Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-30
Tuesday, June 80, 1914.
Voters "know VIVA. to Expect"


Mayor Curtis also told Kennebec
Democrats at Augusta, the other day.
that DEMOCRATS HAVE MADE
THEIR POSITION CLEAR AND
THOSE WHO VOTE FOR THEM
KNOW JUST WHAT THEY WILL
GET"
A Progressive who heard the Port
land gentlemans address remarked
that for candor this man Curtis has
EN- all hitched to a post-but perhaps
he thought it was a star chamber
gathering"
After the candidate had frankly de-
clared that the people know what to
expect if he and other Democrats are
elected in September, he said:
so long as men will drink, why
haven't they the right to be guaran-
teed pure drink just as much as you
should be protected when you buy
pound Of beef steak? There is some
thino wrona with Maine business
counties losing in population and
abandoned farms prove this-Maine is
not up to the average of other states
in growth and prosperity. Why is in
In our private business II we found
the same indications of something
wronq we would hunt until we found
the trouble and fix il, and why not do
this for the State as we'll? ! believe
IL is Encouragement through this pro-
hibitory law"
There YOU have Just what they will
get" if the Democrats win. Of course
Candidate Curtis is not speaking for
himself alone; he is the color bearer
of the party and he voiced his partys
position--assured all within sound OF
his voice that he Is with them for the
old conditions, If enough votes can be
rallied to elect them to office.
The people Of Maine know what to
expect from Democracy if it regains
the reins of government in Maine. II
any have thought that the Demo-
cratic party had had its lesson and
would now go to the other extreme IL
elected, they may revise their hope,
for Candidate Curtis has allowed of
no misunderstanding. He has spoken
his mind and has placed his party on
the rum question, declaring in the
same address: Il belive that prohibit
ton will be the great issue in this
campaign"
Here lies the duty of every self
respecting, law-abiding, home loving
citizen of this State. whether he be
Republican, Progressive or Democrat,
to decide whether he wants conditions
as they are and better, or wide open
booze conditions such as prevailed
under the last Democratic administra-
ton.
No honest man can deny that moral
conditions have been better in Maine
in the last year and a half than ever
before in history, taking the State as
a whole. There is no denying that an
advance has been made away from
the prevalence of winked-at nullifica-
ton and acceptance of the domination
of the liquor business as necessary.
Shall we lose this advance and go
back to as bad as before or worse, or
shall we maintain the progress we
have made and forge ahead out of the
grasp of the liquor traffic and it's al
lied vices? 1t is for you, Mr.. Voter,
whatever your politics, to decide.
Will you cling to party banner
because some politician who has some
selfish end to serve, tells you to for
'partys sake" or will you be man
and vote for your home and the lift
ing of the yoke from the necks of
coming generations?
Candidate Curtis has boldly and
openly declared at the opening of the
campaign his desire for the open sa-
loon, and has just as openly an
nouneed that voters KNOW WHAT
TO EXPECT FROM THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY.
Il is plain that from the frankness
and EMPHASIS of this declaration,
coupled with other statements in the
same carefully prepared address. that
Mr.. Curtis had strong purpose in
making this bid for the votes of the
rum element and all those who oppose
laws to regulate the personal lib
erty" Of irresponsible citizens. At
any rate, he made several emphatic
end significant statements that some
astute Democrats present afterwards
frankly classified as "damphoolish-
ness" from a political campaign con-
sideration
We believe Mr.. Curtis, however, had
good reasons for bringing the liquor
fight 10 the front at the start. Per
haps he hoped to let the rum fog OBJ
scure his coal trust" record in the
campaign.
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