Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-08
Where Docs YOUR Party Stand7

4 personal letter from President
Wilson heartily endorsing woman SUI
frage and urging the democrats OF
Mario to vote YES next Monday has
been received by Mrs. Deborah Knox
LIVINGSTON, leader OF the Maine Sui
frage Campaign.
President Wilson writes as follows;
The White House,
4 September, 1912.
Ny doar Mrs. Livingston:
May net express to you my very
great interest in the equal suffrage
campaign n Maine? The pledges
Of my party are very distinct in
grating the suffrage to women by
state a;ticn and | would like to
have the privilege Of urging all
Democrats to support a cause in
which we all believe.
Cordially ard sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
ooverno. Carl E. Milliken OF Maine,
are pledged to granting the suffra sc
&c women. SO are their parties.
YOUR party is pledged to the pin
ciple of equal justice and fair play TO
all citizens. Is YOUR wife a "citi-
zen"o Do you still class your mother
sane men?
The President says: The pledges
Of my party are very distinct in grant
ing the suffrage to women by state
action" He urges all Democrats to
support a cause in which I'VE all be-
lleve."
Will Maine Democrats sheer at the
advice of the great leader Of their
party and, behind the polling booth
secrecy, repudiate that party's dis
tinct pledges?
In a personal letter to voters Coy
ernor Miiiken writes:
In the rush and excitement of war
activities 1t is natural that the people
of Maine should have paid scant at
tention to the important questions
that are to be voted upon next Mon
day
All Of these questions were sub
mitted to the voters by a Legislature
strongly Republican in both branches
and in this sense they are all Repub-
lican measures and associated in the
public mind with the Republican
party.
II desire to ask your special atten-
ton to two Of these propositions which
are especially identified with our party
because Of the fact that Republicans
in the Legislature for several sessions
have tried to secure the necessary
tWo-thirds vote to submit them to the
people.
The constitutional amendment Civ
ing the Governor and Council author
ity to remove unfaithful sheriffs after
proper notice and hearing was FIRST
proposed by Republican senator ir
1907 and has been urged 10y the party
at several sessions since. 1t is de.
signed to eliminate the present cum
bersome and tedious method of ceal.
ing with unfaithful shoriffs by the
Legislature, and to give the Governo,
more complete authority for the en-
forcement Of law in accordance with
his constitutional responsibility
The amendment giving equal sui
fragc to women has also been urged
by tho party at several sessions of the
legislature and repeatedly advocated
in the party platform
The adoption Of both these am4nd
ments will in nv opinion greatly
strengthen the Republican party ant
make more effective the policies which
we advocate in the interest Of the
moral and social welfare of the State
Facing these facts can any loyal Re.
publican vote mo" and still prhfes:
faith in the worth Of party platforms
Were these pledges Of the Republican
and Democratic parties made for po-
ltical effect in single campaign and
like the 1s-cent razors, ito sell anC
not to shave?
The President and our Governor
speaking Tor opposing political parties
both urge faithful adherence to party
pledges for equal suffrage.
Vote like a man.