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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
The Real Progressive Party.

tPortiand Press
As the 7Gth Legislature draws to Il
elosc il becomes more and more appar-
ert that the only party which is pos
sessed of Il progressive spirit anI IS
able 10 accomplish anything is The Re-
publican party ON every question 80
far presented in tho 10Th Legislature
III which i progressive principle has
been AT sf:skc tic Republican party has
been found staining for true progress
while in each case the opposition has
come from the Bemacratie party.
For Years the people of Maine have
sought 10 reform oar ballot law Two
years age with Il Democratic Lcgisia-
ntc an earnest and sincert effort in
this direction was made but tie pro
posed law WIS defeated by Democratic
votes Now that the law seems in a
fair way II be enacted by 4 progress
sive Republican Legislature it Is again
opposed hy "a solid Democracy.
The submission of the people Of
Maine OF Il proposed amendment 20 the
constitution granting suffrage Ia wem-
en- met with the united support Of the
Republicans in the legislature whiie
all but . Democrats in the House VI
ted soldly against it, thereby prevent
ing the passage Of this resolve by tie
necessary two-thirds vote. Other great
progressive principles promised by the
Republicans Of Maine seem likely 70
meet with opposition from the same
source, Al least the only opposition TO
the act creating a public utilities com
mission and the passage of a working
mans compensation act SO far appar-
These important measures are To be
enacted, however, by an united and
progressive Republican party. With
such record along the lines of real
progress in legislation it will he diff
cult to convince the voters Of Maine
that there is need Of a third party in
10
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Cat Gives Life for Child.

Sadie Kantor, 4 years old, dropped
out of the fifth-floor window at 12t
East 103d street. In the fall to the
stone paved courtyard in the rear of
the building she Was bruised from
The contact with a network of clothes
lines. but she landed comfortably on
big gray cat sleeping in the yard
and while she crushed out nine lives.
not bone was broken in her own lit
tie body.
1t was Sadies fourth birthday. and
with five brothers and sisters and sew
eral friends she was enjoying a feast
il was close in the room, and some one
asked Sadie to open the window at the
rear and let in some fir sh air, Sadie
got the window up, but in struggling Ia
raise il a little higher her hands slipped
and her little body plunged through
the opening. 5
At the third floor she held on With
one hond for moment to clothes
line. Her little body struck several
cross-lines at the second floor and then
she plunged down right on top Of the
cat.
DR.. Urdang, from the Siddenham
Hospital. who examined Sadie. said
that beyond n few slight bruises she
was unhurt.-New York Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
ment on political questions.

m@nt on poiltC2i questions.
The FIRST line on The election of 1915
win be furnished ny Maine. That
state viii be Il loyal battle-ground, be-
e;tu+c, while IL the past il has been az
counted i safe Republican state, in IT,
cent vears il has turned Democratic in
It's municipal elections, has recently
had d Democratic Governor and Legs
l8ture and east its electoral vote for
MI Wilsoa The margin OF Democra-
tic success, however. was only 262A
over Mr. Roosevelt and assuming that
the battle three Years hence is as
strenuous as II was last fall. Maine
will be Hooded with oratory and can
NaSsed as Eeyer before.
If The people Of our HciehhorHe
state do not mix local issueS-rttm
for instanee-mto the next Presidential
campaign, tn barometer viii be useful
Vermont almost uniformly supplied I
test free from the tinse Of stat" Or
local rcludiccs. but Maine never has
been as dependable a criterion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
any ma
action. :"
Foreign Trade by Ports.

