Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-29
Cuitivating Lawlessness.

| that he uphold the dignity OF the law
| said: Law or no law, the people will
| have what they want"
| 1t seems to us that was d bad break
| for the attorney general To make
| What's the use making laws if those
| who are elected to enforce them be-
| lieve as Mr.. Pattangall does? There
may have been men in office in this
| State in previous years VINO thought
as he does. If so they never had the
audacity to say So
Who are the people? That is the
question. W. -
We believe Mr.. Pattangall will be
enlightened on this subject next
month The people of Maine, as a
whole. are law abiding and want the
laws enforced and they are bound to
have What they want not in defiance
of law but in the enforcement of it.
PATTI was partly right. The people
win have what they want and this
year they want Hon. W.T.. Haines for
governor and they are going to have
him. achias Union.
Never in the history of Maine and,
to our knowledge, never in the history
of New England or any other state
has an administration been charac-
terized by such open hatred of law
and such open cultivation of the spirit
of Iawlessness. For 20 months every
thing in Maine that looks toward bet
ter moral conditions has been assailef
by those officials elected to, and WHO
had taken oath to, enforce the laws
of our State.
For 20 months the Governor of our
State, the secretary of State, the at
torney- general, our two United States
senators, and two Democratic repre-
sentatives to Congress. have set the
pace in denuneiation of law and per-
sonal abuse of every person or or
ganization which has stood for con-
tinued progress in the overthrow of
evil.
For 20 months the chief executive
of this State has openly denounced
the utteranees of the pulpit and the
Grange and the w. C. T. II. and the
Civic League and the work of every
person or organization opposed to evil
as the deceitful words and acts of
liars and hypocrites. He is constant
ly urged on and words put in his
mouth by the Democratic high priest,
William r. Pattangall, and is followed
by other officials and understrappers
down to the bootleggers, thugs and
other criminals that have swarmed to
ana thrived in Maine under this offic-
ial encouragement and protection.
Every person who has dared to lift
voice or hand against outlawry has
been promptly assailed from all sides
by administration officials and organs
as liars, hypocrites, fanatics and
hoodlums.
The Governor himself, Senator
Gardner Secretary of State Davis
and Others have gone into other states
TO, reyile and abuse the people of their
State--to call those who represent
moralitynand love of humanity pol
irons, hcodlums and hypocrites.
If the sober, industrious. Intelligent,
God fearing, law-respecting citizens
of Maine have not been nauseated,
evee Mortified, by this persistent,
brazen knavery on the part of those
elected and appointed to high office,
mil ont ia
to consider the inevitable result of
SUCH arrogant defiance of law and in
solent uphulding of the forces of evil
and crime?
Under the domineering hand of Po-
litieal Dictator Pattangall, a ring of
selfish politicians have fixed upon
Maine Democracy disgusting smirch
that can be washed out only by the
permanent retirement of these I'M
scrupulous and dangerous leaders.
When Governor Plaisted while chief
executive of q great Christian State,
stands before his people as n persist
ent reviler of law and champion of
the werst evil humanity has known,
what may we expect as a result in
| the underworld of Maine society?
When the attorney general of Maine
| beasts of his defiance of the statutes
he represents. and calls it honesty
with the people,; when this high
State official and political director OF
| his party throws all his influence into
| encoura cement of violation of the
| laws he Is supposed to enforce, must
| we not expect thugs, thieves and
| booze peddlers to be defiant, insolen'
| and bullying, and public officers t
sheer when asked to do their duty?
/ When our United States senator
| stoops to active service of the Run
Trust while pretending to have beei
converted to the doctrine that al
those who uphold the law are hypo
critics and Lars. what sort Of mora
legislation might we expect him Z