Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-29

against great odds the Democratic
party was successful in the last cam
paign, largely because of the disgust
| of the citizens of Maine with the con-
Iditions, which had been brought about
| by the notification of law, and the
dishonesty of the Republican party in
connection with the Prohibitory law.
While the prohibition law has been
enforced in rural sections, public
sentiment in our larger towns and
cities has not been sufficiently strong
| to secure it's honest, impartial en-
| forcement. All of the New England
states have tried prohibition, and all,
with the exception of Maine have lis
lcarded il and adopted some method of
Regulation which has brought more
satisfactory results in dealing with a
great social evil. Maine has not yet
done SO, and here the question is .Iot
/ so much moral one as political
one"
II is apparent. then, that from this
hour onward the fight is not nom
partisan one 1t is political battle
TO the end, and il is evident to all be-
holders that the leaders of Democracy
intend to hold every man possible
strictly within party lines, regardless
of his moral convictions. 1t is pre-
sumed that they believe if they can
hold large percentage of the Demo-
cratic voters to party fealty, that they
can claim enough in the Republican
ranks who favor license, to carry the
| day.
| In this we believe they are mistaken.
we are not only convinced that there
are a great many Democrats who will
vote No" on September IL, bur we
just as confidently predict that Repre-
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson,
who has maintained reputation for
fearlessness from his boyhood days to
the present, will come into Maine, as
he has agreed to do. and will use every
argument within reach of his wonder
full gift and broad study of this great
evil to defeat the prohibition Gle
ment in Maine, regardless of Senator
Johnson and his threat, and the posi-
ton of the Maine Democracy.
| Again, Senator johnson says:
Il should regret exceedingly if any
of our Democratic friends in other
states should allow themselves to be
| used by the Republican party of Maine
oppose the great majority of their
Democratic brethren upon an issue
which has been openly and honestly
made by them before the people of
Maine for nearly quarter of a CEN
fury. The people of the South have
great moral questions to solve. and
they are solving them well, and The
solution should be left entirely to their
enlightened conscience and wider
knowledge and / do not think any
northern Democrat should visit any of
their states to teach its citizens how to
solve these problems
With his high and mighty ideas of
the nicely of things, we wonder IL it
mas ever occurred to Senator Johnson
that he is slightly Inconsistent in mis-
invasion of the South to teach it's ma
|
great moral questions Who has au-
thorized this Maine senator to dictate
the actions. which up to this time are
supposed to have been controlled by
conscience, of one of the most brilliant
men of the South? We wonder IL
southerners will resent the coming of
this bumptious northerner to instruct
them in etiquette and in social science !?
In another paragraph of Senator
Johnsons letter, he proceeds to count
his Republican chickens, which are not
expected to hatch until Sept IL. Speak
ing Of the position Of the Democratic