Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-14
THE COBB CANVASS.
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create
their onponents a ring" is pueriIe. We
,,aht ann ND the situation to date
NV declaring it composed Of a Cobb
ring n Prescott ring and a Fernald
ring or II we desired an extension OF
the term. we could easily select some of
the leaders in each Of these groups and
name n few minor rings after them
Rut such mere bandying of epithets
would be profitless. Three citizens OF
our State-clean and honorable men
aspire to become its chief executive.
The one who gets the most votes In
the caucuses will win the most dele
gates, and the one who has
majority of the delegates in the con-
yention will secure the nomination and
become the representative Of "the peo-
ple." for the man nominated by the
Bangor Convention will be elected
Governor of Maine next September by
rousing majority.
The Journal has been very flank TO
condemn some Of the methods adopted
by Mr.. Cobb's opponents and to con-
trast them with the high-minded and
courteous manner in which the Rock
land candidate has conducted his cam
yass. We do not believe that such
methods will win the approval of the
Republicans Of Maine, and the results
Of recent caucuses have tended to con-
firm us in this judgment.
There has been persistent effort TO
create the impression that Mr.. Cobb
10 not fright" on the question Of main
tanning and enforcing the prohibitory
law. There is absolutely no ground
for such an assumption. Mr.. Cobb is
not only a temperate man, but he is
and has been all his life an absolute
teetotalIer. Everyone who knows him
at all. knows this. If nominated and
elected Governor of Maine. as we be-
lieye he will be, the cause of temper
ance viii have in him hacker who
believes in 1t on principle. who prac-
tees II in his private life, and VINO
has at all times the courage of his con-
victions.
He has felt, however. that it was not
the privilege Of any one man to write
the platform Of the Republican party
OF Maine lie has felt that this prop
erIy devolved upon the party as
whole, in a representative State con-
vention. He has faith in the Republic
can party Of Maine, and believes that
It can be trusted to take the right
stand upon moral and economic ques-
tions in the future, as it has never yet
failed to do in the past. And he is
justified in this faith. So far as the
Republican party of Maine is con-
cerned there will be no change, or
shadow OF turning in it's demand for
the maintenance and enforcement of
the prohibitory law. Two years ago
the position of the party upon this
great question was stated clearly and
emphatically, and never in the history
of our State has the law prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors been
more vigorously or persistently en-
forced than 1t is. today. There is no
reason to fear that the Republicans
who assemble to represent the voters
OF the party In the State convention
will fail to take q clear, straightforward
and decisive stand upon this question,
or that Mr.. Cobb will not be In entire
accord and sympathy with such action
Il Is evident that the methods thus
far adopted to stem the current of
popular sentiment In Mr.. Cobb's favor
have proved futile, and as the caucuses
continue to be held his long lead in the
race is daily strengthened.
LINCOLN FOR cosa.