Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27

of a $4,000 provision for the Child
rens hospital. would close the doors
! of that institution and turn the little
patients out. He did not waste his
valuable political time in telling them
that he regretted the alternative but
h. believed the $1,000 provision was
more than his administration could
stand. He did not advocate providing
1 for this worthy institution and of turn
ing the added expense of a few thous-
ands of dollars over to the next Leg
islature His whole purpose seems to
| have been to impress upon his hearers
that it is absolutely necessary to clean
up that much advertised evidence Of
extravaganza in the first Democratic
Legislature.
We have refrained from criticisins
| this administration many times when
we could have voiced public disap
prevail of a Republican administration
without being misunderstood But
| this constant picking of political CAPT
tai in the conduct of public business
goes beyond the limit of patience. We
| have not attempted to influence legis
| lation even to the extent of deSignat-
| ing the Kennebec Dam & Power Co.
as the Beast but we do protest the
persistent prostitution of official pre-
negatives for the sake of political play.
If all the Governor said were true,
(Which he serves up in generalities)
we believe that the people of this State
would prefer that a part of this bur
den should go over to the next Legis-
lature rather than to be cleaned up at
the expense of deserving institutions
ing chance to say on the stump in
1912: LOOK ON ME AND OBJ
SERVE THE SAVIOUR OF THIS
STATE. l FOUND THE STATE A
MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT AND
CLEANED IT Up IN TWO YEARS.
| REDUCED EXPENSES; (by killing
a hospitaD l SHUT OFF EXTRAVA-
GANCE FULFILLED PARTY
PLEDGES, AND | ASK YOUR VOTE
AGAIN."
Without peg to hang it on, the
Governor of the State strobe into the
Legislature in all his splendor and de-
livered stump speech in which he
instructed his followers in what to say
to their constituents. With all due
respect to Governor Plaisted as a
politics and for business. If he has
not discovered the difference between
the position of Governor of the whole
people of Maine and of a Democratic
politician. it is high time some one
pointed it out to him.
With all due respect to his high Of
flee we beg to correct the impression
which his words carry to his hearers.
Governor Plaisted forgot to give the
F'ernald administration credit for
three-quarters of a million dollars per-
! manent improvements which came
down to this administration thus pre-
GLIDING the necessity of added ex-
penses along these lines for years to
come. He forgot to give the Fernald
administration credit for "a quarter OF
| a lliny, ,1Ah ;,,b ar vi
| its predecessor. which was paid. He
| forgot to mention that the 100000 tenn
| porary loan, about which he holds his
hands high in horror, was also handed
to the Fernald regime. And he forgot
to say that Governor Fernald pre-
ferred to keep up the States institu-
tons and to maintain condition of
good repair rather than to allow every
thing to go at loose ends for the sake
of saying Il have spent nothing"
| In fact, Governor Plaisted's entire
statement, to put it in the softest
term possible, was misleading. His
address was circulated widely in the
stenographic report of legislative do
ihgs and should be as widely refuted.
IL was grand stand play for political
eject, taking advantage of his high
position and the publicity it commands
10 circulate a wholly partisan, selfish
~ inspired document worthy ward
heller.
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geese HVinP northWara +bo;, ill., ~