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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-19
More Wilsonisms.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
1t is the usual custom at conventions
to adopt platform and then select a
candidate to suit that platform; and
whose principles conform to the senti-
ments of that platform. The Demo-
cratic convention at Baltimore revised
this custom, 1t nominated Mr.. Wilson
and then adopted platform supposed
TO suit his principles. The first plank of
that platform reads as follows
I'VE declare it to be fundamental
principle of the Democratic Party that
the Federal Government under the Con-
stitution has no eight nor power to I'M
pose or collect tariff taxes except for
the purposes of revenue"
Now If that was made to suit Mr..
Wilson, (and they claim that he is a
PROGRESSIVE of course that is a pro-
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Cannot Do It-Eh.
(Bangor Newsl


Speaking at Saco last week Cover
nor Plaisted made decidedly feeble
attempt to excuse himself and his adj
ministration for the non enforcement
of the Maine prohibitory law. by
arguing that as there were enforce
ment and non enforcement in botn
Republican and Democratic counties,
the Governor was compelled to admit
| his huniliating defeat as chief ex-
ecutive OF Maine. He did not con-
cede that he had tried to secure en-
forcement, or that he had advised en-
forcement, as chief executive officer
of Maine. He has done peither. ami
| he has strtVen to perform neither
lie made no mention of his pre-
election boast of two years ago:
Elect me Governor of Maine said
the candidate of that time, ."and |
pledge my personal honor that / will
make all Maine as dry as covered
bridge
The boast, the wording and the. ex :
pected dramatic effect from that
contentious remark were all the de-
signed creation of Frederick W.
Plaisted, at that time mayor offAu-
guSta, Maine.
He makes no such boast now in
fact, he does not boast at all In sub
stance he confesses that his sherffs
and county attorneys and policemen
have beaten him-worsted him in 4
game of his own planning.
He continues to insist, however, that
an immediate resubmission of the pro-
hibitory amendment to the Maine con-
stitution will remedy present Plaisted
evils, impose cumulative fines and i'm
prisonment upon the liquor dealers.
and add some 500 per cent. to the
revenues every year. formerly re-
ceived by the counties under Republi-
can rule.
1t is pitiful to hear the Governor
wall and howl for resubmissien. Ho v
many times must the disappointed and
law defying Governor have resubmis-
sion before he can be satisfied that he
is licked?
He owned it up. like man, when
he counted the votes last fall Later
on, when the Democratic legislature
denied resubmission to the Governor
under the conviction that one most
costly resubmission was enough to
satisfy the Maine voters for several
AthiS " tciilt, the 1ONcIiIof Nilto
baby and tried to back out under the
false assertion that those who votel
in favor of prohibition were ignorant,
and did not know their own minds-it
was then that the Maine voters real
lied that the Governor was trying to
play unfairly. and to win by a palpable
trick what he had lost through a fair
and open vote of the Maine constit-
uency, counted and openly declared by
the Governor himself.
Here is the case as ii is placed be-
fore the Maine constituency today-as
it will be until after the September
election:
A promising and non perform
ing Governor going UP and down
Maine making childish excuses for
non enforcement. when he had pledged
himself to rigid enforcement.
"A Governor who begs and pleads
for more time, and still more time.
A Governor who frantically desires
another trial-for one more chance TO
redeem himself and his pledges.
A Governor who hesitates between
II would" and Il dare not" A Cover
nor of subterfuges and excuses and
DEMONSTRATIONS.
A man to be weighed by the voters
of Maine and found lacking in the
elements of Gubernaterial dignity and
pluck
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The What Is-it?
llsiddeford Lournall

: II5IuueIofu JOufnal)
A cartoon now appearing in the
Democratic papers in Maine needs ex-
PLANTATION. 1t shows a club house en-
trance and one window and through
the. latter is seen waiter holding be-
fo6 the face of q very tired-lookipg
Individual, who is seated in a chair at
a small table. tray on which there
are couple of champagne glasses, q
bottle that has no label but which looks
as though it might contain either.
whisky or champagne, and an ordinary
soda water siphon bottle. If the I'M
labeled bottle contains champagne. as
the glasses suggest, what use is to be
made of the soda water And why two
glasses, when but one man is being
served? And what lesson does the car
toon teach anyway?
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For County Treasurer.
BERT P. STUART. Belgrade.

