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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Waldo County Taxpayers.

In 1903 the State tax assessed against
the one city and % towns of Waldo
county was s26,830.25. Now what dld
Waldo county get back from the state
treasury, that year? The question y
answered in detail by the table pup
lished in the Journal, this morning ana
a study of the table will promptly show
the tax-payers of that county man!
interesting things. Waldo county as
whole got back S35,S20.26 from the
State treasury. or almost $4,000 more
than it paid in State taxes, ana 'his
does not include the $3.50 paid year,!
to the Childrens Aid Society OF Bellas''
the $500 for salary of county attorney
1912 for military pensions, the sl.oV
Maid weekly for the support of each OF
WaIdo's insane persons, the stipends TO
AGRICULTURAL societies. etc, etc. l"en-
ty-one of the &c towns received pach
from the State more money than they
paid into the State treasury. In case
of one of the others, the excess against
il was less than $50; and in two OF the
remaining towns, Islesboro ana North-
port. the greater part of the burden or
taxation is borne by non-residents VINO
own summer property there. No fewer
than 10 of the towns in the county get
back annually for school purposes
alone a sum exceeding their State
taxes.
In view of these facts the taxpayers
of Waldo county are not going to be
fooled by the Democratic campaign OF
bluff and buncombe. The burden of
State taxation" does not exist for a
countv which gets many more thou
sands yearly out of the State treasury
than II puts in. These figures cannot
ba disputed. and their eloquent proof
of the direct benefits received by Wall
do county towns from the State will
not be forgotten by the voters of those
towns. This gratifying condition OF
things. let it be remembered, has
come about under Republican rule, and
such an administration is worthy a
splendid endorsement at the polls, Sep
tember L. In their desperate desire
Ia dodge national issues the Demo
Gratis have raised in this cam
paign the cry that the tax bur-
den of the farmers has been increased
| by Republican extravaganza in State
affairs. The absolute abSurdity of this
| charge is made manifest by such ta-
bles as this one for Waldo county and
| similar tables which have been pre-
pared covering the other counties. 1t
| is further shattered by the publication
of the fact that in the past 20 years
under Republican rule the State debt
has been reduced from S411S.114 tc
81. 653, 900. and the State tax rate from
AZ mills to "a mills while in the same
time the proportion of the States rev.
enues received from the towns has beer
cut from "A to "a per cent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Unfair and Misleadinu,

In list of the Salaries paid State
Officials and employees, the organ of Mr..
Davis includes the amounts paid for
printing and binding. Now neither the
Printer nor the Binder receive any
salaries whatever from the State. and
the attempt to make it appear SO by
inference is both unfair and misleading
They receive pay for the printing and
binding which they do, and the cost of
these items is dependent wholly upon
the volume Of work which is given
them to do. 1t is evident that both of
these departments must maintain large
and modernly equipped plants, that
they must employ and pay large forces
of skilled wOrkmen. that they must
consume and pay for large amount Of
stock and material, that they must
pay for rent, insurance, taxes, fuel,
lights and repairs, before any part of
these appropriations come to them in
the way of business margin. To take
the total amounts. therefore. paid for
this work and include in it a general
list of salaries is both unfair and mis-
leading. 1t simply illustrates the des-
perate straits to which the Democratic
leaders are reduced in their search for
campaign material.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
THE SENTIMENTS
Of William R. PattangaII
Of Machias, Maine,
Touching the Republican Man.
agement Of State Affairs
As Expressed by Him While a Mem
Der of the Seventeen Legislature.

William r. Pattangall of Machias,
who is now telling the citizens of the
fourth congressional district that the
election to Congress, was once a men,
Der of a Maine Legislature. While he
was there he made several speeches.
Some of them We're of but passing
interest-all of them We're eloquent
but one of them was so good that it
should be given again at the present
time. 1t was a speech in which he
summed up the work of the SEVENTEEN
legislature. He said the work was
good. He said the people would ap-
prove it. He said the legislature had
lifted the chief burden of taxation from
the property of the people. This
legislation still stands, yet Mr.. Pattan-
gall is now industriously at work telling
the voters of Maine that they are being
ground beneath the iron heel of tax
alton. To put a question which Mr..
Pattangall has very often put in dealing
with a hayward Witness
do you think, Mr.. Pattangall, that
your judgment as to that Legislature
would be clearer, after all this lapse Of
time. than it was when all the events
thereof were fresh in your mind?''
To this Mr.. Pattangall must answer
as his witness would:
mo"
And then will come the next question
which Mr.. Pattangall has often put to
witness in COURT
Don't you know as a matter of fact
that your testimony given in 1901 stated
things as they We're and that If your
testimony in 1904 differs from your
original statement, it must be your
testimony of 1901, given when all the
events were fresh in your mind, which
is true?"
And Mr.. Pattangall must do as his
witness would do, let it be ever so
reluctantly, and say
Yes"
Mr.. Pattangall, having come to take
this logical view Of the situation, is
now referred to the following excerpt
from the Legislative Record for 1901,
showing what opinion he held Of the
Seventeen legislature when it's work
was fresh in his mind:
There is one thing of which we can
be assured. whatever we have done, and
"eieFe eiiS "S silicereiy do peieNe
in my being here. today, we have done
as legislative body with one interest
at heart, the interests Of the people of
Maine; that if we have made mistakes
We have made them honestly.
Il believe the people Of the State of
Maine viii bear this legislature out, not
perhaps in every position they have
taken but In the position that II they
have done wrong they have done It |
under a mistake of Judgment and not
Influenced by any corrupt motive. not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