The increasing share Of our foreign
commerce which is handled by the
Gulf, Northern Border, and Pacific
ports is again illustrated in the inn
port and export figures of, the calendar
year 1912, and is especially notable
when compared with those of q
decade earlier The ten year tables
of the trade of the United States, by
ports, appearing in the Monthly Sum
mary of Commerce and Finance for
December 1912, prepared by the Sta :
eign and Domestic Commerce. show
that while the imports of the Atlantic
ports increased but about so per cent
in the decade from 1902 to 1912, those
of the Northern Border ports in
creased 100 per cent: those Of the
Pacific ports about 10 per cent; and
those of the Gulf ports. about POO per
cent on the export side the con-
trast is even more striking. the in
crease in exports through the Atlantic
ports having been but about 50 per
cent; through the Pacific ports, g.
per cent; through the Gulf ports, 1l6
per cent; and through the Northern
Border ports, about 30 per cent The
of the total import trade of the United
States was. in 1902, 50 per cent; in
1872, 76 per cent; and of the total ex-
port trade, in 1902. 64i4 per cent; and
i'll 1912. 81 X per cent.
Considering the various ports form
ing the great groups, Boston shows a
marked increase in imports during the
ten-year period. from rs million dol
lars in 1902 to Sc million in 1872.
New York shows an increase of about
81 per cent. in imports and rs per
cent. in exports, the figures being, of
and LOGS million in 1922 and of ex-
ports 1872 million dollars in 1902 and
S96 million in 1912.
The Northern border districts show
very large increases in both imports
and exports the increase in imports
for the entire group being from "a
million dollars in 1902 to ISL million
III 1912; in exports from ia million
dollars in 1902 To 364 million in 1872.
rms growth in the trade through the
northern border ports parallels close
~ the growth in our trade with Can
ada during the same period, the eX-
ports to Canada having grown from
Ill MILLION dollars in 1902 to 376 mil
lion in 1912, and the imports from
canada, from SO million dollars in
i3o2 TO l2l million in 1912
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Will the People Forget in Two Years?


From the WaterviIe Sent mel of Tuesday, Mar d. 1871
How shall square professions with practice if we
the equal suffrage resove2 Tie question before the
Legislature is Shall vote 1t Shall people
of Maine be allowed decide whether not women shall
vote
II Democracy honest il go back It's own teachings
and refuse refer the people important question Of pub
lie policy? Can say that the people incapable of deciding
such question ought to be decided Can 40 so Dem
representatives afford take the position that they
capable OF deciding that question than the 10000
active voters of Maine
The policy Of refusing referendum excepting when suits
grant it, and still continuing testify belief III that
great modern principle OF government neither conservative
policy progressive policy honest policy \
tive party needed in this and nation progressive party
is needed one check and offset the other dishonest party
fills no need And dishonest party neither merits will
achieve success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Well, How Does He Know?

+ The truth is that The politicians ars
playing politics with this woman suf-
.afrage ks.Representative New
. bert got fairly near that truth when
speaking for 20o,0G0 women of Maine
who are MOI asking for suffrage and
who have not been here, who are not
now here and who Will not come here
Portland Argus.
What? The idea AR, That those s.
Democrats We're playing politics" Will
the woman suffrage question.
The Argus ought to publish Repre-
sentative Newbert's statistics. II would
be interesting reading just bow thf
man who would rather sit in thf
Tombs Of Egypt than 10 sit in tbs
Maine Senate. KNOWS there are 29],0a
women IN Maine who do not want Il
vote. mir Newberts statement, as
though he KNEW ii. sounds like some
other Democratic statements we hay,
heard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08

shipping liquors To parties in Maine
in quantities indicating a purpose to
traffic In that case wouldn't Boston
liquor dealers have about rs much
cause To be careful as amy one
Yon know ho~ the law reads and
wouldn't You say that perhaps en-
forcement is not all to he engineered
On this end of The line? The Webb
bill is United states law and farbida
the liquor outlaw Congress oHtlawed
the trance from invading territory
where il is prohibited Npw who is
going to enforce United States laws
10 keep liquors from entering
Maine?
Wen do the law enforcing after
liquors enter the state. but who is Ia
prevent their entering?
And whom, do you think, is Ia
patrol the Maine border tn prevent
liquors coming in from Quebec and
New Brunswick
Maine has no part in restricting in
terstat. traffic The Congress has de
clared the liquor interstate traffic an
outlaw, aud has restricted its activi-
ties, in certain cases." and lays
down law against any person inter
ested therein. dhe shipment into dry
territory directly Or indirectly or in
any manner connected with the trans
action"
AS the shipper would be connected
directly with the transaction" i
would seem that Uncle Sam might
take q. hand if shippers are sending
amounts sufficient Ia indicate that
they are for resale in dry terri
tory.
As the shipper would he indirect
ly' connected with transaction in
which a dummy and irresponsible
party might figure as shipper, we fai!
to see why the federal government
has not duty to perform on one end
Of the transaction
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08

