Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-02
Governor H a in e S at
Last Makes Public
Famous Letter
Was Not a Telegram at All and
He Never Advised War with
Mexico - Sentinel, Lewiston
Journal, Argus and a Few
Other Rampant Organs Please
Copy the Facts

y tOpy VI Illt loiio"l iAeo iCbbSA vac
sent the Waterville Sentinel on Mon
day with a request for publication. 1t
probably reached that office too late
for publication on Tuesday and win be
published on Wednesday. We withheld
it Tuesday morning to give that paper
first opportunity to retract some of the
cheap talk it has made about Governor
Haines and Mexico. We hope several
other papers will have honor enough
to make apologies, not only to Gov
ernor Haines but to their readers for
the insulting references which they
have based on garbled report sent
ont by Texas newspapermen. Many
people who have been misled as to the
Governors position will be glad to read
his plain statement of facts:
Bath, Me-, Aug. 81, 1914.
Editor of the Waterville Sentinel:
Dear Sir
I have noticed a statement repeated
many times in your paper in one form
and another that Governor Haines had
demanded armed intervention in Mexi-
CO, and also you have said several
times that I sent telegram to the
Governor of Texas to this effect.
Now I have not thought it wise tc
make any reply to this until this
morning, when in your editorial under
title THE Governors memory" you
charge me with changing front on this
question and say that in a speech al
Run,ford Falls last week l made the
following statement concerning Mexi.
can affairs: "The foreign policy of this
administration has made us the laugh
ing stock of the world. The whole
thing would be humorous If Il were
not so intensely pathetic and tragic
Take the Mexican situation for exam.
pie. What business had we to inter
vene in the internal affairs of sistel
republic?
None whatever. We would resen
the interference of any other power OF
earth in our affairs and properly so
The Mexicans are just as jealous O.
their rights and country's honor a.
we of our rights and our country:
honor"
Now want to say that never sen
telegram to Governor Colquitt il
my life, on this or any other subject
second, want to say that / did no
make any statement at Rumford Fall.
last week or at any other time or a
any other place concerning the for
efsn policy of this Administration, anc
the above quotation which YOU at
tripute to me was a part of Senator
Hersey's speech, not mine.
NOV inasmuch as you have pictured
me to the people of Maine as wantins
war with Mexico, going to the extern
IN one or your issues of saying tina
would undoubtedly delight in seems
our young men slaughtered in a gueril
la warfare there, / want to tell yo,
and the public through YOU. that thi
entire matter as you have representa-,
IL; Is a perfect and complete falsehood
Some time the last of February / re
ceiVed letter from Governor Colquit
OIL Iexas, accompanied with a lot O
circulars and petitions, asking me f.
write our Senators and Representa-
yves 10 Congress to support the Sha
Iroth -Callaway bill for consumptiv
strangers in the Western and South
western states. 1t provided for nation
al aid to those states which were SIN
porting people who had gone tber
from the north and east hoping fo
rene1 from tuberculosis, and Whic
nao become public charges; and tina
Is the way l happened to write Gov
ernor Colquitt. telling him / wo,,l
giaoiy do so, and on March I sen
him the following letter: You will NOT
the last part of 1t refers to the Mex
Icah situation, and / don't know tina
would care to change it now. Afte
you and other newspapers have car
toohed me and accused me of sendin
teiegrams to Governor Colouitt
wrote him asking him to return hi
ie'ter, which he very kindly did.
now nave it in my possession. con
| is as follows:
State of Maine.
Executive Chamber, Augusta,
Hon. o. B. Colquitt, '' :" o. i'i4
| Austin, Texas.
| My dear Governor:
| nave your letter of February d
IN regard to the Shafroth-Callawav
IN Grii ra I9r ceoln1sumptive strangers, etc.
IN reply VIII say that am willing 10
do anything to help anybody any.
Where on the face of the globe to
nght consumption and tubercuIosis
| don't know much about the bill re-
| terred TO, but the suggestions in the
prospectus you sent me indicate that
II would do lot of good. We are
fighting tuberculosis in Maine ali the
tIme. | wrote rich man in New
YORK today a personal letter, asking
MIN to assist in carrying forward the
| work we have right here in Water
vie and Vicinity. He was native of
Maine are doing all we can, publicly
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