Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-26

| questioned. Men who appeal to the
| rank and file by their qualifications
| and fitness must carry the Republican
colors in the primaries that the voters
| themselves may pick only the best. Mer
standing for public preference must
not hesitate to place themselves in
pledges that cannot be misconstrued
on the leading questions of the hour;
they must be ready to stand or fall
upon their honest convictions.
AS so incomparably put by the Rev,
! Charles G. Mosher in the Bangor con-
vention when storming the forts of OPP
position to honest and full pronounce
ment upon the prohibition question:
"Some of you" he Numbered, "are
more anxious to win in this campaign
than be right"
Republicans should take that splen-
did sentiment to their hearts. Let
them, first, last and all the time, be
right and manfully accept the conse-
Quences. Let them win or lose on
principle, leaving the onus of defeat
upon the voters themselves, according
4l,n,r ar,x se1A
Banking upon the intelligence and the
Christian inspirations of the people of
Maine, we are confident that the par
ty would as surely win as is the sun
to rise on election day.
The Republican party cannot afford,
today, to be charged, as the Progress
sives frankly branded themselves with
fear and purpose to "straddie' on
great and vital questions.
The fate and the future of the Re-
publican party in Maine, and with it
the very life and prosperity of our
loved State, we believe hangs upon
absolutely frank, wide-open and hon
est dealing with the great mass of
voters of Maine at this time
1t requires no prophetic mind, to-
day, to see that not only Republicans
who believe in their party, but that
Progressives are turning to it In hope
full inquiry, and Democrats who may
now be shown where their moral and
! financial interests lie, may be enroll
ed, by going the whole distance in
placing the party upon vital issues. No
loopholes for charges of trucking or
double dealing or straddling should be
left open. Let no measured, soothing
meaningless phraseology be used. Now
is the time to pledge our all upon
unflinching honesty. regardless of con-
sequences. We have everything to
gain and nothing to lose by such
frankness. Anything less than that
spells disaster and deserved disaster
Let Republicans see the light as
hundreds of honest Progressives have
had a revelation. Today THEY know
that humanity is much the same and
tort principles, the world over. Clever
and careful hands had guided the Pro-
gressive craft into the shoals, but they
had banked too much upon "enthu-
siasm" to cover the underlying pur
pose.
The Progressive party has shown it's
virtues. it's determinations and it's hu-
man inclinations 1t is now before
the world a tangible thing, something
more than assertions.
Today the world knows, and its units
have awakened to the fact that the
Progressive party is political party
and that it's leaders and those asking
honors are actuated by the same mo-
tives as those which it claims affiict
the old parties. There is no getting
away from these things, for We have
the evidence and will use their own
words.
The Progressive party as we'll as
the Republican party must today facd
the unyielding facts and the inevit-
able logic. Let all profit thereby or
the common enemy is sure to win To
stand for a high principle while the
enemy takes your earthworks and
binds you hand and foot, is not the
part of wisdom or of yalOr IL is