Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-10

it the people of this State are not suf-
fering or clamoring to have the gov
eminent build a railroad in Alaska.
I used my best judgment in voting on
that matter and | voted against it for
the reasons that am opposed to any
thing saVoring of government owner
ship of railroads, l do not like to see
the government go into business and
1 could see no adequate reason for our
spending eventually two-hundred mil
lions of dollars to build railroad in
Alaska If the people of this State are
anxious to have their money spent
that way and if they regard it as vital
to their welfare, of course, they will
see to it that another man goes to
Washington, who will vote in favor of
such a proposition. 1t is a poor time
for the government to spend money
building railroads when the revenues
have been so depleted by free trade
tariff bill that we have got to resort
to a war measure of taxation and raise
S100 100000 by stamps on checks and
other instruments, which bear directly
and heavily upon the people.
Mr. Pattangall has not made a suf-
ficient study of the currency bill to
appreciate the fact that the bill, which
left the House and the bill which
passed the Senate and which now is
law, were totally different PROPOSE
tons. Many of the most objection
able features in the bill when it passed
the House were eliminated in the
Senate. l voted against the bin in the
House in common with many other
Republicans, who would not so on
record in favor of half baked legisla-
ton. Fortunately for the country, the
Senate was wise enough and took
time enough to reform the bill to
make it measure, which many Re-
publicans conscientiously could vote
for, as they did. 1t did not come to a
vote in the House again.
l notice the leading Democrats are
concentrating their fire on the Con-
gressional election in this district
They are trying to stimulate the Pro-
gressive vote in the fond hope that it
will be large enough to just float in
the Democratic candidate with pleu
rality. 1t is possible that this may be
the result although l do not believe it.
The Progressives in this district are
too intelligent and have their eyes too
wide open to be fooled in this cam
paign by the Democratic leaders. A
large number of the rank and file of
the. Democrats will put the welfare of
their State and country above any
partisan bias and will either vote the
Republican ticket or stay at home.
In 1894, $4,000 patriotic Democrats
in this State stayed at home on ac-
count of the last free trade tariff bill
we had, which struck at the indus
tries of Maine very much as the I'm
dcrwood bill does. When we started
cut in this campaign there were two
issues: One was whether we should
approve the Democratic administra-
ton in Washington and the other
whether we should continue Repub-
Hcan administration in this State. /
believe those two issues have been
practically settled. The people of
Maine cannot approve of Democratic
policies as illustrated in their tariff
bill and they will not stand for turn
ing this State over to Democratic
leaders, who are just as hungry for
office and just as out of harmony with
the ideals and wishes of the people of
this State as they were in 1910. The
only issue now is whether the people
are going to be fooled by bunch of