Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-28

situation.
The leader of the Progressives got
up in the House, the Record shows. and
said as a matter of principle and hon
est merit the STATE paper should go !
over to Lewiston. the Lewiston Journal |
was the only Progressive journal in the
state of Maine. and on the merits Of the
question it should so over there. And
after making a speech in favor of the
Lewiston Journal, they turned round
and voted for the New Age. Now /
couldn't understand it. never win nm
derstand it, OF course when the Pro-
gressives stood for a Progressive meas
ure the other CAY in the House and
voted for woman's suffrage, the Demo-
Gratis did not come up and help them.
There is not only no golden rule with
the Democrats. but there is no reci-
procity with the Democrats. LaHgh-
ter)
do not know but the Progressives
thought they would capture some Pro-
grcSsiveS from the Democrats. Ia!
Just about a. many Progressivcs will
come from the Democratic party in the
days to come as there viii be teeth in
hens. uaughter)
Now what is the use # making a fight
over this matter when il comes back
into the Senate on the diSaereeine ac-
ton Of the two Houses l feel that
| the Democrats will stand without hitch
| ing. that the Republicans cannot be de-
pended upon to play politics for a mo-
| ment You can depend on the Demo-
| Gratis to stand just where their leaders
| hos lal Wit ~
| rule, and without any reciprocity. And
we are up against the real thing ON the
state paper. and because We are, / move,
| Mr.. President. that we rescnd our ac-
| ton to concnr with the House in the
| indefinite postponement of this, my pet
| measure"
| Mr.. COLE Of York: AS the only Pro-
| gressve in the State. I want to go on
| record because | have been asked To by
| our party.
\ few weeks ago the senator from
| Aroostook stood in his seat, and in that
beautiful, dramatic way that he had
! taken solemn oath to uphold the Con-
stitution and the laws of the State of
Maine, and | am going to stretch that
| Cons titution once more and say that we
| took our oath to uphold the dignity also
of the great State of Maine. for if we
| take Our oath to uphold the Constitution
| and the laws, we must take our oath
| To uphold the dignity of the State.
| The matter of State paper, it seems
| TO me, may be looked at from two stand
points. and / am not sure that the New
| Age IS not the proper paper for the
| State paper. For instance. if the adver-
| tisements had been in the New Age when
| De Forest kcycs came to Maine. he
| would not have come. because he would
not have seen them, and the State of
Maine would have been absolved from a
| great moral question. today. whether it
has stolen something or whether it has
gotten something legitimatcly.
| IT seems to me that the present State
paper, instead of new age, it is the sec
ohd childhood. or old age. and it's cir
| culation is a little sluggist probably
! Therefore it may be well, in order to
| save the morals of the State of Maine
| that the New Age remain the State pa
| per- because l presume Mr.. President
| that any advertisements placed in the
| New Age by the State of Maine will be
| on the same principle that farmer
I who wants to sell his farm nails mp n
| big poster on the barn door when it is
| open, and then closes the door and
| leaves the poster on the INSIDE.
| ] presume also il would be a good
deal like trying to find the news of the
| day by looking at a last years almanac
| | have studied the New Age a great deal
| in connection with the great problems
| that have been before this Legislature
| Oftimcs its circulation has been so great
| that l have been unable to find one, and
| I presume the devil was busy and it
| came out a day or two late and was a
| little early. / have also tried to find
| the editorial page there, and somehow
| or other the editorial page is very
changeful affair Sometimes you found
| it, oftener you didn't. But when you
| find it, it doesn't have any editorial on
| it. And, therefore, the policy of the
paper, it seems to me, is absolutely in
| dependent, if it has any policy what
| ever. Therefore, as a Progressive in
| this Senate l want to defend the New
| Age. that it is not a partisan paper,
| because there is nothing in il, absolutely
| nothing, and no one who reads it would
| ever be influenced by it's views. / can
not conceive of the senator from Aroos-
| took standing here and throwing mud
| at an organ of that kind. and l resent
| ii as a member of this Legislature, that
| any persons should stand in his seat in
| this Senate and in any way detract from
| the merits of the State paper, because
| it is part of the organism of the State
of Maine at the present time and must
| be regarded with all the dignity of every
| other office or official within the State
Therefore it seems to me. Mr.. Pres
| ident, that the Democrats acted with
| their usual wisdom, and that with all
| the things that they have done at this
| session of the Legislature, this is one
| of the things by which they are to be
| judged as acting from purely honest,
| patriotic motives. And if the owner of
| the New Age can't get enough out of it
| by his own endeavors, il seems to me
| that the State of Maine owes him a lv-
ing. And if the Democratic party. the
| great party Of the people, can save some
| one from want and penury. 1t seems to
| me that it has done its duty which it
| has proclaimed to the people from the
| times of Jefferson to the present time.