Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-29
Sen. johnson Nails the Rum coIors.

Senator johnson of Maine, obvious
IL agrees with Shakespeare, who SAID:
Il hate ingratitude in a man, more
than lying, yainness. babbling. drunk
enness or any taint Of vice.
Senator Johnson has sharply out
lined his posiIiepz touching the former
tas it appears to HIM in Representa-
tive Hobson, and the latter Gas ii APP
pears to usD in the State of Maine.
The Maine senator's statment contains
much of public threat against the
orator from Alabama Senator John
son would drive Representative Hob
son from the Maine field as an orator
In support of prohibition. He evil
IDENTIFY prefers the lying" the drunk
enness' and all other "taints of vice"
to what he considers Representative
Hobson's 'ingratitude" to the Demo-
cratic party. He warns Mr. Hobson to
keep hands off the Maine fight, and
declares Maine Democrats can settle
the question without interference from
other states.
Representative Hobson has been
booked by the w. c. T. L. for several
addresses in the Maine campaign. He
has made study of this great moral
question, and is loaded with statistics
and facts which cannot be denied by
the rum trust all of which are of vital
importance to the law loving people
OF Maine at this time Senator john
son wholly disregards the Alabaman's
moral sentiments on this question and
lines him down to the political ASPECT
of the case
wear surprised that Senator John
sen should take this striking ground at
the present time, when the better ele-
ment of all parties of the State have
been making The issue, so far as possi-
bic, non partisan. The anti-pro-
Inhibition movement (Which of course is
led by active and leading Democrats)
declares itself as Non Partisan.
Local Self Government League" That
Senator johnson should take such
pains at this stage of the battle to
place the Democratic party unquali-
fedly as the rum party, and the party
which is forcing the issue under The
tutelage and the pay of the liquor IN
terest, is spectacle for those who had
admired him in Central Maine.
Senator Johnson stoops to threaten
the Alabama representative. if he
comes to Maine to fulfil his engage
ment with the w C. It. u. He (John-
SOM says, in substance, that southern
people are always very touchy about
northern people meddling with their
affairs; that southerners knew better
how to settle the negro problem than
do their northern brothers., that the
people of the South have great moral
questions to solve and they are solving
them well. Are we to understand
from the sentiments thus expressed by
Senator Johnson that he approves of
the accepted southern way of solving
the negro question-by lynching?
Senator Johnson's statement, which
went TO Birmingham and Montgomery
papers and is being widely circulated
in the South. is very lengthy and opens
with the following:
Il am very sorry that any Democrat,
outside of the State of Maine, feels it
his duty to come into our State to OPP
pose the wishes of the great majority
of the Democratic party there and to
aid the Republican party. The Demo-
cratic party, for the past 20 years, had
declared in its State platforms for the
re-submission to the people of the con-
sututionai amendment prohibiting the
sale and manufacture of intoxicating
liquors." bs~
Thus does Senator Johnson make it
a partisan issue. He nails the banner
of Rum Party upon Democracy. and
warns the Democrats of the country.
who may have higher moral aspira-
lions, TO keep out of Maine He is per
fectiy willing, undoubtedly, that the
rum trust organs, which are the lead
ing Democratic papers of his State
shall quote outsiders of the present, OF
of generations ago. against prohibit
tion. but he objects To this strong
character from the South, who has
made study Of the liquor traffic ano
the evils of intemperance and devotes
much of his oratorical eloquenee in OPP
position to the liquor evil. coming into
the Maine field to oppose Maine
Democracy in a fight which means
everything to the future of the State.
We wonder if Senator johnson
would object to the entrance of Col
Henry Watterson into the Main,
fight. The rum trust papers which
support Senator Johnson are present
ing Col Watteison, In word and car
toon. as against prohibition.