Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-21
Names Best Equipped
Orators to Explain
State Political
Conditions
Long List of Speakers Every
One Well Known to and Hon.
ored by the People of Maine
Ex-Governors, Senators, Rep
resentatives, Lawyers a n d
Other Distinguished Citizens
To Be Heard

Maine has a wealth of speakers
within its boundaries, men who have
been prominent in the affairs of their
cities or towns in all parts of the
State. Several hundred of these will
take part In the present Republican
State campaign and are already being
heard. Many of them Will go out
side of their own counties and will
speak in all sections of the State.
Probably never before in a campaign
have so many Maine speakers taken
the stump for a tour of the State as
in the present one. 1t is doubtful If
the Republican party has ever before
been able to produce so many broad,
progressive men in Maine who could
do this. The list Is big one and
cannot fail to interest the voters
everywhere.
Prominent among the speakers are
the four Republican congressional
candidates, the Hon. Asher c. Kinds
of Portland. Hon. Harold M. Sewall Of
Bath, Hon. John A. Peters of Ellis
worth, and Hon. Frank E. Guernsey Of
Dover Mr. Kinds has long been
prominent in Washington because Of
his connection with the parliamentary
proceedings In the House of Repre-
sentatives and because Of the loyal
attitude he has taken to look after the
interests of the people not only in his
district but all over the State. Mr..
Sewall, though he has never been a
member of Congress-, is thoroughly
familiar with national affairs and has
held diplomatic posts of importance in
which he has acquitted himself with
the greatest credit. Mr.. Peters, be-
cause Of the mastery manner in
which he acted as Speaker at the last
session of the Legislature, because of
his election in the Third district after
one OF the greatest campaigns the
State has ever known, and because Of
his prominence as citizen and a
lawyer, has won more than State
wide fame. Mr.. Guernsey has long
been prominent in the business and
political affairs Of Piscataquis county
and is now serving his fourth term in
Congress, where he is a member Of
the important committee on banking
and currency
Col. Frederick Hale of Portland,
national committeeman from Maine,
is everywhere regarded as one Of the
best informed lawyers in the State.
He is an earnest, straight forward.
convincing speaker.
So we'll Is Gov. Haines known as a
speaker, 1t is hardly necessary to say
anything more than that he Is being
enthusiastically received wherever he
has appeared and, because Of the
clear-cut honest exposition Of the at
fairs Of his administration, has won
new friends wherever he goes.
There is no more pleasing or con-
vincing speaker in the State than the
Hon. Bert M. Fernald Of Poland, for
mer governor of Maine. Honest,
straightforward and eloquent, he is
regarded so highly everywhere that
the demands for his powers have been
insistent all over the State.
Another former governor who will
be heard in the campaign, is the Hon.
William T. Cobb of Rockland. There
is no more candid speaker in Maine
than he and none more able to dis
cuss State affairs. Governor Cobb
always gives short speeches, but they
are so full of facts and so pithy, that
they have never yet failed to carry
conviction
The Hon. Carl e. Milliken of Island
Falls, president of the last Maine
Senate, was one of the leading Pro-
gressives of Aroostook county who
supported Roosevelt, but he has al
ways felt that that fact did not mean
he SHOULD leave the Republican or