Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-15
Monday, April is, 1912.
When Authorities Disagree.

When Authorities Disagree.
The announcement in the morning
PAPERS that Nathaniel B. Walker is to
be the next county attorney and Har-
ry A. Weymouth the next sheriff was
a bombshell in rum circles.
The appointments were also a big
surprise to the public in general.
It win not need any official threat
from the two new county officials
to bestir rumselers to active prepara-
tions to windup business. The char
acters of the Two men are such that
the bare announcement of their APP
pointment is sufficient warning of
what is coming. The proprietors of
open barrooms could see their finish
the instant they heard the news
The action of Governor Plaisted be-
tokens radical change hereafter in
the conduct of the Offices of county
attorney and sheriff. Nothing could
be any more evident than that.-Bid-
deford Record.
Is ii the Covered Bridge at last?
One might almost dare hope that
Democratic leaders had decided to
attempt to win in this campaign by
right about face.
Honest and truly, black and bluly,
Patt, may we hope? Do you intend,
now that other things have turned out
so badly, to give US the real thing in
enforcement; TO prove the Governor
and yourself and Senators Johnson
and Gardner and Cy and Dan and a
few others all skilled disciples of that
much talked of shade who presides
over a club the password to which is
the shorter and uglier word?
We dislike TO remind you, Patti, that
you and the other gentlemen named
have declared, a few million times,
that the law cannot be enforced, but
wise men sometimes change their
minds. Is that the plan? Were you
paving the way to a change of mind
when you proclaimed that if so Wa
tervilIe citizens would ask it, you
would prove that the law COULD be
enforced?
Is it true. as the Biddeford Record
gives us to understand, that ramrod
ders, fanatics, hypocritics. meddlers.
etc, etc. are being appointed to office
by the Governor?
After what you have said and the
Governor has said, and Senator Obadi'
has said. and others of the Demo-
cratic power house have said-that
the law CANNOT be enforced-do you
agree with the Biddeford Record that
all necessary to its absolutely enforce
ment is the appointment of the right
sort of men?
IL the names of two men in a county
strike terror to the hearts of rum
sellers why all this bluff about the i'm
possibility of law enforcement?
Governor Plaisted has said, and re-
peated it, that the prohibition law can
not be. enforced; that he knew it to be
so; that he is not fool and had been
sheriff of Kennebec county.
The Biddeford Records says: ST will
not need any official threat from the
two new county officials to bestir
rumsellers to active preparations to
wind up business"
oh. the power of a name,
Laws CANNOT be enforced by hat
ers and reviIers OF law.
But even those who publicly and
constantly denounce the law admit
that it CAN be enforced by those who
Only day ago the Waterville Sem
tinel demanded to know what the
Bangor convention had done to guar
antee the enforcement of law. And
VIC reply that it urges the people to
elect men to office who stand for law
and order
Ii Governor Plaisted has appointed
men to Office in York county who will
clean up the situation, we glory in his
spunk-or his change of front We
propose TO watch and, il possible. give
him as much Of a pat on the back as
results justify. Naturally we are sus-
pieious at this time, but we hope it is
movement in the righi direction.
Portland and Biddeford papers sag
that the men appointed in York coun-
ty are men of character and integrity,
are opposed to deals in any form and
that the rumsellers are in the dumps.
Now let Governor Plaisted get busy
Now let Governo Plaisted get busy
with several other counties-Kennebec
for instance!
Clara Barton.
Probably the name OF no woman has