Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-22


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| tives vince, after they had smirched
! their own reputation in the effort to
prevent the election of Edwin C. Bur-
| leigh to the United States Senate. to
have him stand before them, and
pledge himself to all the doctrines
| which they preaeh.-Portland Express.
a person who made the acquaintance
of Mr. Bureigh through the medium
of Yesterdays speech might be par
doned for assuming that he had stood
at Anna geddon- Waterville Sentinel
lis not in mortilS to comma nd
success" but Senator Gardner did
more; he deserved it. He has lost the
| senatorship, but the State of Maine
will be the greater loser by his losing
| it.-Portland Argus.
oh, Piftie! Also Bosh, Likewise
Rats.-Biddeford Journal.
BY taking a hand in the Maine po-
| litical game. the Colonel has lost
many more friends than he has gain
ed. Hereafter. any story he may have
| to tell about loyalty to principle may
be told To- the Observation-Disclosures
| journal.
Not the least of the causes of irrita-
| ton anent the Senatorial election is
| the way outsiders men from far away
who can have little intimate knowl
/ edge of the circumstances, are pre-
Stunning to butt in and state opinions
/ and give advice and erders.-Portland
/ Press.
/ For State that made such n pro-
! digious fuss over Mr.. Roosevelt last
/ year. Maine scores tremendous anti
/ climax in sending ex-Gov. Burleigh. a
| prince Of standpatters, to the United
/ States Senate. it is not surprising
/ that T. II. should show his displeasure.
Springfield, Mass Republican,
The Colonel holds too large a block of
the common stock of the progressiee
party 10 permit him to take kindly Ia
Mr. Munsey's plan for q holding party.
| For him To voluntarily give up his corr
trolling interest and drop back to a post
/ ton of minority stakeholder is unthink-
able-Biddeford Journal.
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Manchester Union.
We are gratifed, of course to know
| that our esteemed Manchester con-
! temporary takes this view of the sit
uation. II is acted. however, that our
! oV n Obadiah made a similar remark
| when the vote for senator in Joint
/ convention of house and senate at Au-
gusta, Wednesday, was announced
! Biddeford Journal.
| Democrats detected, due to disap-
| pointing discovery that the Republic
| cans are not divided and impotent.-
| Bath Times.
! In Senator Burleigh and Senator
Weeks the United States Senate gains
| two strong friends of an energetic ma
rhine policy.-Bath Times.
| The election of Hon. Edwin G.. Bur
| leigh as United States senator was
close but Mr.. Burleigh succeeded in
one of the hottest contests ever waged
in Maine and has good reason to feel
we'll pleased with his victory Those
who thought that Mr.. Burleigh was
out of politics when the Democrats
captured the third district two years
ago We're mistaken. he has proved that
he is still in the game and knows how
to play it.-Bath Independent.
In electing Hon. Edwin c.. Burle:gh
to the United States Senate the Legis-
lature of Maine has done what the
| people, in two great elections of last
year, twice recorded as their desire.
| There never has been a man chosen to
| that august national body with a
clearer and more intimate endorse
ment of his constituents than Mr.
Burleigh will take there. He will in
| our opinion represent his State with
infinite credit and to the entire salts
faction of the people.-Rockland Cou-
! rier- Gazette.
Governor Wilson did not get his wish
| in Maine. Can he find a consolation
prize in his Cabinet for Obadiah Gard
ner?-New York Tribune.
AS we go to press we are unable to
! discover how James Mathieson voted
| ct the time the final vote was taken
| for United States senator, but those
who have counted longest claim that
he must have gone down with his Bull
| Moose colors nailed TO the mast. The
! opinion has been rather freely ex
| pressed in this section that Mr.. Matll-
/ lesson should have stood by the pre-
| ferential primaries in voting, but, on
/ the other hand, there are also those
who applaud his stand for the Pro-
gressive party.-Maine Woods.
Any efforts the Colonel may have
| put forth in behalf of Hon. Obadiah
Gardner were futile: it's Senator-elect
Burleigh now, and it's Obadiah for
private life unless DR.. Wilson COM
passionately gives him job. The
failure in Maine will make the Demo-
Gratis all the more anxious to get a
senator in New Hampshire and there's
no telling. The RooseveItites up there
/ have no vjrtuous scruples about politi-
cal dickers where Democrats are con-
cerned; their votes made Felker
| (Dem) governor.-Hartford Courant.
The election of Edwin G.. Burleigh
as Senator from Maine adds another
| experienced newspaper man to the