Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-04-14

'setrong- armedn through the House and
died in the Senate only after resistance to
the last ditch. The determined fight put
up by republicans saved us from this
Growing disaster. Democrats can never
again chide republicans for Capitalization
OF the powers OF government.
In using the ordinary and recognized
functions OF government the democratic
party has SHOWN an incapacisy seldom or
never equalied.
The Mexican humiliation is too I'M
pleasant for any American to think OF.
The foreign policies OF the administra-
ton make us long for a James @. Blaine
or an Elihu Root.
The poorly balanced fiscal policy and
extravagant appropriations illustrate the
lack OF the governing faculty inherent in
the democratic party. We don't have to
prove 1t. They admit it. heard the
chairman OF the committee on appropris-
tions use these words near the close of the
session: "whenever think OF the hor-
rible mess that shall be called upon to
present to the country on behalf OF the
democratic party, am tempted to quit
my place."
Senator John Sharp williams from
Mississippi used even more violent Ian
guage.
What has been the result of two years Of
democratic malseasance OF Officer ! am
no calamity nowler, Seing an optimist by
nature. and will not go into details that
we are all familiar with. 1t is not neces-
sary to speak Of falling revenues and the
coming treasury deficit - of diminished
bank clearings and increased failures; OF
poor business and the unemployed - OF
the harsssed business man and the undi-
minished cost OF living. We have our own
experiences to fall back upon?
But what OF the future? Everywhere l
find the republicans confident that we
shall carry this State and the county in
1915. This feeling has been growing for
year and was much stimulated by the
elections Of last fall. On the other hand,
the democrats, and vocally their leaders,
profess to get great comfort out OF the re-
suit OF the same elections. They hailed
the September result in Maine as q victory.
They point to their increased majority in
the Senate and to the fact that they held
majority in the House in an OF year.
President Wilson in his indianapolis
speech claims that the figures OF the
November elections applied to a presi-
Dental year would elect a democratic
president by a majority of about eighty
in the electoral college.
Is anything the matter with their
reasoning. Think there is. Take Maine.
President says Maine went democratic, and
puts it's six electoral votes in the demo-
cratic column for 1916. What odds do you
suppose Maine democrat would want in
a bet on that proposition II the founds-
tion for the rest OF the Presidents claim
is no stronger then his conclusion is OF
little value. Maine elected a democratic
governor to be sure. We who live here
know that the showing OF republican
strength was remarkable under the cir
cumstances. We know that our Stape
fight on governor had little or nothing to
do with national issues. The congress
sional vote has. The total democratic
hill for the last three elections, as follows:
1910, 1850; 1912, 81 600; 1914, 81 900.
The corresponding republican vote is,
1910. 81, 800; 1912, 1000; 1914, 5000. In
1914 count the republican and progress
sive vote as one - as it was on national
issues and will be ON all other issues next
time. The republican vote on governor
OH a ata " in al frnp In,
l9i0to II 900 in 1912 and II 900 in 1914 (com-
bined republican and progressivej. These
figures indicate the handwriting ON the
wall.
The, President, in his tabulation OF
other states, mahes the same error as in
Maine, using gubernatoriai and in some
cases Legislative figures, and only taxes
available. But the real basis OF republic
can confidence is beyond that. The dem
ocrats haven't won on their merits. All
they had to do was it sit tight and vote
the ticket. The republicans did the rest
by dividing. The democrats had no man
date from the people. They had q streak
of luck. ANY mandate there was pointed
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for protection in 1912. The democrats OF
the country carried only fourteen states
by majority vote OF the people OF those
states.
Six million, three hundred thousand
people voted for President Wilson and
1900, 600 against him. The people were
against the democratic party and its
policies and its leaders then and they are
against them now. All the people who
were against them before are against them
now, and thousands more whose eyes have
been opened in the last two years. They
won't MAKE two bites at the cherry next
time.
l am not much Of doctor. but my OBJ
servation leads me to believe that a cor,
rect diagnosis OF the case is the whole
thing. Ii you get a reliable diagnosis
anybody can look in the dictionary and
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