,
just put in use, failed to work properly,
and despatch says that, ITO the efforts
Of a hand-tub crew is attributed the
saving Of the town from total destruct-
ton The old hand-tub still has it's
4ses.
The Boston Globe in reprinting poems
from the Hillard School Readers, well
known to the public school pupils of Is
years ago, gives a brief sketch of the
compiler, George Stilman Hillard, but
ofnits mention of the fact that he was
The editor Of the Boston Daily Courier
and one Of the ablest journalists of his
day, He was born in Machias, Me,
September %, 1903, and died in Boston,
Mass, January p, 1879.
Gov. Plaisted of Maine recently show
20 by deciding the prohibition amend
ment question against his personal wish
es, and when he was technically justified
by the official returns in deciding his own
way, that he is the peoples governor.
Brockton, Mass, Times.
Indeed! Then the personal wishes"
Of the governor We're to defeat the will
Of the people as expressed at the polls.
There is nothing that would technically