Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-04
THE CAMPAIGN.
Senator Fairbanks Given
Rousine Receptions.
Speaks at Thirteen Different
Points in Indiana.
Candidate Parker Addresses Gathering
at New York.

Lafayette, Ind, Nov. 3.-From Mich
igan City to Lafayette, Senator Charles
w. Fairbanks special train, Wednes-
day, stopped at IL different points. In
his first speech of the day at Michigan
City. the senator referred pointedly to
the charges against Chairman COrtel-
You, contained in the recent speeches
of Judge Parker. All of the senator's
addresses were warmly applauded. At
Logansport, the secretary of the treas
ury. Leslie NJ. Shaw. joined the party
and afterwards the senator addressed
the evening meeting at Lafayette.
Senator Fairbanks said in part:
I'VE have been engaged in import
ant campaigns in the past, but never
have been engaged in one more i'm
portant, perhaps, than the present.
There has been no great achievement
in our last 50 years of history and Il
great and splendid history we have
written in that brief time, that has not
been opposed violently and earnestly
by the Democratic party. Is it wiser
political leader today, than it has been
during the so years that lie back of us?
If so. how 40 we know it?
1--WE should not entrust the control
Of affairs of the government to the
hands of the Democratic party simply
because the Democratic party wants
control. We like Democrats, as such,
but we like prosperity more. We nave
not settled all the great questions
which interest the American people.
We have settled many of them honor
ably and well. There are many 1ueS-
lions of great interest to be solved ana
it is important therefore to intrust the
mana cement of our national affairs 10
a marty that has been able sucee5sful-
ly to meet the great problems WHICH
are back of us.
Eve have had to consider the queS-
ton of an isthmian canal in order that
W., might increase the national defence
and promote the commerce OF the
| United States. The Republican party
believes in building up home market
in order that we may expand our III
dustries and give work and wages to
the great army of working men III t'e
| United States. We believe in deEeiop-
ing our home market in order that we
may bring prosperity to the farm. we
have been giving d good deal Oh atteh-
ton to the foreign market and we nave
felt that one way to expand IL was
through the construction of an 18TH
milan canal"
Secretary Shaws address was large
" devoted to an explanation OF the
benefits which he said would accrue
to the producers of the country from
a continuance of the policy of protec-
ton. He said:
we collected during the last fiscal
year in internal revenue. $2S0,O00.coO.
This is collected almost entirely Oh in
toxicating liquors and tobacco.
Nov, what do we do with this
money? We spent s1O.O00.00 last
; year, i'm the erection of public buildings
! in hundreds of cities and towns in the
different states. The S10,000.000 that
| went for public buildings went for la
Dor. We spent some millions for river
Y and harbor improvements, some OF
4 which was wisely spent and some
which was thrown away.
. But it all went for labor. for rivers
and harbors are improved under the
r supervision of the war department and
officers in the army get the same pay
whether they are improving rivers and
3 harbors or doing something else, or do
ing nothing. We spent some millions
Q on battleships and cruisers. but out
, of every million thus expended, nine
: HUNDRED thousand goes to labor in
| some FORM