Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-09-24
PETERS IN BOSTON.
Addresses a Gardner Rally Saturday
at fremont Temple.


Temple in the interest of Capt. A. p.
Gardner, who Is a candidate ct the
primaries for governor of Massachusetts,.
Ex-Gov. Curtis Guild wss the presiding
officer at this meeting. Mr.. Peters said In
part:
81 came here to testify in the cause in
which my friend Capt. Gardner is plain
dant because in campaigning with him for
two weeks in Maine found out that be is
all for the offensive and has no use for de-
feusive. die believes that the best way TO
meet an attack is by charge.
"He Is like Count Corti in the Prince of
India. You remember they delivered the
princess and the monk TO the lion in the
arena. After the lion was killed Count
eorti, who had come to the rescue, in
qaired: Have they another lion?' Anxious
as he was to protect the princess, he was no
less anxious IL there was to be further
combat to take part in it. The count was
essentially a lighting man.
latter the secretary of-state, the speaker
OF the House and other eminent gentle
snsn from washisg,on had come into the
arena in my district to eat me up and had
retired, Capt. Gardner earnestly inquired:
Have they another. iion9' The captain Is
essentially fighting man. II you in
Massachusetts,, as we in Maine, in your
candidate for governor value the qualities
OF SIGHTING man. an all-around human
dynamo, vote for Capt. Gardner.
1.-THE progressive candidate in our re-
cent contest in Maine claimed a lion on
the whole Roosevelt vote and flooded the
district with circulars claiming 1900
votes to start with, and that he only
needed about $50 votes from the demo-
Gratis and about the same number from
the republicans TO be elected. 1t looked
about five chances to one that the demo-
Gratis would walk off with the prize.
''In this crisis your fellow-ciiizen, Capt.
Gardner, projected himself into the fight.
II seems that his speciality was swallowing
progressives. he could seat em alive.
But be had way of doing it so that it
didn't hurt.
ale begay operations on me. he msni-
tested an unlimited curiosity as 10 my at
titude toward progressive measures. He
catechizgd me and cross-examined me
privately ana publicly.
ale inquired sNout minimum wage
for women and abolition OF child labor,
both OF whiehl favored. He said he was
very much in favor OF restriction OF immi-
grafton. He and didn't fully agree on
that, but told him was open to eonvic-
ton. Ny Stste doesn't have much i'm
migration and II is not burning question
with as. He said he believed in it firmly,
him try it out in Eastport. We had
large audience, 30 per cent. working men.
could see that il was just the Kind of an
audience he liked. He launched the idea
OF restricting immigration, aud TO my
amasemept he was answered with q roar
OF approval.
~ saw that he knew more about the
progressive platform than -the men who
made it. | sac that he was a liberal re-
publican and not afraid to say so. He ex-
tended me n welcome to the ranks.
aOur fight took new phase at once,
new plan OF campaign was formed under
the leadership OF Mr.. Gardner. The tariff
with the democrats remained
and was fought out to a finish, but The
problem was to detach the progressive
rank and file from the politicians who
were trying TO keep them in control.
'sThis we proceeded to do by announc-
ing from the housetops the views and at
titude of the new liberal republicanism,
and by making ii evident that it differed
in no fundamental respect from the pro-
gressive program. We were willing to
take one step forward - in fact, had al
ready done so without realizing what it,
meant in our tignt. Your candidate
pointed IT out; he opened our eyes; he
also opened up the path and blszed the
trail.
''lf you want clear-headed, practical
exponent of new liberal republicanism,
vote for Mr.. Gardiner.
..lf you want a man who knows how to
plan figh. and how to win it, vote for
Nr. Gardner.
ssThere is no room for fwo anti-demo-
cratic parties; one or the other must get
off the stage. The question witirus was,
which, We argued it out with our pro-
gressiye friends. There was no funda-
mental issue between us. The republican
party embodied the whole of the anti
democratic policy. The progressives DIFF
tered from US mainly in methods of
administering those policies.
We have the name, the goodwill OF the
business. and the plant. Of that old estab-
lished concern, the republican party. The
uncertain element was how far the
momentum OF the Roosevelt vote would
carry. 1t carried just halfway.
.sfhe Rockwell vote was cut in the mid
die. The election in my district settled
the question as to what part of the Roose-
Welt vote can be counted on by local
candidate who labels himself progressive.
1.-TWO things are certain. A party can
not exist for long without live, funda-
mental issue on which it differs from all