Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-19


ing circumstance that almost everybody
else on the ticket was defeated. There
was a contest over my election ana l
am reminded incidentally that my pres
ent Democratic opponent sat on the
election committee that decided the con
test and 1t is a pleasure to remember
that his attitude showed nothing pu'
perfect fairness to which he no concert
ed action for the common good can po
successful without some one or more
to stand forward. You Wouldn send
ship to sea without a captain nor ap-
POINT a committee without chairman.
Your meeting here tonight eNelilpHties
that. / don't know much about II ifoih
tirSt hand but from citizen POINT I'll
view il seems to me that 1t the present
all other parties in this state are hlech
better supplied with bosses Will. TWO
listed grip than is ours. II may lie ttidl
what is our loss is their gain.
AS you are considering the mat
Ter of hiring me you ought to know
That | have been accused of beng
"standpatter" and a "rcactionary.s II
advocating a modern workman COM
pensation act, working for i public
regulate rates and control our public
service corporations, pushing Tor the
good roads bill and voting FOR woman
suffrage ere examples of standing pat
then am guilty and must he punished.
cannot escape my record II | would.
You will have to judge what | VIII do
BY what | have done. Those without
r1cors can safely claim to be Progress
sixe Don't get the impression that |
am posing as a radical. | suppose
am naturally conservative and believe
in advancing cautiously-but in adj
vancing nevertheless
My principal opponent Is Demo
rrat. He is running as such ana
assume that he stands for the Demo-
cratic theory of free trade or tariff for
revenue only, protection unconstltu-
Iional and kindred doctrines. now ex-
smpificd by the Underwood tarlft Dill
Those who vote for the Democratic
candidate simply vote To approve the
Underwood bill That is the large
question now pending in Congress ana
HE first thing your representative VIII
have to do of any Importance is to
vote for il or against it. Your vote
n September will be regarded as the
opinion of this section of the country
N this proposed tariff.
The Democratic "Steam Roller"
This bill. which vitality affects
very part of the country, and espe-
ia lIV this section of it, Is framed,
aunehed and win be passed by men
rom the South and those who CO.
,perate with them.
Their methods OF preparing Dill ana
securing its passage are not calculated 10
inspire confidence. Mr.. Underwood, OF
alabama Is the promoter of the bill
lis committee meets and the Repubi can
members are politely but firmly shown
he door. The bill is drafted and pushed
nto a secret Democratic caucus where
very member is under obligation to vote
IS the majority decides. What is said or
lone we do not know but we know the
.esult In many cases amendments
which have been proposed by members
If the caucus and urged as beneficial to
their own sections, after having been
totea on In the secret caucus. have BEEN
by Republicans and the Demo-
crat who proposed it in caucus votes
against the amendment proposed by
because lie is bound To do 50
~ the team-roler process Which he has
submitted to- A mans own opinions are
to the majority OF the j
,aucus 1t is certainly not an ideal way
@ make a tariff 1t results in log-roliihg
md swapping and is the most objection
,bie primitive and unscientitic method
hat could be devised. :
1.-The result so far as we are concerned
S Just what might he expected. Products
peculiar to the North and northern eli
nate which our farmers make living
" producing, are denied all protection.
Products of the South are given the
benefit of duty. Potatoes, corn, wheat
md buckwheat are denied all protection,
Rice, peanuts peaches, oranges are all
The South which produces
ess oats than they can use, or $4,000 bush
els in the Is Southern states, announces
that the tariff shall be reduced 10 SIX
cents a bushel on the 9iI0b.@D bushels
raised in the North and SO OH through
most of our farm products. The hnest
apples in the world are raised right here
in this valley. ! have Travelled in your
county for a few days and | was struck
not only with the beautiful fields ana
bountiful crops that were being pro-
Ilueed both of hay and grain, but espec-
tally by the great area giyos over to
young orchards.
.tNow this industry of vast impo' lance
to us right here at home is threatened
with a 60 per cent reduction of its traln
protection on the apples, and vinegar Is
cut &c per cent. If they want To eat our
apples and get them cheaper why don't
they give us a chance to cat their rice,
oranges, peanuts and bananas on the
same basis?
"Our important wooden Industries are
threatened by large reduction OF duty.
the mere prospect of which has unsettled
business in that line and wage carriers
in Augusta, Waterville. Pttsfield Show
hogan and other important towns are
facing the pleasant prospect of partial
Adapted to Injure Us.
1.-THE list might be continued until we
had exhausted the products of our farms
and factories. The bill may not have
been aimed at this part of the country
but il couldn't have been better adapted
to injure us if it had been. IL these
things are true, and anybody can lind
hot furnish