Tor Representatives to Legislature.
BYRON BOYD, Augusta.
WILLIS E. SWIFT, Augusta.
GORHAM c. CARR, watsrviIls.
FRED CYR. Waterville.
CHESTER H. BEANIE, Gardiner.
JOHN NJ. EASTMAN, Benton.
(Clinton, Albion, Benton, Unity Pr
CLASP
EDWARD Fl. COOK, vassalboro,
(Winslow, Vassalboro CLASP
ZEN B. THOMPSON, Farmingdals.
Chelsea, Farmingdale Clasp
CHARLES w. JONES, China.
windsor, Randolph. Pittston. China
sif.issi CLASP
DANA c. SKILLIN, HalloweII.
(Hallowell, w. Gardiner, Manchester
Class)
ARTHUR ]. CHICK, Monmouth.
Monmouth, Litchfield, Winthrop
Glass;
ELLSWORTH e. PEACOCK, Read.
field.
Wayne. Readield, Mt. Vernon, Fay
cite. Vienna, Rome Glass;
FRED A. SCRIBNER, Belgrade.
belgrade. Sidney CLASP
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There's a Difference.

There is another thing we would
call attention to, that concerns this
newspaper. In June we received an
order from Secretary Davis to publish
the sample primary ballots in the
Times. The charge was $3.50 and
although we have sent the bill to Mr..
Davis personally several times. we
have not received check. Yet. the
Waterville Sentinel has been paid its
rightful amount and a graft charge of
$4363S2.
If the State finances were in such
a fine state. we Should think that Il
little bill of $3.50 would have been
paid long ago.
Perhaps because the Times is a Re
publican newspaper is the cause of
the payment being withheld. And
again, it may be that the Sentinel has
so drained the treasury by its dishon-
est overcharges, that it has become
necessary to cheat the small fry"
of their just dues.-Rumford Falls
Times.
Our Rumford Falls neighbor is not
alone in this matter of complaint. The
other Republican newspapers of the
State have not been paid for publish
ing the sample primary ballots. I'm
til it was discovered that the State
had more than $4,000 to advance the
Waterville Sentinel with which the
purchase the stock for the ballots, Re-
publican newspapers were disposed to
wait nafi,Anf1v n hae r.1
the. economy administration
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Political Tide Editorial.
lEllswnrth Americanl.

