Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06

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| worker, it would seem that the. Gov
ernor himself were as much in need
offender who is putting out Republic
can literature without the Union label
1t may suggest itself to our readers
that the man who would try to curry
favor with class when his personal
career is so markedly in opposition to
his declaration, must be not only be-
coming desperate but is resorting to
pretty small politics to bolster his
waning influence in the last hours Of
his public career.
OF the same quality and caliber as
these utterances of Gov. Plaisted il
Penobscot county, is the spectacular
attempt to acquire votes for dying
cause through increasingly desperate
chances of fooling the voters for few
DAYS longer. The facts in the case
of Mr. dollhouse are significant, when
considered in their relation to the
falsehood perpetrated by Democratic
press and speakers. Mr. dollhouse
is an expert wool sorter, who had been
working for the American Wooden Co.
for several months. He had never
done any political work for this COM
pany, neither had the company ever
asked him to do political work Tor
them in Maine or elsewhere. Mr.
dollhouse is not in the employ Of the
American Wooden Co. at this time, nor
has he served them in any capacity
for some time. He came To Maine at
the direction of the Home Market Clue
of Boston, that splendid organization
which has stood between the indus
tries of New England and the des-
perate assaults of Democratic free
traders and demagogues for many
years. The Home Market Club ~
paying Mr.. LIGHTHOUSE for his work
and his expenses. 1t employs him as
a man skilled in his class of labor and
acquainted with the remuneration
and service required in all depart
ments of the Wooden manufacturing
business. The Home Market club
works all the time for the cause
which it represents. and often emf
ploys speakers, workers and writer's
who are able to speak authoritativeiy
upon this great. question of tariff and
protection.
That explains why Mr.. dollhouse
came to Maine. So far as the check
which the Hon. ID. J. Mcillicuddy ana
his followers and the rum press oil
Maine are displaying so gleefully is
concerned, that also is easily ex-
planned. The American Wooden Co.
was owing Mr.. LIGHTHOUSE small sum
for work which he had done for them
in Massachusetts. The company paid
him by check. which was forwarded to
Madison by mail, where Mr.. Loft
house promptly cashed it at the most
public place in that town, the leading
hotel And. just as promptly, Candi-
date MeGillieuddy or some other
leader, in some mysterious way, Sc
cured that check, and on Thursday
morning the organ of Patt and of cy
was able to reproduce it in all its
magnificent pretense and in full con-
fidence that the people of Maine are
so childlike in their simplicity and
ignorance that they cannot under
stand this cheapest of political tricks.
The Democratic party of Maine is
completely demoralzed, and by such
tactics on the part of it's leaders they
are admitting il. 1t is the last
frantic efforts of a discredited and
defeated organization to grasp at the
straw of hope which lies in the pos
sbIe ignorance of the class of follow
ers to which it appeals.
The attempt to connect Mr.. Loft
house with the deplorable events in
Lawrence and Boston is significant.
Mr.. John ]. Breen has been found
guilty of connection with the notorious
Lawrence dynamiting case. and has
paid a fine of $500. If you should
ask of Mr.. Breen, the reply would ne
cessarily be that he is lifelong
Democrat; that he is a member of the
same party to which 1.-The Team" OF
Maine claims allegiance. Mr.. Breen
has been a Democratic leader and is
holding Office in the city of Lawrence
at the present moment. 1t is now
known that Mr. Breen is the man who
laid the dynamite scheme, and the
leaders of his political faith in this
State are attempting to blow up" the
confidence of the voters in honest gov
eminent and moral civic conditions.
We believe it safe to predict thai
the Democratic bosses will not make
much out of their misrepresentation
| in the case of Mr.. dollhouse.
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