Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-12

1 SlNtt IL ldDte SliVWlHS ttic ithiobiA -
| service of the present members of Con-
| gress Let US glance down this table
| ard see Who are the men who have
| been in Congress for 20 years and
who do not know Edwin c. Burleigh.
| The first name is ]. G.. Cannon of
Illinois. who has served SO years in
Congress- though not continuously. We
will count him as one congressman
who never heard of Edwin c. Bur
leigh, although he was speaker of the
House and appointed Mr.. Burleigh to
| two of the most important commit
tees in that organization. The second
name on the list is II. II. Bingham
of Pennsylvania, who served "a years
in Congress continuously but since
| the directory was published Repre-
sentative Bingham has passed away
He cannot be reckoned as one of the
men whom Senator Gardner can find
| that do not know Ex-Governor BUR-
leigh. The third name is $. u Payne
of New York. He has served % years
in Congress, though not continuously
StiIl we will reckon him. Congress
man Payne makes two men in Con-
gress who have served 20 years and
have never heard of Ex-Governor Bur
leigh The next man on the list is
John Dalzell of PENNSYLVANIA, a rep
resentative who has served Is years
continuously in Congress. Dalzel
stumped the State of Maine for Gov
ernor Burleigh but very likely he
never heard of hint Let us reckon
him as the third who has served 70
years in Congress and never heard
of Edwin C. Burleigh. The next name
or the list Is w. A. Jones from Vfr-
gina. Mr.. Jones has served - con-
secutive years as member of Con-
gress. Being a Democrat it is quite
easy to understand that he never
heard of our Ex-Governor.
But what is this? The list is ex
hansted In all the pages of names.
10 in number. in which the names and
length of service of members of the
House of Representatives are given,
not another man has served 20 years
and Obadiah Gardner, United States
senator, publicly says that he cen lind
so men who have served 20 years in
the House, who do not know Edwin {.
Burleigh, when as matter OF TACT
there are only four living men who
have served 20 years in the House,
either consecutively or otherwise,
whether they ever heard of Governor
Burleigh or not.
The United States senator from
Maine has way. when he is called To
account. of declaring that he was mis-
reported. If he says he did not say
that he could find 50 men in the House
of Representatives, but that he could
find so men in Congress. let us look at
the senatorial record There we find
there are just two men in the present
United States Senate who have served
20 years, Senator Cullom of Illinois
and Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire. That makes six men in both
| houses of Congress who have served
| 20 years, and out of this number SEN
ator Gardner proposes to find 80 who
| do not know Edwin c. Burleigh.
The argument is not an important
one We in Maine know Ex-Governor
| Burleigh. whether the men who are
| in Congress do or not and 1t is to
| be our choice as between Ex-Governor
Rurleigh and Senator Gardner, not
| theirs. But the important thing is the
| Illustration of the style of campaign
| upon which the Democratic party
| hopes tn win in the State of Maine
/ this year, and a clearer case of pure
/ taking cannot be imagined. A man
| wearing the toga of the United states
| Senate stands up before "a country
| audience in Canton, Maine, an audi
| ence made up of men and women who
| in tho ordinary routine of life cannot
/ know much about the personnel of
the members of Congress. and, fresh
| from his brief term of service in
| Washington, makes an unchallenged
| declaration of this character. IT
| passes. With a good many people it
| is accepted as Gospel truth, when in
the very nature of the case it is alb
solutely and unqualifcdly untrue and
| must be so. Such are the tactics
| upon which the party now in power IN
| Maine hope to retain the confidence of
the people,-by pure, unblushing deceit.
| Yesterday we showed how the secreta-
| ry OF State INDUCED in exactly those
| kind of tactics in his talk at Bar Mills.
Today we are able to expose the United
States senator in his assumption that
the people do not know the facts. and
that any kind of a statement which is
made to them will be believed.