The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-09-19

&tCN anu lOl III anu lleAl III OluSl
will come shoveling snow and COAL Win
ter in the north no doubt has it charms
for the young and vigorous, but their
elders look longingly to the Sunny South
or equally sunny Southern California
A gentleman who is much interested
in the preservation of game in Maine re-
marked The other day that the wardens
do not appear to be doing anything in
the way Of enforcing the game laws and
Furnishing offenders. That recalled re-
cent item in daily newspaper in which
the wardens, $50 in number, were spoken
of as political workers and were said to
have been actively engaged in endeavor-
ing to perpetuate the Pattangall-Pla
administration. Their pay, of course,
comes from the taxpayers of the State,
Irrespective of politics.
There has been HE and cry against
bosses and rings for several years, and
in this State it was directed against
purely mythical State House ring, and
no doubt some votes were cast for Plals-
ted in 1910 by misguided men who
thought they were doing a good work in
aiding to bring about a change. They
were not long, however, in realizing that
they had been cruelty deceived. They
found that they had helped to place in
the gubernatorial chair a man of straw;
man who deliberately violated the
pledges he had made before election.
There has never been in the history of
the State worse exhibition of bossism
and ring rule then has existed under the
Pattaugell- Plasted administration.
At one period in its eXistence-it was
many years ago-the Boston Herald
could see no good in Maine, or Maine
people. If the cholera broke out in In
dia it laid it to Blaine, and was equally
Irrational and prejudiced in other direc-
tons. The Boston Herald of today is a
paper of another color. Here is what it
said of Maine roads in a recent issue:
They are better than those in most
States of the country, and the two
million dollar bond issue voted at the
recent election will make them much
better still. When the automobile tour
list compares Maine roads with Massa.
chusetts roads, he should remember that
Maine has more than four times the
area of Massachusetts and less than
one-fourth the population. That is, Mas.
sachusetts has about twenty times as
many persons per square mile to main
tain its highways as Maine has.
An le tier to citizen of Bath, writ
Yen after bis return from visit to that
city, Mayer Fitzgerald Of Boston said:
Every open saloon in Maine is stand
ing invitation to old and young to violate
ali laws and look to political grafters for
protection from the results of their mis-
doing. Every broken pledge of law en-
incentive for others to make solemn
pledges, to be broken on the slightest
provocation.
That is just the conditions that have
prevailed under the Pattangall- Plaisted
administration. Although before the
election Plaisted made the most solemn
pledges to enforce the laws-and there
by apparently fooled only the temper
ance element in both parties-he had the
support of the liquor interest, and as
soon as his election was known saloons
were opened all over the State, and have
continued open in increasing numbers
ever since. He has made no effort to
redeem his before-election pledges, has
not lived up to his oath of office, and his
defeat for reelection is in the interest
of good citizenship. The Independent
Reporter of Skowhegan says of Plaisted:
eve opposed him bitterly because he
sought to engraft upon the body polite
scion of deceitfulness and weakness
whose propagation would have meant
anarchy and rebellion among honest
folk" And in conclusion the Indepen d.
ent Reporter says:
Plaistedism-by which we mean ap.