Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-20
Deputies. Sheriffs
Totals ............. 379

TOTALS ............. 90 =
This table does not include seizures
made on warrants against unknown
persons, nor does 1t take any account
of instances of several persons arrest
ed on the same warrant, both of which
would be very largely in favor of the
Sturgis deputies. The deputies were
kept before the supreme court the
greater part of the time during Janu-
airy and February.
This is a record of little better than
one a day for the Sturgis deputies, a
little less than one in two weeks for
the deputy sheriffs, and only one in the
last four months for the latter officers,
while Pattangall and Gardner and Nc
Gillicuddy and their lesser lights have
been Illuminating against notification
and official corruption for election pur-
poses. One in two weeks for a year,
one in fcur months before election. by
four able bodied Democratic officers
under full pay in city where Nc
Gillicuddy says conditions were never
SO bad, where bennett offers to point
out 200 places,-and Gardiner says he
would leave it to the local officials.
One in two weeks for a year, one in
four months before election. and the
Democrats are panied at evidence of
notification! One in two weeks for a
year. one in four months before cleo
ton. and McGillicuddy says that to
empower the Governor to remove such
officials and to fill their places with
honest men is "unrepublican and I'M
American." One in two weeks for a
year, one in four months before cleo
| ton, and the Democrats complain that
the Sturgis law means paying one
| set of Office holders to do work which
| another set of office holders are elect
ed and paid to do
Androscoggin county paid S240 for
Democratic enforcement in May. she
got ZERO. And Pattangall cites the
Sturgis law as a piece of Republican
extravaganza. She paid $240 in June.
She got ZERO. And McGillicuddy says
that conditions never were so bad
| there. She paid S240 in July. She got
| ONE. And Gardner says he prefers all
open bar loom in every corner to pres
ent hypocrisy. She paid $120 for the
first fifteen days in August. She got
ZERO. And the whole Democratic
chorus condemns notification.
Gentlemen, as fair test of the sin
cerity of these candidates for public
Office. propose to put to them a series
Of questions, which l invite them in
all soberness to answer / put them to
Mr.. Gardner. because he asks to be
elected Governor Of this State, charged
with the execution of its laws, because
he stands on a platform formed pro-
fessedly opposed to notification, be-
cause he says that if elected he will
do. all in his power to secure the en-
forcement of this law. l put them to
Mr.. McGillicuddy because, although a
candidate for d national Office he has
deliberately injected this question into
the discussion at a public meeting
when he was asking for support as
such candidate.
l have purpOsely framed all of the
questions except the last, so that they
may be answered by a simple yes" or
no This calls for no amplificatiOn
and justifies no lodging or obscuring
the issue by the raising of dust or the
splitting of hairs. Yes or no, Mr.. Gard
ncr. Yes or no. Mr.. McGlIicuddy.
Neither flights of oratory. nor witticism,
nor sarcasm. nor Indignation, nor eva
sion nor other artifice calculated to
mislead. but, yes. or no, and let the
public Judge. If you are right, you
should not suffer. If you are sincere,
you will not hesitate. You have raised
the issue. The voters have a right to
test your good faith. to know whether
1t Is law you oppose. or its enforce
ment, whether your anxiety is born
of love for the public welfare, or love
for public office, whether it is reform
you seek. or votes.
l. Assuming that the foregoing
statement showing the comparative
number of cases in which arrests have
been made by the two sets of officials
is substantially correct. and that dur
ing all of that time Sheriff Hastings
has kept employed at an expense to
the county of $780, each per annun,
besides fees and expenses, four special
deputies whose duties OStcnsibiy have
been confined to the enforcement of the
prohibitory law, do you believe that
they have been reasonably faithful in
the performance of those dutesc
2. Assuming that the same premises
are true, do you believe that any one
of them might not have done mere than
all four appear to have done, il he had
been faithful in the performance of his
duties?
3. Assuming the same premises, do
you believe Sheriff Hastings has been
honest with the county of Androscog-