Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-07

that soon had the audience in a gale
of laughter.
''The great game between the Demo
cratic and Republican teams had been
played UP to the ninth inning, and the
score was q tie. The Democrats had
had their turn ut the bat and the Re-
puDiicans were now up for theirs. The
pitcher of the Democratic nine was
imperial Fred Plaisted. VINO had the
greatest curves Of any pitcher in the
world. The catcher was Billy Pattan-
gall, the real captain of the captain %
tie team. and he gave the signals to
Fred, who oheyed them, The first
baseman WIS Obadiah Gardner. wear
ing reciprocity stocking on one lee
and a free trade stocking on the other.
both down at the toe. lie appeared
to be unused to the position and was
awkward and i'll at ease.
The second baseman was Cy Davis.
no was given his position largely on
account Of lis ability to throw gold
bricks; Charley Johnson was the third
haseman and the short stop" was
sammy Gould. while out in the held
were Mont Stevens, Dutchy Moore
and Dan Mac.
Tive men we're out on the Republic
can team when a tall man, six feet
two. with an iron jaw came to the
plate. holding in his hand good sea
soned hard wood bat, made from rec
oak cut in the town of Soldiertown.
THE Democrats are nervous. The
first ball is pitched and the umpire
says, One ball" The next one is It
ball. Patti and Fred confer together.
meanwhile the strongly built athletic
batter stands at the plate. Then come
Two strikes, then another ball
Everybody is On tiptoe with expect
ancX Patt signals to the pitcher
Fred throws the ball The bat hits
the leather and the sphere sails away
out over the fence and Bill Haines has
made home run and put his party
in power for the next two years"
Failure to Enforce Laws.
Mr., Goodwin touched upon the
broken promises of Governor Plaisted
in regard to enforcement Of the pro
hititory law lie declared that Gov
ernor Plaisted was on trial before the
people of the State for his broken
promises as te enforcement.
The Governor lad said on the stump
previous to election: Don't vote for
me unless you want the law enforced
in his inaugural he had declared that
the law should be enforced by the
regularly constituted officers so long
as it WAS on the statute books. Now
lie and his patriotic followers declare
that .he never uttered these words.
said the speaker and declared that if
he didn't say them lie ought to have
done SO. The Governor should en-
force every law of the State, it's his
duty to-"
Mr.. Goodwin alluded to Governor
Plaisted's praise at Skowhegan be
fore his election. of John Meoers, the
sheriff of Somerset county, as n
Democrat who enforced the law, and
cited his enforcement of the law as
proof that it could be done. He was
asked a short time ago by the editor
of the Somerset Independent Reporter.
If he ever said those things in re-
gard to Sheriff John Mooers and his
only reply when he spoke ut Skowhe-
gan was: Il don't know the editor Of
the Somerset NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and | don't want to-"
The special election of 1912 should
have taken the rum issue out of poll
tics fer 10 years, and instead of that
the Democrats called a special session
ana now We have plank in the
Democratic platform asking for local
option.
lie scored Governor Plaisted severe
~ for saying that he could not en-
force the law, and eontrasted his at
titude with that of Governor Stubs
of Kansas, who had ordered all the