Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-24

could look no other way than up"
Senator Smith asked these men OF
Maine to remember that in January
1916. importations were the largest
since the country was born-and the
| revenue from those importations was
| only s15.00o,000. while II the Payne bill
had been in force the revenue would
have been s34,000.0OO.
Senator Smith drew a most graphic
picture Of the care given the dykes of
Holland to keep the sea from devastating
the fertile lands of that country and
pointed out that really protective tar
if. as advocated by the Republican par
ty, was the dyke that protected Ameri-
can industries and American workmen.
He urged that this industrial dyke cannot
be kept up unless Maine helps, and de-
clared that Maine had no right to share
in the prosperity that will come from
the repairing and rebuilding of the dyke
unless it did its share.
The speaker then launched into a start
ling expose of the foreign policy of the
Wilson administration, pointing to spe-
cific mistakes in the cases of the Nicara-
guam canal route. the payment Of money
to Colombia, the recognition of Carran-
"a, the admission Of arms to Mexico for
the belligerents, and the Vera Cruz fias-
CO. He drew parallel fatal to Demo-
cratic claims of diplomatic finesse when
he asked If those present could imagine
the martyred William Mckinley conduct
ing the foreign affairs Of this nation
along such lines.
He laughed Pres. Wilson's alleged
conversion to a preparedness policy to
scorn by pointing out that during, be-
fore or at some time since he got light
on the subject he had sold to Greece
the Idaho and Mississippi, two first
class battleship in better condition by
far than Dewey'ss flagship Olympia
was at the time the Spanish fleet was
sunk IN Manila bay without the loss
OF a single gun, ship or man.
Senator Smith declared that the /.
w. w, was a greater danger to the
United States as a nation than any,
thing he knows of that threatens from
without and voiced the opinion that
they ought to renew their allegiance
10 the Stars and Stripes (and give
up their allegiance to the red flag Of
anarchy or leave their country for
their country's good.
When the remarkable address was
nnlshed the convention went wild with
applause and cheers.
SENATOR SMITHS ADDRESS
WILL BE PRINTED IN Full
IN THE SATURDAY., MARCH
18Th, EDITION OF THE KEN.
NE6Ec JoURNAL)
AS soon as order had been restored.
Arthur q. Staples of Auburn, chair
man OF the committee on resolutions
was presented to the convention and
ne read the report of that committee
Whlch constituted the platform.
L. A. Jack of Lisbon Falls asked
mat the platform be amended 50 as to
oeclare for a change in the primary
Ia" VI such nature as to insure a
pettef distribution of the office and
overcome the present tendency ~
group the nominations for office in tho
centers of population.
+. l.. button of Augusta. for tn. oo,,-
mittee on resolutions, defended the re,ort
OF that committee and urged that such :,
matter should be presented to the Loo
is'ature hrst and then to the people for
actlon. He hoped that the attemnt ,o
amend the platform would not succeed
II diont. A viva voci vote settled IL.
1hen the convention adjourned cbaor-
ing and applauding at the same time 4b.+
everyone scuttled for the exits and homo