Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-21

Governor PIaisted said in New Jcr-
| sey. and Secretary of State Davis in
Chicago? Now it is Senator Gardner
| in Ohio!
Sometimes we wonder that these
men consent to live in Maine at all,
| with such degraded communities as
they describe. We should think these
men would move to license state,
where conditions and people are more
to their liking.
| If these men who never lose an OPP
| portunity to ridicule, berate, abuse
and belttle the laws of Maine and
the people who stand for law, would
get out where conditions of the Ii
quor traffic are of the rum trust Or
| der there would be less difficulty in
| maintaining respect for the law and
enforcement of it.
Probably not a dozen people in
Maine know of the mass of balder-
dash which Governor PIaisted contrib
uted to the rum trust fight in Texas
last summer. Our distinguished Sem
ator Gardner. too. said things for use
in the Texas prohibition war which
every man in Maine will resent.
The Texas newspaper man who came
to Maine for the express purpose of
getting rum trust literature for his
papers side of the fight. frankly
stated his purpose to the editor of
this paper; he got what he came after
He was, obviously, a newspaper writ
er of experience and character. We
believe that Governor Plaisted and
Senator Gardner said precisely what
this Texas man reported to his paper.
Now that we have been driven into
it by the persistent idiocy of Demo-
cratic leaders, we propose to publish,
from time to time. excerpts of the
language used by Governor Plaisted
and Senator Gardner for use on the
liquor interests side of the Texas
fight. We refrained, in the recent
in Maine. because we hoped
and believed the fight would end on
Sept. IL.
We believe it is the right of the peo-
pie eff Maine to fully understand the
manner in which they are advertised
in other states by their representa-
tives.
We know that Senator Gardner
sent broadcast in the Southwest a
statement that Maine had stood still
with respect to industrial develop
ment, for mere than half a century,
but we can hardly believe that only
last week in Ohio he characterized his
former grange associates as hood
lums." If he did not, let MIN say so,
or II is liable to stick.
Suppose the Waterville organ of
State abuse explain this position OF
Senator Gardner; it is almost as I'M
portant as some OF the falsehoods 1T
perpetrates in other directions. Let
the organ. which fought for reciproc-
| ity, in opposition to the interests of
| its subscribers; which stood against
| the life of tie institution for crippled
| children at Portland; which fought
| for the makers of booze when Maine
people were confronted by an inva-
sion; which, in fact, has ever been
found on the side opposed TO the
States best interests and in favor OF
schemes of deceit and graft-let this
paper we say, come forth and state
what it would have said had SEN
ators Frye or Hale, Nelson Dingley
Charles Littlefeld or Edwin c. Bur
leigh gone outside of Maine and
DETAINED its laws and its people.
What if Hale, Frye, Dingley, Reed,
Boutelle, Blaine, Mlliken, Littlefield
or Burleigh had said what Governor
Plaisted said in New Jersey, or for
use in Texas; what Secretary of State
Davis said in Chicago; what Gardner
said in Columbus?
The people of Maine must certainly
admit that they paid high for a gold
brick in 1910.