The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-05-29

the present county of Waldo, made its
appearance. Fellowes and Simpson
were its publishers; Mr.. Fellowes died
some years ago; Mr.. Simpson is still liv-
ing, residing in Penobscot county. 1t
was published weekly, at two dollars
per annum; the dimensions of the print
ed matter being about eleven by seven
teen inches; about cne page was filled
with advertisements, which were insert
ed at the rate of lone dollar per square
for three insertions and seventeen cents
for every subsequent insertion" With
the fourteenth number the success of
the paper encouraging the expenditure,
it was enlarged one inch in its dimen-
sions! With its twenty-fourth number
its title was enlarged by adding the
words 'Penobscot Patriot" the object
being to secure the patronage in Penob-
scot county, which was expected to fol-
low the discontinuance of the Bangor
Weekly Register, newspaper which
had been published in Bangor since 1915.
Mr.. Simpson transferred his interest in
the paper to Mr.. Fellowes February %,
1926, and Mr.. F. continued to publish it
under the title of the Hancock Gazette
and Penobscot Patriot until the close of
its sixth volume, when its old title was
dropped and that of the Belfast Ca
zette" substituted
1t continued to be published under its
new title until the 9th number of it's
second volume issued when, unexpected
y to the community at large, its publ
cation was suspended but week after
wards the Waldo Democrat, in charge
of the same publisher, appeared to take
it's place The leading editorial in the
first number of the Democrat announced
that the paper was thenceforth to be, as
itsnane purported, Heartily and entirely
democratic" it advocated the reelection
of John Quincy Adams as President!
The Democrat died in less than
year, as might have been anticipated;
the office. press and material were sold
by Mr.. Fellowes to Messrs. Robert
White and Cyrus Rowe, and on the sixth
day of February, 1929, the Republican
Journal" the exponent of the !emocrat-
ic creed according to Andrew Jackson,
commenced its career as a political mis-
sionary.
Messrs. White and Rowe were fellow
apprentices in the office of Mr. Fellowes
Mr.. White sold his interest in the Jour
nal to Mr.. Benjamin Griffin about 1o41,
and engaged in mercantile business.
He held the office of Register of Deeds
and County Treasurer for several years
and subsequently was largely interested
in ship-building H died Dec. 81, 1866.
In the fall of 1848 Mr.. Rowe finally
disposed of all his interest in the Jour
nal to Messrs. Moore and Wing. Not
long afterwards he removed from this
place to California and subsequently to
Nevada; he died at Nevada City, Dec.
IL, 1858.
Prominent among the advertising pa
irons of the Hancock Gazette in the
first year of its publication were the
following named traders: Ladd and
Morrill,, John Angler. Franklin Tirkham.
Benz. Hazeltine, Francis Hathaway,
John S. Kimball, Peter H. Smith, Oshea
Page, all dead; Ralph c. Johnson, John
Clark, Hugh J. Anderson still living.
Innholders. Samuel Jackson, who kept
public house on the site of the premises
now covered by the store of Francis
Whitmore, John Huse. who kept the
house at the intersection of Main and
High streets, and Thos. Cunningham
who kept the 'Sun Tavern" the house
occupied by the late Capt. James Miller
at the time of his decease; it was for
some time called the Pumpkin Tav-
ern"; especially by the democrats of
the day, who could not forget that Col.
Cunningham during the war was a vio-
lent Federalist and firmly believed to have
secretly rendered aid and comfort to the
enemy.
The origin of that belief was simply
this. While the British were at Castine.
and before they took possession of Bel
fast, a young man then, an old man
now, sportively arrayed himself one
evening in military garh, antique as
the days of the Revolution, for the pur-
pose of surprising young lady on whom