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

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wants to be sheriff of Kennebec county.
| I wonder if the Waterville Sentinel will
deny this? / have nothing to say against
any man personally in this or any other
campaign. Every man is entitled to the
greatest freedom in his personal convic-
tions, his public speech on public ques-
tions, and his religious belief, but every
| public act of public officials, and every
act of men aspiring to public office, with
reference to those things which affect
public affairs is entitled to the fullest
! and most complete investigation. All l
want the people to know is who they are
dealing with through the present bosses,
| managers, committee men and press of
the Democratic party in the State of
Maine.
Now, just a word further. I have tried
| to refrain from saying anything person
| al in this campaign. The position 1 &C.
cupy will not permit it. Yet, those things
which are important the public ought 10
know, and were | not Governor today
l would tell you many things about the
political situation, the Democratic press
and the Democratic managers which
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what you doubtless all realize that my
neighbor. Mr. Pattangall. is commander
| in-ehief and Mr.. Davis is his first lieu
tenant. You all know that Mr. Davis
| goes to Chicago and delivers addresses
to the brewers associations and that he
comes home and enters violently into the
campaign. | like Mr. Pattangall pretty
we'll. He is good neighbor and was the
first man to come into my house and
congratulate me upon my election in 1872
l expect he will do the same thing next
| Monday evening, but | don't suppose he
possesses all the virtues. But few people
do, and he sometimes makes bad polit-
! ical breaks. Under some influences he
seems to lose his head. He did this in
his Albion speech. when he said that my
public papers were dictated by others
The people kno VINE too we'll to believe
! that. He knows better himself. He also
made a bad break whe nhe undertook to
deny that the brewers control the Water
Vile Sentinel by publishing a long list
of prominent Democrats throughout the
the State who own its stocks and bonds
I did not say the brewers owned its
stock and bonds. 1t is not necessary
they should. What claim is that in the
yes and no" campaign and ever since
they have been in this State behind the
! Democratic machine, trying to upset the
prohibitory law, and when the Demo
cratic leaders have been short of funds
they have furnished it. You may not
know that they are always ready to
| buy newspapers and back up a political
| party when question of prohibition is at
stake. l noticed by the papers this morn
| ing that they offered $4,000 for an Oregon
paper to be used in such fight in that
state, but they didn't get it, and their
offer leaked out.
The people do not realize what the
present campaign means to the brewers
1t is not in Maine alone but in the Union
| Almost every state is now agitating that
question in some form of other, and
Maine and Kansas are ealways pointed to
as examples. If they could break prohi-
| bition down in Maine after we have had
! / tnearly 80 years, they would have the
strongest argument to use against its
enactment in other states. The brewers
can afford to buy a dozen papers in this
campaign. They can afford to put a mill
lion dollars into the coming election to
secure Democratic success, for its effect
would be nation wide-yes, worldwide,
for European countries are watching the
course of prohibition in the American
states
AS | have said before, this Maine cam
paign is an issue over the two IT'S
tariff and temperance. The Democratic
party may be solid on the tariff issue,
hnt
ance. President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan have both been advertised to come
to Maine and help the Democrats out,
but they both belong to that wing of the
Democratic party which does not stand
with the brewers association and has no
use for the whiskey trust. and the morn
ing papers say that Mr.. Wilson is too
busy to come. / should watch with much
interest the advent of Mr. Bryan into our
State. 1 believe he knows too we'll the
Democratic managers who are running
this campaign, and that he has no SYM
pathy with them on this great national
question. This is the greatest fight the
people of Maint were ever engaged In.
1t is not question of Democratic or Re-
publican supremacy in this State. 1t is
question whether Maine stands for
prohibition or shall b eturned over to the
whiskey trust and the brewers associa-
tion-whether we shall stand by our own
interests or be captured by foreign foe
The rank and file of the Democratic par
ty who love their fellowmen and want
wholesome clean government in Maine
are just as much interested in keeping
the enemy out of the State and subduing
it's allies in the State as are the rank
and file of the Republican party.