Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-04

in this matter. If you believe i'll the
Sturgis law, come right out like men
and vote for it. If you do not be-
lieve in it, vote against it. and rcpea;
it. Do you tell me that there is hon
esty In all the Sturgis deputies that
have been here? Take Bangor, for in
stance-four Sturgis deputies there all
summer, last summer. walking up and
Town Main street, going right past
faces where it was ION tap for beer;
md you are paying them, and have
raid the IN $74,0n0 for doing that which
,clonsed to the shcriffs to do; and l
can say to YOU, SheriffS would not do
heir duty so well when the Sturgis
lcputies are put into every county al
no5t in he State--but not all the coun-
les there arc some counties which
ley have rot Leon in at all where
here is more need of them than in any
other county in the State. Take An
ircscoSgin county and Knox county,
which have two efficient Democratic
sherilf;s. anu they fooled them in there
ard over in York county where they
told me there was more liquor sold
than in C,r county there was not one
put III there, though the county attor-
ney asked the Governor to do it.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen, you
lake this bill of my Brother Eaton.
and you find that the bill does not
contain anything as to who shall COM
municate to the Governor. There is
80 expense regulated by it. Do you
elicVc the people Of this State. know
nS the law upon the statute books in
No, Of 1n
leainst The sale Of in.oXicatinr linn""~
would at the polls, if you submitted
lido you Iclleve for d lnomellr ,.,at
they would vote for a constitutional
amendment, giving the Governor Of the
State of Maine the right to remove
sherilfs? That is a right that is given
TO the people of the county to regu-
late; and YOU cannot show me in the
history of this State up to the present
time a case where any sheriff at the
request of the people Of his county
to enforce the law, has failed to en-
'orce it. The sheriff of my county en-
forces il, 1t will not affect me any
DOWN there, or our county. OF course,
Wc believe III the enforcement of all
laws. If YOU have not any law upon
he statute book to enforce the prohib-
tory liquor law, | would say: Let them
have the SturgiS law. or any other
hey want. But You have all the laws
that you need and all the laws You
can execute. You may take thou
sand men and you haye got enough
law to keep every one at work, but il
don't do any good. No, my friends. il
IS not question of temperance We
I'll believe in temperance and in tenn
peTanog laws, but we believe in some
thing mere. We believe in the rights,
of the people. in representative form
OF government: and if YOU are going
a put this resolve through in favor
OF giving anybody the right to remove
shcilfls on county attorneys, why then
YOU DESTROY the representative form of
government in this State.
In great states, like New York and
the other states from whose gov
errors letters extracts have been read.
That might work with them, but we do
not need any such thing down here in
Maine. constitutional amendment;
why let the people vote on it. [ have
tried here number of terms to get
you to let me vote on resubmission. but
you rise up i'll holy horror; and are
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