Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-05
Speaker Cannon in Augusta.

had been planned. the rally was never
thcless an unqualified success. The
splendid audience which packed the
Opera House to its capacity demon
strated beyond any question the inter-
est Of the citizens of Augusta in the
political issues of this campaign. and
a statesman Of such power and ability
as Speaker Cannon. There We're many
Democrats as we'll as Republicans
present and they all went away with
something to think about. Mr.. Cannon
is not polished and scholarly orator
of the type of Senator Beveridge, who
knows his subject from A to Y. and
he has wonderfully effective manner
Of presenting political common sense
to his hearers. Moreover, those who
heard Mr.. Cannon at the Opera House
Monday. in common with all other
people in the country. honor Uncle
J'' Ills Iol
the tireless zeal with which. as a con-
trolling power in national legislation,
he has watched over the welfare of the
country. always advancing its interests
and protecting the rights Of the people.
They knew they We're listening to a
man who has been prominent for a
whose record is spotless and whose
hands are clean.
Naturally enough Speaker Cannon
had little to say about the local issues
" hich are more or less prominent in
our present campaign in this State
Tie frankly confessed that he knew
little about these issues. and that he
lad absolute confidence in the good
sense of the people of Maine to settle
these matters for themselves and settle
them right. But he made it plain that
more than local ISSUES are involved i'm
this campaign. He showed how closely
the welfare of Maine depends upon ma
necessary it is to Names best inter
cStS that the national administration
remain in Republican hands, and that
the State return a Republican dclega
ton to tn" next Congress. As was
especially appropriate on Labor day.
h. made the interests and welfare of
the laboring man the chief text Of his
talk. and he showed how vital it is to
the laboring man of Maine that the
Ne showed how the Republican party.
which in its earlier days had stood
successfully for the cause of free labor
as against slave labor. had ever since
been the friend Of labor. not only in
matters of legislation. but in the carry
ing ont of national policies which have
class. and given it d higher standard
of living and share in the general
prosperity of the country. He ridi
culcd the Bryanite assertion that the
wealth of the country is in the hands
Of a few "plutocratS." and declared
that the 5000, 900 savings banks depos
i,ors. who have now over three thou
sand million dollars in the savings
banks of the land. are all "plutocratS"
who would be injured by Democratic
victory.
He drew "A striking picture between
when Democratic policies were in eff
feet. and the prosperous times which
the country has enjoyed during the
past decade. What Democrat is there
who would honestly wish TO see the
country return to the souphouse era
II ClcvclandS times, when there was
honest workingmcn were forced to be-
come beggars? What Democrat is
there who honestly regrets the good
times which the country has enjoyed
under Republican rule in these recent
years. or who would care to undo what
has been done in the way of national
progress under the administrations of
Mckinley and Roosevelt? Speaker
Cannon put these questions in very
forceful fashion. and We hope the Dem |
ocrats who were present have done
some thinking on this subject since
tbCy hoard tho address
With characteristic emphasis Speak
or Cannon made plain the truth that
the Republican party is today as it has
been for half century. the party OF
and of action, while the
Democracy is merely a party of oppo-
sition and defamation. His review Of |
the accomplishments Of the last Re
publican Congress showed how faith
fully the Republican party has kept its
pledges to the people and how earn
estly and honestly Theodore Roose-
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