Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-28

with the Republican State leaders
Tuesday night and later the meeting
was thrown open to the public and
a huge gathering resulted. The guests
of honor were Gov. William T. Haines,
Hon Harold NJ. Sewall of Bath and
Col. Frederick H. Parkhurst of Ban
eor chairman of the Republican State
committee
Visitors were present from Jay, East
Wilton, Phillips, Kingfield, Farming
ton and New Sharon. A banquet was
served to 70 invited guests at O'Clock.
Toastmaster Bass introduced the fol-
lowing speakers: Rev. Richard Clark,
Rev. John Clifford, Rev w. II. Palmer
and Hon. G. H. Bass of Wilton Whit
ing Butler of Pennington, henry Wing
of kingfield, Holman of Pennington
and Hon. c. N. Blanchard, Elmer
Richards, Hon. Frank Blanchard of
New Sharon.
Governor Haines was expected and
he came. Chairman Parkhurst is TAX
ing in all such meetings of the faith
.ful during these spring days. and he
occupied a seat at the Governors left
The city of Bath was properly repre-
scented by Hon. Harold NJ Sewall and
these men were guests of honor
The Wilton people prepared a mag
nificent banquet and men from the
towns within hailing distance of Will
ton filled the tables. For most of them
it was a late supper hour and they
just pitched in.
,lOhn RaSS bn
master and he gave everybody a
chance-more especially the candidates
for the various county and district of
fees. Frank Blanchard, State com
mittee man. started the ball rolling
with a brief speech. Hon. Cyrus
Blanchard expressed his pleasure at
being present and gave the various
special guests a warm verbal well
come. Rev. Mr.. Clifford of Wilton and
Rev. Mr.. Palmer of the same town
both said amen to Governor Haines'
enforcement methods. and they said it
in good plain English. Rev. R H
Clapp of Pennington had come down
in company with Whiting Butler. He
was called on early in the evening.
and spoke with strong feeling. rec
ommending high ideals in politics He
/ believed that the Republican party
could command the allegiance of the
young men by advocating and sup
+ porting principles of social justice
He was enthusiastically applauded.
Then came the others-Hon W. w
Norcross of New Sharon, the Legisla-
/ ture, and he told them so. G. H. Bass,
Esq, of Wilton, the shoe manufactur-
er, is seeking a similar nomination
/ from that town, and he dipped into
/ the past, very interestingly. He said
! he cast his first ballot so years ago
/ when the Republican party was only
/ 10 years old, and he had been at it
| ever since. Then he told them about
! the business depression caused by the
/ failure of the national administration
| to live up to its promises and Incl
dentally of the excellent business ad-
ministration of Governor Haines.
About that time Judge Currier C. Hol-
man, present member of the Repub-
lican State committee, came in. The
POSTMASTER called on him, and he
made a very encouraging report of po-
| litical conditions in Franklin county.
He eulogized Bill Haines'' right to
his face, said there was only one con
| teSt III TIE COUNTY liChet anu lildl SN :
erybody was full of courage.
Judge Holman himself was full of
enthusiasm, and little later Cover
nor Haines complimented him on the
! good work he was doing.
All in all ii was a meeting in which
bouquets were freely passed around
and optimism everywhere apparent.
| The two candidates for the nomna ton
as State Senator, w. L. Butler and H.
| S. Wing, each disclaimed any selfish
motive and positively agreed to sup
port the candidate who should be sue
cessful in the primaries. In addition
to that Mr.. Wing gave a lucid expla-
nation of the workings of the present
tariff law and its injurious effect upon
| industries in general.
Hon. n. M. Sewall
The Hon. Harold Sewall of Bath
was presented and named the late
| Honorable VIM. p. Frye and the late
Honorable Nelson Dingley as men who
had conferred great distinction upon
position of Congressman, for which he
is a candidate, and which they at diff
ferent times had filed. He said he
was not born a Republican as some of
I
the speakers had testified with respect
to themselves.
As a student of economics and of
international politics Mr.. Sewall dem
onstrated his proficiency, going into
considerable detail in discussing the
foreign policy of the present admins
tration. He assured his hearers that
if elected, he should try his best to
undo the mistakes of the present in
cumbent Mr.. McGillicuddy.
He also touched upon the present
business depression. He spoke of the
absolute inability of Northern Demo-
Gratis to accomplish anything with
the present administration and talked
about the Panama canal. He touched
briefly upon the Mexican situation. in
none of which matters could he ap-
prove President Wilson's plan of OPP
Grafton.
Governor Haines
Governor Haines came next, and
lie gave most excellent dissertation
on efficient government He said this
was not strictly a political meeting. 1t
was more in the nature of organiza-
ton. He had been in politics since