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

lie LeNlStOu tOPlC
says:
AS all the hospitals to be further
subsidized are in the category at which
the Sentinel was leveling its guns. the
program of the democracy so power
fully controlled by the Waterville
dynasty means the withdrawal of aid
from all hospitals. There are no State
hospitals save insane hospitals. Lewis
ton intitutions will feel this. Bath
will feel it, Rockland will resent it.
Portland will rebuke this kind Of pea
nut politics. Gov. Fernald was the de-
fender of an appropriation to Ste. Ma
rie's Hospital in Lewiston when ne was
senator from Androseoggin. 1t was his
work which carried the gift, or sub
sidy," as our Waterville friend terms
it. He believes in reasonable and
proper appropriation to this purpose
which is just as much needed as APP
preparations to any other public use.
Occasionally. the democracy for
gets itself also and demands some gen.
eral supervision of this giving.
That's exactly what was proposed in
the 74th Legislature under the Board OF
Charities and Corrections.
Who defeated it?
Senator Staples, the Knox county
Democrat, and his Democratic friends.
Several weeks ago. the Democratic
press started out on this line of
argument
Their own record convicted them.
Since then they have said nothing
about hospitals.
AS matter of fact the Democrats
are opposed" to everything for the
public good for which the Fernald ad-
ministration stands. or has accom-
plished.
They are opposed to spend
ing money on roads; opposed
to experiment stations to help
Maine farmers; opposed to build
ing needed extensions of the Cap
itol Opposed" to royalty aiding
the education Of Maine children: "op-
posed to caring for the pauper insane
and feeble minded; opposed" vehe-
mently, to Names prohibitory law;
opposed" to the State running its le-
gal department, agricultural depart
ment, health department, labor bureau,
railroad commission, insurance depart
ment; opposed" to having any taxes
at all opposed" to law and order and
progress in civilization; opposed" to
the sun shining, the stars appearing
ard would be opposed to the moons
visits but for the fact that the moon,
in spite of prohibition and the enforce
ment commission, Democracy's mortal
diversions, gets full once every month!
That is, Democracy would pretend
such opposition by it's newspaper edi-
torials and reckless talk of its leaders
on the stump. They put up all this
Opposition for the enticement Of the
unruiy and reckless tC vote them into
office. Really the better element of De-
mocracy and a large portion of the
policy of Maine to equalize taxation
and more generally and literally edu-
cafe the children, help out the smaller
towns, increase the efficiency of the
hospitals, advance agriculture, build
trunk lines Of good roads-in a word do
all those things which Gov. F'ernald
and Republicans have done and are do
ing for greater progress in civilization
and the greater prosperity Of our State
g to ol, iafc
who are making believe attack the Re-
publican administration, are on record
as having approved the very policies
which they pretend to condemn
The gubernatorial candidate Of De-
mocracy, for instance. approved the ex-
tension of Names new Capitol which
cost $3.50, 900, a large slice of the ad-
ministration's expenses the last two
years.
The high chief of Democracy endorsed
after working hard for it. Names new
taxation scheme. Yet on the stump and
in their newspapers both these acts OF
the Republican administration are as
sailed by the Inconsistent Democrats,
Who say anything and write anything
and print any sort of trash regardless
of the truth or the record. hoping to
fool the people and obtain votes.
But the voters of Maine are not to be
fooled. They have been we'll served by
the Republican party and will take no
chances of allowing Democratic history
to repeat itself by putting into public
offices Of the State lot of inexperi-
enced. incapable politicians who. with
in a generation being in power, made
use of the peoples trust by putting
through the infamous count-out and
running away with the State seal!
The Northwest Forest Fires.