Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-11

"Why Bake the Clamp"

and jogifieation" at Island Park, some,
hWs IN August
For what reason under the sun should
make 5ubilee2 Is it because they man.
aged To secure candidate after so
many refusals of distinguished and IA
sNerite but prudent sons? Is it because
their candidate, Mr.. Peters ran so badly
in the primaries? Is 1t because their
party was third In votes in the district
last fall and came near having none at
all In Novembers Is it because it sees
any hope in the present or any encour-
agefnent IN The future? why get togeth-
er. bake The clam and make palaver?
Why not the better emulate the clam In
its Silence and its lowly retreat?-Lewis-
ton Journal.
To answer the Androscoggin pin
wheel with more dignity and serious
ness than it deserves, we would saw
tfet the Notification" answered ali
the sneerer's questions SO far as this
county is concerned, for every town
but Albion and Unity Pl. had COM
mitteemen present, to go home and
give the lie to any typical Lewiston
Journal report. A characteristic Lew
iston Journal reference to the Island
Park meeting of Thursday will hur.
ssat paper and the Bull Moose cause
wherever one of the nearly 300 men
who were at Island Park on Thursday,
is found
Answering why =" we would say
that these sober, Industrious, honest
men of various walks of life in Cen
trail Maine, met to discuss in moders-
ticn, kindness and fairness toward all
political opponents, the issues of the
campaign, the perfecting of the Re-
publican organization and to meet in
person, the candidate, Hon. John A.
Peters. Not one of these men is a
CRATER. politician, or a ward heller
The political leader or organ which as
serts or insinuates such is but placing
one more obstacle between himself or
itself and responsibility. These men
met for sober. serious purpose and
they disposed of their business with
neatness and dispatch, as they did the
clans and Holsters. That is ''why?"
One reason under the sun" why The
Republicans of the Third district
made jubilee" might be given as be-
cause of the remarkable growth CT
the party advertised by the Lewiston
Journal, last November, as dead"
The contrast between the November
and the municipal elections votes is
cause for jubilee to Republicans of
kennebec-in spite Of the marvellous,
inoomprehensible growth and advance
ment of the Bull Moose cause as not
ed by the Lewiston Journal daily,
meanwhile. There are 80 other rea-
sens under the sun of Imperial Ken
nebec.
Yes, the chief reason is because we
managed to persuade such man as
Mr.. Peters to go before the primaries.
This distinguished gentleman, has the
nuendo of the Lewiston Journal. That
Is distinction enough wherever the
Lewiston Journal is known. 1t was in
stantly recognized, when Mr.. Peters
Med his papers that no other candi-
cate need apply to the Republican vot-
ers of this district. 1t was not neces-
sary to go to the polls in large num-
bers.
NO, II is not because Mr.. Peters ran
SO badly" but because he ran So
''soodly" without the smallest canvass
on his part, or the slightest attempt
on the part of disorganized commit
tees to get out the vote.
Yes, it might have been because
the party vote was third in the votes
cast last November and had jumped
BACK TO first in the votes cast this
spring. Even an organ as notoriouslv
unfair and dishonest in its politics as
the Lewiston Journal ought to admit
that those November and spring votes
facts are le-e-tle encouraging to
Republicans
And again it Is because they tKen-
netec Republicans) "see hope in the
present and encouragement in the fu-
ture," IL their cause had been as hope
less as that which the l.. j. is strug-
Cling to kill by its unfair methods of
pumping life into it, the Island Park
meeting would have been a useless
waste OF energy and time.
Well, we got together baked the
clam and palayered because it is a
privilege Of honest, earnest Americans
who have the good Of posterity at
heart as well as their own immediate
moral, Industrial, commercial. and
financial interests. The silly butt in
who opposes only shows his puspose
and caliber.
And last. 1t .is proposed to publish