The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-08-01
THURSDAY, AUGUST l, 1912
Sans Question
washington Correspondence Bangor
Commercially

washington Correspondence Bangor
Commercially
Rem Sam Gould expects to start
hack to Maine about next Tuesday ana
to begin looking around in his cam
paign. He is waiting to look after one
or two matters of legislation
Rep. Gould's thoughts, like those OF
his Maine colleagues is much upon
Pine Tree State politics He hears
that Forrest Goodwin, his Republican
opponent from Skowhegan. has looked
around and claims that republican
majorities in Somerset and Hancock
counties are as good as cast and
counted.
THAT Is interesting said Sam,
Monday. as he rested for bit in one
of the window recesses in the Speak
er's lobby, but the voters will prob
ably have something to say on that
point My own guess is that Som
erset and Hancock, as we'll as kenne-
bee and Waldo, will be disposed to
90 Democratic in September.
But | expect the voters in the
Third district will want to know from
Forrest pretty soon which banner he
is under in this campaign. Is he Tor
Roosevelt or is he for Taft? That's
pretty fair question, it seems to me,
and | suppose Forrest will be eager TO
answer it. The giibernatorial contest
] presume, will develop the same in
auiries. | do not undertake to say
that the Maine voters will resort to
heckling Chats what they call 1t over
in England, isn't it, the Third Dis
trict congressman asked in an aslde)
but probably that won't be necessary,
for | am assuming that Bill Hatnes
will take the people of Maine right in
to his confidence in that regard
"Of course" soliloquized the Con-
gresham, the Maine Republican
candidates for Office will expect to do
the very thing | have suggested. They
have always dinned into the ears of
us poor Democrats, when elections
came around on Presidential annums,
that We must remember vote for the
Democratic candidate for Congress
and for the Democratic candidate for
governor, meant vote for the Dem
ocratic candidate for President. They
told us so early and late, because the
country was watching for a cue as to
how the Presidential election would
go.
well, now if that was good Repub-!
Ncan doctrine in 1908 and 1904 and
so ON back it ought to be good Repub-
lican doctrine in 1912. Now what will
a vote for Forrest Goodwin for Con-
gress from the Third Maine mean this
coming September Forrest can tell
us, whether it is to mean vote for
Taft or a vote for Roosevelt and [
suppose he will"
So the Honorable Samuel Gould is
coming home to get Forrest Goodwin's
scalp
We want to be right up front some
where so that we can see him do it,
1t will be one of the most interesting
incidents to enter into the present
campaign.
How is Congressman Gould to do it?
Why, bless you, he is to ask Forrest
a terrible, awful, staggering, red-hot,
popular question, namely, Forrest
Goodwin, you are running for the Uni
ted States Congress, high office, fill /
ed admirably by your predecessor
AutduluS MED anu the peOpic AiiiSdA-
ing Mel want to know whether you are
for William Howard Taft or for Theo
dore ROOSEVELT"
Now suppose that, quick as a flash,
and that's about the way Forrest
answers all kinds of political ques-I
tions, Suppose, now, Forrest should
shoot at the head of Sam this awful
name, Theodore ROOSEVELT" What
in timenation would Sam do?
Why the campaign will all be over,
because that's all Congressman Gould
says he is coming home to find out.
Or suppose Forrest should quip,
william H. Taft" What in darna-
ton would Sam do at that?
And Forests scalp will still be on,
we'll wager that.
Now we haven't the slightest notion
whom Forrest Goodwin wants to see