\ strange and pathetic case, Sraphl-
Cally illustrating the changes which
our immigrant population is under
going, was recently brought into the
childrcn's court in New York. y
Lithuanian woman had applied to the
court for help in dealing with a son
who. although he lived in her homo
was not of it," as the case was eX-
prcSsiVcly put by the New York
Times, because neither Of them spoke
the only language known to the other.
Owing To widowhood and poverty the
woman had been compelled to place
the child, while very young, III a pub
lie institution. Meanwhile she lived
in colony and learned no English,
while the hoy. acquiring English in
his new SURROUNDINGS forget every
word Of his mother tongue. Recently
the woman married again, and being
IN better circumstances took the boy,
nov y. back into hor home. Bnt as
the establishment Of natural rela l.
power, the woman appealed TO ia"
court, which must likewise have found
the case an insolaklr one. The case
is extreme and probably has been sell
dom duplicated under identical cir
cumstanees yet it suggests the gulf
that must inevitably yaWn betweeo
innumerablc immigrant parents and
their American born children
Springfield Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Seeing Things at Night.

Tie editor eff the Kennebec Journal
has talked 50 much about the booze
trust that he has actually come to be-
lieve in its existence and he now sees
il lurking behind a measure recently
introduced in the House by Rcpresen-
,ativc sherman of ltGen Ia permit the
mayors of cities ana the selcctmen OF
towns 10. at their discretion. grant
licenses for theatrical exhibitions
public moving picture shows or public
entertainments on sunday such as
small b. in keeping with the day--Rid-
defaad Record,
Iitc editor af the Record has lied 81
much tha' H.. not only can't zen The
truth, hut doesn't even rceoani2e ihe
truth whtn be sees it. Like some other
famous" men, he seems to be living
down reputation of having been a
church man and seizes every opporlu-
nifty to place himself on the wrong side
% moral questions, that the public
mag mol think he is a fanatic" or 4
"sanctimonieus cnss."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Oh, II was Spite?


Have you heard the latest excuse tie
Democrats have FOR violating all teeir
pledges and proving all their previous
claims 20 be the most bare faced pre-
tense? It is that they voted aGainst
giving the voters of Maine opportunity
To settle the equal suffrage question,
because Republicans tainted them
with their desire ard intention Ia de
feat il
Below we give one Democratic news
papers explanation of the reason WY
half a hundred Democrats in the House
stultfed the party and stamped il enee
more as utterly unuustworthy in its
CLAIMS, promises and slogans. Here it is
from the Biddeford Reeord-and that
ought to settle the thing for all time.
For this result the women have to
thank some of the men VINO espousec
their cause aad whose denunciation or
those opposed to the further extension
of the suffrage as aetuated b. sinister
motives disguised some members OF the
House who would otRefNiSe have voted
for the measure
Ii thai isn't a good Democratic rea-
son, what more do you want Isn't it
typical? Next thing We shall expect
To hear Mr. Newbert declare that he
opposed woman suffrage from the first
because somebody repeated what he
said ir q speech in the House.
IN rxr
form in which the sentiment could be
framed In the English language. that
allowing the people to decide whether
the prohibitory amendment to the con-
atitltion should be repealed. would
change no laws; that it was the peo-
| pies right; that the people should rule;
| that the law making body had no right
| to stand in the way OF resubmisSion;
| that Democracy represented the popu-
lar will and demanded that the mass
of voters be allowed To decide the
question; that submitting the question
to the voters did not mean license. etc,
etc.
Doesn't that sound like their old
claptrap Of 1911?
Do you note the difference now
rifty-t three Democrats refuse TO allow
the voters of Maine themselves TO de-
eide whether or not women who wish
may be allowed 10 vote in public af-
fairs
And these SO lined up as a party,
under the leadership of the present
Democratic candidate for mayor OF
Augusta, in defiance Of the advice and
appeals of their State leaders, to DE-
FEAT the voice of the people
There are specimens of Democratic
consistency and honesty" for YOU Mr..
Pattangall well SO characterized it III
bis editorial utterance last Tuesday
morning.
Hew can this half hundred men, who
betrayed the party, defend themselves
from the indignation on those Demo-
Gratis who had believed in the profess
sions made hy party headers? They
cannot defend themselves, for there is
ne defense.
That is why they are putting such
bringing, coW.trdiy excuses as spite, "
in such Sheets as the Biddeford Record
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Their Pitiful Makeshifts.

