Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-18
A Question of the Hour.

said an Augusta Progressive, yes
terday: Il suppose my vote was
thrown away, but did not think so
our candidates were to win
How many in Maine today are say
ing TO themselves the same? And
how many are saying: Can we longer
trust leaders and newspaper support
ers who SO wretchedly deceived us
while pretending to stand for better
things than is possible in any party
under another tag"
Beyond the borders of Maine where
people do not know that it was Sa-
mantha and not Aleck the boaster.
who slaughtered the beer, the State
cisive step backward. Democrats of
the country are telling the people,
and the Rum Trust is heralding it in
posters, that Maine has repudiated
enforcement of prohibitory law. Who
takes upon himself today the blame
for this false position of our State?
The liquor interests have scored
great victory which narrowly missed
causing disaster to the Maine law.
Within "a hours the tools of the in
terests which finance the Democratic
machine, were footing their horns in
triumph. Read this:
We await with great interest the ex-
preston which is pretty sure TO come of
the differing opinions within the Repub-
lican party as to how that organization
should shape its course with reference TO
prohibition. According TO the Republic
cans themselves, the election of Monday
was to be test of the prohibitory sys-
TEN. If it was such a test. certainly no
fair minded Republican will say that pro-
hibition was sustained at the bar of pub
lie opinion. especially in those sections
OF the State where its enforcement has
been the subject OF controversy. Four
sheriffs appointed by the Governor for
the express purpose of making prohibition
prohibit We're candidates for reelection.
Only one Of them, Mr.. oliver in Sagada-
hoe county. pulled through. OF the three
who were defeated, two have been gen
orally acknowledged TO have been doing
the best they knew how in the perform
ance of their duties.
In Cumberland county, which includes
the largest city in the State, the issue
was clearly defined On the one side was
Mr. William NJ. Pennell, a former sheriff,
who in his speeches said again and again
that he favored a system of local option.
On the other side was Sheriff Graham,
the Haines sheriff, admitted to be zeal
Gus official and having behind him the
Republicans. the Progressives and the
Prohibitionists. Mr. Penneil was elected.
He received a plurality in the county
larger than that given to Mr.. Curtis, at
the head OF the ticket.
viii the Republicans Of Cumberland
county favor the continued advocacy of
State wide prohibition? 1t is safe to say
that there viii be large degree of oppo-
sition to such a course. The Republicans
of Cumberland county are not likely to
demand an issue that leaves them with
out hope of victory. And what Is said
of the Republicans of that section of
Maine applies to Republicans in other
sections.-Waterville Sentinel.
Maine at large pays the penalty in
lost confidence abroad and in chagrin
and shame at home, for the deceit
and personal bitterness of few men,
and the lack of judgment of a few
thousand men
Let honest men, like our friend
quoted above, silently question their
own consciences and judgments and
make use of the returns before ac-
cepting wholesale the deliberate de-
ceit of few demagogs and profess
sional wholesale denouncers, who deal
IN the cowardly methods of generali
ties to escape the penalties of specific
utterance.
Maine has suffered a blow; let's
right her.