Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-09

lIlS pTOROSIllOu VI ldIHl 00JuSSshSsAS
is proven by the creation Of a tariff
commission composed Of trained ex-
perts at the head Of which there Is a
distinguished son of Maine. Professor
Emery. late of Yale University, and
sen of the present chief justice of our
Supreme court. Won't you trust re-
vision with it's delicate and far-reach-
ing influences upon business to such
party, rather than accept the casual
and haphazard revisions Of the Demo-
cratic State convention. The voters
of this district believing in a protec-
tive tariff will not forget the last at
tempt of the Democratic party at TAR
ifr legislation, as indicated by the
Wilson German bill which that great
Democrat in the discharge OF public
duty as president of the United States,
Grover Cleveland refused to sign char
acterizing it in singing words that 1t
spelled party perfidy.
When they say to you that the Re
publican party has deteriorated in this
nation you point to the great commerce
court created by the present Taft ad-
ministration guaranteeing equity TO
every citizen as against any railroad
or transportation company; you point
to railroad rate regulation In the IN
terest of the common people; you point
to prosecution of men regardless OF
man or station when infraction OF law
appears; you point to postal savings
legislation; you point to the most
liberal pension laws of any iand. 10
the best merit system in governmental
employment in the world, and postal
system which, better than UNIVERSE
ties and more than schools, is spread
ing with widening and deepening IN
fluence those blessings which augment
the happiness and life to all men.
You say there is no palsy In the
genius of that party which little over
a decade ago drove the last remnant
of old world power from this CONT
nent and brought real freedom to
Cuba and facing the vexatious orlen-
tai problems now points to a PhAippine
people, asserting through an emissary
sent to President Taft at Beverly with
in a month that that country now IS
ready for real independence.
No blight has struck the party which
promised and is triumphantly carry
ing to conclusion the engineering feat
The State of Maine has ever welded
an influence in national policy more
potent than any state, gauged by the
number of people or power. and the
cause is simple, careful in the selectloll
of her agents in Congress. she mas
kept men of the type of Blame, Reeo.
and Dingley as her spokesman, ana
here in this district, conspicuous for
it's influence in the past we boast ana
glory in a man who as against the
f1uency of speech exhibits elouuence
in action, a man who does things in
stead of talking of them, man typi-
cal of this active acting age, a man
that every county in the Third district
and countless men in those counties,
Democrats as well as Republicans. at
test the energy and readiness and Ell
fectiyeness of his labor-a man VINO
today carries to fruition those poll
cies so ably promised by his great
predecessors, and in this different age
this age Of doing, ranks as the pest
and most effective agent this district
has ever sent to Washington. Edwin
q Rurleigh-a man whose fame may
we'll rest on that kindly interest and
snlendid effort in behalf of those men
who from 81 to IS needed not cost or
extravaganza, even of their blood. hut
with the trenches for couch. and the
skies for a canopy showed that God
was sitting out the hearts of men
before His judgment seat. Such
one in this commercial age remember
ing those men can rest his hope of fu-
ture remembrance not on tongue or
wordy phrase but grateful hearts.