Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-18


bring it out of a condition of disor
der and lawlessness and almost chao
and put it back under the constitution
and the laws of the State of Maine.
l l don't say that we have accomplish
| ed all that we would like to have &C
complished, but we have accomplished
a great many things, it seems to me
in the short time we have had the op.
| portunity to work.
Now we are commencing this cam
paign upon two issues. The first is a
! question of the Federal government
! and the new laws which this admins
trauop has made for the people which
affect us in the State of Maine. The
| second is the continuance of the State
government, whether 1t will be car
| ried on as it has been carried on in
the last Is months, or whether it shall
be returned to the condition in which
we found it Jan. 1. 1918.
said had no apologies to make for
the State government. know you who
read the papers must take some pride
in the financial condition Of the State
as you find it today. I am astonished
when read in the Democratic papers,
as 1 did this morning, that we had
redeemed no pledges In the matter of
finances, because only Saturday last
all the papers gave the auditors re-
port showing the actual financial con-
dition.
I haven't seen any Deruocratio paper
or heard any Democratic orator deny the
fact that on August 1 We had $7Ta 900 IN
the State treasury. balance irrespective
of money received from the sale OF the
highway bonds. and with that we had
81, 130. 600 in the State treasury. I haven't
heard anyone say that that isn't the
greatest balance we ever had In the treas
ury OF the State Of Maine with every
bill paid. for nearlY<a quarter of a CEN
fury. Have your tCries OF "No.,o Does
anyone doubt that financial condition of
the State? Does anyone know of any
bills properly due from the State of
Maine that haven't been paidf Have YOU
got anyf IL you have it Is your own
fault that they haven't been properly pre-
sented to the State auditor and audited
through the proper channels and paid
through the Governor and Council. It
has been the policy of this administration
to meet every just and proper demand
on the State promptly and without delay.
Another policy that has been introduced
Is the discounting OF every bill that can
possibly be discounted to the advantage
of the State treasury, thing which has
never been done before In the history of
the State. This policy we have tried to
invoke. the same as any good business
man would In his own affairs.
But, gentlemen, eur Democratic friends
are not to meet US upon the issues in this
campaign. They are to talk about some
thing else except issues Have YOU
heard them discuss anything In the cam
paign except Bill Haines? Gaughter)
Has anybody made a speech that it
hasn't been about the Governor of this
State? Is there any newspaper editorial
but what is personal attack upon the
Governor of this Slater Is there a single
issue that they can meet upon the mer-
its? 1t is a personal attack, to try to
drag down the head Of the administra-
| ton and thereby to bring about what
they want to accomplish
Now so far as the State issues are con-
cerned, there is but one issue. and that
issue was laid out in October last in that
book CHolding UP book) 1 haven't
much time to talk, but l am going to
show you what tho issue in this cam
paign is. That book is the Year Book
OF the United States Brewers Associa-
| ton. I am going to talk today-not about
candidates. can't stoop to personal con-
troversies with any candidates for Gov
ernor or any other candidates in this
campaign, and I shall not do So Gap
plause). II can't discuss issues, IL there
are no vital questions that concern the
742,00o people of Maine for the next two
years except the personalities OF the can
didates for office. I will have no part in
the discussion
VIII tell you-here is the question be-
fore the people of the State of Maine-it
was put out in October last, when this
book was published. and 1t is being pur-
| sued today In the State of Maine in ev-
cry county; representatives by automo-
bile are pursuing this platform which I
VIII read to you in a moment There is
a man ON the back seat to go along and
advise and consult with Democrats, and
tnen there 10 a man on the front seat
driving the car who when the occasion
requires calls himself Progressive. and
they are interviewing the people of Maine
house to house apd county to county,
and they are not telling a single thing
about what they are working for, but
they are sent there under this mandate
from this book. and many other things
from this same source.
That Is the real issue in the State of
Maine. They are trying to make black
white, and white black. The platform Is
this:
Prohibition is no longer a Joke in
Maine, In the view Of the Pittsburg
Dispatch. Governor Haines is doing
his utmost to see that it prohibits. -
(Applause).
There is one advertisement from ths
enemy. Haughter).
And the people of the State. who
seem to be almost euqally divided or
the same issue. are considering II in a
new light as practical rather thar
an abstract question.
The cities are for repeal"
Repeal Of what don't know.
The county for retention"-I sup