tF4IISWOTII 4tfIItI ICelI7' /"
Senator Gardiner says that he cannot
find fifty men in Congress who remein-
her Edwin c. Burleigh, for fourteen years
representative from the third Maine dis
trict at Washington. Mr.. Gardeners re-
mark will tend to strengthen the notion
that Mr.. Burleigh was not as prominent
in the halls of the national legislature as
his letters to his constituents might have
led them to suppose. -Wateryille Sentinel,
Mr. Gardeners remark will also tend
to strengthen the notion that a pretty
small man is rafting around WASH
ington in the shoes of the late Senator
frye
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specuVely. The auditor further in
Guides, in the amount of bills unpaid.
an item of $685. 34 for soldiers, pen
sfons, not payable by the State until
1911, as is now conceded by the ad-
ministration when confronted by the
larger deficit in soldiers pensions
existing on Jan. /, 1912.
Now let us see what would have
been the financial condition of the
State on Jan. 1. 1911, but for Re-
publican administration of it's affairs
for four short years, 1889, 1904, 1895
and 1907.
Under the administration of Gov.
Burleigh in 1889. the whole bonded
debt of the State matured, debt in
CURED during the rebellion of 1876,
to hold up the hands of the immortal
Lincoln. 1t amounted to $S,9e7, 800.
The then existing sinking fund and
other items reduced it to s2,463,925.
Renewal bonds to the amount Of
$2,384, 900 We're issued, the bonds hay
ing been sold at a price that yielded a
premium of $4,000.
For IL years, beginning with 1890
(1Sso- 1901, both incIusive) $4,000 per
year were made payable; for the fol-
lowing ten years, 1902 1911, $4,000
per year became due; the ten years
next ensuing, (1e12-192f), $4,000 per
year were to accrue, and the balance
remaining was payable in eight annual
instaIIments, $4,000 year, the last
bond thus falling due in 1929.
In 1904, under Republican admins
tration, with a tax rate-Iess the
school mill tax-of 134 mills, bonds to
the amount of $4,000 were paid and
cancelled.
In 1906, under Republican admins
tration, with tax rate-Iess the
school mill tax-of We mills, bonds to
the amount of $267, 900 were paid and
cancelled.
In 1907, under Republican admins
tration, with a tax rate-Iess the
school mill tax-of 1La mills, bonds to
the amount of $4,000 were paid and
cancelled.
A total for the three years of
$1,177ooo, or 100000 in excess of the
sum which was payable!
This one item, to the credit of Re-
publican rule in Maine, wipes out the
whole alarming deficit (?) Of the
political auditor and leaves balance
of over $1,000 tc the good.
Thus, but for the honest and eff
ficient Republican administration Of
these three years. which used the
funds of the people to pay interest
bearing Indebtedness due in 1911, the
Democratic administration of last
year would have had $4,000 in bonds
falling due, instead of the $4,000
which they now shamelessly and de-
ceptively parade as a deficit.
But for the clean and business like
Republican administration of only three
short years, which took the money of
the tax payers to liquidate obligations
that were drawing interest, the Demo-
cratic administration of 1912 would
have $4,000 in bonds to meet, insteai
of the $4,000 that they are called
upon to provide for
But for the safe and sane Republi-
can administration of Gov. BurIeigh
in 1889, when the great debt of the
State was renewed at three per cent:
of Gov. Hill in 1904, when $4,000 OF
the loan was redeemed; of Gov. Cobb
in 1906 1907, when $667 900 was paid,
the Democratic administration Of to
day would have had on the debit side
Of its ledger on Jan. I, 1911, an item,
of bonded indebtedness to the amount
of $1,154,oo0, instead of the $429,00c
that appeared.
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SAYS HE DID NOT SAY IT.

THERE'S file in the archives of the State the State capitol
Augusta imposing sheet of parchment signed boldly black
ink -FREDERfCK. w. PLAISTED-under date of January s
1911, and reading as follows:
/, Frederick W. Pded, do that aoW support the
Constitution of The United Of this State so long
as / shall continue citiseH thereof.
So help God.
Frederick W. Paed do that s0 faithfully dis
charge to the best of my ability, The duties incumbent me
as Governor according to the eonfHo" aud ldsos of the
State.
So help me God
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-19

I wish to correct a few words in the
article on page of the journal of
Aug u. I wrote the article very hasti-
ly and did not read it over for correc-
ton. In line please put the word
will read: "a state that has more sa-
looms according to it's number of inhab-
itants than any other state in the
Union"
In the next column in the line oppo-
site the name of "Gorham c. Carr
change the word most to least" SO
it will exactly quote Mr.. Wilson's words
thus: "In some trades and handicrafts
no one is allowed to do more than the
least skillful of his fellows can do"
which puts different phase on it.
c.. e. SMITH.
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Men Who~Know Hurleigh.
(Bridgton Ne.ws.l

BY the way, apropos of Senator
Gardeners assault upon ex-Governcr
and x-Congressman Burleigh--not
only ILL timed but stupid-did it ever
occur to him that Burleigh's 1861
votes in the primary, with two COM
petitors in his own party appears to
indicate that there be many in Maine
who have heard of Burleigh, IL
there be but few now in Congress!
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oand, father, neighbor and townsman
should be-true to his ideals, himself
and his friends, and held a confidence
sacred.
With Augusta, the Kennebec valley
and all Maine we bow in grief.
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In our Editorial Comment" depart
ment, Friday morning, appeared a
lengthy reprint on Where Is Demo-
cratic Economy 1t should have
been credited to the Lewiston Jour
nal, but the line was Inadvertently
omitted
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Not Abuse, Just Criticism.
belfast Jourrfal).

