Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-08

| am not here TO defend the sale of
| liquor, but / am here to object at this
late hour To any committee being APP
! pointed for the purpose of political
| capital | am willing to leave it to
| the people of each county An cleo
| ton is soon coming up and we can
| trust the people to elect such men as
| they see fit. and manage their own af4
| fairs in their own way and every other
county mind its own business.
Now Mr. President, | am not here
to defend this matter but | am willing
! to leave il with the people, ! am will
ing To leave ii to the county and each
county will have proper officers. ny
county has proper officers and we have
no notification of thei law there. We
are dry as YOU are i'm Aroostook coun-
", at least. There is no question
! about that. | object to amy committee
being appointed and | do not believe
the people want it. And when YOU
speak about the Governor Of the State
Of Maine and say that he has not done
his duty, | say he has done his duty to
the people of the State of Maine, and
that is what is the trouble with you
today.
better administration never existed
i'm the State OF Maine than has been
given by Governor Plaisted. And when
you try to cast a reflection upon the
county attorney er The sheriff of Kenne-
bee county l say you cannot prove that
they are not honorable men and doing
their duty as we'll as they can with the
public sentiment that surrounds them.
| do not believe the great body of the
sheriffs and the county attorneys in the
Democratic counties are corrupt or in
competent, oh, no, gentlemen; it is IL
censure upon the sheriffs and upon every
county attorney in the State of Maine;
II is II censure upon the administration
of Governor Plaisted and / do not be-
lieve, and ask every Democrat in this
body to vote against such committee foe
political capital for the Republicans Of
the State of Maine.
Mr.. MILLIKEN. Mr. President / said
at the beginning that | had waited and
had right to wait to sec if anything
We're to be done by those in control the
majority party. I see no special force i'm
the suggestion of few senators being
present II | am not mistaken there are
u or 2 of us, and here | take il for the
very good reason that We could not get
our pay until this morning.
Political capital The senator saws
that this is injected for the purpose of
making political capital I say To him
frankly that any poor efforts | might put
forth, or any other Republican senator.
in the way of political capital have been
far surpassed in this session by what our
Democratic friends have been Kind
enough to do for us
If there. is anything more, Mr. Pfes-
dent. that we of the minority would have
liked to have done for the sake of polit-
zeal capital, if that was all we were
after. If there was anything you the ma
jority, have omitted to do. ii is some
thing none of us yet have been bright
enough to think of
I am not going to take any issue with
the senator from Knox as To whether my
motives are honest or not If he has
any opinion 10 the contrary he is entitled
To keep his opinion and cherish it TO
his hearts content What he said about
Knox county is such joke that | cannot
help referring to it. He says it Is dry
in Knox county. There was an occur
renee the other day with which the SEN
ator is familiar. A gent man for some
time has been carrying on wholesale
liquor place, under the protection, it is
alleged, of the sheriff of Knox county
At any rate he has been maintaining it
there. In some way the wires got cross
ed. An honest man, or q man not in
sympathy with the sheriffs program
got in as city marshal and my friend
Senator Mayo, eX-sheriff of Hancock
county. whom | have complimented be-
fore as one of the finest officials Maine
ever had, told me a few days ago and /
think l am not violating any confidence
that he happened to be in Rockland when
the seizure was made, and the officer
consulted Mr. Mayo to some of the
details and they hauled over 80 loads of
stun away from that wholesale estab-
lishment-s1o0o worth, / have heard-and
filled up the rooms and had to get other
rooms in order to keep the stuff In safety.
Now Mr. President and Gentlemen
the question of the honesty of these
various officials has been raised here
The senator has been very indignant
because | said anything to YOU about
kennebec county officials j have not
begun to say about them here what
is being said everywhere. Ii is conf
mon talk and that talk may have ba-
sis or not, but the fact that it is COM
mon talk seems to require some in
Yestigation there.
Mr.. STAPLES: Mr. President:
Knox county, said that the officers
were honest. The suggestion of the
senator from Aroostook that the off-
GERS of Knox county were not honest:
when they found out there was bot
Ting of beer-most of what they
seized was beer. way down to the
South end-thev seized it, And that
shows that they can take care of their
own business.
| know the sheriff. Mr.. Tolman, and
a greater libel was never uttered on
the floor of this Senate tnan to say
that lie directly or indirectly knew
or had any connection with that es-
Enlistment down there Anybody
who knows A. j. Tolman would say
that he is an honorable man and that
he has been an efficient officer. And
stand here that it may be made pub
lie to say that the aspersIon of the
charges which the senator has made
whether rumor or otherwise against
A. j. Tolman. is unworthy to be an
severed really nv anVbodV that we'll