Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-09
The Gubernatorial Canvass.

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resort to personal abuse and epithets'
although the reason for this. as
has been very palpable to the in
telligent observer of events, has
not been altogether connected
with the gubernatOrial matter.
While the KenEebec Journal has
had more or less matter sent to it for
publication in the nature of attacks
upon candidates, it has steadily de-
clined to open it's columns to communl-
cations of this character. We have
taken this stand, primarily, because we
policy for newspaper claiming
allegiance to the Republican party ana
| representing large Republican con-
| stitucncy, to attack the record OF that
party and assail its leaders and candi-
dates with personal bitterness and
abuse. The record of the Republican
party in Maine has been a grand one
At the close of the year, 1908, with
every temporary loan paid, the state
had returned to half the towns C1
Maine from it's treasury more money
| for the support of their schools imam
they had paid into it in taxes, and we
closed the year with the largest cash
balance In the treasury In the history
of the State. This is a record which
we believe the Republican party OF
Maine has a right to be proud Oh, anu
we deprecate the course of any man or
| any newspaper which would undertake
| to make the people of Maine, or any
| portion of them, infer that the facts
were otherwise. We have never be-
lieyed that we could assist Mr.. Cobb in
his canvass by assailing the splendid
record of his party. or personally abus'
| ing the able gentlemen who are COM
| peting with him for the high honor of
the gubernatorial nomination. 1t has
| been our firm conviction, from the
start, that any candidate who entered
upon the canvass with these methods,
who deliberately worked up needless
| antagonisms and furnished the Demo-
cratic party with campaign ammu-
| milton would be fore-doomed to defeat
| in the Republican State convention.
No man in the history of the Repub-
lican party in Maine has ever yet
| secured the Republican nomination for
our very strong conviction that no man
| will ever succeed in doing SO in the flu
ture.
| 1t is inevitable that there should be
| differences of opinion in the various
sections of our State touching the
merits of the candidates. and it is the
right of every citizen to support which,
ever one he plcases and give that sup
port the force of whatever influence he
is able to exert in the community.
Local pride and local associations,
personal friendships and personal
opinions all enter largely into contests
of this character. and because a man is
loyal in his support of the candidate of
his choi5c, promoting his cause to the
best of his ability, is no reason why he
should entertain unfriendly feelings
for, or speak in Il spirit of bitterness
and disparagcment of the other gentle
| of
the friends who are aiding them in the
| furtherance of their ambitions. The
Kennebec Journal has from the first
recognized the high personal character
of all the gentlemen who are now en-
| gagged in the canvass for the guber-
material nomination in this State. Tie
| ambition they cherish is an honorable
| one, and whichever one of them may
| be successful, the interests of the State
are sure to be well guarded. AS a
Republican paper we recognize this
| fact and approaching the Importance
| of the battle which must be fought for
our common cause this fall, we have
carefully avoided any expression which
| we believe could in any way give aid
| or comfort to the Democratic party.
| The candidate at the Bangor conven-
ton, whoever he may be, will have our
hearty and cordial support, and in Civ
| ing him that support we shall have
nothing to apologize for and nothing to
retract. We have INDUCED in no words
of disparagement or vituperation.
The vomiting of bile may serve to re-
lieve a bilious stomach, but it is never
| edifying to those who observe it..
| Diplomacy has won more battles in the
worlds history than war, and this is
as true of politics as it is of the other
relations of human life. While it has
been our lot, in this particular canvass,
to be located somewhat in the storm
center, and while we have exercised
the right which every citizen and every
newspaper has in this free country Of