Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-14

Winthrop, Me-, sept. lo.-NoPeClaD-
About 300 gathered in Town hall here
Saturday evening to hear United
States Senator Charles e. Townsend
of Michigan and the Hon. John E.
Nelson of Augusta in the closing Re-
publican rally of the 1914 campaign.
Between rs and 100 men and three
women came on a special car from
Augusta. Altogether 1t made a rep
resentative audience of Names think
ing citizenship and their appreciation
of and applause for every point made
kept things lively from the time the
chairman opened the meeting until
Senator Townsend said the last word
and rushed for his car.
Herbert &. Foster
Herbert E. Foster of this town was
the presiding officer and called the
meeting to order Immediately upon
the arrival of the Augusta car, short
~ after 8 o'clock.
Comparing our battle of ballots" to
ing fought in Europe, Mr.. Foster came
as quickly as possible to an allegation
circulated quite extensively in this and
surrounding towns by a Progressive
candidate. The charge, briefly, is to the
effeffct that Mr.. Peters, congressman
from this district, did not vote against
the Underwood bill Ten lines below
the statement misrepresented from the
Congressional Record by the Progress
sive, Mr.. Foster read:
THE clerk announced the following
pairs: Mr.. Graham of Illinois for Mr.
Peters of Maine against"
This" declared Mr.. Foster, warm
ly," showed where Mr. Peters stood
then on the Underwood bill-and
where he stands todayl"
John E. Nelson, ESQ.,, the first speak
err introduced, opened his address with
a notable tribute to Governor Haines
who, he said, was born to poverty COM
mon to our people, which does not de-
grade or discourage but which slim
ulates to courageous and persistent en-
deavor.
From the time he, as a cripple,
made his wonderful fight for county
attorney" said Mr.. Nelson William
T. Haines has been an honest, square
two-handed fighter; until, today, he is
the foremost figure in the educational
political and industrial affairs of our
State.
HE is large and clean and strong
physically. morally and mentally. He
never turned his back on friend. He
has no peer in the State of Maine IN
the knowledge of the life and needs OF
her people.
William T. Haines, my friends, has
been Governor in every sense of thu
word-his own man on his own two
feet He wears no mans collar. His
policies are the policies of his party
sworn to in the party platform. and
his handling of the States business
has been the most efficient admins
tration the State has ever known"
Closing his eulogy of the Governor
Mr. Nelson demanded of his audience
if any man denied any statement, and
receiving no reply, asked If Pattan-
gall or Curtis or Gardner offered any
denial. mol" he cried, but they make
use of cheap claptraps and political
shallowness to befog the real issues3
Mr.. Nelson delved deeply into the
States financial affairs and explained
fully where Governor Haines and the
State officials under him have brought
the startling reduction of $36S,000 in
the State debt. Never a dollar has been
borrowed and we've paid every bill as
it came in," he concluded.
Taking up the mileage bill, Mr.. Mel
son paid his respects to Mayor New
bert and his honor's statements relat-
ing to the mileage bill
This has been a campaign of delib-
crate Misrepresentation by the Demo
Gratis" declared the speaker and
showed his attentive audience that the
mileage bill did not even call for two
cent mileage as the Democrats are
trying to have the voters understand
OF the public utilities bill Mr.. Nelson
laid the responsibility for the referen-
dunn at the door of the Democrats
who he said, knew the passing of such
a valuable law would lend such
strength to the Republican party.
The temperance issue he avowed to
dwarf all other issues to insignificance
and "as the father of several boys and
girls" he believed himself voting for
their welfare in casting his ballot
against turning the State over to the
saloon interests.
He pictured Maine as holding the
flag of temperance for the rest of the
nation to follow and appealed to the
voters not to take step back when
the nation is on the verge of reading
the Maine lesson.
Mr. Nelson showed Mr.. Curtis to be
unquestionably for resubmission and
license, and held the Portland mayor
up as the instigator of the plan TO
educate the children by the use of
money torn from the misery. want, de-
generacy and death of the saloon S
followers.
"Our resources are our men, he
said, and here is a fair field for our
conservation policyl"
On the sheriff question he believed
the people of the State with Cover
nor Haines who answered their cry
in response to the Democratic appeal
for laws easier OF enforcement, Give
us not lighter tasks but stronger