Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-20
Good Work of
The Committeeman
From Somerset

North Arson, Me-, Aug. Ono menu
Der of the Republican State committee
is doing better work for the party than
Augustine simmons, Esq. of North An
son, the Somerset member Mr. Sim
mons is the member of the committee
whose speech made the hit of the after
noon at the Republican conference in Au-
gusta in July. At that time he read a
circular which he had prepared to send
out to the Republicans in his county and
it was so full of shrewd advice that
there was demand on the part of the
committee to have quantity of them
printed which has since been done. II
was in this circular that Mr.. Simmons
sprung his now famous epigram which
has become a sort of war cry for the
campaign. 1t was Don't sit down and
hope but get up and work..
The circular is as follows:
My Dear Air.
Although this might be called early in
the campaign, il is not early in fact,
when YOU consider how many voters
there are to be seen and pledged and
Instructed
The following important matters, in
GLIDING questions concerned in the cam
paign, should be presented to every
voter including p pc Gratis
q Falseness of Democratic Pretensions
of Economy.
of potatoes, hay, and other farm pro-
4. Democratic policy of free sawed
Timber, pulp, paper and WOODEN goods,
thereby reducing the wages OF workmeh
mills. paper mills, pulp mills, and WOODEN
mills.
5. Plank in Republican platform to
protect wage earners against dangerous
License is the State issue, and the tariff
is the national issue.
Talk with every voter in N2ur repre-
sentative district if possible. Spend
weeks, not days, in canvassing the vot-
ers face to face. Trust nc other person
| to do what you can do. Some candidates
are such wet wood they won't burn.
The size of the stay-at-home vote III
| Somerset county will amaze YOU;
In the Bingham district in 1910 it was
Norridgewock district, 6i9; in the Madi-
. son district sos; in the Hartland dis
ltrict-<7lI; in the Fairfield district 494; in
| These are the figures from the repre-
sentative districts as now constituted
and not as they We're in 1910. The stay
at-home vote was almost entirely Re
publican, because the Democrats, slim
ulated by the hope of success after the
lapse of 30 lean years, got out their last
man.
The Republicans are coming back, and
4 the stay-at-homes are coming out be-
| cause they are all sick of Plaisted and
his associates. Everything gives us great
courage, but work is the price.
Make your election as sure as YOUR
calling was. Don't sit down and hope,
| but get up and work. >
Ask men to vote for you, If you are a
candidate. The other fellow will do that
and he will beat you out if YOU have
| not as much gumption as he has. You
| may lose by one vote or you may win
| by one vote.
| July !, 1912
Republican State Committee
| Besides the foregoing circular which
| is addressed to candidates and thost
| more directly interested in Republican
success, Mr.. Simmons has gotten out q
| circular which he calls Governor
| Plaisted's Administration" and some
| campaign matter printed on card board
| about the size of a postal card. These
| are in bright colors which cannot be
| overlooked One of them Is entitled
| License or No License" another Dem
ocratic Economy" another Protection
For Farmers and fourth wages IL
the Woods, on the River. in the Saw
Mills and in the Pulp. Paper and Wooler
Mills