Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-26


a pen wiper costing four cents for the
State and pay for it until the bill had
been examined by the auditor and a
warrant drawn by the council and
signed by the Governor.
Sometimes, we draw our cash bal
ance pretty low. We draw warrants
for two or three hundred thousand
dollars and more at times. Then the
balance goes down. but it may go way
up the next day. just as that of a
business man would. for there is mon
ey coming in all the time.
1T is possible that had the Demo-
cratic candidate visited the treasury
department the next day he would
have found cash balance of $334.0O0,
for it is not infrequent that we have
a check for 100000 come in in one
day, while the aggregate of all those
received in a single day is large"
In closing the Governor discussed the
conservation policy which has been
adopted during his administration.
The claim of d leading democratic
newspaper that the commission had
photographic survey was without
tOunCdtlOH. lie lluu NoihS
a great deal of work. was doing
great deal now. At it's own expense
1t had visited Washington and other
States in search of information which
would help in the work. The water
conservation commission would make
a report to the next legislature which
would be of great value, not alone to
the people of the present, but to those
OF the future.
This subject might be one to sheer
at, but he did not think so. He thought
i. was more worthy of a great po-
Iiticai party than was an effort to le-
galize the liquor traffic.
DAMARISCOTTA ADDRESS.
Following the Wiscasset speech
Gov. Fernald made a quick dash in an
automobile to DamariScOtta, crossing
on the way the longest bridge in the
state and making the ten mile jump
in time to reach the Town hall in
Damariscotta before Thomas F. Leigh
of Augusta, who was speaking there.
had concluded the opening speech OF
the meeting. The crowd at Danfaris-
Gotta was most representative one
and embraced people who came from
many miles around. Great interest was
manifested in this meeting. and the
effect of it upon the leading Repub-
licans here was to make them more
sanguine of the outcome of the cleo
ton than they have been before In
ending his rather strenuous day GOV
Fernald in his speech here was partic-
ularly happy and while. as has been
said, he followed closely the first
speech of the evening. he branched
out into a discussion of several new
matters. He told the people of Dam
ariscotta that they were paying sl4n
tax and receiving back $126S and gave
the statistics relative to the other
towns in the county He said:
I'm 2S years under Republican ad-
ministration, the state of Maine has
paid 30 per cent of it's bonded in
debtedness. reducing it form $1,000
900 in 1882 to s69S,Oo at this time.
The State retired no bonds during the
past two years because it had no
bonds come due, they all having been
taken up two years before. 1t was not
considered good business policy to
pay a premium on bonds at three per
cent when the State is receiving for
it's temporary balances two per cent
This bonded Indebtedness is S300Oo0
less than the city of Lewiston and
$500. 900 less than the city Of Portland
and YOU cannot find any man who
knows anything about 1t or who Is
honest will say that the financial con-
dition of this State is in bad shape
or who will not claim that we are
much better off than some of our
sister states and I assure you that
that when my term Of office ends
shall turn over to the next admins
tration, be it my own or that of some
one else. the State in no less strong
or verile condition than it has been
during the years when the magnlfi-
cent administrations of the past have
reflected credit upon the Republican
party"
Governor Fernald in his speech al
so took occasion to commend to the
voters Of Lincoln county Congress
man John P. Swasey and he said that
this district. although it has been rep
resented in the past by some of the
ablest men ever sent to Congress
from Maine had never been any bet
ter represented. in his opinion. than
II has in the last two years by Mr.
Swasey, who he said, had accom-
plished more for the second district
in the time he had been in Congress
than anyone had reason to expect
from a green congressman. All OF MS
references to Mr.. Swasey were re-
ceived with applause.