Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-06
PETERS IN KENNEbEC
:. :. CALLING ON VOTERS,
The Candidate Encouraged by AS
surance OF Support-.Met Cordially
ByRoth Republicans and Demo-
Gratis and Treated with Respect.

road sides potato or corn fields from
SIX To 10 acres each.
| And six to 10 acres is quite a
area of land remarked the Candi
| date.
In every village was the ever pres
ent sign of prosperity and thrift
There We're big farmhouses and cot
tages, some rose and vine empowered,
all bright with fresh paint and in
good repair. There are a number
of automobiles in Clinton, 10 in
Benton, a lot more in Albion,
lively Fairfield, prosperous with its
mills, is full Of them In the
farm yards were hammocks and
swings, in The pretty homes were pho
nographs and telephones and beauti-
Hui children, and the country stores
were spacious and filled with large
stocks of good things showing in a
way how well the well-to-do Central
Maine folks fare and live.
And with all this prosperity under.
If not the outcome cf Republican poll
cies of years" exclaimed one of the
automobile party, you can't imagine
titl tIicS u NOtt u eiluoISc Il ldIlll
bill such as the Democrats of the
South are seeking to put through"
Pretty risky change" was the re-
ply, . for the industries of Maine"
In Benton, from his handsome farm
house, j. O. Peaslee, a former chair
man of the Republican Town Commit
tee, came out to greet the Judge.
y fine specimen of the Maine farm
er, Mr.. Feaslee is an enthusiastic sup
porter of Judge Peters.
Albion is said to be a Bull Moose
stronghold. While the Judge and his
friends We're out calling on the town
committeeman. the Journal man took
a stroll. Albion now is the west ter
minal of the Wiscasset narrow gauge
road. 1t is a pretty village with a
Dig new brick school house, the gift
Of native and loyal son of the place.
Frank Besse, a well-known tanner of
Clinton. The schoolhouse is of two
stories and would be a source of
pride to communities four times as
large as Benton.
A resident proved democrat. He
was willing to take a chance on lower
prices for potatoes and other farm
produce under Democratic laws. To
him it seemed not displeasing for the
Bull sMoosers to help IF they'll only
turn out TO vote and elect Mr. Pat
tangall.
But in Albion. the Republican town
committee are not in sympathy with
laws conducive to low prices for farm
products. They are workers and want
Juose Peters to make another visit
and talk to the people. This the
Judge has consented to do.
.WilI you help me in this fight"
asked the Judge.
Sure" emphatically remarked a
Republican farmer: Il voted for you
at the primaries, I'm with you
Many times this Republicans SEN
timents were voiced during the after
noon. In Albion. two Democrats told
the Judge that they should also vote
for him.
1t did one good to listen, in another
part of Benton, to George Withee's
hearty condemnation of Democratic
tariffs. He made strong and at
times. eloquent little speech in favor
of protection. He described hard
times under Clevelands Wilson Cor
ham tariff and no more such Wilson
bills for me-" said he. Looked like
Mr.. Withee made some votes for the
Judge during that talk. He certainly
impressed his hearers.
over the fertile beautiful hills and
valleys the car sped with now and
then at farmhouse or store a call,
across the Seba sticook to the railroad.
where the kind hosts left the Judge
and the scribe to take the car to the
Corners, and then after another sat
isfactory call or two TO walk into Fair
field a rosegarden of a hustling mill
city and to Waterville for supper and
nights rest
1t was a day filled with encourage
ment for the candidate. The feeling
lin favor of John A. Peters is strong
iii Central Maine