Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-08-30

ADDRESS LARGE REPUBLICAN, MEETING
AT THE OPERA HOUSE.

ADDRESS LARGE REPUBLICAN, MEETING
AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
Wednesday evening the Republican
campaign was opened at Norway by Q
we'll attended meeting at the Opera
House which was addressed by Hon. w
G. Philbrook Of Waterville and Hon
Frederick A. Powers Of Houlton. The
stage was decorated with flags, and
number of the leading Republicans Of
the town and elderly voters occupied
seats there.
Lumley Castle Band of South Paris
furnished music for the evening, and the
boys played we'll and got complimented
all around.
Col. A. j. Stearns of the town com.
mittee called the meeting to order, and
presented Col. e. F. Smith as the chair
man of the evening. Col. Smith spoke
briefly, and presented Judge Philbrook
the present encouragement Of Maine
as the first speaker.
Judge Philbrook discussed state issue'
entirely. He uged particularly upon the
young men to remember that they were
voting for principles, and vote for
Democratic candidate is vote for Demo.
cratic principles.
The Democrats, said Judge Philbrook,
being in the minority, are naturally con.
Quoting their campaigns on the basis oil
criticism. Four years ago their cry was,
"Shall the state of Maine be honestP" Al
the same time they said on the side,
"Let's resubmit." They couldn't find
anything in the management of state
affairs that was not honest.
Two years ago their cry was, "Lets
elect honest Obadiah Gardner governor
and on the side, "Let's resubmit."
They didn't elect Obadiah, and when il
came to this years campaign, they de-
cided that they must have a politician
for candidate.
This year their cry is, "Extravagance!
Extravagance! Extravagance"-and on
the side, "Let's resubmit." venture
the prediction that in the last days OF
this campaign all you will hear from the
Democrats will be resubmission.
Judge Philbrook then discussed the
question of alleged extravaganza In some
departments of the state, especially the
attorney generals Office, bis own depart
ment, because this had been specially
mentioned by Mr.. Pattangall. Incident
ally he paid his, assistant, Charles =.
Barnes of Norway, high compliment,
telling his fellow townsmen that If he
kept his health he would bring honor to
his town. He showed the large amount
of work the Office was doing, as legal adj
wiser for all departments of the state
government, where formerly there were
twenty or more, and the large amount
of money collected BY the office and
turned over to the state treasury every
year from franchise taxes regarded as
dead" by the state treasury, and from
other sources.
1t is the principle of the Republican
party to manage affairs so that the tax
payers will be increasingly relieved from
the burden of their tax paying. Judge
Philbrook then pointed out various
sources of revenue of the state which
now relieve the burden of direct tax
alton.
The Democrats cry, said Judge Phil.
brook in closing, that Maine is spending
money by the million, and yet they
won't put their finger on place where
they would cut down the expenditure.
Judge Powers discussed national
issues mainly, referring first to the large
amount of constructive legislation that
was passed in the last session of con-
gress. We hear it charged that the Re-
publican party is controlled by the trusts.
Yet every move that has ever been made
against the trusts has been made by a
Republican administration. Under
President Cleveland, the only invoking
of the antitrust law was against combi-
nations of laborers.
The Payne tariff law is not perfect
law, though probably the best that could
have been passed. But it has some good
features, any way. 1t is a revenue pro-
Queer, turning an annual deficit into
surplus. Under it also the balance of
trade il in our favor.
Protection does not make trusts.
Some of the larger trusts exist 10 free
trade England.
You've got to have tariff any way.
On what shall the duties be imposedP
On those things We do not produce in
this country, or on the things We do
produce, in competition with the cheap
labor of other countries, to protect our
own laborP In free trade England, one
person In every twenty-one is a pauper,
dependent on public support.
Referring to the much discussed in
crease in the cost of living, and the
charge that 1t is due to the tariff, Judge
Powers took up the bill of fare of his
supper at Beal's Hotel, and went through
the items to see how the Payne tariff at
fected them. Not one item on the list
was increased under that tariff, and
some of them were little reduced. On
his own table, Judge Powers said, he
had made the same test for two-days
period, and the only article on which he
found an increase was buckwheat, which
was slightly advanced.
In 1896 the burden of the Democratic
song was low prices, due to Republican
administration, and they proposed to
call fifty cents dollar as remedy. In
1910 the burden of their song Ia high
prices due to Republican administration.
Which will you take?
State issues were discussed briefly.
Judge Powers said that be believed 10
prohibition and its enforcement. In bis
experience on the bench, he found that
sixty per cent of all the crime and mis-
cry with which he had to deal were due
to liquor. The Democratic cry of ex-
travagance was taken up, and be chal'
lenged Mr.. Plaisted to name a single ap'
propriation which he would reduce. An
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