Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-18
Have They MADE Good ?"

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Have They MADE Good?"
For years, almost for generations, the
| Democracy of Maine have been the OPP
position party. Republican rule was
| east off two years ago by a Disguised
| people, and the Republican party disor-
ganized and demoralized. Today the
Democratic party is the administration
party, and the Republican the opposition.
The Democratic party came into power
under obligations To straiEhten out the
states finances, to cut down eXpendi-
ture, to effect economic reform and Ia
place the affairs and administration of
the state on a sound business basis.
How fully these obligations have been
met has been demonstrated by the record
of the present administration. While
their organs are spluttering over alleged
Democratic delinquencies aud shortcom-
ings, ask your Republican friends if the
Democrats have not made good -
From fair-minded Republicans the an
swer Is emphaticaIly in the affirmative.
The Democrats have made good This
record should be an incentive to Demo-
Gratis to help maintain the party success !,
which has been 50 hardly won. Their
immediate business in this behalf is to
vote nj the primary election Monday,
and where there is more than one cam
didate for nomination, 10 make a choice
with careful regard both TO individual
fitness and to availability as party
candidate. II is the duty of Democrats
To see to ii that the party chances of
success are strengthened by the candi-
dates selected at Mondays primary
That much is due to the Democratic par
ty and to its nominees.--Portland Argus
You are, dear reader. flair mind
ed Republican or a fair minded"
Democrat quite probably. 1t matters
not which or whether you are party
prohibitionist or socialist we leave it
TO YOU to say if Democratic leaders
have made good"-exeept to the rum
trust.
If you think they have, what has
convinced YOU?
Was it your last years tax bill, or
this?
Have YOU seen any improvements
or additions to the States property or
institutions?
DO you approve of the Democratic
administration because it cut down
appropriations for hospitals, chiidren's
homes and schools?
Do YOU think they have put the
money they thus saved" to better
use? If so, what was it?
Do you think it has made good" by
calling an extra session of the Legis-
lature?
Was il making good" when more
than 100 bills We're referred to the
next Legislature?
Have YOU accepted all this idiotic
chatter about ECONOMY" and finances
as proof of what they have done? If
you have, have you looked at the ref
utation of it?
DO you know how many hundreds
of thousands of dollars more than any
other administration since the Civil
war, this administration has had?
What have they done with 1t? Have
they done anything to show for it, ex-
cept Auditor stevens monthly cam
paign document?
What right had they to jump your
tax into the air. for the sake of hav-
ing something to brag about in the
campaign?
Is that making good?
Do you know of a single thing they
have done that law-abiding citizens
can call making good?"
From their standpoint they have
made good" They have encouraged
rum sales and lawlessness to a degree
that is delighting the hearts of the
booze makers who furnished the cam
paign funds They are seeing to it
that the total sales in Maine this year
eclipse the total consumption of any
year in Names history-and the
agency system has been abolished.
thereby turning all the profits into the
tils of dealers and the booze trust,
and the pockets OF conniving officials
and politicians.
Do you know why men who have not
dared, in recent years, to sell booze
have been tipped Off to go ahead?
1t is because they wish to increase
the grand total and thus pay off their
promises to the booze trust which
expected some sort of license plan.
That is the way they are making
good"