Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-26
Col. Parkhurst's Proposition.

what is is WORTH. with the paru-
san color faded, the facts stand out.
A practical man who is a student of
politics, a believer in party response
bility, who fights the evil of civic in
difference, and who sees in common
purpose the salvation of men, has
summarized the results. We refer to
the public statement Of Col Frederic
H. Parkhurst, chairman Of the Repub-
lican State committee, published Fri
da morning in the Kennebec Journal.
If you have not read it, no harm will
come to you by doing so. We are i'm
sense: we believe that you will be. 1t
is fair; it is frank; it makes no false
claims 1t does not gloss the splinters,
but points the only rational, sensible
course.
Colonel Parkhurst's message is not
so much to the Republican party as
it is to all the people of Maine He has
analysed and not generalized. He re-
fers in most kindly way to the lesson
Maine has received. We are together,
sink or swim, let US make the best of
the situation and see to 1t that our
selfishness does not place US in the
same predicament again. An astute
political enemy has capitalized our
weakness-the desire of real Republi
canism to lead the march Of progress
faster than the weak, the i'll and the
little ones can follow. Progressive am
bition has promoted progress back
ward by advancing the hosts of anti
progress.
General Grant cnce said that, no
matter what mistakes the Republican
part might make, it could always de-
pend for its election upon the superb
or asininity of the Democratic party. A
recent writer puts it this way-and
be is not far wrong: 1T may now
truthfully be said that, no matter
what mistakes the Democratic party
may make. that party may depend for
its success on the paramount imbecil
it of the Republican party"
If this writer is wrong how comes
1t that a minority party is ruling in
the nation, and has just been given
the reins of government in our State?
Proving by the figures of the three
last elections that the Democratic
party is bound to remain a minority
party and always depend upon chance
and the folly of its opponents. Colonel
Parkhurst 1t the same time proves the
ascendency of the Republican party
and points the way to its entire re-
habilitation-the sinking of selfish diff
ferenees in factions, and a prompt re-
Spouse to the demands of a people
aroused to the necessities Of moral
and civic progress.
Thousands of Progressives have
seen that their leaders and candidates
are human. that they use the same
methods as other party leaders and
candidates, and that their Republican
platform is no better than the other
Republican platform and these men
have returned to the party that stands
show of accomplishment But there
are other thousands honestly convinc-
ed that the only way in which they
can eliminate selfshness and objec-
tionable political methods from all
parties, is to punish the natural lead
er of all parties (the Republican
partly into instant response to every
popular conception.
How far these men are right is seen
in the repeated failure of socialistic
theories and cure-aIls that are build
ed without the basis of fundamentals
upon which our government is found
ed. Col. Parkhurst has seen the solu-
ton and has presented it with re-
markable clarity and fairness-GET
TOGETHER AND ADVISE TO-
GETHER FOR THE COMMON
GOOD.
The more progressive men in a
party, the more progressive the party
will be, We are bound to grow spiteful,
by doing things for spite. We can
only grow righteous, by acting right
ously. Name is little; behavior is
big. Among Republicans, three are
for one name, one for another. Shall
the one go TO THE three and end the
wrangle Or, shall we continue to OBJ
serve the eleven stubborn jurymen?
Only those animated by an entire
ly selfish purpose and a lack of in
terest in the common good can turn
away from Colonel Parkhurst's prop
osition:
That II is the duty of all who en-
dorss and believe in the Fundamental
principles that are common to the
Republican and Progressive parties, to
unite, and by joint action in conven-
ton secure the adoption of advanced