Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-25

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pe'h 9.tei"l' tee' N"n1.lY 'l'ts az 1e,,p'e
= 50 tsN lille llt''' S'itt no.
afi'h' ana TINS Is ftettE fteatiS ti'it
The senator says the lid Is ON IN Bel
fast, would Ike to Know whether
! e,i'S present v aio9 silelis - . s,''a
siseI IL, Nooio IKE 70 H.5o@ M33e''iei
the NV the senator oetisRea me Ia"
| 9a1"t 70 W. tiii'tSe" III ''itast ~
| ieh8 as II tein2iuS III the CONSTITUTION
el the state. he does tiililN So L
presume ne Is COINS what ne can III
| fellast to help III the enforcement VI
the law.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, / am
not going to take time 10 20 into the
discussion OF the real question before
US. could not avoid some sugges-
tons that occurred 70 me III connection
with the remarks of the senator from
| Waldo 1t seems II me his whole
question has been passed upon by the
people once l have had nobody eX-
plain to me Just how this proposition
differs from the proposition voted on
III September | think myself that It
may be worse in some respects. Here
is a case where party has come into
power, and where thousands Of men
have voted for the present Governor
with the distinct understanding that
he would first enforce the law. and.
theh ask Whetnet the people want 10
Keep the Id ia the 'eeiastlt u1teh VI
no.
say 70 You and wish 10 he cour-
teous u everybody. | de not wish 10
trespass on the laws OF debate or the
laws o higher courtesy That no man.
! whether Governor or any great man.
has any right 20 come to TINS I-eslsia-
ture after declining To tuIhH that
pledge, and say that thts law cannot
| be enforced When did he ind out that
ii could not be enforced Did he know
IL when he promised the citizens OF
| Maine from the platform that ne would
enforce NJ # SO, 10 not heed To
name the alternative here. lie mas
given 1t himself IN Democratic eau
cuses. II the papers report him correct
| IS. II he did not know 1T. then when
cid he find it out? Did he know 1t
| when this Legislature was in session
| in the early part of 1911? IL so. no
attempt YVES made through the LegiS-
| lature toward enforcement Instead OF
that every provision of law for giving
to the executive any authority what
ever toward the enforcement of the
law was repealed, 50 far as the Legis-
iature could get at them
The fact is tho Governor has made a.
nist,Lo Nntnd, b.e am moro syn,-
natbv than have for ten1neranee men
,5bo Voted to,, him o,,nnosin@ no wound
enforce tba lew Nahodv boe any ,oore
s,,tn5atbv than bave With the mem
| hers hero
re.,Iize Tho mietal,e he has made in
neeIecfire ia enforce tI,e INV and in
cailinp this speoiaI session which is
to be- in my mind, the greatest farce
of the century He is laboring under
Il misapprehension. lie believes lot
of the support he has received has
been occasioned by his. personal popu-
larity when. as a matter of fact,
| thousands Of votes were thrown on
Ice has heon ,Iie,.oe..,,.tIed since classi-
col o1tte,ion, a,,a ,,,rabIes eeen tn he
tha o,de. or ~. d,,. canuot beIn al
b,dino. Ia a fabIe which renresents this
situation more aptlv than any other il
lustration | have seen 1t seems that
in the ancient times il became neces-
sary to move popular idol from one
temple to another. In carrying the idol
| through the streets OF the city, IL was
| borne upon the back OF an ass. As
| the Idol was taken through the streets,
the people bowed down before IL ana
/ Frustrated themselves IN the dust uhtll
| the beast OF burden stopped, ana re-