We publish in this issue some re-
of Machias while a member Of the
SEVENTEEN Legislature. These remarks
doubtless voiced his honest sentiments
at that time when all the work ac-
compishcd during the session was
fresh III his mind. Since then Mr..
Pattangall has gone over to the Demo-
cratic party and is talking in very
different strain in his public addresses
upon the stump. Still his words,
spoken upon the closing day of the
SEVENTEEN legislature, are as true now
as they were then and will bear repeat
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Mr.. Davis might vary his attacks
upon the Republican State committee
by telling his hearers of those inter-
esting days under the Cleveland ad-
State committee organized itself into
the famous Plum Trust. Incident
ally Mr.. Davis might also in
form his hearers wherein it is
any worse for State official to in
terest himself in political affairs than
it is for the mayor of city to devote
his whole time to political campaign
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Kcnnebec Taxpayers Were Satisfied.

Ncnneoec axpayeTS "eTS SoNS"s~
The organ of Mr. Davis now turns its
attention to county matters. Here
, again it will find the Republicans well
prepared to give good account OF It's
stewardship. The county table which
VIC re-publish. this morning, is for the
benefit of any of our readers VINO may
have overlooked it. This table SHOWS
that the county of Kennebec received
from the State Treasury in 1903, $94,
6s254 or s7s92.25 more than the tota'
tax assessed against them. Inc editor
of Mr. Davis organ has gone careiuiiy
over this list, and declares that one
item is incorrect. that the Children
, home only received $1,000 instead OF
81, 500. Accepting this as correct II SUI
leaves Sc, 50 which the cities ana
towns of Kennebec received from the
state Trea surv in 1903 over and above
the total amount of the State tax as
: sessed against them, ana WHICH
tiIiloulil CSeil Liz " o.
comedies to be correct.
Strangely enough when the organ
gets to Kennebec county, II does hol
undertake to make comparisons with
1882. In fact these comparisons appear
to have dropped suddenly out OF It's
general scheme of campaign. Never
theless it's readers might be Interested
to know what they show.
In 1882, the entire State Tax assessed
against the several towns In kennebec
County Amounted to a total Of $1O4,-
| 947.15.
In 1908. the entire State Tax assessed
against the several towns of kenneDec
County amounted to total OF $685.
$50 sc.
This is a decrease of $1S,211.49 in the
taxes paid into the state Treasury
since the time when Democratic Gov
ernor sat in the executive chalr or
Maine. Why does not the organ of Mr.
DAVIS continue us Interesting So'ip"i'-
sons. and give its readers the benefit of
these facts?
Certainly the taxpayers of Kennebec
county who are today getting about
$1,000 more out of the State treasury
than they pay into it, are not suffering
to any great extent from the burdens
OF State taxation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Some Democratic papers have been
holding that because Judge Parker
has resigned from the bench, Senator
Fairbanks should give UP his seat in
parallel and the presidents are all in
favor of Mr.. Fairbanks position. The
New York World. although a most
rabid Democratic sheet in this cam
paisn. defends Mr.. Fairbanks and
shows that there is no improperly in
his case. 1t says: Douglas did not
resign his Senatorial office when he
was nominated for President. Neither.
We believe. did Garfield. Van Buren,
did not resign the Vice-Presidency
when he was nominated for President
Mcclellan was a major-general when
he was nominated. and resigned his
commission on election day. Grant did
not surrender his commission until he
TOOK the oath of Office. and then he held
to the position that his assumption of
the duties of Commander-in-Chief of
the Army and Navy nullified his COM
mission az general of the army
hancock remained in the United States
ARMY until his death. Neither Ti,der
nor Cleveland resigned tho c,,.o
Ship of New York when nominated g,
President" ,o'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Why a CHANGE?

Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island says
that the strength of the Republican
stand pat" position lies in the fact
that the American people have never
| had so many reasons to be satisfied
with the administration of national af-
fairs as now, and that they will not be
so foolish as to vote for a change in a
time of general prosperity. The Re-
pubicans say to the country: IF you
continue us in power, your present
condition of prosperity will continue.
We will go ahead on the broad lines of
policy that we have pursued for the
past eight years, and which have made
the country more prosperous than it
ever was before" To assail this posi-
ton the Democrats must not only de-
clare that a change is desirable, but
| must prove it to be so. The New York
Globe takes up this point and says:
Can they do that? Can they prove
that if Parker is elected he will have
around him ADLER, more experienced,
| more conservative and safer men than
Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt
have had? Can they prove that if a
Democratic congress We're to be elected
it would be a saner and safer body
than a Republican congress? Finally,
| can they prove that the party behind
Parker. judged by the personnel of its
leadership in this campaign, is of such
| quality as to justify belief that a
change to it from the Republican party
would be a change for the better?
This is a very simple question, but
| it is the decisive one of the campaign.
| 1t is all well enough for the Democrats
| to charge that President Roosevelt is
| unsafe and to seek to defeat him on
that issue; but they must prove that
their party if put in power would give
the country a safer administration
| than the Republican party under
| Roosevelt has given it during the past
| three years. What are the damaging
results Of his "unsafety" as seen dur
ing that period? In what respect has
the country suffered from his admin
| iStratiOn?
| Would a change to the Democratic
| ptTty, DIS IcNcdltt Ill TIE 81. LOUIS Gull
| ventiOn and in the personnel of its
| leadership today, if effected at the polls
| in November, be of such i character as
| to give the business interests of the
country a feeling of stability? Would
| they feel the morning after Parker's
election that things would go on I'M
| changed. that general confidence would
| not be shaken, that the prosperity of
| the past eight years would continue
undimnished? Would they have any
doubt whatever on any one of these
points on the day after ROosevelt's
election? If it were known today, as
an absolutely immutable fact. that
Roosevelt would be elected in Novem-
Der, would there be a slump in finan-
cial and business conditions, or Il gem
eral advance"
These are questions which are set
thing the present campaign. and which
are arising with such clearness in the
minds of the American people that
nothing can obscure them or prevent
an intelligent answer to them. 1t is a
simple proposition to change from a
certainty to an uncertainty. from con-
fidence to doubt. The issue cannot be
put truthfully in any other way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Recommended by Governor PIaisted.

Some days ago the organ of Mr..
Davis savagely criticised the Governor
and Council for placing some insurance
upon the state Capitol. There were
quite a number of the rightful citizens
who felt that this action was in accord
ance with a sound business policy; but
it was very evident that the DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor was not
that the Governor and Council had
very good Democratic counsel in this
mater The last Democratic Governor
of Maine, Hon. Harris NJ. Plaisted, adj
vocated this very thing in his inaugur-
al address,. Under the head of Insur-
ance he said:
LAS to the insurance of our public
buildings. | can see no valid reason
why the State should not exercise the
common prudence of business men, and
insure such property"
1t was precisely this common pru-
dence Of business men" which was
exercised by Governor Hill and his
council, and which called forth such q
wild wall of criticism from the organ Of
Mr. Davis.
1t will doubtless be matter OF sur
prise to them to learn that this course
was so warmly recomme nded by Gov
ernor Plaisted, and we fancy that if
they had known of it a little earlier we
should have heard nothing from them
relative to insuring the State House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

David B. Hill says that President
Roosevelt is a fraud. The source of
this observation makes it of much
weight with the American people. 1t is
on par with that speech made by
Senator Bailey in New York, last week.
in which the Texas statesman solemnlv
proved that thePresident is a friend of
lynch law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

That little affair at San Francisco
last Friday evening, was not a circum-
stance to what may be expected when
those two Tammany patriots, Murphy
and McCarren, break away from the
corners where their seconds are now
holding them in check.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Influenced by anything except desr
to do what they believed to be right fo
the people of the State of Maine
l believe that this Legislative
has done a work which will be rernsni.
bered for years and years / believe
that the work of this Legislature nj
placing the chief burden of taxatlon
upon those great business interest
best able to bear it, and taking II ava!
from the property of the people dl
Maine, has been a work little realized
or appreciated by the people ofth|
State of Naturalization Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Munroe. the Butte miner, is probably
Still trying to realize what happened to
MN the other night. After all the
bluff and buster he has made in the
past year or two. his showing against
Jehrles was nothing short of a pitiful
flzZle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Tomorrow evening Senator Beveridge
Of Indiana. the colleague of Senator
Fairbanks. will speak in the Augusta
city hall. The opportunity to hear
this brilliant and eloquent young
Westerner is one which no citizen can
afford to miss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Maine State Fair Grounds on Labor
Day, Sept. 18th, will be a gold medal for
first prize and silver medal for second
prize in an amateur hundred dash, open
to the High School students of the
State. There are also good prizes for
the amateur half mile run. open to all
Large prizes in money are offered in all
professional events.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
Ny8llQuB GOSSIP
Non-Committal.

