Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-28
The Hand That Rocks the Party Rules.

Hon. William h TdltdlSo4
waterville, former attorney general
and defeated candidate fer Congress in
the Third district special election OF
1918. is to make another attempt Tor
congressional honors He VIII nave
no opposition in the Democratic
primaries.
The Democratic party in Maine has
once moro come to a living realiza-
tion of the fact that it is pretty small
and Intellectual potatoes without the
guiding hand of Mr.. Pattangall. "Patt
loves the game! 1t delights his soul
and pleases that vanity which turks In
the makeup of every man, to see what
he can cause other men to do. And
to be entirely frank, he wins our ad-
miration for his ability in that direc-
ton.
When Dan Mack" refused to for
sake his comfortable quarters IN
Washington and come down to Maine
m he drawn into a cannibalistic scrap
in Lewiston and the Second district;
and when Senator Charles F. john
son refused to forsake senatorial
dignity for convention platform politi-
cal Juggling stunts; and when Hon.
Elmer E. Newbert of Augusta, is
candidate for gubernatorial prefer
ence and has other fish to fry, then 1t
vas that cold shivers began tango
dance down and up the Democratic
back. It was socn after that said
Democracy got down upon its prayer
handles to the Hon. w. R. P. Here is
suggestions reply. drawn from
wireless observation of results.
ITremolo stops pulled, and soft
music of the kindly forgiving, patient
long suffering, huff snuff kind in the
surrounding atmospheric mo boys;
I'm all done performing. l know
when I'VE had enough, even of good
thing. and last years evidences of APP
preciation of my endeavors cooked my
goose. Excuse me! I'm through with
the little old game of making the
manikrs perform. / an. devoting my
self from now on to law practice and
laying up treasures Observation-Disclosures
vile. I don't want anything; I'm not
a candidate for anything; 1 feel that
I've earned all I've received, and L
wish to avoid any further humiliation
at the hands of the Democratic party.
I'll be a good Democrat; I'll support
the candidates; I'll make speeches for
them; I'll stand all reasonable assess
ments. and I'll die a Democrat. But,
gentlemen, you may count me out OF
the little game of give and take, where
the chap who gives his time and
money, his brain and his energies,
takes the kicks and cusses, and the
other rellow gets away with the pub
lie honors and emoluments."
Like the Irish lover. "Patt" has a
way with HIM" The fortunes of the
Democratic party in Maine stood on
the ragged edge of abysmal desuetude.
Any poor boob could see that and, we
humbly opine, Mr.. Pattangall knew
that they could see it. At the Fail
evening of this week, he was the ar
bitter OF his party's destinies. If he
could not hold it in the hollow of his
manu-, he COuiob d. 4SdSl MAKE IL 6Il up
and smile and eat out of his hand
and he did!
1t maybe that the Hanson dra-
mates were not rehearsed. and it may
be some of the performers did not
know the full part they We're to play.
but it is altogether within the bounds
of probability that the scene was
adroitly laid--after proper and due
supplication and assurances to the
above mentioned down and out
political boss-and carried out
No one accuses poor Dunton, whose
piaintiye bIeats against Hanson turned
the convention again toward that gen.
tleman, of knowing the outcome be.
forehand. His epiglottis was strained
valiantiy in attempt to make a Han