Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-29

GAUSS Vi IL. SoIne bOoU toosesSiI litSH
represented Canaan and c.. A. Moody
stated that he thought his neighbors
were leading Progressives but he
found on investigation Friday that
they should vote the Republican tick
Ell this fall. They don't like the price
Of hay out there" he said. They fear
for their potatoes. They like Haines'
enforcement and they feel that the
Democratic administration has turned
all of our interests over to foreign
countries"
The majority of the Progressives
In Cornville are coming back" report
ed c. c. kinsman. Il know of only
two who voted for Lawrence last Sep
TENDER in the Third District campaign
who say they are going to vote the
Progressive ticket this fall and they
were Democrats. Democrats are COM
ing to us that / know off, he contin-
ued. c. II. Blackwell added, I'VE were
all Roosevelt men up in CornviIle and
we would be again under the same
conditions but we did not think then
that we left the Republican party and
did not intend to. Some Democrats
have told me that they were going to
They are sore about the tariff" One
of the committeeman reported from
Fairfield that he knew of ten Progress
sives who voted for Lawrence, the
Progressive candidate last September,
who were out now for the Republicans.
The Progressive vote in Harmony
this fell will be split in two to the
Republicans" reported the committee
men. The report from Cambridge was
that there was one Progressive vote
there last September but he has now
gone back to the Republican party.
A similar report came from Hartland.
From Madison
Perhaps no town in the county
showed more spirit and enthusiasm
than Madison. 1t is certain that the
| Republicans were never more active.
They were able to report that one of
the most prominent Progressives in
! that town was now a Republican
worker and that this man stated that
practically all of the former Progress
sive vote would be Republican this
| fall, and that throughout the town
the Progressive vote of last Septem-
Der would be cut down half. They
|
vote the Republican ticket to some de-
gree and they named instances. EV-
cry committeeman reported that his
town was having a business depres-
sion, virtually all the mills being al
| fected by the tariff. One manufac-
turer in the town has told his men
that a change from the Republican ad-
ministration to the Democratic admin
istration was the cause of their be-
! ing forced out of work.
The report from Moscow did not
lack in original interest when "A. ID.
Messer stated, THE Progressives are
coming back in my town. | have Vot-
ed twice for Progressive tickets and
am now going back to the Republl-
cans. Some Democrats are coming
too in my town" Norridgewoek is
feeling the same way, was the report
Harry Goodrich, Republican candidate
for sheriff and a former member OF
the Progressive county committee, SAID
~ voted for Roosevelt. ! did not want
to leave the Republican party. Mr.
1 Goodrich is a potato and hay buyer
and he stated, In the last two months
| we would have been getting for our
farmers 81 per bushel for potatoes in
stead of $50 per bushel but for tarff
| conditions" Other reports were thai
there were at least five Democrats ano
a considerable number of Progress
siyes who would vote the Republican
ticket this fall. This report came
from Pittsfield: "A Progressive told
me 4 know of six Democrats who are
going to vote at least part of the Re-
publican ticket
Not Enough to Play Checkers
All the men in ST. Adams who vot-
ed for Lawrence, the Progressive can
didate. last September were represent
atives at this meeting. +, \. Ninlne
said that he was member of the
Progressive county committee, mac
voted for Lawrence and had been
| worker for the Progressives. When
he was asked how many ProgresslVes
there would be this fall In st. Alpans
he stated, There won't be enough 70
play checkers" He said the farmers
are now suffering from the effects oil
the new tariff law. This town Is two
miles and a half from Hartland and
the mills are slack there which makes
this town feel 1t. The report from
Skowhegan was that if business de-
pression and conditions would nave
anv effect the drift would be towards
the Republican party. E. f. Merrill
stated that the town had been suffer
ing from the business depression ana
that a Democrat told him the othet
dav that he should vote the Repup1-
can ticket this fall though he had al
wavs voted the Democratic ticket. he
didn't believe before that a change IN
the tariff would affect business Sc
riously, but he had found that II hao
and he continued by saying, All the
bovs in the mill say they are gong
to vote the Republican ticket this fail.
The report from all the plantations
showed that there would be hardly a
Progressive vote in them. Every town
showed that there never was so much
activity among the Republicans anu
that men who never took an active
mart before are now working FOR the
Republican cause. Every town re-
norted that many of the voters VINO
had not been to the polls for the last
Ave wears we're this fall going to cast
their vote for the Republicans.