Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-26

! iitENtl fsltN 0tatslts %NttSotA WIN
on HE was not born with silver
| spoon in his mouth. He worked on 4
| farm and fought for his education
| working his way through the Uni
versity of Maine.
.t1e is well equipped to perform the
duties of Governor, having been eoun-
/ y attorney, served in both House and
Senate and also as attorney general
and as member of Governor Hilrs
| Council. He has done great work for
| the University of Maine and was a
| friend OF the institution in the days
when it needed friends. He put a rail-
road through the wilderness, builr
mills and developed electric powers. |
believe that because of these things,
MIR. Haines is better acquainted with
the conditions and needs of the State
than any other man in it.
Mr.. Haines has always stood four
square to the principles of the Res
publican party. He has been on the
stump since 1879 and has never been
gutter. He did not waiver sin allie
glance to the party when beaten by
Mr.. Fernald, in 1908. He said to Mr.
Fernald: I am with YOU and went on
the stump for him. Mr.. Fernald also
had no stauncher supporter in his Sec
ond campaign than William t. Haines.
Haines Man of Foresight.
MIR. Haines is a far-seeing. clear
thinking man.. continued Mr.. Nelson
In 1908 he was four years in advance
of his party. He saw then that De-
mocracy depended for its ultimate
victory in the State upon the bellet
that the Republican party would not
allow the resubmission of the pro-
hibitory amendment He said. Let
the amendment be resubmitted by its
friends that it may be reaffirmed, III
stead of by its enemies You know
how he was misrepresented then. TO
dav. we see that he was right. Had
the amendment been resubmitted, in
1908. it would have been reafiirmed'
the State would have been safely Re
publican and the liquor question
taken out of politics for a great many
| years.
1--WE want for Governor of Name
!, man who will keep his oath OF ONCE
and wear no mans collar. Mr.. Haihes'
| if elected Governor, will be Governor
de facto and de juro, and ne won
, sneeze every time some republican
| Pattangall touches him. | believe that
the people in Maine have confidence
| in Mr.. Haines, the platform upon
| which he stands and the promises
that he has made and that enough OF
| them will vote for him to elect MIN
Governor
Tho Financial Issue.
/ Mr.. Nelson then gave brief but
nointed discussion of the financial is
! sue 1.-TWO years ago the Democrats
wont ont over the State fairly sweat
ing blood in their denunciation OF
what they called Republican extraVa-
eance and mismanagement. They We're
! like the mother whose son was out III
| the garden and not seeing nm TOT
| some time called out to the person IN
charge of the boy: What is johnny
doing?' I don't know was the reply.
We'll tell him to stop, anyhow. re-
piled the mother.
"The Democrats charged the Re-
publican party with graft and extrav :
| agance, they told you that the State
was bankrupt, that it owed anywhere
| from 100000 to $3,0O0.00O; they didn't
seem to know themselves exactly how
/ much it was
| Unfair STATEMENTS.
| Mr.. Nelson then went on to show
the unfairness OF the report of STATE
| Treasurer Singleton in regard to State
| finances, in that it did not give the
| Fernald administration credit for the
amount that came in during January
and February of 1911 for taxes as
sessed during that administration.
"The State treasurer's report says
! that on Jan. !, 1911. the State owed
| $2,500,000, while from its figures il
can be proven using the same meth
cd of reckoning, that on Jan. 1, 1912,
| the State owed 1881 900 In other
words this economical administration
owed over 100000 more than Fer
maids administration owed in 1911.
'Now when Fernald went out of
office. Jan. I. 1911, the 1910 taxes had
not been paid. for they were not due
until the first day of January. The
Democrats say that you owed $4,000,
900 and had nothing to pay it with
but they say nothing of the State
taxes that We're due. There came tc
the treasury in State taxes. in Jan
nary, 1911. s1.5S9.0O0, and in Febru-
airy. S445,000. that Is over S2.000,00(
came in taxes into the treasury in ths
next two months. Instead of saying
that the State owed s2,500,0o0, why
i don't they give us credit for the 81
100000? If this was taken out il
would reduce the figure to 100000.
Il can't find any two Democratic
statements that agree as to how mucf
the State owed in January, 1911
However the Legislature passed 6
resolve. March 20. to nav the severa
claims against the State remainins
unpaid. Jan. l. 1911, and the amour
of that resolve was not s2,500,000 4
wasn't even 100000. ii was bu
$320,Ooo.
$50 Days in Bar Room.
Mr.. Nelson next paid his respect
to the yellow covered Democratic
campaign primer, which Mr. Duttor
at Freeport. Friday night, had called
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room" and sale
that its true title should be "7S0' Days