Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-08
NEXT week THE
POLITICAL drive
BEGINS IN maine
Battery Of Able Repub-
lican Speakers Will
Spread the Party Doc
trines
Names Distinguished Orators to
Visit Every County and to Be
Followed by Some of Coun-
try's Best Known Statesmen

The foundations for the 1916 Re-
publican campaign in Maine have been
securely laid and the campaign proper
= is opening with earnestness and visor.
From now until August Il Maine Lead
crs will drill the Republican ranks ia
. the straightforward political doctrines
Of the reconstructed majority party
ana from August u to September >
they will be reinforced by company
OF national Republican leaders who viii
spread the doctrines of Republicanisr1
through oratory from Aroostook to
York.
Hon. Carl E. Milliken, Republican
candidate for Governor, and Hon. Wal
lace H. White. Republican candidate
for Representative from the Second
district, are in Knox county today
completing a careful accommodating trip
begun in Lincoln county, Wednesday,
Both candidates will attend a great
meeting of Androscoegin county Re-
publicans in Auburn, Tuesday next
following which meeting the mighty
Republican drive which is to sweep tie
State in September will be in full
swing.
/ The Republican gubernatorial candi-
cate with other State candidates and
district and local candidates, Will for
low the schedule here presented: An
droscogSin county, July H. Washing
ton county. July 13 and IA; HancocH
county. July Is; YORK county, July IS:
Penobscot county, July IS and IS;
Sagadahoc county, August l and 2;
Lincoln county. august 3: Knox coun-
ty. August 4; oxford county, August .:
Oxford county, August I and s; Frank
lin county. August and 10; Piscata-
Quis County, August IL; Somerset
4 county, August IA and Is; Waldo
county, August 16: kennebec county.
! August 10. The dates for Aroostook
and Cumberland counties have not yet
been settled upon, bu- will be squeezed
il somewhere between the 10th of this
month and the 21st of August.
/ Out Of State Speakers.
A partial list of the speakers of ma
tional reputation who will join in the
campaign in Maine has been received
by Chairman Frank J. Ham. None Of
these speakers has yet been assigned to
given towns and cities. The list in.
cludes the following noted statesmen
and successful campaigners:
Senators Borah of idaho, Norris OF
Nebraska, Clapp of Minnesota, Curtis
of Kansas. Brandigree of Connecticut
and others.
For the week Of August q to &c:
Hon. Philip P. Campbell of Kansas
Hon. Augustus P. Gardner of Massa-
chusetts. Hon. Thomas D. Schall OF
Minnesota, Hon. Walter W. Magee Oh
New York, Hon. Roland B. Sanford of
New York, Hon. Samuel w. Winsl,,w
of Massachusetts.
/ For the week Of August % to Sep
TENDER - Hon. Clarence B. Miller of
Minnesota, Hon. George E. Foss o.
Illinois, Hon. William S. Bennett Of
New York, Hon. r. W. Austin of Ten
nessee, Hon. Patrick A. Kelly of Mi-hi-
gan, Hon. w A. Rodenburg of Illiaois.
/ For the week of September to 8:
Hon. Nicholas Lougworth of Ohio, Hon
Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin, Hon. Al
Ian G. Treadway of Massachusetts,,
Senator W. S. Kenyon of Iowa, Hon T.
W. Fordney Of Michigan.
/ Other speakers suggested and likely
to come to Maine are; Hon. L. "
Dempsey of New York. Hon. E. j..
Hamilton of Michigan, Hon. Ralph Cole
Of Ohio. Governor Frank Willis of
Ohio, Hon. Charles H. Sloan of Ne
braska, Hon. George S. Graham ii
Pennsylvania.
In addition to the State and Con-
gressional candidates of the Republican
party in Maine who will all enter he
campaign actively, about score If
prominent men in each of the Is your-
ties has been drafted to join the cam
paign. With the great fight carried
into every city, town and planta ION
before the day Of election, the Septem-
Der vote is likely to be the largest Il
the history of the State and the ;1e-
publican victory will probably be writ
ten in figures which will represent a
new record for party supremacy If
Maine