A Republican contemporary seeking
to make political capital for its mort
bund party out Of the defeat of the wo-
man suffrage referendum, charges Dem
ocrats with insincerity in their pro-
fessed belief in the rule of the people.
1t recalls that when resubmission was
In question the Democratic argument
WAS, let the people say whether. they
wanted 10 retain prohibition or not But
this paper onnits to note that the ques-
ton Of resubmis sion had been before
the people for years, and had been pref
~ th6rou ghly discussed and threshed
out IT had become q leading is sue in
st&te politics, aud the time was riDe
FOR q erendum-portiand Argus
ices the poor old fuddydud Argus
pretend that woman suffrage is a
brand new notion. just because i
didn't happen 20 gel the news thai
women wanted the ballot? Funny tina
the Argus never happened TO hear wha
Abe Lincoln said about suffrage. a
long ago as the DAYS Of the grea
emancipation.
Doesn't referendum get ripe nm
til It suits Democratic policy. regard
less of principle and Democratic pre-
tense
Read what Mr.. rattangall said about
Democratic honesty"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
ANXIETY In Maine"

According to dispatches from Maine,
the liquor dealers of that state are on
the anxious seat. FIRST OF al; they Won won.
pa ssed BY Congress ever the Presidentlal
veto. is constitutional Second, they
would like to know what effect II Will
have upon Their business If 1t Shoillu
survive the test of constitutionality
According to one dispatch, there is Il
further doubt as 10 whether the federal
or State officials Will be expected To en-
force the law In Portland the dealers
believe that enforcement Will rest with
the State officials Believing that they
naturally believe that there IS not mucn
10 worry about. y dispatch from that
city says:
In the counties Of Cumberland. An
droscoggin and Penobscot. and possibly
two or three others. open liquor selling
is permitted by the officials. who pre-,
scribe the hours when the saloons shau
he opened. etc.
The Webb bill forbids the shipment Of
liquors into dry states. 1t ~ not IL De
supposed that county officials who ille-
gaily license" saloons in a state where
liquor selling Is forbidden by the con-
10 enforce II federal law. ON tho con-
trarN, they would devise. probably. q
new form Of license fof shipping
purposes Bnt If Uncle sam should take
II into his head to enforce his own laws
there might be trouble. and the splendid
Illegal incomes of various official graft
ers IN the Pine Tree state would be
cut off.
And vet We are continually assured by
well-meaning people that there rs very
little hypocrisy fraud and graft IN con
iecuoh with the Maine liquor laws
Boston Traveller
M-h'm. Now here is another think
for you. Suppose Uncle sam, in pre-
venting the shipment of liquors into
dry states" should sort of keep his
eye on Boston dealers. who might be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Editorial Comment
Governor Haines' Veto.
Gewiston Sun. DEMOCRATIC

Lewiston sun, Democratic0
Governor Haines is getting to be
quite a Governor Read his veto Of the
anti advertising bill.
His advice To the Legislature to read
the law IS il stands is excellent advice
for every legislator. Find ont what
the Law is before you 60 to maktng it
over. Not only what the statutes may
contain on tile particular topic you
ale worried about: but the statutes
thai apply generally thereto. Nor is
thai enough, 20 tn the law reports and
get familiar with the broad prineiples
of the common law and think out how
they apply to the wrong you are trying
To night. If you Will study the COM
mon law as :. part Of the Development
of society YOU are likely IL find that
the rules. OF justice that have been
worked out by the judges in the course
of many decisions are more just than
any restatemeHt you can formulate IL
to q statute. You are likely To find that
about the best that the Legislature ca
do % make the law more just is to cut
away by repeal some old rules That
through changes III custom have be
colne uniGst. 1t is probable That more
statutes have been enacted by our Eng
lsh- speaking people In the past forty
years than in any two or three hundred
years before. You arc likely to find
that tkat multiplicity of Nolaminous
statutes. has done much TO confuse
and distort the simple rules of justice
that had served so well before the Leg
isl,tures we're transformed from hens
into incubatorS.
Here's hoping Governor Haincs does
Sonie moro NetoinG.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
WARD EIGHT,

