Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-08-15

REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN OPENED By
CANDIDATES AT NORWAY.

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN OPENED b
CANDIDATES AT NORWAY.
In spite Of the sweltering heat an audi
ence of well toward Eve hundred gath
cred 10 Norway Opera House last Monda
evening for the opening Republica
meeting of the campaign In this section
There were live speakers, and q live audi
ence who testified their appreciation b
frequent and hearty applause.
The speakers were Wallace q. White
Jr., Of Lewiston, candidate for represent
alive Ito congress from the Second Main
District, Carl e. Milliken of leland Falls
candidate for governor, and ex-Governo
Bert N. Fernald of Poland, candidate 70
United States senator. Col. Fredericl
Hale OF Portland, the other candidat
for United States senator, was presen
but did not speak, having spoken at th
afternoon meeting in Bethel, and beinI
booked to speak the next day at Rum
| ford.
Music by Shaw's Orchestra opened tn
program, and during the evening Mrs
Wynifred Staples Smith of Dixfield SAM
several patriotic selections, the audience
standing during the singing of the Sta
Spangled Banner, and joining In singing
America at the close.
On the stage, besides the speakers
were number of the other party candi
dates, and W. q. Porter, the oldest man
In Norway, 81 years of age, also occupied
q seat of honor there. hon. John. A
Roberts of Norway presided at the meet
ing, and introduced as the first speaker
Hon. Wallace q. White, Jr., of Lewis
ton.
Mr.. White is young man of clean and
attractive personality, who is not by any
means a stranger here, though he has
never spoken here before. He is ready
and forcibIe speaker, and though per.
haps little intense, has much OF the
holding power with an audience which
characterized his grandfather William P.
Frye. In the fifteen minutes to which
he limited himself he covered much
ground. In his opening he said that the
transcendent issue in the state campaign
was whether the people of Maine should
stand for the best things, and that this
question might have the right answer,
be urged, "If you do nothing else,
want you to see that Carl E. Milliken ia
elected governor of Maine"
Turning to national issues, Mr.. White
said, We stand for q protective tariff, q
tariff national In Its scope, not sectio nal.
We stand for an American merchant
marine. We stand for all those things
that tend to the betterment of the peo-
pie. No progressive measures for hu-
man betterment have originated In the
states controlled by the Democratic
party.
Mr.. White indicted the Democratic
party for reputation of many of the
promises in it's national platform Of four
years ago, and Nscathingly reviewed,
point by point, the Mexican policy of the
Wilson administration. The Republican
party, said he, declares for protection. of
American citizens wherever they are.
This is the first administration that has
failed to protect American citizens.
Hon. Carl E. Milliken of Island Falls,
candidate for governor, who was next
spoke in an easy way, as II
talking directly with the people. The
people of Maine, said be, expect some
hing Of the Republican party. They
expect rs to conduct our campaign on
ligDified lines, to tell the truth, to pre-.
tent definite and constructive policy.
Maine is great corporation, In which
you are sll interested. I believe that the
nan who holds Office holds It in trust
or the people. The state is spending
i've million dollars yearly, and the gov
,rnor is practically the business man
Iger of the state. believe the governor
hould 60 to Augusta aud devote his
whole time to the business of being gov
,rnor, as intend to do IL elected.
We criticise the present state admins
ration from the business point of view,
or having acquired its boasted large
ash balance by imposing a tax un-
necessarily large, and by leaving unex.
pended appropriations made for neces-
AIRY improvements In state institutions.
Ne criiicise it In connection with the
power, for having laid too
much stress on the political element, and
90 little on fitness for position. We
,riticise 1t because throughout Its exist
nee 1t has failed to realize it's response
,ility for the enforcement of law.
Mr.. Milliken closed with the declara.
ion, based on his observation in travel
ng over the state, that things look well
rom the Republican point OF view in
Maine.
Ex-Governor Fernald, the last speak
IT, was brief, and spoke principally in
IN intimate and conversational way. He
paid tribute to Oxford County in the
highest terms, and predicted that this
;plendid audience was forecast of the
election of the entire Republican ticket,
rom Charles E. Hughes, president, down
% the local candidates. In regard to
The ISSUES of the campaign he confined
bis remarks almost entirely to the tariff,
md said that under the present control
IF the government every product Of
Maine industries has been put on the
'ree list or the protective duty greatly
while every product Of the
South has been given q protective duty
BY the Underwood tariff. He promised
If elected to use his influence, even IL he
had to work alone, for restoration of
protection to the industries of the North.
Besides speaking each evening and
several afternoons In Oxford County, the
several candidates who were at the Nor.
way meeting made an extensive tour Of
the county, meeting the voters. Starting
at Kezar Falls In the southwest of the
county, they made their way on Monday
by way of Lowell, Albany and other
towns to Bethel, thence through Locke's
Mills, Bryant's Pond and West Paris to
Norway. On Tuesday they went through
Oxford, Hebron, Buckfield, West Sum.
ner, East Sumner, Canton, Peru and
Dixfeld to Rumford, where they spoke
In the evening.