Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-13

promptly repudiated by the honest Not=
ers of that old Commonwealth who
recognized the coin as a spurious
counterfeit.
80 in this hall, where the leaders of
the Republican party recently read
their declaration of principles, We
heard no hint of the new Republican
ism. It's the same old brand, under
the same old label, and there is less
attempt to disguise it than there was
! last September. It's the last fight of
the Republican organization in Maine.
The people are leaving the camp The
leaders dare not look over their
shoulders lest they behold their di-
minishing band of office holders and
camp followers. And it is only a
question of time--and short time at
that-before we sweep the good old
State of Maine clear and free of all
that blackens good government and all
that corrupts clean citizenship"
Following Mr. Wheeler's address
Walter c. Emerson of Portland, can
didate for Congress in the 1st Maine
District, spoke as follows:
We have the temerity to come down
here under the shadow of the State
House to ask you, fellow citizens of
Kennebec, to stand by and help change
the interior decorations. Not in any
spirit of resentment, not in any spirit
of hostility to any person, or persons,
but in a healthy and wholesome de-
sire for Improvement in State govern
ment The people of Maine are ready
nf he
are especially prepared to ask for
square deal, More than that they are
looking for a new pack. Too long has
it been. stacked against them. When
high officials talk of gentlemens
agreements between legislators and
great corporations. as taking the place
of necessary legislation, il is time to at
least cut the cards.
Not only are the people of Maine
ready for new party in the State
House, but they are ready for Il man
in the Governors chair, who in indie
pendence and fearlessness and SINGER
ity measures up to the size of Halbert
P. Gardner. l wish to say this after
careful survey and mature delibera-
ton. The Progressive candidate for
Governor in knowledge of the needs OF
this commonwealth, in genuine and
unselfish desire to render service to his
State. in mental activity and integrity
in intention and ability to do right and
do it quickly, in partisanship, in
all the wholesome characteristics that
go to make up manly Maine man, is
the equal of any Governor in this gem
Grafton and the superior of many.
And if by your votes you should
happen to send to Washington to
represent this District your neighbor,
Mr. Thompson, you would be giving
commission to a man who would not
take part in the secret caucus of any
party, because he believes that the
public's business should be done in
public. You would be sending a man
whose leader in the House would not
be the eminent southern gentleman,
who framed a sectional tariff bill, and
/ mean Mr. Underwood. You would
be sending a man, who would not be
led by and always vote with the gem
tleman from the west, the spared
monument OF an ancient regime, who
remembered his party and forgot his
country while seeking to make poiit-
cal capital out of the nations stress
of war-and l mean Mr.. Mann of H.
l.nois, whom Mr.. Cannon of Illinois
left on the job. And as much as l be-
lieve in the principles of the Progress
sive Party, as much as | desire to see
them given the force of law, as much
as | admire and trust their great
champion in Congress, your represen-
tative would not even be led by Victor
Murdoch, when it came to a question
of right or wrong for the Nation, or
the welfare of the State of Maine. II
I know him at all-and l do-he is the
kind of a man who settles these ques-
tiens for himself, and that is the kind
of man Maine needs in Congress TO
put Maine back on the map.
You all know what 1t has meant to
many members of this new Party in
Maine to progress in - the last two
years. In many towns ridicule and
Misrepresentation from the older or
ganizations, in some \cases business
threats and oppression, in some cases
the breaking of life long ties between
neighbors and friends-even relatives.
And yet no party has ever gone so well
and so far in the same time. | know
no member of it who is out for office,
OF In II TOT Wndt lie Cdn set. hnON
no member of 1t who in the slightest
degree has personal feeling, The men
whose public policy in the State we
criticize, whose course in Washington
as representing Maine, we so often
question, are old friends and ac-
ouaintances. You and / have known
them for many years. For many
years / have enjoyed them personally.
But am awfully tired of their politics.
The genial Chairman of the State
Committee in a clarion call to arms in
the early spring, said the Republican
Party had made history in the last
two years. 1t has. The first chapter
was written two years ago in Bangor,
when the State Committee, unwilling
to trust to an expression of the con-
vention, chose a man for the National
Committee whose business it was to
go to Chicago and nullify anything the
chosen delegates of the rank and file
might propose. And one of the con-
Guiding chapters was written only the
other day-also in Bangor-when the
only issue on which that party is seek
ing e-election, went into the discard a