Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-01
Who Pays Mr.. MaIine7

suffrage. We do not know that they
are or that they are receiving funds
from that unholy source. We have not
stopped to charge them with such per-
fdy, although convinced that it would
have been a fair tit -for-tat method Of
contest in return for the shameless way
in which they (the Antis) have at
tempted to tie up the National Suf-
frage Association with the little group
of ninnyhammers who are picketing the
! White House.
point blank challenge, If Maine Ants
are in league with or are paying for
the services of, one John B. Mailing.
! 1--WE assume both and shall until re-
/ sponsible head of the Maine organiza-
ton denies the assumption. Will they
deny it or let it go by default?
/ Mr.. Mailing is a man who shows up,
quite by accident of course, in places
where suffrage contests are on. and
proceeds to save" \that section. out Of
! his philanthropic goodness and entire
disinterestedness, from the awful hor-
rcrs of suffrage as he has beheld it in
his state of Colorado. Mr.. Mailing just
Happens" around, but he has hap
pened" in other states as he is happen
/ ing" in Maine and, strange as it may
seem, his plant is defamation of the
~omanhood of Colorado.
! Do the Ants own up to him? Are
they paying for his services as special
defamer of their sisters in Colorado?
/ Or, are the liquor interests paying him
as they are paying others to work
against woman suffrage?
! We hope the Ants of Maine will be
prompt to clear their skirts of respon-
sibility for the appearance in Maine of
such agencies. We know that the
/ leaders in Maine of the anti suffrage
movement would spurn the association
OF defamer of a sister state II they
suspected that such person was in the
employ of selfish and immoral inter-
ests and was repeating falsehood and
SANDER concerning a state and the wo-
manhood Of that state.
If anti-suffragists Of Maine have
been led into believing in the good faith
and disinterestedness of John B. NAL
| ing, they should be informed by the
following telegram to Mrs. Deborah
Knox Livingston, chairman Of the
State Suffrage Campaign Committee.
from Secretary Of State James R No
land Of Colorado. The dispatch is dat
ed at Denver Aug. 80, and reads:
Mailing emphatieally does NOT
| express the view Of the officials
| and business men Of Colorado.
Suffrage is decided success in
| Colorado. It has unseated tho
"eoss" politician and has worked
out entirely for the uplift Of the
state, socially, morally and poiit-
ieaIly. Ask Mailing who is paying
him the enormous salary he is re-
eeivina for defamina the woman
hood of Colorado.
| (siened) JOHN r. holland,
Secretary Of State.
After writing the above we received
from Suffrage headquarters in Bangor
the following concerning Mr.. Mailing
as known to the cause:
| THE TRUTH
Colorado is again being DETAINED by
| one John B. Mailing of Denver, who is
! touring the state Of Maine in the in
terest of those forces that are op-
posed to granting women the right OF
! franchise. The entry of Mr.. Mailing
into the campaign now being waged
| by Maine women for their political
! freedom is not unexpected. Just as he
| appeared in other states TO fight
! {; gainst the women, so he was due to
! come to Maine.
! The voters Of Maine think for them
selves. This the women of Maine
! know. Mr.. Mailing evidently has, this
to learn. No statement will go unin-
vestlgated and a thorough investiga-
| ton can lead to but one result-an
| affirmative vote for suffrage on Sep
! TENDER 10
The fact that Mr.. Mailing is devot-
| ing his time and energy so diligently,
| SO exclusively TO anti-suffrage work
dispels all idea that he is doing this
! from purely altrustic motives. The
| press of other states, as we'll as the
! suffragsts Of Maine. have asked the
! question who pays Mr.. Maling?" And
! what interest is so concerned in the
/ defeat of the women of Maine that it
! would 60 TO this great expense and
/ trouble to Put man in the field, Is
there not something strange in this
| solicitude for the women
| The burden of Mr.. Maling's argu-
1 n1ent if II may be called that. is that
! woman suffra &c has ruined Colorado.
/ The suffra gists Of Maine. very natur-
ally, are wondering why if Colorado
needs saving. Mr.. Mailing does not
! ccnfine his energies for the time at
! least. to saving the state of Colorado.
| Has it seemed to Mr.. Mailing best
! that Color ado go unsaved and Maine
! be saved?
When Colorado gave the vote TO its
! women in 1898 it was by statutory en-
| actme1t supported by referendum.