Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-09
A BIG TURNOUT AT
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Able Speeches by Cong. J. ". Fordney.
Hon. VIM. 7. Haines and Hon. ".
c. Emerson Make Favorable I'm
preston and Stir Crowd.

| an education as the son of the
rich, no matter where in Maine he
| lived.
| Mr. Haines said that he had gone
into the figures and found that all
the salaries of all the State officials,
their clerks and assistants were less
thar 100000 and the entire cost of the
business of running the State institu-
tons was around s350.0O0. less than 10
per cent. of the $4,OO0.OOO about which
| Democrats had raised such cry.
| 1.-THE State of Maine crippled?" ask
| ed Mr.. Hainos. when it's wealth is
| s42S,O0O,O0O and every town in Kene-
bee county is receiving back 81 for
every 81 it pays directly to help run the
| State, When it's present debt is only
| the small sum of 100000? When no
| bill is paid save after careful scrutiny
! by the State auditor and then by the
| Governor and Council before the war
rants are SigEed and presented to the
| treasurer"
| The State, said the speaker. in dis
| bursting these moneys received from
| wealthy cities. wild lands. public SER
vice and other corporations simply acts
as a Clearing House for the various
towns. The administration takes only
frorn the rich to give to the poor.
Mr. Haines delved into the increased
| savings of the people in Trust and
| Savings Banks showing how since the
last Democratic Governor and under
| Republican administrations these
boards had mounted higher 200 per
cent. How the mills and factories had
increased in number and employed
more hands. an increase of prosperity
here in labor of % per cent. He told
! of laws beneficial to labor passed by
Republicans.
| Mr. Haines insisted in conclusion
| that Names new financial policy had
| been pushed forward unanimously by
| all parties and that it was not mat
| ter OF party politics at all save in this
campaign.
1--WE are taxing all the property for
| all the people concluded the gentle
! man. who was obliged to cut short his
speech to catch a train.
Rounds of applause interspersed the
speaking and rewarded the able eff
| fort at its end.
After Mr.. Haines masterful expo
| sure of the hypocrisy and humbug of
| the Democratic insistence of extrava-
gance by Gov. Fernalds administra-
| ton Congressman Fordney, who had
| arrived during the speech of the lat
| ter. was introduced by the presiding
officer.
| The congressman is handsome, in
| tellectual looking business man, well
| built and seems much more youthful
| than the year of his birth seems to
prove.
| "As the father of a family of nine
Children" said Mr.. Fordney, with
genial smile, l have no objections to
making known my age
The congressman was received with
an ovation. He expressed his regret
at unavoidably being so late and
| loosely added that his wife usually
| had to rebuke him for hardness in
| going Sundays to church. He express
ed his pleasure to be in beautiful Au-
gusta. the home of his highly esteem
| ed friend, Governor Edwin c. Bur-
| leigh, and finding himself before such
a large and intelligent assemblage. He
could not deem it possible that voters
would on reviewing history only so
| far back as the Cleveland days of the
distressing Democratic Wilson bill
would vote on Monday to return to
those days of misfortune and industrial
| woe.
Congressman Fordney told the story
| of his first campaign for Congress in
| '98 A farmer had come in 10 miles to
hear him speak. Mr. Fordney explain
| ed that he was no orator. After the
attempt the farmer friend came and
shook hands. you told the truth young
| man." he said, land I'm going to vote
| for YOU"
| Congressman Fordney said that If
he could. he would like on this Occa-
sion to say something that would help
win votes to send his friend. Governor
| Bdrleigh back to Congress not only
| for the sake of his friend but for the
! sake of the entire nation by whom
Gov. Burleigh was highly esteemed as
| he Is at home
| A tremendous outbreak Of applause
| followed these remarks.
Mr.. Fordney said that he had the
| highest esteem for Democrats. He and
| they differed only honestly in their
| Judgment but he could not see how
possibly the Democrats of Augusta
could vote for party which when last
| in power had produced only hard times
with the Wilson tariff.
| He confessed he would confine his
remarks to the Payne tariff, which
succeeded the Dingley bill.
| AS a member of the ways and means
committee from the House he had
helped frame the Payne tariff. That
committee had been blamed for not
giving more time to its consideration
but the committee had obtained all the
| information it could.
During the consideration of the
Dingley tariff 1400 pages of testimony
had been taken. On the Payne tariff
10000 pages were devoted to hearings
His committee had worked hard four