Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-12
Cong. Ba1Ieigh's Name
Creates Wild Applause,
Stirring Tribute By Cong. Cole
In Speech al Belfast.
Republicans Hold RousIng Rally
at the Opera House.

'~SAA.'ef NiC.s sept 11.-(op6cldJ.-
The Republicans Of Belfast held q
| rousing rally at the Opera house to.
night. Some time before the meeting
was called to order the house was
packed to the doors with crowd
which demonstrated the intensity Of its
enthusiasm by loudly applauding the
speakers many times during the course
of the addresses.
The first speaker was Congressman
Ralph ID. Cole of Ohio, who paid a
very strong tribute to Congressman E.
c. Burleigh and advanced several very
good reasons why he should be return
ed from his district to the National
House. At every mention of Congress
man Burleigh's name the audience be-
came d solid mass of cheering, ap-
plauding humanity, and several times
Mr.. Cole had to wait several minutes
for the enthusiasm aroused on men,
ton of Mr.. Rurleigh's name to sub
side.
Taking up Bryan's campaign cry
"Shall the people rule?" the speaker
called the attention to the fact that the
section where the people rule least is
in the South, when Bryan's supporters
are most numerous. "If Bryan is sin
cere in this cry" said Mr.. Cole. "why
does he not lift up his voice as did
Lincoln in 81 ?" The Democrats, he said.
in this campaign have no real issue,
having in their vaciIating policy aban-
doned all the things for which they
formerly stood. parker. four years
ta1o t,n
said, "and now Bryan is running
or an Interrogation point" In case Of
Bryans election he prophesed panic
worse than that of '93, during the second
Cleveland administration.
The speaker branded as false the attacks
made by d. ]. McGilicuddy against Con-
gresham Burleigh of Maine. 'McGilli-
cuddy said that Congressman Burleigh
was unknown in Congress" said Mr.. Cole.
but this is far, very far, from the truth
Mr.. Burleish is known particularly as the
most influential friend of the younger
congressman. who frequently go to him
for counsel and never fail to profit by
his aStuteneSs and farSeeing wisdom. If
1 wanted an appropriation for public
building for Ohio, l should not go to the
Congressman Burleigh, rather than to
any other man in Congress. 1 know that
he has the influence to put through any
bill which he may promise to secure pas
sage for, and SO well known is his inf1u-
ence in putting through measures prOvid-
ing for public buildings and improve
ments that he is frequently referred to by
his colleagues as 1.-The distributor of pub
lie buildings"
Mr. Cole said that Mr.. Burleigh had
been effective in the fight against the re-
duction Of Names representation in Con-
gress and that the same fight would come
up again in two years. For this reason
alone, he said, Congressman Burleigh
should be returned
1.-The voters of Maine should realize"
Mr.. Cole continued. that the fight will
be practically ended on Monday next, for
as Maine goes then she will doubtless go
in November. Maine is now regarded as
the political barometer of the nation, and
as she casts her ballot next Monday she
will doubtless cast it in the national cleo
ton. and it is an old saying that as goes
Maine SO goes the union"
Hon. Forrest Goodwin Of Skowhegan
was very enthusiastically received. The
speaker said that most people Of Maine
had an idea that Gardner was big
farmer that this was a wrong impress
sion. Mr. Gardner, he said, lives on
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