Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-14

| ocratic party to put their finger OIL
| any one expenditure that the Demo
| cratic party would change had they TIL
power: to tell us any solitary thing tina
has been wrong. From the Goth day O
June until the present hour they have
had this opportunity and they have no
| to this hour. l challenge every Dem
ocratic paper that every appropriation
| from 1858 to the present time has receiv
ed the unanimous approval of every
| Democrat who has sat in the Legis
lature for the past 50 years.
The truth is that every Republican
and Democrat is alike in expenditures
in the Legislature, because the solid peo-
pie behind them demand it. Maine is
| not standing still but is growing and
| the expenditures are greater. The rail.
roads are the barometers of the bus
mess. This means more wages, more
| business, more good homes and school
| houses, benevolence and charity. The
Republicans and Democrats alike have
We'd with each other. 1t is wicked for
any Democrat to climb into office on
any such charges. The question of sal
aries being raised. gas comes up, but
every salary raised for the past 80 years
has had the cordial and hearty approval
of every Democrat legislator.
Another charge which is true Mr.
Pattangall rings the charges. His
mighty intellect which was cast out of
Machias and later from Bangor back to
Machias and who is now a temporary
citizen hanging around Waterville. He
can't let it go more than one day for
time but repeats the story of Carleton,
Carr and Stetson. The facts are true, it
never should have been. During the
time l was in the Legislature everyone
received a pass. 1t was not right but
Mr.. Pattangall was not the man who
found it out and stopped it. Long be-
fore he took it up, and l can't always
tell whether he is Republican or Dem
ocrat, was the matter of abolition I'M
That thing was investigated: law
drawn up forbidding it and the practice
stopped.
''One more State issue. l don't want
to go home without saying something
about the Sturgis law. If there is any,
thing wrong about a platform I am will
ing to say so. When parties are gone
We have no government. The place to
fight these things is within the ranks of
our party. If we are defeated accept
the majority vote and wait until the next
time. l do not want to dodge the Stur-
gis isue. Pat has said a great deal to
the people. l was opposed to it when
1t was drawn up, am opposed to it now
and will be opposed to it until it dies
next year as l hope it will. 1t was the
worst blow to prohibition that the State
ever met with. Stay with the party
which comes nearest the right thing. l
am a Prohibitionist. l do not believe
that the people of Maine will return
to let the sheriff say that he is bigger
than those who made him.
THE constitution said that the Gov
ernor of the State should have the pow
er to appoint impeach. The State
constitution is similar in that respect to
that of the federal government Under
the Sturgs law the Governor of Maine
is nothing but "a tigurehead. During the
administration of Governor William T.
Cobb he found four sheriffs who, after
taking the oath that they would execute
the law for all men, stood up and said
that they would not enforce the law
They snapped their fingers in the faces
of the people. They were bigger than
the government of Maine and the peo-
pie. The first remedy was plain one,
they should have been impeached, but on
account of a piece of moral cowardice
on the part of the Legislature this was
not done. Then 1t was put to Hon. w.
T. Cobb to see whether we were living
under anarchy The Legislature having
failed to impeach, there was no other
alternative save the Sturgis law which
was passed. The responsibility was UP
to the Legislature. The State of Maine
had got to devise some way to meet that
emergency.
Then came what is known as the
Eaton amendment which gave the Gov
ernor power to summons before him any
sheriff who had been insolent and indie
cent. If he was found guilty, the pow
err was given to impeach him and
choose a successor of the same political
faith. The proposition was made by w. =
T. Haines. Republicans said to Demo-
Gratis: Let's substitute this appeal and
that will settle the question 1t passed
the Senate with two-thirds, vote but
not in the House. The Democrats said:
we have got you in trouble and none
OF our votes are you going tc have. We
will use this end to drive you out of
power. They planned to be cheap ana
mean. They wanted the Sturgis men
to remain two years longer for political
reasons. The Republicans of Waterville
If honest would support the ticket down.
Do it,
Mr. Heath then spoke in regard to ma
tional politics and said that there were
only two powers that did not approve
of the protective tariff and they were
England and the Democratic party of
this country. One ounce of fact is worth
10 hours of editorial. Mr.. Heath discuss
ed the object of endeavoring to elect a
Democratic Governor and told how II
would effect the national affairs 1.-THE
two senators from this State are ap-
pointed and should vacancies come dur
Ing his administration two Democratic
would be seated in Congress.
1t is great game they are playing for
No wonder they say that national is
sues are taken in this campaign"
Mr. Heath closed by saying: 1--WE will
be content to wait four years and there