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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17

Sherlock Holmes. 's
Drowned! Evidently the poor feI
bw couldn't swim."-St. Louis Times,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17

An English coal strike is believed
to be imminent as result of the
failure of the national conference
Of coal owners and miners to effect
settlement.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
Practically Minded.

FFactioatiy Mtno@u.
"Am required to exchange wed
ding gifts In the department from
which they were purchasedT
"Not at ALL" said the foorwalker.
''Thank you. would like to ex-
change rose jar for a frying pam
Washington Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
somstImsa Needed

Sometimes Needed.
'Why do you have those glass cases
with Ak, hammer, crowbar. ETC.. on
these cars?'' asked traveller on the
railroad going to New York. b.
"Oh, those are put there in case any
one wants a window Open" replied the
Jacetious man.-Youth's Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
"s-s--s-s--"--.-'Ooo
BATTLE ON AGAIN FOR 4
HOME RULE in IRELAND
Contest That Has Been Waged
Since the Days of 0'Con-
nell Is About to End.

sided with the Liberals from choice.
When the budget was defeated by the
house of lords an appeal was made to
the country, and In the new parlla-
ment the Irish Nationalists held the
balance of power This was com
manding position, and Mr.. Redmond
was dubbed by the opposition journals
the dictator to the government. The
only terms he insisted on, however,
were that home rule bill should be
given right of way as soon as the
budget and the veto bills were passed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
Revenge.

Revenge.
The Automatically. you seem to
take a special delight in loaEng on
chat job OF fixing my bathroom.
The Plumber--You bet your life !
dol You're president of the company
that sold me ice all last summer.-BaL
timore Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
seeinu Double.

Seeing Double.
Conductor-We're travelling in two
sections tonight.
Slightly Intoxicated Passenger =
Thatsh right. Justh what I've been
trying to tell m friends. or courst
you are. and can see both shections
Of you. too, conductor.-Judge-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
The Ulster Uprising.

Throughout this long campaign Red
mond has taken advantage of every
recess to appeal to the people, ad-
dressing great audiences not only in
Ireland, but in England. He recently
spoke to great meeting in Belfast,
where serious trouble was for a time
threatened, not so much against Red
mond as against Winston Spencer
Churchill, first lord of the admiralty,
whom the men of Ulster charge with
being a renegade. Lord Randolph
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17

Fine Printing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Gardner Against Prohibition.
Lewiston Journal.)


Senator Obadiah Gardner, while stoutly
asserting that he has been misrepre-
scented" states in a public speech that
he believes statewide prohibition Is
wrong. file does not say it is a failure,
but says it is wrong. He goes further
and says the governor should not be
criticized for sanctoning and even, by
his official declaration, encouraging open
defiance of the prohibitory law. And MIR.
/ Gardner is a temperance" man, does
mot use liquor and wishes its manufac-
ture could be stopped.-Sanford Tribune.
1t is generally understood that Mr..
Gardner is posing as a grange eandi-
date. II there is any one thing that
the grange stands for above all Others
it is prohibition of the rum traffic.
The members are practically unani-
nous ON that subject and yet Sem
ator Gardner declares that prohibit
ton is wrong" Please not the dis
tinction--it is wrong" What have
the members of the grange all over
Maine to say about this? Are they
pleased with this kind of representa-
ton?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
STATE OF MAINE.
Resolve in Favor of Parcels Post.

Ueas of the system carrying merchandise in the
mail would the door of commercial opportunity to
cities and the lowering of that
and producers might trade directly together.
Uhevea There exists in other countries rich and influential
having great internal and being
dense populated proper parcels system which kni the people
closer industry and in prosperity of the
Therefore be Reoaed That and
i'll Congress support for the extension
present parcels post weight limit from four Cd to eleven (I)
pounds, with minimum of five pound parcel and maxi
mu of twenty-five elevenpound parcels.
Rs09ed That copy Of this resolution be the President
S. General members of both branches
of Congress-
parcels post approxmaing its main features the
requirements the foregoing resolution pending before
the United States Senate July g. 1912 not
measure parcels post and by subsequent
considerably improved Instead of lending his
port legislation Of this character Mr. Gardner the day
speech condnnng the parcels bill and advocating
express company absorption scheme above referred to- The
following day Washington and Maine where he has
he advocated That got out of the Committee
pigeon hole and while the fight the parcels post demanded by the
people this State wagng Congress- Mr. Gardner stump
ing the of his candidacy for the Senate
parcels post bill subsequently passed August thanks
to Mr. The of Maine entitled to know the facts
Garnes present promises by his perform
anee
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Economy as Interpreted by Democ

