Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-17
All Who See Their Mistakes Are
Hypocrites.

Hypocrites.
| Editor Kennebec Journal
The letter signed John II. Killiam"
appearing in your issue of the 18th inst;
appears. to be one of those inspired"
| productions that sometimes come forth
| from the camp of the enemy under the
| guise of a friend who thinks this
method of endeavoring to act as a bell
wether that has come into the field in
spired with the hope that when he jumps
the wall into the Haines pasture others
will follow
| To begin with, a man who will assert,
| as does Mr.. 'Killiam" that it would
have been wiser for Roosevelt to have
submitted to the bosses in 19E and to
| have let them ride rough-shod over the
undoubted will of majority and never
have started the Progressive party than
that Haines should be defeated in the
| coming election, If he is not simply
| literary fence" used TO market the pro-
| auctions of an enemy in the guise of q
| friend, he surely has no right to call
| himself a Progressive" but should. in
stead be regarded as monomaniac or a
state of mind; and not as normal,
thinking, reasoning being.
| The state of disease that affiicts some
men on account of what 'Haines did for
prohibition reminds me of the negro who
| lay on the ground, at one of the old
| fashioned campmeetinss where Whitehead
was booked as a speaker, exclaiming:
/ 'Oh, such powerful preaching! Oh, such
who do you think is preaching"
asked a bystander. why Marsa White
field. he am preachin'," painted the negro,
as he rolled his eyes in frenzy OF ap-
| "Oh no. explained the bystander.
.'Whitefielde didn't come this is Mr., Jones
| preachieg."
full face declared, "Oh Lord, Eve dauoed
myself all over for nothingW
l do not think any one can successfully
deny that the history of the removal OF
/ fbea ch ffe in
/ TALLY as follows
H. H. Sturgis went to Governor Haines
and asked that something be done to stop
| the disgraceful conditions in Cumberland
county and Governor Haines replied that
he had received no complaints from that
county Sturgis made complaint. Cover
nor Haines said he had no legal eVloehce;
! Sturgis obtained evidence. Haines saiu
the evidence was not sufficient. Stufsis
| returned to Portland and got more ,evl-
dence and also petitions to the Governor
| PRAYING that he take action in the matter
| Governor Haines wanted to proceed I'M
der the Oaks law. Sturgis and his. ad-
visers protested against this flames
then determined TO proceed by impeacn
ment proceedings Sturgis protested tnat
such a course would not be successful on
account of the difficulty of getting the
necessary vote in the Legislature, ana
/ asked that the Governor proceed by al,
dress" The papers were made out ana
/ read: by address or impeachment anu
Sturgis prevailed upon the Governor TO
strike out impeachment, SO, 80 fnM g;s i II
ture as to how they would proceed. rms
| was done, and the Democrats. not ecntent
to have the pot call the Kettle piack,
good Republican sheriffs'' that did not
/ happea to have the smallpox at tnat
| time, and Maine got rid or some OF the
nullifiers in both parties, o.d;ns 70 my
best knowledge and belief, and were OBJ
tanned from Mr. Sturgis himself. II IN
any particular the statements are mae
| curate ] shall be gao 10 nave NoHeiAo'
| HaineS correct them.
| Now ii would seem that any normal
| minded man who wanted TO reward tils
man who caused the removal OF tne rum rum
shcrifrs would advocate the nomination
| cor Governor, not of William L. Hainos,
Int of Herbert II. Sturgis ..,,,...
! When MIR. ''Killam" says that ~. tn
Governor Hanes as o 0af 4 aeaSer votes he
at.en not our 90 leader .'our leader" was
Theodore Roosevelt, and Haines WAS SIN
piy riding on his bandwagon. - D.
Haines crossed the stream on the Tro-
| eressive horse, and once on the otner
Side knitted the steed that carrieo MN
sa Mr. oKiliiiam" utters prolonged and
| oroundIess walls about Progressive posses
and complains because the Progressives
| assembled from all parts OF Maine 1d -"
| Feb 5th. 1914 decided to go II alone,
# is plain that the complaint Is nor pc.
cause AT, 20 these men decided this question, but
| because they decided in a way Una. ., d4so
not suit ,killiam. vrd Mas p.sa Is
| When Mr.. ''Killiam" says tnat tie ~. ,,iJ,
who voted TO a man against furlng nleil
colors and marching into the o., ho a.
| con1n TO enlist under the Repuplicah pai az
! camp 49,, ~ sdnfuenced by Mr.. Perkins OIL
fer of money and great speakers, in asr's;
ing our great leader. Roosevel., VI we wen
ton that our party would Sou1d h support he
| states what is untrue. Mr. Perkins
never made such an oner, any any, nnrS
because Mr.. Perkins had not sau ,,, = an ~. at
TO the assembly of Progressives wren hr, a.
their first meeting at ~ A M. Oh ous
ary 9Th, 1914, they voted oiiaiiii'oS's
against 'amalgamation. about Judge
Mr. 'Kiliam,s" statement, az 49, f,,sion ri
Ransom being lin support or the lusi0 War u,
the ti-Democratic forces m Nc" Indqe
City' is calculated to deceavs,. pefnTe
lsaii Isonn,na q Progressive, as is John I.
ntitcbeil who was elected Mayor OF N y.
York CITY in the campaign releiae4f , sG
1t was not an anu anu, f,,sionNa fusion
oua cnrr,lntion and against BOSS ruie,
sse sa,ne as is in a sense the Progresslt.e
party, of which many hohes'
forIne' "Riiiam" predicts that the Pro,
,rnssive nartv will not dare TO aoVoc AZ
strict and impartial enforrccsemaiemi, u iacrs
prohibitooTGy Ia Lawn 4 t Mr honesty and N
the cohhussh. ne progressives of Maine
t Wsies all Il REAL, Progressives ought te
possess. -...aao,,oa that the Pogres-
a,,.a nartv will take frank: open, MAJ i,
10 stand for the honest enlor ra,,,a; os
The prohibitory law as long as SIT II remains Ann
among am the statutes Of the S ,,i11 do what
, what is more, l believe they VIII w "i'''
t1 n m as' judgment no honest party can &c
otherwise, or s,1ch men al
Time win tell whether o 0r sd the s
~ anu h''esi"s - r. ID. CUMMINGS.
II The Reaction.