Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-30
Various Views of II.

an Independent newspaper with nat
ural Democratic leanings. says of the
Massachusetts campaign:
Ever since Mr.. Gardner put Mr..
Bird on the defensive at Faneuil Hall
the Progressive campaign has been
sagging. The public now knows that
the eulogistie literature regarding Mr.
Birds beneyolence as manufacturer
is founded upon about as many facts
as the average sea story and lacks the
fascination of that form of fiction, the
public now knows that neither the
Bird mills in Canada nor in Rhode ISL
and are running on an eight-hour
schedule, and probably no part of the
public has been more surprised than
the readers of the Transcript to find
that the widely exploited pension
scheme supposed to be in operation
in the Bird mills is nothing more than
n very limited bit of charity which
the wage Garner who values freedom
as citizen and his right to vote as he
pleases and to organize or not rightly
resents and repudiates as subtle as
sault upon the cause of organized la
bor and the creed of a liberty loving
citizenship.
THUS with Mr. Birds candidacy
permanently placed on the defensive
and rapidly on the Gown grade, Gov
ernor Foss firing away at his fellow
Democrat, the blame will rest upon
the regular Republicans of the State
liz Mr. Gardner fails of election next
Tuesday. Gardner is the only candi-
date nominated in a contested primary
that was conducted in accord with the
spirit and the letter of the primary
law: he is the only candidate whose
every statement from the stump has
squared with his record in the past;
he is the only candidate who Is not
afraid to stand for principle that he
believes in, regardless of whether II
prove vote-getter or not.
THE independents are supporting
Gardner The disgruntled Democrats
are deserting Walsh for Foss. Repub-
licans who protested against conditions
in their party last year by voting for
Bird are returning to the fold and
working for Gardner Will the regu-
lar Republicans who resented the in
dependence of Mr. Gardner in his pri-
mary campaign defeat him and the
Republican party next Tuesday by
throwing away a vote on Foss or help
ing to elect Walsh?"
The transcripts Political staff is un-
dCubtediy well posted, and the Tran
scripts fairness is proverbial. But 1t
is apparently all wrong, unfair, dis
honest and liar" from the Armaged-
don standpoint; at least the latest
Lewiston Journal declaration woula
so indicate. Here 1t is:
"The element of the situation alarm
Ing to Gardner, Lodge and Crane, is the
wonderful campaign which Bird Is max
ing and the apprehension in the ranks OF
both the old parties, that Bird, relatively
speaking. election day, may stand as Tar
ahead Of Gardner as Teddy. last No
yember. stood ahead of Taft
ut Is recalled that last September af-
ter Tory of the Maine Republican
brand was elected to congress with the
help of the Tories of the Democratic
persuasion. the old guards of both par
ties chuckled with delight when they
found that the progressives were third
instead of second 1t is easily possible
that at the approaching Massachusetts
state election, the progressives may be
second and perhaps first That would be
terrible blow to the Crane and Lodge
the places on the state commissions, and
the tables would be turned on the old
parties that eliminated the party of the
third part from positions as election Off
cials.
Bird says that Foss can get but a
handful Of votes and that if anybody
should withdraw he should be Foss. The
real contest in Massachusetts is between
Walsh and Bird, and it's up to those
who want better things than Walsh car
supply, whether former Democrats OF
Republicans, to support Bird"
Next Tuesday viii tell the story
and we shall see whether honest SER
vice has been rewarded and honesty of
purpose endorsed, or the bliingsgate
combination with pretense Of sanctity
succeeds in winning triumph for
Tammany. The Progressives in Mas
sachusetts have adopted much the
same methods as they did in Maine.
What the .Progressives" have thus
far accomplished. and bid fair to ae-
complish by their hypocrisy. trickery
and methods worse, even, than those
Of which they have accused the old
parties. is well set forth in the Hart
ford Courant. in the following:
The Colonel put heavy strain on
the fealty of his devoted Chicago Trib-
une last summer when he ordered his
Christian soldiers in Illinois to put uI
Millionaire Funk against Governor De-
ueen, and so ticketed Democrat
through to the State House. The pa
per grieved, suiked and expostulated;
it went to the verge of mutiny. This
season the Tribune has been support.
ing Leslie d. Puterbaugh (Rep.) foi
the bench of the States Supreme
Court. but the Armageddonites put uI
= candidate Of their own--one Shay
and worked for him like beavers. ths
women especially, and Craig (Dem.
gets the judgeship. THE people have
given their imagination and their feel
1neS full play for the last year" say,
fhe Tribune OF Chicago, far and ava,
tie ablest and most influential Of tn.
newspapers that took part In tn,
Roosevelt bolt 1T is time for then