Does the city of Augusta have 10
pay for the broad expanse Of white
paper surrounding the ballots as re-
produced in Mr.. Burleigh's newspa-
per ?--Waterville Sentinel
No wonder the Sentinel feels a little
sensitive on the question OF white pa
per, after having been detected by the
Kennebec journal in an overcharge of
over seven hundred dollars for blank
paper used on the ballots.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
Gardner Is Angry.

The New York Suns Washington
correspondent SAYS:
There were many criticisms heard
around the Senate and House Of Rep
rcsentatiVes on account CT the Cabinet
selections The hottest man at the
Capitol was Senator obadiah Gardner.
He told one af his friends that he had
lost MS seat i'm the Senate because he
had devoted himself to the political
fortunes of Gov Wilson to the neglect
of his candidacy
Some Of Senator Gardeners Demo
cratic friends We're trying to console
him today They learned that PreS,-
dent-eleet Wilson had sent assurances
10 the senator from Maine that he
would be properly taken care of. 1t
appears that Senator Gardner desired
to go INTO the Cabinet as the repre-
sentative OF Nov England and was
disappointed because ne WAS not Sc =
lacted either for the heatl of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor or
COR the Department OF Agriculture.
Several senators felt impelic3 today
to communicate TO President elect Will
SON concerning Senator Gardners state
Of mind.
RepresentatiV NeWbert of Augusta,
the Democratic floor leader of the
House, formerly clergyman an
nounced some time ago that he was do
ing his best 10 live down his past. He
is doing pretty well considering his OPP
portunities, having succeeded in d.
fcating woman suffrage ard helng
nominated as the Democratic candl-
oates for mayor OF Augusta. When the
women Of Maine come into their eWn
n the ballot box, as they Will few
years from now Representative New
hert's political future Will not he anT
too brght--Hnless the wenen of Name
haze shorter memories than the sex
, usually seems to have.-Portland Press.
Maine as a Barometer.
tBoston Globe.D
p adopting the constitutional
amendment fixing lie date of the state
election in November instead OF sep
! temher, Vermont has ceased To be a po-
lltieal barometer for the Nation ana
her place will be taken by Maine,
whose election still comes In Septeh-
Der Maine always voted week aiter
Vermont had spoken and the result
therefore was less important. NOW the
Pine Tree State has the glory OF filr-
hishing the initial test of publlc seh'i-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
REPUBLI cAh NOMINATIONS
Election Monday, Mar. 10.
FOR MAYOR:
HON. WILLIS E. SWIFT
WARD ONE.

Recommendations T. Emerson.
Councilmen-Oscar Anderson and Edison
B. Worthing.
warden-orland T. Tolman.
Ward clerk William f. Lawry.
Constable-Cyrus c. Richmond
CITY comniitteeman--Cla W.@Town.
send
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
TRIMITY C0i

TRINITY coMMANOEaY, NO. :.
Is. 7. Special conclaNe at Masonic Tenn
pie. Friday evening. March T. Work in
the order of the Temple. Refreshments
An sojourninG fraters are cordially in
Nitcd TO attend.
MELVIN T.. SAWTEII.E T. q
TilOS II. BODICE, RECORDER
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-08

Ir. L. G. Abbott of Portland was
given an unprf cedcnted honor recent
y of being invited to appear before 2
DISTINGUISHED German medical society
and also before a distinguished French
medical society to read his paper and
to conduct a demonstration on ortho-
pedic surserY for which he has achiev-
cd great fame. Saturday evening the
Pathological club of Portland gave
him q banquet at the Elks' Club Or
Albeit sails March 9TH fer a five
weeks stay.