Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-23

and met lot of Republicans. He has
a very enthusiastic and earnest bunch
of hustlerS wearing his buttons and
pulling in the visitors who have not
Yet picked their candidate. DR.. A. {.
Hagerthy's supporters are getting
about also and they express all kinds
of confidence in the strength OF the
genial former senator.
Senatorial Candidates Busy
Col. Frederick Hale. Former Cover
nor Bert NJ. Fernald and Hon. Ira q.
Hersey. the candidates for the Repub-
lican nomination for the United States
Senate began to "circulate' among
the delegates about noon ard they are
"coing strong" at midnight. Col. Hale
has a thorough organization and d
headquarters room Governor Fernald
and Mr. Hersey made their headquar-
ters in the office of the Falmouth Ho-
tel. the storm center" and had the
first say with the visitors as they
came III.
Tobacco smoke enyeloped candidates
and delegates in a haze which dimmed
the vision but not the sense of hear
ing Of the crowd. When more than a
thousand men are crowded into space
that was Eever expected 10 hold more
than half that number, and when ev
cry man is trying TO make himself
heard above the general din. it is a
safe bet that all the noise in this
world isn't bning made by liddyte
shells Somewhere in France But it
was so good -natured a gathering, such
a renewal of old acquaintance and
making of new alliances that no one
objected to the noise No one was try
ing to sleep. All seemed to agree that
sleep could be made up when there
wasn't any might before" on tap.
And mixed in with all this noise. en-
thusiasm. tobacco smoke. hand shak-
ing. button-holing and visiting. were
rumors. The air was so full of rumors
at times that there didn't seem to be
room for the tobacco smoke, but they
were only rumors. First there'd be
report that some candidate proposed
to withdraw. Then word would come
that he had denied it and that it was
the other fellow. Investigation reveal
ed the fact that neither had any idea
of withdrawing
Candidates for CONGRESS from the
First and Second Districts are so nu-
merous that it is difficult to tell who
isn't a candidate. A newspap per man
has to be very careful, for a lot IF
those who are not candidates are in
the incipient stages of the disease and
threaten to break out any time. Sew
eral of them have opened headquarters
and are conducting just as vigorous a.
campaign for support as some Of the
men who are willing to serve in a po-
sition which calls for the affirmative
vote Of all the people, instead Of those
of a district
The canvass of the candidates for the
position of delegates to the national con-
'entlon at Chicago as they are generally
accepted here tonight is as follows:
First District delegate at large. Colonel
Fred y. Dow. District delegates, Urban
}. Ledoux of Biddeford. Walter B. Per-
kins of Cornish. Henry Boyer Of Portland
Thurston Burns Of Westbrook. and Alex
'nd district the delegate at large proposed
s Hon. Harold VI. Sewall of Bath; L. H.
Gay OF Newcastle; and the district dele
gates are contesting for one or more DO
sitlons. A contest is also on in the LIST
district for the position of district dele
gate and it has become so warm that
several of the candidates have opened
Headquarters. where they are making the
same sort of fight that is on for the gu
oernatorial nomination.
In the Bird district Captain Benjamin
Colcord of Searsport. George G. Weeks
Of Fairfield. Clyde Smith of Skowhegan