Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-02
LIVELY SPEECH
By Judge Phi|brook al
The Republican Club.
Says Haines Wrote The EN-
pIOyes' Liability Plank.
Public Service Commission Plank,
Is a Sign Of Progress.

/ NIVtt TIC CibPIoNfiS IiciB1iAAS DldIh
in the Republican platform at Ban
gor," declared Hon. Warren C. Phil
brook of Waterviile to~a good sized
audience composed in great part of
young men at rally. Thursday night.
at the Republican Club rooms in the
city of Augusta.
| This announcement was received
with great applause and Judge Phil
brook went on: Mr.. Heath wrote most
of that platform, but it was William
| T. Haines who stood with his ponder
Gus frame before the committee on
| resolutions and, pounding on the table
with his fist, said that this plank mus
go in anyhow
Judge PhiiSrnok's address was off
the haekneyed lines of campaign
speeches. There was nothing about
rum in it and no abuse of the other
fellow. yet it caught on right well
with the audience and he was given
round after round of applause at the
close of his remarks.
He declared that the Republican
party was the party of progress and
in evidence of it submitted two planks
in the Bangor platform, the employ
ers' liability plank and the plank call
ing for a non-partsan public utilities
commission.
Young Men Hope of Augusta.
Vice President George e. Wilcox of
the Augusta Republican Club called
the meeting to order at $40 r NJ and
introduced the speaker of the evening.
Mr. pbilbraaIs ttac raaafxaJ with ,y.oat
applause and before proceeding to his
address announced a big rally at the
Opera house for Friday, Sept. 6, with
Hon. William It. Haines of Waterville,
candidate for Governor, and Hon For
rest Goodwin of SISowhegan, candidate
for Congress in the Sd District, as
speakers.
THE hope of Augusta is the young
man. said Judge Philbrook, after
few personal words To the n4sfnt5eYs of
the club. You look for a party that
can do something. You judge what
party will accomplish in the future
by what it has accomplished in the
past.
Whatever has been accomplished
in the nation in the way of progress,
for sound finance, for the upbuildins
of industrial and mercantile pursuits,
has been done by the Republican par
ty. In the few brief intervals for the
last so years that the Democratic par
~ has been in power. industrial pur-
suits have Jagged and you have had
periods of depression.
THE Republican party has been in.
power in Maine for the most part for
90 years and you have seen her pro-
gress, hospitals opened. school equip
ped and highways built and so many
other things done that l need not
enumerate Them
Republicans for Real Progress.
He aurged his hearers not to get
excited about small issues and forget
the fundamentals. He then took up
what he considered the true meaning
of the word Progressive" ''The Re
publican party-and there isn't any
need of going out of the party-stands
at every corner and four-square for
real and lasting progress, he con-
tinued.
Judge Philhroek declared that it
was the consensus of opinion that the
Republican platform adopted at Ban
gor was the most remarkable politi-
cal platform ever adopted in the his
tory of the State, The Republican
party, if elected in September,
pledges itself to the carrying out of
the promises of that platform.
There is a deplorable political con-
dition here in Maine. condition of
uneasiness and unrest and this condi-
ton must be removed" he continued.
Relations Between Capital and Labor.
"rhe relations between capital and
labor, between master and servant,
have been growing to a situation that
in great measure brings about this
unrest. The present relations between
master and servant are the outgrowth
of the old common law brought over
from England"
The speaker went on to discuss the
principal points of that law and aft
er explaining the law of assumption
of risk. which prevented the laborer
from recovering for injuries If he
knew of the risk and continued to
work under that condition, character
lied it as a mighty mean law, tend
ing to draw apart the interests of
labor and capital The fellow servant
law and the law of contributory neg
ligence were also characterized as un-
Just and helping to make labor rest
less and antagonistic to capital.
Because of such laws this rest
lessness in the State and nation Is
growing up between the laboring
man and the man who employs him, .
declared Judge Philbrook
"The Republican platform adopted
Of In, ,.i, 1oyit cax