Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-24
"Fair Treatment

tsI "Fair Treatment"
Governor Haines shall have fair
at our hands Lewiston
Journal.
Judging from the past. the people
of Maine may expect to see Governor
Haines receive from the Lewiston
Journal about the same fair treat
ment" as received from the same
source by Governor Cobb, Senators
Hale and Frye, congressman Little
field, Swasey, Kinds. Guernsey and
Burleigh, Judge Powers, Hon. f.
Marion Simpson, Hon. Carl E. Milli-
ken, Hon. Charles S. Hichborn, Hon.
A. E. Irving, Rev. Henry E. Dunnack,
Rev. b. p Hope, and hundreds OF
others in State and national affairs
who have refused to be whitfield
about by the Dingley blowing.
The ''trustified press' of Maine in
eludes every newspaper, the Lewiston
journal excepted, and that, under the
dictatorship of one intolerant of all
but his own absolute ego. has pre-
sumed for years to constitute itself
instructor chief to the universe
and to dictate to, criticize, ehastise
and lambaste every person who has
dared to say his soul is his own-un
less the defiant one had some direct
bearing on the Dingley exchequer.
Lewiston Journal advertisers are i'm
mune from Dingleyism. Local trusts
and abuses are not disturbed because
such act might be felt in the personal
treasury. Local readers who are
mill and shop workers are not dis
turbed with news of, or editorial ref
erence to, possible shut downs-that
might interfere with the trade of adj
vertisers. And it is far better for the
hand-to- mouth class to spend their
last dollar before a strike, lock- out
or retrenchment than for them to be-
gin to save for hard times, and local
trade suffer in consequence.
a. That is the type OF Dingieyesdue
publication, aay -
Now if Governor Haines will en-
gage generous advertising space or
buy a few thousand papers occa-
sionally. he will be used fair The
same with Forrest Goodwin, the new
representative elect from Names
Third district. Otherwise they will
be classed with straw Williams erected
in the Dingley conscience" out of
imaginary devilishness in national
affairs.
Maybe you have noticed that the
rascals, thieyes, liars and hyphenatea
helgomonians are always discovered
beyond the Lewiston Journal legal
jurisdiction or, at least, where the
Lewiston Journals significance is
sure to be unnoticed; then Maine
men before the public are yoked up
with the political ogre.
That is the Dingley method.
Oh, yes; Governor Haines will re-
ceive fair treatment from the Lew
iston Journal, as the editor of the
Lewiston Journal is capable of under
standing fair treatment; as he has
treated every Republican who has
represented Maine in Congress since
Nelson Dingley died; as he is now
treating every Maine man who ig-
hypocrisy.
Indeed. when Governor Haines an
nounces his policies from time to
time, just as though he expects to be
Governor while in office, as is char
acteristic of him, he may expect to be
shown in hyphenated incoherency
that he is SO kinds of a reprobate
from the inconceivable swindler WIZ
had sense enough to invest in Maine
| timberlands instead of wild cal
| Western schemes, down to the petty
villain who owns Congress and
/ manipulates it through underground
tunnels into the dens of gamblers
counterfeiters and thugs.
on the other hand, if he Governor
Haines) will publicly proclaim tina
he is under the direction and contro