Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-04

| 12S,Ut0 more TO Spenu imam MT. Copp
had in his first administration; $3,150,-
600 more than Mr.. Cobb had in his
second administration and $4,000
more than Mr.. Fernald had to spend
in his two years of office.
He accused the Democrats of play
ing "A film liam game in discussion of
| State finance. Mr.. Plaisted had said
at Waterville that he had paid up
81. 500, 900 OF dead horse but did not
| state that he had $1,7oo,O00 in taxes
/ coming in from the Fernald admins
1 tration.
| He made laugh by abiding to the
| Democratic idea of a full treasury
with Governor Plaisted sitting upon
| the cover and no place TO get the mon
| ey out. except a little at the bunghole,
where the Waterville Sentinel was
getting it out.
Important Measure Passed Over.
The Republicans have promised a
| reasonable and humane workingmen s
compensation act, said the speaker.
| The development of the water power
of Maine is dependent largely upon
| the esta blishment Of public utilities
| commission. The Democrats, in a
! party caucus, decided to pass over
both these measures. as Well as pau
per bills and other matters, so as to
keep a full treasury. The speaker
knew of no reform, which the 18th
Legislature had made.
Danger From Free Trade.
Southern Democrats had been here
talking the tariff and Mr. MARSHALL
radical statements made in Maine and
Vermont had frightened the people,
said MIR Haines.
Mr.. Haines alluded to the days from
1893 to 1897 and the unsatisfactory finan-
cial conditions both for employers and
laboring men. The return to prosperity
was made possible by a high protective
tariff.
You go into Aroostook county and
say reciprocity and they'll shoot you,
said the speaker What will they do
with you, if you say free trade or tariff
for revenue only?" This reciprocity
proposition will affect the fishermen as
well as the farmers, the speaker con-
tinued. He showed how large a number
of people We're engaged in the numbering
business and how vitality they were af-
fected by a free trade policy and by re-
ciprocity.
Burleigh, True Friend of Farmer.
He urged those present to vote for the
four Republican candidates for repre-
sentative to the Legislature and the
candidate for State senator for Lincoln
county, who would vote for Hon. Edwin
c. Burleigh of Augusta for United States
senator. He contracted the claims of
Obadiah Gardner as to what he had done
for the farmer with what Mr.. Burleigh
had actually done for the farmer.
AS a concrete example of what Mr..
Burieigh has done for the farmer he
told the story of the development Of
Aroostook county and the laying out of
the town of Stockholm by Mr.. Burleigh
and his brother, Albert A. Burleigh, and
how. at the suggestion of Edwin C. Bur
leigh, the farms had been sold to the
people in that town for 81 an acre and II
years given them in which to pay for
their land. His plea to vote for repre-
sentatives and senator from Lincoln
county, who would vote to elect Mr..
Burleigh to the United States senate to
protect the Maine farmers met with
great applause
The speaker ridicued Senator Gard
ners postal express bill saying, Haven't
we paid the express companies of this
country enough. without by this bill,
giving it a chance to make another grab
in it's dying days?p
He told very amusing story which
ceverly illustrated the character of Mr..
Gardeners pretensions as to the great
things he had done for the farmer.
"A fellow in a lumber camp. who had
been chepping lumber hard all day, fell
asleep and dreamed that all the axes of
the world had been welded into one
great axe and with it he was chopping
away at one great tree into which all
the trees of the world had grown. Beside
this one great tree was a pond into
which all the water of the world had
run. The fellow chopped away at the
great tree until at last it fell into the
pond and then-what hill of a splash.
a moment later the fellow woke up and
found he had-tipped pail of water
over into the bed"
Democratic Policy of Negation.
The policy of the Democrats in State
and nation had been one of negation.
They had said that we couldn't put the
war down: that we couldn't resume
specie payment. And the few things
they had said we could do, pay off the
financial situation by the free coinage Of
silver, they had found they couldn't do.
All they had done in the State in the
way of giving an economical adminstra
ton was to abolish two offices and re-
place them with two others. They had
an investigating committee appointed to
find out how much the Republicans had
stolen and they couldn't find that they
had taken anything A former State
treasurer had used $500 for a few weeks
and then put it back in the treasury
They got an indictment, and proved all
the counts but one, fined him s1025 and
then admitted that they had secured the
indictment merely for political purposes
Young Men for State Offices.
The speaker, In conclusion, pointed out
that the Democrats in the distribution Of
offices had given them out to the old
time politicians many of them holding
two offices at the same time. He de-
clared that there was no hope for the
young man in the Democratic party and
pledged himself if elected Governor to
fill the State offices with young men
who had professional and vocational
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