The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-01-11

ed. Norman Hapgood, editor of Golfers,
says he will be rejected.
Postmaster General Hitchcock advo-
Gates the removal of the P. 0. D. from
politics. We are in favor of the re-
moval of Hitchcock from the Post Office
Department.
1t is intimated that the two-thirds rule
in National conventions, butressed by a
line of presidents dating back to 1882,
may be discarded this year and the can
didates for President and Vice President
be nominated by majority vote.
An old story tells of two Yankees who
were castaway on desert island. One
had a jackknife and the other so cents
and they snapped until they had $3.50
each. This story is no doubt somewhat
exaggerated, but it is true that c. W.
Morse while behind prison bars at At
lanta made 81, 900.
In the Boston city election Jan. 9th
the Republicans elected three candidates
TO the city council and two members of
the School Board, although the candi-
dates ran without party designation.
Not member of the Fitzgerald omas-
ney slate, so called, headed by Mayor
Fitzgerald, got into office. License car
ried by a vote of 80, SIG to 16. 592
Gov. Harris NJ. Plaisted served but
one term; so will his son." Thus speaks
G. Ney Holman in a politi~a al interview
published by the Lewiston Journal Sat
urday. Mr.. Holman thinks it doubtful
if Plaisted succeeds in securing a renomi-
nation and says that if he does the Dem
ocratic party lis foredoomed to a Ger
tain and deserved defeat if it goes int }
this years canvass with Messrs. Plaisted
and Pattangall in the full and unbridled
control of the party's affairs which thew
have welded since the election of 1910.
In such an event, YOU may regard it as
settled that Knox country, rock-ribbed
as it has always been in it's Democracy,
will be lost to the party, and you need
only converse with any Knox county
Democrat of force and character to re-
ceive confirmation of this statement.
The State Assessors were recently
asked to give the per capita wealth of
Maine by counties, based on the last
State valuation for taxation purposes,
and the figures Were so remarkable that
the matter vas pursued further so as to
show the per capita wealth of the cities.
The result was even more surprising.
Based on tbs 1910 valuation and the 1910
census, the per capita wealth of the
people in Maine is S608.50, while the per
capita wealth Of the people living in the
cities Is STAGES The per capita wealth
of Waldo county is 1856. 20; and the per
capita wealth Of Belfast, S637.28. The
other cities range as follows: Auburn
$557.50; Lewiston, S642. 40; South Port
land, 1902 Sc; Westbrook, SEAL. 90; Ellis
worth, S585.03; Augusta, $500 80; Gardi-
ner, S713.96; Hallowell, $3.50. CO. Water
vile. 1891. 80; Rockland, S719. 10; Bangor,
$3.50 SO; Brewer, $41422; Old Town,
2t6S %; Bath, S8Z4.0 S; Calais, S437. 40:
Biddetord, S510.71; Saco, S701. rs.
Everything that has been done for the
veterans of the Civil War has been done
by Republicans. The pension bills origi
mated with Republicans, and were en-
acTed by Republican votes. The Nation
al Homes were established by Republi-
cans. Yet the other day we heard
veteran say: See what the Democratic
House has done for US. | have always
been Republican, but hereafter shall
vote the Democratic ticket" 1t so hap
pened that only the night before we had
read an article in Golfers defending the
Democrats from the charge of ex-
travagance in passing the Sherwood pen
sion bill and claiming that ''The Repub-
icans did il. Here are the figures:
The Democrats voted 102 for and 81
against the bill, with six Democrats
present who did not vote. Of the Re-
publicans 127 voted for and against the
bill. The total number of Republicans
in the House is ,59, while the total num-
Der of Democrats is 230; that is to say,
50 per cent of the Republicans and "A
per cent of the Democrats voted for the
bill The writer in Golfers says that
more Southern Democrats would have
voted against the bill, and the Demo
Gratis, as a party, would have opposed it
more vigorously, but for motive thus
described by Fitzgerald of Brooklyn:
The time has arrived, in my opinion
when the men of the South are no longer
justified in sitting silent when legisla
ton of this kind is passed :" because
of patriotic desire not to appear sec
tionaI or biased against Union soldiers"
This, then, is the attitude of the Demo-
cratic House. The fear of losing the
soldier vote deferred many Democrats
from voting against the bill. The Demo-
Gratis who did oppose it were very out
spoken. John j. Fitzgerald of Brook
Ign said: 81 should prefer to spend my