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

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term in the House. Kansas, too, is
not unlike Maine for the western state
has a prohibitory law and Mr.. Camp
bell will have something to say about
it's good workings there as well as
many things of interest about ma
tional affairs.
Maine people are always glad to
hear the Hon. Curtis Guild Of Boston,
formerly governor of Massachusetts,
and former ambassador to Russia.
There are few men in this country so
we'll informed on national and inter-
national affairs as the gentleman from
the Bay State. He is an accom-
plished man of letters, an easy and
eloquent speaker and one Of the big
gest men in the eastern part of the
country. In the presidential cam
paign of 1900 Gov. Guild was the COM
panion of COL Roosevelt on stump
tour of the West.
DR.. Simeon D. Tess, president of An
tioch college and congressman from
the sixth Ohio district, was heard by
thousands of Maine voters at the spe-
eial election of 1913. His oratorical
powers have been everywhere recog-
nized and last February he delivered
the Lincoln day grafton in the House.
He is a tireless worker and one of the
best informed in Congress.
Congressman Allen Towner Tread
way of the first Massachusetts, district
! is a speaker who will bring a message
of especial interest to Maine people.
He is a member of the committee on
rivers and harbors to which the state
looks for help and is thoroughly con-
versant with matters marine. In ad-
dition to being prominent in politics,
Mr.. Towner is a SD degree Mason.
Few men in this country have
known more stirring times than Henry
D. Hatfield, governor of West Vir-
ginia, who will be another prominent
statesman to be heard in the Maine
campaign. His uncle, "old Anse Hat
field" was a leader in the famous
Hatfield Mccoy feud and the governor
is one of the few men of the family
left He is regarded as one of the big
governors of the country.
The Hon. John Wingate Weeks,
Junior senator from Massachusetts,,
and the successor of the Hon. Win
throp Murray Crane, will be heard
many times in Maine. Though he
has been a member of the Senate but
a little over a year, he is regarded as
one of the big men in that body for he
is a member Of the committees on cur
rency and banking. coast defenses,
forest reservations and Philippines.
He is a graduate of the U. s. Naval
academy at Annapolis and served in
the U. S. navy during the Spanish war.
al, l.,
fectly informed on all the great ma
tional questions.
Formerly a member of the Supreme
court of Iowa, Congressman William
r. Green of the ninth district in that
state has been called upon to exercise
his judicial knowledge in the House
for he is a member of the all impor-
tant committee on ways and means.
He will be heard in many sections of
Maine.
In addition to Congressman Stevens
of Minnesota, the Hon Clarence Ben.
jamin Miller, congressman from the
eighth district in that state, will be
heard in the Maine campaign. He has
attained unusual prominence in legal
and educational lines, fact that has
made him a valuable member of the
committees on insular and Indian af:
fairs. ann
Among the other speakers who will
come from outside of Maine to take
part in the campaign is Ogden Mills, a
member of the famous wealthy New
York family. He has been promi-
nent in political circles and is men
toned as possible successor tc
Barnes for the Craftsmanship of the
New York Republican State commit
tee.
Another New Yorker who will speak
here is Philip McCook, president OF
the Young Mems Republican Club OF
New York. He is a member of the
famous political fighting. family thai
has long been prominent in the affairs
of the great metropolis and the Empire
State.