The utter disregard of the Demo-
cratic Legislature of 1911 for the dire
necessities and absolute requirements
ef tine great charitable institutions of
and arousing he Indignation of the
people. as has no other of the mani
fold delnquences of the present ad-
ministration. And justly so. For the
action of the Legislature and the at
tituda of the executive We're and are
in no wise representative of the en-
lightened citizenship of the State of
Maine.
But in 1911 it became politically ex-
pedient, to the end that Democratic
ascendency might be maintained, that
a record for ECONOMY be made.
And it was made at the expense of the
sufferings of the blind. the crippled
and the homeless.
The city of Portland has within us
borders many hospitals and asylums
toward whose doors for many years
the sick and homeless from every sec
ton of the State have turned theh
footsteps, in confidence that there
haven would be found.
Former Legislatures, after exhaus'
tive hearings and thorough investisa-
tons, had responded with a generous
vet prudent hand to the earnest re-
quest of the leading citizens, not alone
of Portland but of other localities, ina
these charities be sustained.
The manner in which they were
treated by the last Republican ana p'
the present Democratic administration
is strikingly shown in the iolioWihs
table, figures taken from the appro
nriatian bills of the years named'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Lies Against Haines Disproved.
Harrington Chronicle.)


A wise man must sometimes change
his mind, a fool never. William T.
Haines was accused of improper rail-
road deals, of cheating the State out
of a fair price for wild lands and va
rious other things Some of us par
TALLY believe the charges. 1t is now
proven they were pure fabrieations
He bought and sold the Somerset
railroad in the open market. fair and
above board. He with others bought
hundreds of acres in Soldiertewn
township of private parties but
afterwards found the title defective
because previous owners had failed to
pay taxes. He then seeured clear title
by paying the State its possible,
though not proven claims on account
of the tax deeds We misjudged the
man. We withdrew our opposition and
now give him our loyal support. Could
any other course have been just?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
THE POLITICAL TIDE
Daily Evidence from, Kenncbec Journal Exchanges
Marking the Sweep Toward Repubcanism.

show it; on next Monday they can
vote to continue it.
And if they are satisfied with the
conduct of State affairs. how about
national? Without question a MAORI
~ of the voters of Maine believe in
protective tariff, and are against
Canadian reciprocity
Are they going to elect legisla-
ture which will send to Washington a
senator who fayors reciprocity, and
who viii vote against a protective tar
if Till?
They can do so if they choose. A
Democratic legislature Will elect SEN
ator Gardner; a Republican legisla-
ture will elect Mr.. Burleigh.
Are they going to elect members of
the National House who are for free
trade, or are they going To elect Mr..
Kinds, Mr.. SHELTON, Mr.. Goodwin and
Mr.. Guernsey. who are proteetionists ?
Tt is for the voters to decide. Strong
men have plainly put undisputable
facts before them, and there is noth-
ing left but to await the result
Maine has never before been faced
with so great crisis Democratic
success means a continuation of an
intolerahle condition of State affairs:
it also means grave danger to Names
Industrial, agricultural and CONNER
cial prosperity.
Voters. can YOU afford to vote the
Democratic ticket? Can YOU afford to
stay away from the pollsP
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Did Secretary cy "BIow Up"2

IT'S whispered that Cyrus Davis of
State secretarial, printing. banking
and promoting fame was not clasped
to the bosom of Aroostook in the en-
thusiastic manner which he sought
IT'S even disrespectfully averred that
the astute residents of that broad
territory brazenly asked embarrassing
questions and then laughed in their
sleeves while Mr.. Davis Redeemed,
coughed, forgot State issues and
blew up These irreverent, desc
Grating townsmen are laughing while
they gather their crops. and meeting
evenings at the corner grocery te
laugh some more. Worse still, there
are rumors of lawsuits to follow Mr.
Davis defense which is alleged Il
have carried too vicious counter
charges against Mars Hill towns
man.
Strange. too!
These townsmen merely asked in
friendly. blank faced way:
rs it triie. Mr.. Davis
.That you ever had anything to d
with the selling of wild cat minin
stocks2
THAT men in this section have list
OF the companies you have organize
with yourself as president?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Get Out the Republican Vote.

