Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-01

HON. HERBERT M. HEATH
OF Augusta, Who Nominated Hon. Will
liam L. IIaineS.
have made him what he is today. We
sent him to the Senate. He framed
and pushed the first law proposed in
New England to teach the railroads
that they ARE servants of the people,
not masters. For four years he
| fought for a listing law to equali4e
taxation. He stood for an honest
child labor law, believing, as he did,
with his big heart, that dividend
checks earned from children's sweat
orc spattered with blood. He origi-
----. .uur system of registration in
tie cities. He helped the passage of
the law that stopped the sale of
liquors in the original package. He
fought and battled and spoke for that
great liquor law of 1891 that made all
penalties imprisonment for the first
offence. This man not true to pro-
hibition? Try him by his deeds and
see In '95 his city sent him to the
House, where he was a leader among
leaders. In 81 you made him attor-
ney general of your State. Few men
ever made a better one. From 1901
to 1903 he served his State in the
Governors council. This man has
done things. Could any man be bet
ter equipped to serve his State as
Governor than honest Bill HaineS of
Waterville?
His greatest energy has been given
to his business life. He began with
two priceless assets, an empty pocket
and an honest heart He has quailed
before no difficulty. He has carried
on farms, built mills and factories
supplied towns with water, harnessed
electricity. operated timber lands,
rushed railroads far into the wilder
ness, and developed Maine as have but
few men even in this busy age. Such
men as he are helping to make Maine
what it ought to be, the best and
busiest State in the Union.
What crime hath this man COM
mitted that he should not be Governor
of Maine.
Honest in his convictions, he pro-
posed rcsubmission. But what kind
of resubmission, Republican or Demo-
cratic. Resubmission to save pro-
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He saw your majorities shrink from
forty weight thousand to eight? He
saw Kennebec and Androscoggin and
Cumberland swing from Republican,
ism to Democracy. He saw q we'll
led Democracy dividing the Republican
party in the unrest over resubnlfSsion.
He knew, You all know, that Demo-
cratic resublnisson means license.
He believed, you all believe, that Re
publican reSubmission would mean an
overwhelming re-affirmation of pro-
hibition. He said, "Squarely declare
for resuhmission for the avowed pur-
pose and in the firm faith and belief
in its re-aftirmation by a vote of the
people. Trusting to the intelligence
and honesty, the sobriety and high
rnindedness and morality of the peo-
pie of Maine, ! have no fears of the
results of resubmiSSion." Honest in
his faith, courageous as he always is,
to save prohibition he proposed Re-
publican resubmission. firm in his con-
viction that resubmisiosn today would
prevent the defeat of prohibition to-
morrow If reSubmiSSion had been
granted. he stood ready to give time
her policy of fifty years. He would
have left the chair of Governor to bat
tie on the stump for the home against
the saloon.
lie asked you, in the name of tenn
perance, in the name of prohibition.
as an official who had enforced the
law with severity, as legislator who
had framed your liquor laws, as a
public speaker who had battled all his
life for prohibition, as d business man
who stood for law and order and good
morals, as a student of politics who
forecasted the future from the lessons
of the past, as a man stainless in pub
lie and private life, he asked you to
grant resubmission to strengthen pro-
hibition, to join by new victory in it's
triumphal march through South and
West, to end these assaults on pro-
hibitiCn in Maine for another quarter
of a century, to overthrow license, that
after the fight prohibition might stand
square shouldcred and erect, ready to
face the future with a courage born
of victory over wrong.
No man that knows him would doubt
his loyalty to prohibition. Norman
who knows him could doubt that as
Governor he would enforce the law
with the courage of a Cobb, as brave
a man as ever honored the Chair of
State. 1t is said in Holy Writ,
Faithful are the wounds of friend;
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