Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-05
M|LL|kEN, HALE AND
WHITE AT WISCASSET


though the political campaign by the
Republicans in Maine will not Off
cially begin until the 21st of the
month, Col. Frederick Hale of Port
| land, one OF the candidates for U. S.
Senator, this morning delivered q
/ speech here in which he briefly dis
cussed one of the issues. 1t was an
able address, and so enthusiastic was
] the reception given the speaker at its
conclusion that it could truly be called
an ovation.
The meeting today was not a rally.
It was an informal gathering of the
Republican candidates and committee
men of Lincoln county to meet the
| candidates on the State ticket. Every
section Of the county was represented
and the gathering not only was the
most notable of the kind ever held
here, but the most interested and the
most enthusiastic. The speakers were
Col. Hale, Wallace H. White, Jr., OF
Lewiston, candidate for Congress in
the Second district: Carl E. Milliken
of Island Falls, candidate for Cover
nor, and Frank j. Ham of Augusta,
chairman of the Republican State
committee.
When George A. Cowan of New
castle, State committeeman from Lin
coin county, presented Col. Hale, he
introduced the speaker as a young
man of energy and ability" Col. Hale
proved that and more in his address.
At the beginning Of his address,,
which was short, Col. Hale took issue
with the assertion by Senator John
son that fully 5000 of the Progressive
votes cast at the last State election
would be Democratic votes at the
coming election. The speaker said
that he had made careful inquiries
about the State and had found that
but very few Democrats had joined
the ranks of the Progressives. On the
contrary, instead Of having 25 per cent
of the Progressive votes, Col. Hale said
the Democrats would not have more
than five or ten per cent.
1.-THE Progressives have done good
for the Republican party" said Col.
Hale. 1.-The nomination of Mr.. Hughes
| is a triumph for them, for he stands
for all those principles for which the
| Progressives have stood.( In recent
visit to New York, I called on Mr..
Roosevelt and he told me that he is
| thoroughly in accord with Mr.. Hughes
and will do all that he can to aid his
election"
It was in his logical and able dis
cussion of the tariff that Col Hale
| brought forth the most enthusiastic
| response and at the conclusion of his
address he was applauded again and
again.
1.-THE Democrats claim they are go
| ing to help us on the tariff. and de-
clare that there is little difference be-
tween the two parties in this matter"
| said the speaker. He then called at
| tention to the recommendation in the
Payne-Aldrich bill that a non-parti-
san tariff board be created. This was
done and in 1912, this board recon-
mended a tariff that stood for protec-
| ton of American industries.
! When the Democrats came into
power in 1918, they adopted the Uu-
derwood tariff The war later stop
ped the great production in Europe
| would have been shipped into this
country could not be made.
"Our goods were then needed in Eu-
rope" said Col Hale land Germany
and the other countries could not sup
ply their own demands. A tariff wall
was erected by the war that was more
effective than any protective tariff the
Republicans could make.
THAT is all very well, but this war
| is not going to last forever. When it
| is over, those men who have been in
| the field will return to work at any
wages they can get. The bulk of the
gold in the world is in the United
States. The goods made in Germany
and other countries will be sent to
this country in order that the gold may
be secured. Already l am informed
there is billion and a half dollars