Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-26

bee county comes her share. For
years the Chief Executive of the
great State Of Pennsylvania has been
coming to Wayne and has attended
several of these gatherings of ours.
we welcome him here aeain-Goy-
ernor Martin G. Rrumbauch
Governor Brumbaugh NAV we'll
nave felt pleased with his welcome
10 rlt was warm one. He said in
part;
Gov. 5rumbausI,'s Speech
MT Chairman, fellow citizens--and
that buzzing automobile, (referrinr
TO particularly noisy one that wonId
leave at just that time)-T feel whom
al these meetings at Island Park as
ulou&n IN some way belonged to il
provided that it is wholly in the in
terests of the Republican party T
nave no use for Democrat, in public
or IN private. And the sooner we ALI
remember that the growth and pros
perity OF this great country of ours
was built up and developed by tho
Republican party, the better it will be
for you and the country.
| was corralled by Chairman Ham
ard asked to speak here today and as
he caught me just after a good din
ner | didn't have the heart TO saw
him nay. There are two or three
things that I have on my mind and
which I wish to unburden myself to
you about.
First, we are the most prosperous
country in the world and we have not
only money enough to equip and send
across the seas the finest army in the
world. but to give generously to the
support of our Allies. Now that
money was made by Americans in
America and every dollar of it under
Republican administrations. Pros
perity has been ours to an unlimited
extent and it would be folly to remove
Republicans from office and put eX-
perimental Democrats in their places.
We have done in this war what no
one thought possible for any nation to
do. Never before has any people or
ganiZed and sent across the ocean a
million and a half OF men in year )
time. 1t was said by the Huns that
our boys couldn't fight, because they
weren't trained. but they have found out
that the American spirit has done in a
year what took the whole German ma
ton three generations to DO. And what
has been done is a testimony to the
soundncss Of our government at home.
| read it in a newspaper have my
own opinion of the newspapers. And
the governor then cracked n joke at
the expense Of all newspapers that made
the crowd howl with laughter.
! read an editorial recently that 10
elect Republicans in Maine would weak
en- the administration at Washington.
That editor should remember that tins
Republicans in Congress have given
better support to the President in wag-
ing this war than have the Democrats
themselves. The Maine delegation has
voted soldly with him and the whole
caboodle OF them ought to be sent hack
You may not know the meaning Of that
word caboodle-it's a Pennsylvania worj
and means the whole bunch.
In Philadelphia on the banks OF the
Delaware you have read of a steamer
being recently built and equipped for
service completely in q days--a world :
record for shipbuilding, and to do !,
that company was obliged to increa Sc
it's force of men from $500 to 1900 men.
1t took Americans into that shipyarl
and American genius such as that built
a ship before the Kaiser could wink.
These things are not accidents, they
are part OF the American spirit shown
in everything. and we can build ships.
lick Kaisers and do anything and ey-
erything better than any other people in
the wide world
Ny state of Pennsylvania is a great
state. 1t is 1-iSth of the whole number
of the states; 1t has one-tenth OF the
financial resources of the nation and II
produces 50 per cent. of all the fabricat-
ed material for the ~use of your army
and navy. Some state. Pennsylvania
And don't forget that she is Republican
through and through, and her growth,
resources, all have come and been de-
veloped under Republican government.
We don't give the Democrats a SMELL
Her last legislature appropriated s9i.-
G00.C00 in all The governor trimmed
that amount to about sS3, 100000. And he
made some friends by SO doing (?). He
cut because he had to fulfill and observe
his oath Of office, Just as your governor
must. and see that the expenditures of
his state were in accordance with it's
revenues. / received a report of the f.
nancial conditions the other day and
every debt of Pennsylvania is paid-we
have no debt, but we have s1l 900 0Ho in
the treasury That's Republican rule IN
Pennsylvania.
You should get it into your heads that
all the large constructive work in this
country is done by the party that came
to the rescue and saved the country in
its hour Of greatest peril away back in
The 6Qs-the Republican party.
Another thing is in my mind and l
must get it out Of my system. When
our boys were called to the environments
and there trained to be made into SOL