cortland Evening Express)
1t is not often that at the close of
n political campaign, it is possible to
see, practically. the private canvass of
both parties, or failing in that, to
know exactly what both canvasses
show. We are fortunate enough this
wear To know that both the RepHbli-
can and Democratic capvasses indi-
cate the election of William T. Haines
and the Republican ticket next Mon
day. In their private conferences, as
was proven at Bangor on Monday,
Democratic leaders admit to each
other that their only hope of success
lies i'm the possibility that an indifter-
ent spirit will prevail among Repub-
leans in the rural towns. They know
from, their own returns that If the
Republican vote gets out next Mon
day, they are defeated and this they
privately admit, though publicly put
ting as good a face on the situation
as they can. e.NW
The lesson to be learned from the
fact is not a difficult one. No stone
will be left unturned by the desperate
and anxious Democracy. to get out
every Democratic vote in the State.
The Republicans, with equal energy
and activity, are certain of victory.
They have no reason to expect that
the Democratic defenders of this adj
miaistration, equipped with all the
money they can use, will permit any
voter who car be induced to vote for
them, to stay AT home. Every Plais-
ted man and every Pattangall man
and every Davis man in the State of
Maine. will vote next Monday. All
their activity will be lost If the same
amount of energy is exerted on the
Republican side. Any man who feels
the slightest interest in public affairs
and who believes that Governor
Plaisted and his allies should not re-
main in power iii Maine, has a duty to
perform next Monday, and If that
duty is we'll performed the State VIII
he rewarded by replacing the inetfi-
cient administration with one sure to
be foreible and businesslike. and the
replacing of an administration which
has failed to keep every promise II
made, except its promise to the United
states Brewers Association, with an
administration that will keep faith
with the people, instead of with tbs
brewers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06

For Representatives to Legislature,
BYRON BOYD. Augusta.
WILLIS E. SWIFT. Augusta.
GORHAM C. CARR, waterville.
FRED CYR. Waterville.
CHESTER H. BEANIE. Gardiner.
JOHN M. EASTMAN. Benton.
(Clnton, Albion, Benton, Unity Pl.,
Glass;
EDWARD Fl. COOK, Vassalboro.
(Winslow, Vassalboro Class)
FEN B. THOMPSON, Farmingdale.
Chelsea, Farmingdale CLASP
CHARLES w. JONES. China.
(windsor, Randolph, Pittston, China
Glass; eesaa4I
DANA C., SKILLIN. Halloweli
(HallowelL ". Gardiner. Manchester
lnseltaa CLASP ass.a1,s eftss9.
ARTHUR j. CHICK, Monmouth
monmouth, Litchfield, Winthrop
Glass;
ELLSWORTH E. PEACOCK. Read
field.
(Wayne, Readfeld, Mt. Vernon, Fay.
cite, Vienna. Rome Glass;
FRED A. SCRIBNER, Belgrade.
Oakland. Belgrade and Sidney Glass
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
a Last w ord.

ellsworth Amer1can.)
Before another issue of The Amer
lean appears the voters of Maine will
have registered their approval or dis
approval Of the administration of the
states affairs by Plaisted and his
party
Two years ago the Democrats APP
pealed to the people to put them in
power. They promised, if elected, to
administer the States affairs better
than their predecessors had done.
They charged, for one thing, per-
sistent notification of the prohibitory
law by the Republican party, and
promised enforcement.
Have they kept that promise? On
their own showing. Maine is wide
open. no pretense is made that en-
forcement is being carried out; they
even go so far as to say it is impos-
sible; the attorney general declares
that the people will have what they
want, law or no law.
They declared the tax rate too high;
did they lower it? They raised 1t the
first year from five mills to six mills
reducing it for 1912 to four mills; ten
mills in two years
Did they keep that promise?
They promised to be economical;
they have appropriated and expended
the largest sums in the history of the
State since the Civil war.
Did they keep that promise?
They promised 10 tell the truth;
have they told 1.-THE whole truth
| in their public documents, ON the
stump or anywhere else?
| Do a majority of the voters oil
Maine, with the record before them
approve of this sort of thing? If so
| the opportunity is offered them to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
Desperate Tactics of Dying Cause.