Hurrah fob dis election;
Da's all l has to say;
ism gwinter take no sides
Not till l gifts de pay.
| hasn't got no 'pinions
To offer on de fight,
But as an institution
Election days all right.
You hears me a-hurrahin'.
Rut in desc votin' games
At present Is particular
Not to mention any names.
Is out wifi de procession
When de ban begins to play.
But "hurrah for dis election
Da's all l has to say.
-WaShingtOr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Now that Jeffries has disposed OF
the Munroe doctrine. that issue will no
longer disturb the smooth current of
politiCal events.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

The reforms inaugurated and the
ciemcncy granted 10y the car in honor
of the birth of an heir. suggest that 1t
would have been a glorious thing for
the Russian people. il the boy had been
twins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

The Boston clearing house has re-
Quested the banks in Bath not to send
any more bills in making remittances
on account of the possibility of there
being diphtheria germs in them The
Independent doubts. however, if there's
anyone in Bath who would object to
taking all the bills he could get even if
he was running a chance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
DaiIy kennsbee Journal
EsTA1LlsHED, 1925.

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsible
for the preservation or return Of re-
1ected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
If you
Put your Ad
in the
kennebeC JOurn4
1t Pays.

How can II be otns1"
paper that covers the :
county-city, town and fsl
thoroughly. over two th0a, ..
daily subscribers on Rural =, ",
Delivery routes in Kenns
County alone. Ask your e.
customers II they are
scribers Of the Jouraal +. I
note resulta "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Diphtheria. sore throat. Group. Instan
relief. permanent cure. DR.. Thomas
electric Oil. At any drug store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Now good digestion waits on appetite,
and health on both
If it doesn't, try Burdock Blood Bitters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
For County Commissioner
IRVING r. BRADLEY, of Vienna.

For Representatives to tho Legislature
WILLIAM H. GANNETT. Of Augusta.
FRED G. KINSMAN, of Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Terrible plaques, those itching, poster
ing diseases of the skin. Put an end to
misery Doan's Ointment cures. At any
drug store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

1t does not look as though the tide of
travel We're setting out of Maine. The
eastbOund trains out of Portland's
Union station, yesterday, had standing
room only.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

No need to fear sudden attacks of
cholera infantum, dysentery. diarrhoea,
summer complaint of any sort if you have
DIR. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry
in the medicine chest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Senator Beveridge of Indiana who
will speak at the Augusta City hall
Wednesday evening, is a summer resi-
dent of Maine as he has spent his vaca-
ton for years in the Rangeley region.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

For Register of Probate
WALTER A. NEWCOMB, of Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

The new principal Of the Rumfori
Falls High school bears the same name
as his predecessor who has Just re-
signed to accept position in Connecti-
cut, and like him is graduate of Bow
dom College. He is Herbert o. Clougb
who has taught for several wears in
Albany NJ Y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

The Pennington Normal school
opens, today, the first of all to begin
the fall term.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

1T has been a long time since the
driving conditions on the Penobscot
river and tributaries have been SO gen.
orally unfavorable as this year." said
Cornelius Murphy of Old Town, one
of the best known lumbermen in this
part of the State, to a Bangor Com
mercial reporter the other day. "Driv-
ing conditions have rarely been SO hard
as this year and progress has been very
slow and tedious. To begin with, the
driving crews have had more than the
usual share Of head winds TO contend
with and it is practically impossible to
make any progress with these blowing.
Work has to be suspended entirely.
When head winds are blowing, they
cause lots of extra work for the men.
The drive this year is going to be an
expensive one, as an unusually large
crew has had to be employed to keep
the logs under control during the drive
The logs have been spread out great
deal owing to different causes, and at
the present time they are so scattered
that some are already in the boom in
the main river while the rear Of the
drive is seven or eight miles above Mat
tawamkeag. There are about $4,000, 900
feet in the whole drive. In my estima-
ton driving conditions will be harder
and harder every year. The pulp mills
that are constantly going up along the
river interfere greatly with the drives,
because they hold back the water to run
their plants with, which causes the
trouble for the lumbermen. Then
again, the sorting gaps also tend to
hinder. the logs from coming along
fast"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

The launching Of the battleship
Georgia in October will be made an
event of considerable interest and i'm
portance and rightly so. She will be
the largest ship Maine has ever sent
overheard and the first battleship
Maine has ever constructed for Uncle
Sam.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Among the prizes offered for the
sports at the big field day held by the
Central Labor Union Of Lewiston At ths
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
For Judue of Probate

For Judge OF Fropato
GREENLIEF T. STEVENS, Of Au-
gusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
WALDO COUNTY,
What It Gets from the State Treasury
What It Pays Into It.

The State city Belfast and
to