Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-28
MAHER AT RICHMOND.
Continued from Page one.)
Senatorial Situation.

Senatorial Situation.
Democracy With brow unclouded and
| nerve supreme presents the Hon. Oba-
diah Gardner as solon of moderns
and perforee possessed, in the ripest
measure of those qualities needed to
restore Names prestige in the Sem
ate Of the United States.
Time certainly in its moves apace,
brings strange and divers changes.
New occasions new duties teach
And time makes ancient good uncouth."
Take not the partisan attack of any
interested paperi Heed not the empty
| mouthings of the campaign speakersl
Listen We urge, to the voice of De-
mocracy; Warwick. Listen to the
man whose subtle mind in keen anal
ysis penetrates the shell of accident
ais, and in bare and naked truth de-
tects the real man and with fixity of
purpose that has made him famous
and others infamous, paints the char
acter as he sees it or points the issue
as it is.
What says he, to whom Democracy
is the law of first motion? What cold
and cutting estimate does William r.
Pattangall submit to the people of
Maine of the present candidate of the
Democratic party for U. S. Senator?
Ne private opinion is his, No gar
bled interview,
In the ealm, even depassionate vein
of a solemn debate on the floor of
the Maine House of Representatives
March 26. 1909 while scourging with
the singing lash of a merciless
tongue the hirelings who We're fight
ing in the serried ranks of greed glut-
ted timberland owners a tax meas
ire known as the wild Land Tax"
does he thus refer to this solon of 1912
1T has been said that 1 referred to
this amendment wrongfully in calling
1t the Grange Amendment. I was mis-
led in doing that because when the
amendment was offered a leading
member of the Grange legislative
committees in the seat with the
gentlemen from Bremen and prompt
ed him when his amendment came in.
1t may not have been a Grange meas
ure; it may be what / truly believe It
TO be, wild land measure prompted
by man in the interests of wild land
owners"
A man in the interest Of Wild Land
Owners! Surely not the Hon. Obadiah
Gardner, Let us see-That there might
be no mistake in mr. Pattangall's
opinion of Senator Gardner he reduced
the same to cold hard type--and that
may not mistake or misstate / will
read the same from the personal pa
per OF Mr.. Pattangail the Maine
Democrat.
Mr. Obadiah Gardner has announce
cd tbrpuob fba I-onpclaao Jor,r,,.1 \,
ambition to be again nominated for
Governor by the Democratic party.
A becoming sense of modesty is a
desirable requisite in "a public man.
No man was ever yet as large let
alone larger than his party. Mr..
Gardner has right to seek the DEM
ocfatic nomination if he desires to do
so. Upon what meat hath
this our Caesar fed that he has grown
so great that the test of party loyalty
is to be the supporting of him in his
ambition not to be elected Governor
of Maine, (for no sane and well i'm
formed man believes for a moment
that Mr.. Gardner can be elected Gov
ernor next falD but to be renominated
Governor? The time has come for
plain speaking in this matter. So
long as Mr.. Gardner held his peace it
was the part of all loyal Democrats to
hold theirs also, even though opposed
to his denomination, for family quar-
rels should be conducted behind closed
doors not on the sidewalk But when
a candidate insists upon washing the
dirty linen of the party in public and
in a washtub so strongly impregnated
with Republican soap as the Kenne-
bee Journal, the ironing may as well
be done in public also, and the wash
hung out to dry where everyone can
see it, No one opposes MIR. Gardeners
denomination from personal reasons.
He is not an issue in Maine Politics.
His candidacy is not the paramount
matter in the minds of the people of
Maine. The opposition to his candi-
dscy springs from just one fact,
namely, that his course before the
Maine legislature and since in report
ing to the Grange the work of the
Legislative committee has been such
as to positively preclude any posi-
biIity of his election and Democracy is
neither making gubernatorial nom-
nations at the present time for fun
nor bestowing them on anybody as a
compliment. If Mr.. Gardner had
stayed away from Augusta last win
ter, or going there. so conducted him.
self as to hear out the reputation for
integrity and ability which he possess
sed in 1908 he would probably have