Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-06
VIGOROUS PROTEST
FROM EVERY SECTION
Hundreds of Letters from All Over
Maine in Opposition to the
Portland Movement.

On this and the following pages this morning the Journal pub
fishes again the letters received response to the letter Of
inquiry sent out to all parts of the to ascertain the popular
sentiment the subject of capital removal These letters
which appeared in columns in different inaments
collected here to demonstrate conclusive fashion than
could be done otherwise the almost absolute unanv OF the
people OF Maine against the Portland proposition Here
900 letters coming from almost of the 45O and
the State outside of the OF kenebec Cumbe
land and only Fl of the whole number of letters express sent
men in favor of changing the OF State government
Let emphasize the fact here which have repeatedly
spoken OF before in this connection that the Journals letter OF
inquiry officials of oranges former
members OF the Legislature and citizens OF local prominence
whom there believe might know and be able to
voice tie sentiment OF their community this question We
had way OF knowing i'll advance the sentiments of single
individual to whom our letter of inquiry
The first table which is published this page this morning
shows how towns i'll each county heard from and
from whom the letters received Thus in three counties
Lincoln Pscataquis and Waldo every single heard
FROM while in Sagada1oc but is missing: i'll \nlro
coggln and Hancock but two each III Franklin and Knox but
three each while in York county which the least generally
represented answers responses the e
towns.
Thus the letters Of inquiry from every
part of the State from kery Fort Kent and from Passport
Jac<man and could be better qualified to speak for
their respective communities than these to whom the Journals
letter and from whom the published here
received Not single signed letter which have
received omitted except those received from the counties Of
Kennebec and Cumberland which puposey left out
being partisan be OF value in symposium Of this kind
The letters demonstrate most impressive fashion that this
capital business of Portland against the whole
State of Maine.
OF the So7 letters received only 2Itat is i'll 42were
in favor capital removal From Of the fourteen counties
Aoostook Knox Tenoscot Sagalaoc Somerset and Waldo
not single letter received favorng capital removal From
three counties Franklin Lincoln and Pscaaqus but one letter
each received favong capital removal From three other
Washi letters
received avorng removal From county Andres
coggn three were received favoring removal From
county Oxford nie received avorng removal all from
the southern part Of the county which directly west from Fort
land and adjoining Cumberland county
After such symposium ls-wl !D7 ont OF $50 towns
heard from in the counties and with so letters opposing
removal Of So7 received from well qlahed TO speak
for their there be doubt as to where the people
OF Maine stand upon this proposition 1t there IS any doubt
i'll the minds of the members of the Legislature or OF others
are interested let look the second table published
upon this page this morning showing something about the
that have poured in upon the Legislature against
capital removal Up date fewer than 5S such reon
have been received with 1857 gners These like
the letters received by the Journal have come from every sec
ton OF the The petitions which the Legislature has
received favong removal have nearly all come from Portland
immediate vicinity. This is natural as the hackers OF the
Portland could get SgnerS IN any coiSideranc
number elsewhere but the citizens OF Augusta have not PIONEERED
put remosrances Had they done So the number OF
sgnes which would have been easily secured in this city alone
would have more the sgers the petitions which
Portland has been able to present.
But this protest against the removal OF the capital from
Augusta to Portland merely the protest OF the present
capital of the State 1t far than that 1t is the protest
people all parts Of the State and more people IN Penob
scot county have signed renonstrances against capital
removal the Portland boomers have been able to muster IN
their own county in of such removal The sgers OF
the reonstrances found by thousands in all the northern
eastern central and southern of the State and there
over zoo Of them from Cumberland county itself.