Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-14

/ ly misinterpreted for the Watervile
Sentinels benefit, they will remem
Der Mr.. Davis explanations and
denials.
| And then comes the Hon. Samuel
w. Gould, Somerset's perpetual
candidate for something old
thing--for the last 80 years, The
following we clip from the Waterville
Sentiners report, the sort of reckless
statements Mr.. Gould is making, This
is a part of what he is alleged to
have said, Monday evening, at
| Mercer:
There will be Democrats enough in
| the House before long and then we can
| do things. but why should men elected
| to represent the people oppose such a
| measure and why should the people con-
i tinue to support men who are working
| against their best interests all the time.
| The man Who is now opposing Senator
| Gardner in the IL years he was In 1on-
| gress voted against the direct election
of senators every chance he got. lie
did not dare go to the people directly. /
don't know as Senator Gardner said 1t.
but if he did he was right-there are ID
men in Congress who never heard of
Edwin G. Burleigh. When Mr.. Burleigh
was my opponent / didn't care TO say
much about him, but now he Is running
for the Senate and l am going to tell
you some things about him. There was
never "a man who fooled the people of
Maine like this same Mr. Burletgh. He
has fooled the old soldiers again and
again, making them think he was doing
everything for them when he was doing
nothing"
Congressman Gould then explained now
every congressman is notified of the pas
| sage of special pension bills in which he
| is interested and how 1t was the custom
| of Congressman Burlegh to write the
| veterans, telling them he had succeeded
| in getting their bills passed after hard
| fight when as matter of fact he had
| but little to do with them
| Why" declared the speaker, ''as, a
/ greenhorn, I've got more special pen
| sion bills passed than Burleigh did in
i his whole IL years in Congress and If
you send ME back | can do more"
| Congressman Gould explained that
the member who had charge of Gard
ner's bill in the House did not dare
to bring it up for fear the powerful
Hobbies against it would cause its
defeat and injure its final chances, .
but that bill will pass, he declared.
| when there are Democrats enough N
the House. Mr.. Gould apparently
forgot that his hearers were aware
that the House is strongly Demo-
cratic at this time, and that If the
postal express bill was not passed
Democrats were to blame for it.
Mr.. Gould very eonsiderateiv
knocked off ten from Gardeners so
| who do not know Governor Burieigh,
and made it Congress instead of the
House. Then he proceeded to tell
| things" about Governor Burleigh. 1t
is a little surprising that man Of
Mr. Gould's understanding of mea
should have forgotten that he was
talking, If not to any old soldiers at
least to some of their friends. And
ernor Burleigh had fought through
and secured pensions for veterans al
ter they had appealed to and pleaded
with the government by way of many
sources. When Mr.. Gould makes such
bald and wholly untruthful state
ments to the old soldiers he is but
injuring the cause of Democracy, fol-
all over Maine the veterans of the
civil war KNOW what Governor Bur-
leigh has done for them; and theiI
friends KNOW, and they do not care
to be talked to as if they were halt
wits. Mr.. Gould seems also to for
get that if the late primaries had
{ been direct vote for U. S. senator
Governor Burleigh would have beer
, elected by an overwhelming vote.
AND the final declaration of Con
, gresham Gould that he has don,
l more in one session than Congress-
] man Burleigh accomplished in his /.
years service is so silly as 10 MAKE