On a par with the idiotic utterance
is the attempt of Democratic speakers
and newspapers to make political capi~
tai out of a check for $685. paid by
the American Wooden Co. to Joseph
dollhouse. who is meeting Union
workers of Maine and attempting to
bring home to them the double men
ace of the proposed Democratic free
trade plan. Under the lead of Con-
| gresham McGillicuddy, who seems
possibilities of the so-called Wooden
trust owing a laborer who fayors pro-
lection a small sum of money, other
J Democratic stump paralyzers and
press representatives of the booze"
trust are attempting to array the hon
est working men of Maine against
| the Republican candidates. AS the
most direct method of bringing their
dishonest attempts before the organ
lEeu NOrkiilS people VI inc ota'c, tHSS
are using the sensational events re-
Gently recorded in Lawrence and Bos-
ton. and are attempting to make the
| people believe that the American
| Wooden Co. has its hired agents in
J this state for the purpose of defeating
the Democratic party.
On Thursday morning, the Water
vile Sentinel, the organ of w. r. Pat
tangall and Cyrus w. Davis, and fore
most advocate of the doctrines and
| the sophistry of the Rum Trust, APP
pears with a five column half-tone re-
production of a check on the Ameri-
can Wooden Co., payable to the order
of Joseph dollhouse in the sum OF
| $685.. This magnificent specimen OF
the art of misleading the unsophisti-
Gated compares well with the words
of Gov. Plaisted when he told his
Labor Day hearers that the Republi-
cans of Maine We're in need of
guardian because they had put on
literature that did not bear the Unior
stamp. He called attention to thu
pamphlets distributed on that day a
} Bangor and at Dexter. pointing on
that they did not bear the Union
stamp, and declared that they hal
: probably been printed in a scab shop
, Think of that" beloved the Cover
, nor, passing around printed matte
} on Labor Day that does not carry tn
Union label. Those Republicans GER
tainly do need a GUARDIAN"
g Considering the fact that the litera
ture put out by his own party has no
borne the Union label, and the sti
2 more striking fact that during Gov
I ernor Plaisted'sx IA years as the pub
: Usher of the New Age (Which week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
More Pretense, Less Performance.

In the campaign of 1910, as part of
their desperate program to capture the
government of the State of Maine for
the rum power, the Democracy in
their State platform declared:
"These Republican) politicians have
saddled an annual expense of $4,0OO,0O0
upon our people and upon our homes.
They have increased State expendl-
lures 300 per cent. in % years"
That there was no honest basis Tor
the statements is now well under
stood. but taking these Democratic
politicians on their own ground, they
have started in to beat a record that
they vociferously denounced. Ae-
cording to the report of the Demo
cratic treasurer of State for last year
| the expenditures were $4,51S,474.l5, ex-
ceeding the amount that Mortified
them by more than half a million
| dollars! Were they permitted by the
people of the state to run its business
at that rate for 2S years, they would
| increase State expenditures some S6s
per cent,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06

