Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-28
Tho Congressional Campaign.

In all its present political complications
Maine should not forget that 1t gives to
of exceptional equipment and of nation
wide reputation, Asher G. Kinds OF the
Portland district The Pine Tree State
owes IL to the Country to contribute to
Congress the gifted historian of its par
liamentary record. Boston Herald.
The direct primaries in Maine ac-
complished some unexpected results.
They endorsed the men who have
fought the battles of the Democratic
party in this part of the State and
advanced to supremacy in the party
as its candidate for the highest
office within the gift of the people of
the First District, new resident
thereof, who has borne none of the
brunt of the battles which the Demo-
cratic party has fought with varying
fortunes in the years that are passed
Assuming the equality of the tive
congressional candidates in this dis
triet as to their general character
and personal fitness to occupy the
high position honored by Thomas b.
Reed and his predecessor there are
certain facts which the voters in this
district ought, in fairness to them
selves, to consider before they vote
for congressman on September 8.
One of these facts Is elucidated by the
paragraph which we quote from the
Boston Herald.
Congressman Kinds is not a local
character. He is a man of Nation
wide reputation, reputation which
he won for himself by dint of the
hardest kind of work, by the faithful
discharge of duty, by unceasing labor
in every field where his activities
were employed. The people of the
First District know the value of an
influential representative in the halls
of Congress, for il has been their
good fortune to be ably represented
fer many, many years.
Political considerations always do
and probably always will enter into
the question of the decision of voter
as TO his choice of men for all inn
portant public stations. If man be-
lieves in the theory of the Democratic
marty and wants the revenue of the
government 10 be raised from import
duties laid on articles which are not
nrodueed in this country. thus raising
the cost of living by increasing the
nrice of those necessities of life which
we are ODnSeI u iIippi u emu ct ~
same time believes in bringing in free
into this country those necessities of
life which we can produce, thus low
ering the earning power of the Amer
lean people engaged in that produc-
tion. other things being equal. would
naturally vote for Mr.. O'Brien. n
man who believes in the theory of pro-
lection for American industries ana
who believes that the necessities of
life which we do not and cannot pro-
duce ought to be brought in free, thus
maintaining the earning power and
decreasing the cost of living, Will vote
for MIR. Kinds.
With the great majority of people
this question will be the paramount
one in making the decision as to
which of the two candidates VIII be
supported. but the point which the
Boston Herald makes is sound reason
wnv many men who are not SUFFICIENT
" familiar with the tariff question 10
understand it's merits, or who are SO
situated that they are indifferent as
TO the tariff question, If there be any
such should vote TO . send back TO
Congress from the first Maine district
this towering figure whose name Is
familiar everywhere and whose infu-
ence is recognized not only in WASH
he faDl