Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-30

Hihk you, with inns leadership, that
Maine will hesitate in September? We
are going into this fight to support
and cordially endorse the President
our Senators and our Congressman.
TOT all their acts since the last cleo
ton. Your nominee for Governor
may have the power to fill vacancies
in the United States Senate Maine
wants no Senators that viii tear down
the protective tariff and stab this
STATE. Your nominees for Congress
VIII be needed TO hold up the hands
OF the President in his patient strug-
gle To restore just relations between
capital and the people Your I,egis-
lature will elect a Senator To be loval
to Maine and the principles of the Re-
publican party. Men can't fool the
people Of this State with the pretense
that this election is not to turn upon
national issues WHY is the Demo-
cratic party afraid to make this fight
On ia V'hai issues? Why shouldn't
they BE- afraid? This is Maine. not
Texas. In this last Congress. your
Senators and your Congressman be-
lleVed the homes upon our hills dear
er to them than all the world besides.
They fought for Maine. her civiliza-
ton and theirs, her institutions and
theirs. her principles and theirs her
people and theirs her homes and
theirs
lheY Fought to save our paper mills.
Better tnat thousands should have the
chahce 20 work than idle mills and sell
ilsh newspapers fattening on dividends
from using cheaper paper made abroad
lhev Fought To save our lumber
mills. Better the comfort of the mar
dN men that fell our trees and drive
our rivers than slight saving in the
cost OF your house or mine. They risk
tnelr lives Tor little enough. A grand
or set of men | never met than the
sclf-reliant lumbermen of Maine. Their
cause is our cause.
They fought 70 save our wooden mills
The wooden schedule was approved by
Nelson l)ingley in the conference re-
port upon his great bill. Tndisma yed
by abuse, your delegation stood loyal
to the Wravers at the loom.
They fought to save our cotton mills.
Aren't wages low enough in vour cot
ton mills without reducing them to
meet the theories of dreamy doctrina-
Tres, hungry for office while men that
sweat are hungry for bread? There is
something more in life than cheapen-
ing goods. Better for some of us to paw
more for our shirts than for our neigh
bors to go without.
They fought to save vOur lime indus
tries where labor would be idle with
out the present duty. They fought to
save your fisheries. Go down upon the
coast he tnilarc Inv, "a "a
ask them OF they believe your men in
Congress were mindful of the hard
ships Of their lives They fought to
save your sardine industry Go down
along the shore from the harbor of
Boothbay to the rock bound coast of
Quoddy ana then come back and tell
me. If YOU can. that Senator Hale and
his fellows We're not true lovers of the
state of Maine.
Traverse the sixty-odd thousand
farms of Maine, with their owners %
happy homes. better paid, better fed
better housed, better educated. more
intelligent better citizens than ever
before IN our history. the back bone Of
our civilization. and tell them. if you
dare, that the markets nearer home ara
not the wiser legislation.
1t may be true that the new tariff
has mere aSed the cost of living. | am
not on editor of a newspaper. hence
| do not know. Such editors told us
boots and shoes We're too high under the
Dingiey tariff because hides were taxed
and the tariff ON boots and shoes az
crssivc. The new tariff made hides
free and reduced the duty ION boots
| and shoes But boots and shoes are
higher Can il be- possible, that there
are some things that even editors do
not know
We PROMISE to reduce the tariff and
did. If greater reduction is cair. ana
can be- made with justice to capital and
labor both. the Republican party win
make it. 1t Will do it when it is right
and Just and needed. 1t will not trust
tn" task to the man that framed the
Wilson bill
Your delegation unheld the hands Of
the President in his great fight for fair
ans reasonable regulation of the rail
| roads. Railroads nave rights as well
AS the people. The President will not
| swerVe from the straight path of JUS
tic" whatever the clamor of socialistic
indictments The railroad bill is a
great Step forward IN TINS troublesome
| problem. 1t was said in this hall.
within fort night. in brilliant speech
| addressed to the voters of South Caro-
| lima. that the railroads dominate the
| Republican party Did it look it when
! by order Of President Taft substantial
| ly oil the great roads were restrained
| by inirction from increasing their
| rates" What President has been so
| firm in doing something more than
| talk? Not one This President of ours
| is a man of deeds
The same speech charged that the
| Republican party is controlled by the
trusts. Indictment is easy. What's the
proof? Who framed the existing leg
| iSlation against the trusts? A Repub-
| lican Senator, a Republican Congress
and \ Republican President. Who ruled
| that the law was unconstitutional? A
| Democratic President and his Attorney
| General What party. during its eight
years of power never lifted a hand to
enforce the law or curb the trusts
| The Democratic party. Under the rule
of which party did the trusts fatten
and grow until all men knew that a
crisis threatened the Republic. and still