Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-09
Monroe Republicans Turn
Out En- masse.
lN Of the Best Rallies Ever
Held In Waldo Town.


, Monroe, Me-. Sept. 8.-(SpeciaD -
Judge B. F. Maher of Augusta spoke
h,re tonight before one of the largest
and most enthusiastic rallies ever held
bv Waldo county Republicans. The
other speakers were County Attorney
puzsell and Hon. Ellery Bowden of
Winterport. In the course of his ad-
dress Judge Maher paid glowing
tribute to Congressman Burleigh Of
This district. which was received with
meat applause. He spoke in part as
follows:
This campaign, from it's very nature,
assumes a two-fold aspect The Sc
lection by the next Legislature of the
United States Senator in the direct
election by the voters of this district
OF a representative in Congress gives
direct national bearing. Upon
this phase of the campaign 1 will pay
but the passing tribute of a glance.
conscious of my own limitations and
further aware that local issues will
ever appeal with greater potency to
men than more momentus and perhaps
more vital ones if the same chance
be somewhat removed. However any
man at such a time be speaking sue
cess for the Republican party would
be derelict in his duty if he fail to
gay a word anent the wonderful rec
ord of that party in the affairs of this
nature.
No intelligent man, despite Demo-
cratic criticism to the contrary. will
ascribe to statecraft or arrogate to
party the blessings God has given this
land in the shape of vast natural
wealth and prodigious resources, but.
we do claim and in fairness that CO.
Incidental at least, with the most re-
markable development Of any land at
any time. with scarcely a break in half
century has moved and controlled
the policies of the Republican party.
We do claim that emerging from chaos
Of civil conflict this nation under Re-
publican policies and conspicuously un-
der the Republican principal of pro-
lection has moved steadily on. and to-
. day Just as more than half century
before the Civil War this land sent
over the seas, sounds muffied anony-.
nous, announcing that Liberty had at
last been born, so now, the message
goes to all the world. and all men ad-
nit that material and commercial SUI
premacy belongs to the United States.
During this half Century aptly
termed the commercial age with but
two exceptions, not to be remembered,
n oc tvo pI,o <hn
difference. the Republican party has
shaped the governmental policies of
the nation. That those measures are
salutary we are content to rest upon
Inference or coincidence and not in
ast on cause and effect. In the last
national campaign the Republican
party promised q tariff revision, aris
Ing out Of that revision less than a
year old, come the TRADES of the De-
mocFacy in criticism of a revision
necessarily unsatisfactory to a party
pledged as one of it's basic tenets to
tariff destruction. Whether that re.
vision will ultimately prove satisfac"
tory to the vast and varied interests
ahected thereby no man can intelli-
sently say. We do say. and we be-
heve that great majority OF the
voters of this district. Democrats as
well as Republicans. agree with US in
saying. we subscribe to the principle
OF some protective tariff. rather than
,he Democratic formula free-trade. or
It's mirrored reflection. tariff for rev.
enue only.
II you do believe in protective
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