Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-08
Gov. Wilson's Great Mistake.

lpart in the Maine campaign, he will
cost himself thousands of votes in
November.
| If the Democratic candidate for
President, who is respected by many
Republicans as we'll as Democrats in
the Pine Tree State, attempts to
bolster the present Maine regime of
notification, broken pledges and
contempt of law and morals, he will
lose the respect of the best citizenship
in all parties.
1t is no excuse for friends of Gov
ernor Wilson to say that he does not
know-it is his business to know.
Governor Woodrow Wilson well un-
derstands that the conduct of affairs
in Maine, in the last IS months has
been the nearly opposite of his own adj
ministration in New Jersey.
Governor Wilson knows well of the
Maine fight last year to save a consti-
tutional law that stands for better
children, cleaner men and women. hap
pier homes.
Governor Wilson. as the chief exec
utive of New Jersey. has won the ad-
miration of good citizenship of the
country because he has stood with the
better element of all classes; because
he has defied the crooks and thugs
and their makers and allies. the cheap
politicians; because he has fearlessly
stood for law. and for moral uplift.
Governor Wilson is aware that the
appeal of the entire Democratic ma
chine of Maine has been to that ele-
ment which he has opposed he knows
that their bid for support is to those
who. oppose the restraint of law; he
knows that leading Democrats of
Maine have publicly assailed the laws
of this State; he knows that these
leaders have encouraged evasion and
violation of law and have increased
every class of crime in the State, by
declaring that the laws cannot be en-
forced.
Governor Wilson must be convinced
that leading Democrats now before the
people of Maine for approval are in
collision with dive keepers, proprie-
tors of houses of ill-fame, pocket ped
dlers and thugs; he must be aware
| that these unseruplous politicians who
sold their party to the booze trust, are
| taking a share of the profits of Illicit
business, debauchery of homes and
Il
| Governor Wilson knows that the
Democratic Legislature was a travesty
land a farce; a miserable pretense in
which attempted wholesale robbery of
the State was defeated by wholesale
publicity of the purpose, and that more
| than 100 matters of interest and inn
Iportanee We're referred to the next
Legislature.
| Governor Wilson is certainly aware
| that the special session of the Legis-
lature. called by Governor Plaisted, by
and with the advice of his fellow ring
politicians, to appease the booze trust
was a pitiful spectacle, a disgusting
display of control by unholy interests,
and a damning proof of incompetence
and lack of true Maine character.
Governor Wilson should know that
liquor trust laws are not the only laws
of the State which are being ignored
or openly and brazenly violated by the
present administration. He should
know that for seven months the State
printing has been carried on under vi
olation of law and precedent. and in
open disregard of a special ruling by
| the Supreme Court of the State.
| Governor Wilson should know that
no attempt has been made by the
present administration to fulfill its
campaign pledges; that it has sheer
ingly betrayed the popular trust and
laughed at and defied the expression OF
popular will.
Governor Wilson should know that
the pompous claims of financial wiz