THAT you are partly responsible for
the Wateryille Trust Co?
THAT you are drawing your salary
from the State while you are up here
campaigning?
THAT thousands of dollars of Maine
money have been lost in schemes you
have recommended or promoted?
"That you went to the national con-
vention of the Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation to make arrangements for the
turning over of the State to them?
"That after your banks had failed
and the mining stock-er. ahemi-was
PLAYED out you secured strong enough
influence to aid you in prevailing upon
Governor Plaisted to appoint you Sec
rotary of State?
'sThat you got the big end of an IL
legal printing contract when the Gov
ernor and Council voted to continue
the contract" in defiance of the State
Supreme Court?
| THAT since then you have received
lsanothefa big slice through huge over
/ charges against the State. involving
| thousands of dollars?"
| "Oh tell us. Mr.. Davis, is it 500"
| Yes, that's almost everything these
| inquisitive people asked him to tell
/ NJ to-, hot ic i'll n
| have stood straight up while his eyes
| blazed and he forgot his States well
| fare to froth in personalities. For,
| like unto our gubernatorial presence,
Mr.. Davis too can paraphase Bar
| bara Frietchie:
"Swat If you like this blamed old State
But keep your fingers off my pate!
Anyway, here is, in part, what the
| Mars Hill View says about it in Tues
| days issue:
AS a political address 1t was the wors
Exhibition that was ever held at Mar!
HIM A good part of his time, and apou
all the energy that Davis was possesset
Of was devoted to abusing the loWA
editor of the Mars Hill View
/ Cy apparently forgot the dignity OF M
lofflee and the early training of his child
hood If he ever had any, and wanted
TO fight some one. He uncorked the vial
of his wrath and poured out the oil o
Vitriol in generous quantities upon tn
devoted head of the View editor.
1.-The cause of his wrath was on ac
count of an article that appeared In tn
Mars Hill View last week that Cy tool
} exceptions to and placed him on the de
fensive to such an extent that he forgo
iall about the issues of the campaign Il
. defending himself from the charges tina
rufiled up his fur. His language was $
} abusive, vulgar and vile, that many lef
> the hail in disgust.
"He gave his audience good oppor
= tunity to see for themselves the calibr
of the man that Governor Plaisted Sc
lected for that honored position for Sec
rotary of State of the grand old stat
of Maine. who has stood high in TN
a lcouncils of the Democratic party of tn
State. Having been selected on tw
Occasions as the candidate for Governo
The Is considered now as one OF the brigf
flights of his party. The Pole boss c
O that famous team composed of Plaistel
Davis, Pattangall & Co, who are tn
= opponents of the doctrines of free trad
and the open saloon.
"If would appear as IL this man, c
s Davis, was struck on a raw place.
1, Never mind, Cy, you and your gan
q will be out of a job at the beginning
the coming new year, and you can d.
: vote more OF your energy and time !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-06
An Amazing Instance of Den,oeratfc
Duplicity.


The utter insincerity of the powers
that are in control of the affairs of the
State today, their absolute disregard
of promises and pledges, is illustrated
in a most pronounced manner by an
instance of their double dealing with
the laborng man, the laboring woman
and child. 1t has aroused the indig-
nation and resentment of employees in
the mills and other manufacturing
establishments, and they are express
ing their opinion of Democratic du-
plicity in no uncertain language.
The facts in brief are as follows
The laboring people Of Maine, through
the chosen representative of their
interests, had presented in the Maine
House of Representatives on March 3.
1911, bill requiring safeguards on
machinery for the protection of en-
ployes in manufacturing establish
ments, and providing civil remedies in
cases of accidents where the machin-
cry is not so guarded.
on March IA, after having been
printed, the bin was referred to the
committee on legal affairs. of which
w r. Pattangall was chairman on
the part of the House.
Mr.. Pattangall assured the friends
of the measure that the bill should
have a hearing.
But on March II, no hearing having
been given, and the advocates of the
legislation having had no opportunity
to be heard, the committee of which
Mr.. Pattangall was the controlling
spirit reported the bill back to the
House, for reference to the next Legis-
lature.
The labor people, thus wholly taken
by surprise, endeavored, when the bill
reached the Senate, to secure a re-
versal of this action. but 1t appeared
that some influence had preceded them
there, the upper branch not only re-
legislature but indefinitely postponed
it.
Now note the sequel:
In November following. the State
Conference of Charities and Correc-
tions held it's annual session in Au-
gusta. W. r. Pattangall was invited
to address the body, which he did on
November .. 1911, and suavely urged
upon this conference the great import
ance of the question of safeguarding
machinery in mills; the lack of such
protection is especially hazardous to
the boys and girls between the ages of
IA and 16 years who are allowed to
work in the mills out of school time"
He advised the women of the cenven-
ton to give more attention to this
matter than to child labor laws.
Latterly this two-faced attitude of
the Encouragement has become
known to many members of the con-
yention and they are unsparing in
their comments upon it.
The legislation that was asked for
by the laboring people of Maine is nc
untried experiment, butts in line with
statutes now upon the books of almost
every state in the Union.