Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-13

gor Commercial, however. continues to
state that Governor Haines is building
all the new roads between Portland and
somewhere.
The governor said that though this
new road law is a great advance over
former policies In Maine when a
million and a half was wasted every
year in hauling mud into the road to
wash back into the ditch, it is capable
of Misrepresentation and it is very
easy, because of it's complications, for
people to misunderstood it and for
INSCRIPTIONS politicians to arouse
jealousies between counties on the
strength of misrepresentation of the
law. The law was passed as a nom
partisan measure and it is being adj
miuistered as such, fairly, efficiently,
and with satisfaction to all who under
stand 1t and have the interests of the
State at heart.
The Mileage Bill.
The governor passed on to thor
ough discussion of the mileage bill and
said that some people, many people,
were told that the 2 la cent mile
age Is "a result of Bill Haines' Veto"
He explained, as he has already ex-
planned several times in other coun-
ties, that he vetoed a worthless mile
age bill once under one title, and when
the same bill came back to him under
another title decided to hold it without
his approval and without vetoing it,
so that if the Public Utilities law did
not go into effect, the people might
have the law on the third day of the
next session. They will have the law
then, but it will do no one any good.
1t has not one word about mile
age rates in it and it is absolutely
worthless. He made a strong appeal
for the Public Utilities law and told
the men that in that and that alone
lay the proper regulation of mileage
rates and other questions between cor
porations and the people.
Administration a Financial Success.
The governor told his audience that
this administration takes some pride
in the fact that 1t is the first in many
years that has not been forced to use
a temporary loan as allowed by law.
He also stated emphatieally that Maine
has one of the finest governments in
the world and will bear comparisons
throughout its legal, social, and insti-
tutional features with every section Of
the globe and be judged unsurpassed.
Haines' Enforcement.
In regard to enforcement the gov
ernor said:
Probably l come to Bangor under
the most peculiar circumstances that a
governor who is a candidate for re-
election ever came before an audience
in this city. The primary election in
which l was the only candidate on the
Republican ticket, and at which l re-
ceived more votes in nearly every
town and city of the State, than any
other candidate on my party ticket,
receiving over 1900 more than the state
auditor of the state, shows that l fell
short of my party ticket in this city
over 300 votes. l am told that L am
extremely unpopular with certain men
in Bangor and this vote shows clearly
that | am. | am told that this un-
popularity is the result of my efforts
in the execution, or attempt to have
executed the so-called prohibitory law
in Penobscot county. l am also told
that it comes from the fact that my
efforts along this line have not been
successful in this county, so l am left
somewhat at loss to know what the
real trouble is. | want to review with
you for few moments the public
events which may or may not have
led to this situation, and first, word
personally. AS you know, l was born
t., D.. i D.
the first city l ever saw. l went to
the University of Maine four years
and for two years was law student
in this city. l did marketing here as
a boy from the farm until l left my
home for other pursuits I had sew
eral relatives residing among your citi-
zens, and 1 thought I knew Bangor
and Bangor people pretty we'll For
twenty-five years l was a trustee of
the State University, which brought
me here several times every year, and
my last act on that board was the
purchase of the Merrill property in
this city for the establishment of the
Maine Law School in which 1 have
always taken especial pride. l have
always regarded the people of Bangor
as among my warmest friends and
supporters. In the last campaign,
Bangor and Penobscot county came to
my assistance at a time when it was
needed and in a way which insured
my election.
With these memories in my mind, I
would be an migrate If 1 did not have
in my heart the greatest respect for
the citizens of Bangor and Penobscot
county. Not only a respect, but a
fondness which comes from early asso-
Citations and which fingers with man
through life.
During the last campaign l made a
political tour through your county,
accompanied and supported by a num-
Der of your most prominent and in
fluential party leaders. l remember one
day when / spoke in seven or eight
different places in Western Penobscot,
closing in the evening before a crowd
ed audience in your city hall. 1 re-
membered that the prohibitory law
had always been a bone of contention
in this city. l also remembered a
statement which one of my old friends
and associates in public life, the late
Lewis A Rarker made tn me when We