Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-22
was resumed up Water street and across
the bridge to City hall.
A. ci$w Hall

was resumed up Water street and across
the bridge to City hall.
At City Hall
| Promptly at o'clock the. speaker
of the evening, Hon. Frank B. Willis,
Governor of Ohio. and the greatest
orator Of the Middle West, entered
City hall. being escorted by Mayor
Blaine S. viles. City Treasurer Roy
L. Wardwell. Clerk Of Courts Charles
W. Jones, Register Of Probate Ralph
w. Leighton, County Treasurer Bert
| P. Stuart, County Attorney William
H. Fisher. Chairman Frank ]. Ham Of
the Republican State committee.
Councilman Frank E. Southland. Frank
G. harrington and Guy P. Gannett.
candidates for the Legislature. and
State Senator Willis E. Swift.
The audience filled the hall to its
fullest seating capacity. There were
goodly number of ladies in attend
ance.
Mr.. Southland was chairman Of the
meeting and with a few interesting re-
marks bearing upon some Of the is
sues Of the campaign he introduced
Governor Willis of Ohio. Chairman
Southland spoke Of the fact that the
Democrats proclaim that Guy P. Gan
nett Of this city is against the ga
hour law and that the Democrats do
not say anything more about it when
as matter Of fact a 54-hour schedule
has been in operation in the Gannett
Publishing establishment for r13 years.
beginning long before the Democrats
even thought of such a law.
Governor Willis
AS Governor Willis was introduced he
was given a rising ovation by the au-
| dience. The speaker of the evening said
that he remembered the words of Thomas
Reed upon the principle of a protective
| tariff, which Governor Willis had heard
| when a boy at rally in Ohio, and he
| said that the country is not going to be
| on a safe basis until it gets a Reed-Mc-
kinley protective tariff.
| At another meeting Governor Willis had
heard the arguments made by another
! man from Maine. Senator William P.
Frye, who spoke of the great need Of an
| American merchant marine. And Gov
ernor Willis told Of his visit to the Pan
ANA canal before the European war and
spoke Of the fact that he saw more Eng
lish flags on ships. more German flags.
more Norwegian flags and more Spanish
flags in the harbor at Colon than he saw
American flags. After getting the Pana-
ma canal at tremendous cost the coun-
try had no way to use it for 1t had no
merchant marine.
The unfortunate tangled conditions
in which this country now finds itself
in regard to foreign powers was touch
ed upon by the speaker. who said that
as a nation we are just a little less
proud of our standing among nations
than we used to be and that American
ism is not Just what it was years ago
in the time Of jefferson and Adams.
And he referred to incidents in which
| American determination did not lead
to war with other countries.
| Governor Willis then discussed the
Mexican situation, stating that We had
furnished arms for a country that
turned against us and murdered our
citizens and these arms were sent into
Mexico with the knowledge and con-
sent of the administration at Wash
| ington,
1.-The policies Of the present admins
tration have wrought contempt
abroad" declared the speaker.
The need Of industrial preparedness
was shown by Governor Willis, who
spoke Of the condition that America
will find itself in at the close OF the
European war.
Need for Republicans
The Northern Democrat in Congress
doesn't cut any ice, he declared and he
said that among the heads Of the 10
great committees of Congress there
was not a Northern Democrat. He urs-
ed the people of Maine to send Repub-
licans to Congress if they wanted pro-
lection, for which Governor Willis
said he was almost tired of fighting for
people who voted for Democrats to
Congress-