Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-18

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political party or individual whose
s purpose politically is to continue ana
4, perpetuate the liquor traffic in TINS
state. (Applause).
There are worse things than neihs
: defeated, and God knows / don't wan
to be defeated. / don't care Tor my
, self a snap, but l do care tor t.'e
= 74200O people of the State ana ''ie
things that 1 stand for. and that are
written in the Republican pia'lollh Oh
/ the State and nation That is why
want to win. the reasons are not per-
sonal, by any means
Let me size you the rest of this:
And as they were active politicians
their resentment has made the Gov
errors reelection practically impossi-
ble''-a few OF them are coming to
rhe-"but beyond this personal effect
his course has challenged Maine to
square and honest pronouncement
which cannot be evaded"
That shows how stupid and foolish
the Democrats of Maine are That
shows how the personal self interest
! of this Brewers Association carries
them to extremes In the State Of Maine.
| How should they know about the peo-
pie of Maine?
admit that it is the issue. That is
The story. They are here; we are
mere: and We will try title; we will see
who is best on September IA
! The Dispatch states that Maine will
have to declare for effective Prohibit
ton or abandon the pretense of en-
forcing the law"
Gentlemen, we will abandon neither
Prohibition nor pretense. We will fight
1t out on the lines we began on in
1913. We will continue the policies
which we adopted in the last campaign
and which We ran on. You may talk
tariff and finance and anything you
please; every Democrat in Maine
knows that is the issue, and they are
making personal attacks on me for
that purpose, and their attack is made
in the most ingenious and insidious
way. 1t is trying to discourage the
men of Maine. or the person who be-
ieves in the enforcement of law. l have
been unsuccessful in one or two instances
in getting this law honestly and fully en-
forced in one or two counties. l noticed
in speech at Mount Vernon the bright
est and the keenest and the most danger
Gus man in Maine stated that he did give
the Governor credit for doing all he
could do, and the law hadn't provided so
that he could do any more than he had
done. That is what Mr.. PattangaH said
Saturday night and he says you ought
to put in its place law that can be
enforced. a license law; he says the Gov
ernor has demonstrated his inability to
enforce the law because of the ineffec-
tiveness of the law and not of the ad-
ministration
It is the only honest thing they have
said in this campaign. | don't believe
they are going to say another l don't
expect it.
Gentlemen. that is the issue. There
are ether issues, but that is the main
| ISSUE
The Democrats talk about the mis-
! age book That doesn't amount, as we
say in common parlance, to a Hannah
Cook. There isn't a man so stupid in
the State of Maine but what know $
today that the mileage book bill which
/ vetoed was bill regulating the size
OF the mileage book, the number of
miles that should be issued, 500 miles
instead of 1000, and it has already
been published in the press, and ev-
ery5ody knows that there wasn't a
word in it about either two cents or
z1s cents, only the provision that any
railroad that issued a thousand mile
book should also issue one of 500 miles.
The Democrats have seized upon the
opportunity and the fact that the
Maine Central raised their rates to 21b
cents, but they are not honest enough
10 tell the people that l wrote d letter
protesting against it. They are trying
to make the people believe that no
mileage book is good unless it has the
picture of Bill Haines on the back
and authenticated by a certificate from
myself permitting the holder to trav-
ell in this State. Gaughter)
They make a lot of talk about the
highways in this State. They are try
ing to make an issue out of ii. That
is the most cruel thing that Miss De-
mocracy with her rings and curls ever
did. daughter). Why? Because we had
a Legislature last winter in which we
had just few more Republicans than
Democrats in the House and 1t was a
question whether we had more Repub-
AiNoiio tiistI ana Progress
sives together. With that condition we
passed our economic and industrial
and economic Legislation practically
harmonious, trying to work out the
problems of the State. The Democrats
or the Legislature aren't all politicians
They aren't all Pattangalls and Cyrus
w. Daviss. Some of them are good
square men the most of them. trying
TO do something for the good of the
State. They agreed with the Republi-
cans that we would try to make a
highway law irrespective of party pol
itics. We had been considering the
question of highways in this State fol
years. 1t had never been a question O,
party politics. 1t was great economic
question. We had $4,000 miles of high
ways. There is nothing more import.
ant to the people. We had fought on,
the question of whether we should is.
sue bonds to the extent of So, 000. 900 70,
the State roads, and we finally con.
cluded to do it. The people wanted i'm
proved highways. We worked all to.