belfast JourifaD.
Governor Plaisted claims that he
has been abused by certain Repubii-
can newspapers because | have frank
ly stated that | believe State wide
prohibition is wrong in theory and i'm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-19

Wonder if Senator Gardner can find
50 men who ever heard what Pattan-
gall has said about him.
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''No matter what they say said; l
never said ."-ouotation from Demo-
cratic stump speeches.
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For Register of Probate.
RALPH w. LEIGHTON, Mt. Vernon
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For County Commissioners.
HENRY F. CUMMINGS, Manchester
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For Judge of Probate.
HAROLD e. COOK, Gardiner.
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Trickery and Deceit Exposed.

The State auditor, in political
communication addressed to the Gov
ernor and Council, and issued without
authority of law at the expense of the
tax payers as part of the State treas
urer's report for the year 1911. makes
announcement that the Outstanding
claims existing on Jan. LIST, 1911"
amounted to $929,S10.54. To reach
that figure he gives a table as fol-
lows:
Unpaid warrants, $2S4,644.75
Unpaid bills, 373,165.79
Bonded debt, $4,000 90
Jan. 20, 1912, half temporary
loan, 100000
929,S10.54
Inasmuch as the item of $4,000 for
bonded debt. did not mature until
1911-$2000 on June /, and $4,000 on
Oct 1.-The phraseology of the auditor,
as quoted above, in presenting the
contents of his table, is at least Pc
culiarly MISUNDERSTANDING an over
critical person might characterize 1t
by some other term. The provision
for the payment of these bonds Was
not made until the session of the
Legislature of 1911, properly to be met
from the tax levy of that year, as APP
pears by chapters 26S and 29s of the
private and special laws of 1911. APP
/ proved March 80 and March 81 re-
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ESTABLISHED 1895

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE fer the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLINT, Publish
srs, Augusta, Maine.
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For Sheriff.
COLBY GETcHELL. WaterviIls.
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For County Attorney.
WILLIAM II. FISHER, Augusta.
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Monday, August 10, 1912.
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A Correction.

Thorndilke. Aug. 16.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL. 81 =

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70 REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at s o'clock.
o. +. FARNIIAM, n. q.
L. +. WESTON, Sec. & -
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
ALMOST FRANTIC WITH
ITCHING ECZEMA

Eight years ago l got eczema all
over my hands. My fingers fairly bled
and 1t itched until it almost drove me
frantic. The eruption began with
itching under the skin. 1t spread fast
from between the fingers around the
nails and all over the whole hands. I
got a pair Of rubber gloves in order to
wash dishes. Then 1t spread all over
the left side OF my chest. A fine doc
tor treated the trouble two weeks, but
did me no good. | cried night and
day. Then l decided to try Cuticura
Soap and Ointment but without much
hope as I had gone so long. There
was a marked change the second day,
and so on until ] was entirely cured.
The Cuticura Soap we have always
kept in our home, and we decided
after that lesson that it Is a cheap
soap in price and the very best in
quality. My husband will use no other
soap in his shaving mug" (Signed)
Mrs. G.. A. Selby, Redonda Beach,
Cal, Jan. Is, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a SAM
pie Of each, with 92-page book, will
be mailed free on application to
~"Cuticura," Dept. =, Boston.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
snug" /. overworked Word.

The most overworked word in the
Englishman's vocabulary of slang Is
Mug" AS a noun it may mean a
face, a fool, or a student who prefers
reading to sport. AS a verb its mean
ings are still more varied. 1t may
mean to study hard, or to strike in the
face. 1t also means to rob or swindle,
and among actors to grimace or make
faces. To mug up Is also, in theatrical
~parlance, to make up.
Finally, to mug ones self Is to get
drunk, the resulting condition being
one of mugginess. There Is more OBJ
vious sense In this last use of the
word than in some of the others, for
~alehouses, in the eighteenth century.
were commonly known as mughouses.
Mug is the English equivalent Of the
German Zug, which Mark Twain found
to mean everything. A new sense of
the verb mug" In the American slang
Is to photograph a face.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04
GHOSTS EVER BOTHER your
II SO, Southern Negro Folks Say These
Simple Precautions Will Chase
I'm.

