Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-07-07
Monday, July 7, 1918.
Mr.. Gould's Letter.

iOokerS-O Patt is not only counting
chickens before they are hatched but
he has the eggs all named. And then
declare that Pats eggs are all rotten.
That is pleasant. for man who has
hundreds of legal friends in Maine
ready to pay him questionable tribute
for the sake of getting him job be-
yond the borders of the State, but
what about Mr.. Goud's eggs? No. it
is not case of pot eharaeterizipg
kettle, for Sam Gould says he appeals
to a better element of the Democratic
party than those who worship at the
shrine of brilliant" dissipation and
roueism, and Patt is too astute to say
very much about fine distinctions.
But Pats organ of printers ink has
opened up his campaign wider than a
barn door and has put the adroit poll
ticaI boss in bad with erstwhile ar
booze crowd are "sere"-and that
makes the Somerset candidate conf
dent While the Waterville Sentinel
was trying to pucker up a grin con-
cerning Roy Haines, and help Dingley
out with his 'kennebec Ring idieey,
the genial Skowhegan gentleman was
writing the following very expressive
letter. He seems to have placed his
Democratic opponent before the pri-
maries right where it would be dis
grace and a tragedy to elect him to
Congress. Read it:
Skowhegan, Maine.
July 3, 1913.
My dear Sir
There comes time in the course
of almost every human life when
we must call upon cur friends as
we'll as those whose confidence and
respect we hold.
If we have so moulded and squar-
ed our lives as to have made the
friends and inspired the confidence
and merited the respect of the 9TH
ers, then our lives have not been
lived altogether in vain. AS a mem
DER Oh Tie o|nu 1oiSfeSS, ItttlNto
appeals from nearly every church
in my district asking my support,
upon measures for the moral good
and elevation oi mankind Among
the most urgent. perhaps, WAS to.
vote and work in favor of the Webb
Bill, so called. regulating the traffic
in intoxicating liquor between
wet" and dry states.
worked ard voted for this meas
ure not wholly because you asked
me to do so but because my own
judgment urged to greater activity
by you, convinced me that 1t was
the right thing to do. Now. as
candidate for the nomination at the
primaries for Congress on July Is.
the friends of Mr.. Pattangall are
urging my stand on the Webb Bill
against me As the matter stands
with the Republican party divided,
whoever receives the Democratic
nomination will be elected.
w. r. Pattangall and myself are
the only candidates of that party,
and one of us in all human proba-
bility will be nominated and eject
ed There is an element Of my
party of which | am not proud,
that is against me- / must look TO
the better and more intelligent class
of citizenship for my support, hence
appeal to you with the great in
fuence which you have with your
people. to support me at the prima-
ries. in order that l may be able TO
serve YOU again. and that your CON
eressman will not be under the IL
fluence or control of that element
that condemns my vote on the
Webb Bill.
1t is true that ] am Democrat.
You may have been Repupllcah'
but of this l never inquired When
YOU asked me To support soou
measures in Congress. AS the
signs point you are to have Dem
ocratic congressman. There are TWO
condidates,-you know MS po,h.
You know, or can know, our rec
ords upon public question IN the
PAST. You can judge what you can
expect in the future. l appear 10
YOU for your assistance regardless
of your politics. You have TWO Oh
us to choose FROM and you can help
me at this time if you will, and IN
turn ! can help you by trying 10
bring about better conditioh VI
life and a higher uplift of man
kind.
with sincerese regards, am, very
truly yours,
II a large part of Mr.. Pattangah
own party places him with that eie-
ment opposed to progress and deeency.
Al, 10
and as likely to stand with the hos's
of greed and lust and crlminaiity'
what must the best people of Maine,
regardless of party, think OF senaing
him to Congress? Any man has a
right to go before the primaries, and
the man who appeals to the charac-
terIess and ignorant can poll many
votes by political trickery, but the
more intelligent. moral. Christian ele-
ment has a duty to perform for itseli
and coming generations. 1T must off
set the other or the district and STATE
will take another step backward
Mr. Pattangall, we are told, II
quietly disposing of Mr.. Gould bs
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