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

We answer Mr.. Hanson and Mr.. Nc
Gillicuddy by saying: do you wan
any less public schools, any less hos
pitfalls, do you want to stop the line o
progress?'
But, say the Democrats, there is an
other issue in the State The fundamen
tai element of this other issue is tn
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquor. With all its shortcomings TIN
Republican party as a party stands up
on the platform which in answer t.
the question shall the manufacture ant
sale of intoxicating liquors in this Stat
be permitted, says mo" applause
The Democratic party when asked thu
same question makes one answer in ont
| place and another in another. Mr.
Gardner in Piscataquis county, wher'
there are no large cities and where HI
| remembers that the voters have heart
| him say, as master of the State Grange
| that he is in favor of the prohibitory
| law, says he wants to test the question
| by resubmission, in order to strengthen
| the law. Mr.. Pennell. sheriff in Cum
berland county and center of the resub
| mission movement and Joseph Connol
Iy on the stump in Cumberland county
say that they want resubmision so tina.
they can repeal the law and get vote
| for high license l don't know how re.
| submission is going to strengthen the
law in Piscataquis county and give high
| license in Cumberland county.
Sometimes l think in regard to the
prohibitory law that We have been as
described in the words of the prayer
| book: oh, Lord, We have done the
things we ought not to have done and
left undone the things we ought to have
done and there is no goodness in us.
| But coming down to the fundamental
| principles every law that has been put
| on the Statute book in regard to the
| manufacture and sale of intoxicating
| liquors has been put there by the Re
publican party and it is there to stay.
| Coming back to my text. Judge Taft
| says which party by it's deeds. not by
| it's promises, Is entitled to your sup
port?" In the State of Maine you can
not divide State issues. Only the Sec
cessionst divided the State from the ma
| tion.
| When I go abroad to New York, Bos-
ton or Connecticut some of my friends
with what they are pleased to call its
| peculiar laws. | reply to them: Yes,
| we are peculiar in some respects. In
New York you stand at the center of the
worlds wealth yet only II per cent. of
your people own your homes, in Con-
necticut only IS per cent of the people
own their homes and in Boston only
10 per cent own their homes, but here
in Maine 43 per cent of the people own
their homes. We are not so far from
the state of New Hampshire. but what
we can hear what is going on over the
border and during the three years that
New Hampshire has abandoned its pro-
hibitory law there has been a marked
decrease in the savings bank deposits.
The Republican party has made us
what we are in the nation and State.
You have nominated from Governor
down a splendid ticket in which there
is no flaw. You have no right to find
fault. If you have the sense of OBJ
legation. which I feel, you will go to
the polls Monday morning with the
thought that if you help to roll up the
biggest majority in the State of Maine
that has ever been given the Republican
candidates you will have done the best
days work ever done for the Repub-
lican party and the State of Maine.
Judge Philbrook was followed by Wal
ter C. Emerson of Portland, who COM
bines a thorough acquaintance with
public affairs with a delightful vein of
humor, which was thoroughly appre-
ciated and warmly applauded. by his
hearers. He said in part:
During the last three days I have
travelled 375 miles to meet three cam
paign engagements and here l am back
tonight in my native county, where at
the early age of six months 1 began my
political career We are doing things
in this campaign by the rule of three.
This is the third time 1 have spoken in
Kennebec county, the third active week
of the campaign and the evening of the
third day before election. 1t is custom
airy to give three cheers for the party
candidates, and this is the third and
last time we are called upon to do"
Mr.. Bryan. Don't forget it, for al
though 1t has not been mentioned in
Democratic editorial or campaign speech
in this State, Mr.. Bryan Is running for
the third time for the Presidency. Maine
democrats QOll like HlIi anu tlldl 10
one thing to their credit And right here,
my friend over in the corner, is your
prohibition story:
There was once an old chap who had
drank a great deal of whiskey during
the 50 years of his married life. Finally
his good wife got a little bit impatient
and when he came in one night little
fuller than usual she began to lecture
him and say: you are in an awful
condition again. Why. when you have
had all you ought to drink don't you
call for sarsaparilla?" The man replied:
when l have had all the whiskey
can hold I can't say sarSaparil!a." The
Maine Democrats have got about all
they can hold of Mr.. Bryan and they
can't say his name any more. You may
wonder why they put Mr.. Bryan in for
this third and last strikeout with two
men on bases and no men out. They
didn't. He was captain and manager
of the team and put himself in with
the strange idea that he could negotiate
the William Howard Taft inshoot. AL
ready 1 can hear the umpire calling,
that great body of thinking American
voters, on the close of that chill but
rosy November afternoon, strike