AS a part OF the folklore OF the ne
gro folks the superstitions OF slavery
days are of great interest. The fol-
lowing are some of the negro's beliefs
about ghosts:
TO feel a hot breath Of air strike
you at twilight signified the nearby
presence of a ghost. Should you wish
10 avoid him, stop and turn your coat
@nd trousers and hat wrong side out
and the spirit cannot encounter you.
II. however, he Is a ~pugnacious
sprite and approaches despite the
cAange, turn and address him thus:
III the name of the Lord, what do you
want! W~hereupon he will tell you
MS business upon earth, then depart
ana never, never trouble you again.
H. on the other hand, it is a prowling
ghos who crawls under the house,
pumps against the floor, makes
strange sounds, and whispers in the
midnight hours, you have only to put
IN a new floor and he will do so no
more.
some ghosts are obtrusive and will
not only prowl about the house. but
creep In through the crack of the door
In the wee small hours of the night,
and, once inside. expand to vast pro-
portions. To spare yourself any dis
urban In this way, sow mustard
seed all about the doorstep just before
going to bed, OF place a sieve on the
doorstep.
Before entering, the spirit will have
to count all the holes in the sieve or
all the mustard seeds, and by this
time daylight will come and he will
have to go. AS the counting for one
night will not do for another you are
always safe.-Southern Workman.
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For Forty Years a Hermit.

Isaac Sheath, who has just died in
the workhouse al the age OF seventy
eight, lived the life of a hermit for
nearly forty years at Newport, Isle
of Wight. He occupied a mud-hut
which he erected on a piece of waste
land in the village Of Chale, but the
hut became sc dilapidated that the
rural district council ordered it's de-
struction. Sheath was greatly exas-
perated by the councils interference,
and before he left for the workhouse
he burned the hut to the ground. Mice
and birds had grown so accustomed to
the old man and his lonely ways that
they used to come and feed from his
hand.-LonSon Mail
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-04

me to be more explicit, perhaps the
word 'hashish' will refresh YOU mem
ory!"
"F1l talk to you later"
"YeIl give me back me property this
minute Or"
ORourke was at the rail In a stride.
Shall tell him?" he demanded.
A swift step sounded beside him.
He turned an instant too late, who had
Teckoned without Dennison. As he
moved to protect himself the irst Of
fcer's fist caught the Irishman Just
under the ear. And one hundred and
seventy-five pounds of man and malice
were behind 1t. O'Rourke shot into
the scuppers as though kicked by a
mule, struck his head against a piece
of iron work and lay still. half
stunned, shutting his teeth savagely
upon a moan,
Hole and the first mate stood over
him, and the captains voice. guarded
but clear enough, came t. his ear:
You'll lie there, me man, and not
so much as a whimper till | give you
leave. Take 'eed wot I says. MI.
Dennison ere is goin' to clean is re-
~volver."
O'Rourke lay silent, save for his
quick breathing. The first officer,
grinning malevolently. sat down near
at hand, keeping a basilisk eye upon
the PROSTATE man while he fondled an
a~ble-bodied. hammerless Webley.
Hole moved off towards the gang
way, whence his voice arose, an In
slant later. greeting his visitor. The
latter put a hurried question, which
O'Rourke did not catch, but the cap
tain's reply was quick enough:
only a mutinous dorg OF a deck
and. Wanted shore leave and refused
to go forrard when ordered. e amt
'urted none Mr.. Dennison ere Just
gyve I'm a tap to keep him quiet"
The Irishman swore beneath his
breath and watched the first officer.
The light from the lantern at the
gangway glanced DULY upon the pol
ished barrel of the revolver, and the
cleaning line was steadily directed
towards O'Rourke's head. Upon re-
consideration he concluded to lie still,
to wait and watch his opportunity;
for the present, at least, he was IN
disposed to question Dennison's will
lingness to use the weapon. O'Rourke