Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-31
Editorial Comment
Mr.. BurIeigh to the Senate.
Bangor News.)

obviously it is the duty of all the
stand-pat members of the Republican
party in Maine to rally To the support
of Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh of Augusta
in the contest he is waging to secure
= nomination and election to the
United States Senate from Maine as q
successor to Hon. William p. Frye OF
Lewiston, who persisted bravely While
unfolding the Republican cause. III
the first place, Mr.. Burleigh is what Is
known as the logical candidate Tor
the Senate for all Maine Republicans
to support. He was the senior MEM
Der from Maine in the Maine House
at the time he quit the national house
for private life, two years ago. In
most Republican states-and in many
Democratic states as well-this habit
Of elevating the senior in point of serV-
ice in the House to the first vacancy
in the federal Senate from that state,
has been honored and respected Tor
wears. Surely there can be no eXcep-
ton made to this rule against Mr.. Bur
leigh this year or next year.
If steadfast loyalty to his party. TO
his party platforms and to MS party
candidates count for anything, these
noble qualifications are all on the sue
of MIR. Burleigh, and not with any
other candidate within the Republican
party of Maine.
Twice within the past ten years mas
Mr. Burleigll written to his frlends anu
supporters positively refusing the use
of his name for senatorshlp, Whlle sen
ators Hale and Frye consented TO hoiu
the seats they occupied with so mucii
honor to themselves and to all Maine,
and to the entire nation. AT no time
in his long and varied career mas MI
Burleigh ever been "knocker III
Maine politics. Always he has been
willing to wait his turn. Meantime, ne
has been most alert and careful for the
welfare of Maine in the lower house
of Congress: In the new apportloh-
ment of ten years ago, Maine would
have had her representative delegation
in the lower House cut down from
four to three had it not been Tor the
watchfulness of Edwin c. Burleish'
then representative to Congress from
the Third Maine district. 1t was MI
tBurleigh, more than any otilei
man, who secured the great and eXpeh-
| siye government lobster, cod ana ma
rine fish hatchery at Boothbay Hafooi ,
Me. which has already cut the retain
price of Holsters in two, and gwen new
energy to the fishing industries an
along the Atlantic shore front.
| Though not a professional lnsur-
| eant.'' like La Toilette, or pro-
| nounced progressive" as Col. Roose-
Welt claims to be. he in wide measure
| combines the most reasonable and al
| vanced measures of both factions ano
reaches far out beyond both in haVihe
been a plain and energetic 'stand-pat
Republican, who absorbed the doctrine
| of Lincoln, Hamlin Blaine and othel
| Republican leaders from his boynoou
| He has never been outside the he
| nublican party, or thought of gettins
1 outside, of the Republican party, for
| rnoment. He was a true blue Repupii
can when a boy in Aroostook; ne IS
| true blue Republican today While eel,
| ing and publishing "a newspaper IL
Augusta.
| He is very much the kind OF maj
| that the Republican voters OF Maih'
desire to support The Republican
voters of Maine know they can rei'
upon Edwin C. Burleigh.