Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-29
Bad Is GROWING Worse.

In answer to one of his critics, L.
A. Jack, the editor of the Lewiston
Journal relieves himself of the follow
ing. and a column more of similar
verbiage:
Jack would have been wise had ne
ignored the Roosevelt resolution Inc
Penrose party leaders won IN lsIz py
protesting to be for Roosevelt for whom
the State two years ago rousingly de-
clared. Tney We're nominated at a Rouse
welt convention at Bangor IN 1Slz'
Haines was nominated because ne de-
clared for Roosevelt. He wouldn't have
come within 10 leagues of the governor
ship in 1872 had voters been soundly
clairvoyant. Haines and Burleigh and
their associates betrayed the progress
sjves and gave us AN anti-Roosevelt
United States Senator and Taft legis-
lature. But when Mr.. Davies acting un-
der the instructions of Yarmouth Re
publicans. asked the same gentlemen
who in 1912 got power on Roosevelt allie
cations to stand for Roosevelt in 1914
for whom they and the State stood in
1912-what did they do? OF course, they
felt like gurgling, but they had wrought
out their plan with parliamentary cour-
tesy and with actual insult. The Sewall
resolution disposed of Teddy $ name
without ceremony or benefit of clergy.
1t was as cowardly as II was base, as
true TO HenrOSe as II WdS TO loddl. nc
name of Names chief executive was
Missed because 1t was obtruded on
convention, the like of which Haines
had betrayed two years earlier His
name stood and stands for baffled
electorate and betrayed pledges-and it
is expecting too much of human nature
that convention unanimously and
justly indignant at great wrong,
should be as dumb as the Peters con-
vention with would like to have Kissed
in ra1 hI- In
They dare not applaud-they dare not
otherwise demonstrate. Davies was
alone-the rest were lidded.
"Haines and Burleigh betrayed the
Progressives." 1t is probable that
that falsehood. oft repeated by the
above quoted, has turned more honest
men away from the Progressive party
than any other consideration. Every
sensible man knows that it was the
friendship for and confidence in Hon.
Edwin c. Burleigh, and Hon. William
T. Haines, and their earnest work in
the campaign, that saved the election.
Every sensible man knows and every
honest man admits that any number
L
and solely by being in the following Of
Burleigh and Haines.
1t is not our purpose here to dis
cuss how these men viewed their cleo
ton and their obligations thereafter
They did not agree. But the follow
ing, it seems to us, calls for righteous
rebuke:
THE Sewall resolution disposed of
Teddy's name without ceremony or
benet of clergy. 1t was as cowardly
as it was base, as true to Penrose as it
was to Baal."
The 1900 men in City Hall at the
time the Sewall resolution Gas cow
ardly as it was base") disposed of
Teddy's name, were fully alive to and
aware of the Davies incident" They
are, in their communities, men who
hold the confidence of their neighbors.
They can tell whether the incident was
dignified, fair and honorable to Mr..
Roosevelt and all concerned or not.
The attempt by partisan political
chicanery and false inference by horse
play on words, cannot be too severely
condemned; nor can it result in other
than disgust with the agency and dis
credit to the cause he upholds. The
truth about such an incident is bound
to become known and such printed
pretense and insinuation are sure to
react.
We have known Hon. Harold Sewall
the Lewiston Journal, and we chal-
lenge the latter to point to a single
dishonorable or questionable act in
Mr. Sewall's life. Mr.. Sewall has no
connection with any 'cowardly'' or