Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-17
Republican Leaders
Meet in Second District
And Plan CAMPAIGN

was to the effect that the Progressive
party has gone out Of business, and
its stock has been taken over by the
Republican party. Other. one-time
Progressives who spoke are: Rep. n. P.
Gould Of Leeds, Lucian Blanchard OF
Rumford, Judge advocate general on
the staff of Governor Curtis: and Hen
ry w. Oaks of Auburn.
Five Minute Speaking
There were many speakers, the time
OF each not exceeding five minutes. A
| light luncheon was served in the hali
| so that few left from the call TO order
at IL o'clock until the adjournment
at 2 P. NJ. At the morning session
the speakers were Frank j. Ham OF
Augusta, State chairman; Robert h.
| Hodgdon Of Lewiston, county chairman
and member Of the State committee;
]. r. Bass of Wilton; Fred r. Dyer
| Of Buckfeld, member of district COM
mittee; Charles 3. Randall of Bow
doinham; Frank S. Adams Of Bow
doinham; S. j. Kelley of Lewiston;
Fred Wyht Of Rockland; Henry w.
Oaks Of Auburn; Emile Freed of Lew
! iston; Edward Lacroix of Lewiston;
! Lucian Blanchard Of Rumford; \. P.
! Gould of Leeds; and the presiding Of
ficer.
Candidates Speak
Following the luncheon Mr.. Briggs
introduced other speakers, among
them several candidates for Republic
! can nominations:
/ Col. Frederick E. Hale of Portland;
Hon. Timothy F. Callahan Of Lewis
/ ton; Hon. Cyrus \. Blanchard Of Will
/ ton; Wallace White, Jr., Of Lewiston;
/ Hon. E. c. Plummer of Bath; Hon.
John P. Swasey of Canton: Hon. Bert
| NJ. Fernald Of Poland, and Harry B.
Austin of Phillips. =,
Chairman Ham States Policy
One Of the features Of the meeting
was the first appearance of Chairman
! Frank ]. Ham at Republican gath
ering since his election to the chair
of the Republican State committee. He
was greeted with applause and fire.
uuently interrupted by the traditional
sign of approval. The meeting was es-
pecially pleased with Mr.. Hams state
ment of the policy Of the State COM
mittee in the making Of the 1916 plat
form and tho leadership of the 1916
campaign.
Col. Frederick e. Hale
! Col Hale spoke briefly but with Wig
| or and with confidence in the truth Of
! his strong Republican declarations. He
remarked that he did not believe that
/ the district which had sent to Con-
gress such men as Frye, Dingley, Lit
tlefield and Swasey would ever again
allow itself to be ''misrepresented' by
! a Democrat. He said that the Progress
sives had accomplished some Of their
purposes but had incidentally accom-
plished something upon which they
did not originally plan-the election
| Of a Democratic administration. He
declared that the country must have
a high protective tariff at the earliest
possible date. In speaking of the
many Republican candidates for nom
| nation for every degree of political
office he urged that every candidate
pledge himself not to be bitter should
the people select some other.
Hon. Timothy r. Callahan
The only thing which is making for
prosperity in the country, declared
Hon. Timothy F. Callahan, is the for
eign war contract. If industries in the
| United States were not now being
supported by the great foreign de-
mand, he said, the extent Of the indus
| trial disaster resulting from the DEM
ocratc tariff schedules would be the
cause of the greatest bitterness and
revolt against the Democratic policies.
/ TIL -
understand the real condition, Mr..
Callahan insisted, and they know the
cure for the horrible industrial disease
of low tariff and will apply it with a
will when the time comes.
Hon. Cyrus N. Blanchard
! The immediate need Of the Second
| District is thorough organization, ac-
cording to Hon. Cyrus n. Blanchard.
He declared that the district commit
/ tee should take steps at once to be-
| gin the complete organization of the
entire district and prophesied that
with the Republican forces of the dis
trict working theoretically and sys-
| tematically at the opening of the next
campaign there would be certain vic
tory in 1916.
Wallace White, Jr.
| Some Of the planks which should be
included in the 1916 platform of the Re-
| publican party are, if Wallace White,
Jr., of Lewiston is as good a political
architect as he is reputed to be, Protec-
tive Tariff drafted by a permanent tariff
commission; an American Merchant Ma
| rine, not of foreign ships purchased
| abroad but of American ships built by
American labor in American yards; pro-
| lection of American citizens whether
they be upon the high seas or in seeth-
Ing Mexico; Rural Credits; and solution
of the social and human problems which
confront all good statesmen. The Ten
Commandments, Mr. White declares, will
hear study by the law makers of Cbr;s