HON. JOHN WEIGH.
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MT. SMITH,

 Your paper of the esd inst. contains the nomination of Homer Boardman, Esq. for Senator in the room of Hon. John Welch. beg leave Gas you cannot from your recent re- moval into tlis State be personally acquaint- ed with the minute history of it's potics,) to state few facts in relation to Judge Welch. He was soldier in the revolution, and sustai- ned commission; he was during Washing toms administration appointed Justice of Peace; in 1799 he was left out of the com mission because he was Democrat.

 He was then the intimate, personal, and po- litical friend of Kirby; in 1902 he was by the republicans put in nomination for Councillor and received 340O votes he remained in reg uar republican nomination until 1910. In 1906 he received 96OO votes, pure, unadulte- rated republican votes with the spirit then abroad it was something in point of persecu- ton like standing in the pillory.

 Old Democrat thank God are growing pop uiar, if so none have borne the tug of war with more fortItude & integrity thapJudge Welch. He was in democratic nominatiOn for cOun- cillor with Elijah Boardman whom republi- cans have rewarded for his long suffering, and with Kirby taken to the bosom of the nation al administration by President Jefferson {: Judge Welch alone among his compeers re- mains. The republicans in 1894 appreciating his woath and veteran services, placed him in nomination for Senator, he was elected to that office in 1895. Will old school republicans desert him now Somebody has said that Mr. Boardman is a better man; did the repubIi- cans from 1900 to 1910 entertain this senti- ment? No, he was among those martyrs of de- mocracy whose blood still cries from under the altar for an atonement.

 Let real republicans sustain him, and not dismiss him with ignOminy.

 Judge Welch was nominated unanimously last May bv the republican representatives Of