Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-12

party has kept it's pledges how it saved
our financial integrity, how fullySit has
discharged every national duty, how
firmly it has maintained the honor OF
the flag abroad. Every man knows
what the Republican party stands foi
todny and what it will do if continued
in power. Every man knows Theodore
Roosevelt. On the other hand. nobody
knows Alton B. Parker. Nobody knows
what the Democratic party stands for
or what it would do if given power Ii
can only be judged by its past which
it now begs the country to forgive and
forget on the plea that it is sane and
safe at last. 1t is the party of nesation
| and fault-fnding. the party of hard
times and national shame, the purity
| that retards American progress, the
party that waivers in crisis ana
lodges duty When last the people
made the mistake of putting it In
power there followed snup-house era
| for wOrkingmen and a deficit in the
| national treasury.
We urge every Republican to keep
| these things in mind, today. when he
goes to the polls. Maine wants to
bouor Theodore Roosevelt and to spea X
for four more years Of Republican rule.
The way to do it is to roll up the larg-
Est possible majority for the whole
Republican ticket. And if considered
wholly from State and local point of
view the cause and the candidates
merit this same kind Of 4 victory. The
Democratic attack upon the Republican
administration of state affairs coll
lapsed utterly when the facts and fig
rr"s yer" pYsen'ed' 1t has bee"
shown that under Republican rule there
has been steady reduction Of the State
debt and the State tax rate; there has
been honest and business-like manage
mcnt Of every department; there have
| been increased State expenditures only
| when warranted by the needs of the
| growing State and when duly author
| lZcd b. the representatives Of the peo-
| Pile; the burden of state taxation has
| been shifted from the towns to the
great corporate interests SO that now
the towns are paying much less into
the state treasury than 20 years ago
and getting much more out of it.
| The Democratic campaign upon
| State issues has been based upon the
theory that a lie will travel so fast that
the truth will not overtake it. The
Democratic speakers and writers have
stopped ut nothing in their efforts to
bcfog and deceive the voters. They
have juggled figures and distorted
facts in the most barefaced fashion
When exposed, they kept right on. Ia
bles which were false from beginning
to end have been kept standing in their
newspapers, and they have flooded the
state with supplements, cards and let
tiers full of falsehoods and of insults to
the Intelligence and honesty of Maine
voters. 1t is the privilege Of Republic
cans to give that kind of campaign
the rcbuke it deserves. today.
Let there be a full Republican vote
today, and there is no doubt of the re-
suit in any part of the State and nc
| doubt Of the effect of our victory
throughout the country. The Demo-
Gratis will poll their full party strength
and we must do the same. There is nc
excuse for any Republican who stays
at home or allows any engagement tc
interfere with the casting of his ballot
} That is the same as voting for the Other
side. And there is no excuse for cut
ting the ticket, today. Vote early, anG
vote the straight ticket. See that your
neighbor votes also. Put in persona
work ana make it your individual duty
) to see that the full party vote is cas-,
at the polls. There is much at stake
and it is 4 privilege to have a part fr
the grand work. There was never a
time in the history of the nation or the
State when it was a prouder thing t.
cast a Republican ballot than it is to-