Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-04
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of party ties and more independence
of thought in evidence.
The main issue, he said, is wheth-
er the country shall progress and go
forward or react and go backward,
and asserted that this is true both
of domestic and foreign relat tons.
He asserted that the Republicans
are thoroughly and completely
fscared at the present time, although
| THEY were very confident four
months ago. AS causes of their
fears he enumerated the Newberry
| conviction, the use of money in the
primary campaign, disclosures of the
Chicago convention, platform writ
ten in secret, planks lost by de-
sign, and explained that the candi-
date was selected in a back room or
hotel. He then made this pre-
diction: Instead of a Republican
Walkover, we are going on, like a
SNOWFALL rolling down hill, toward a
Democratic landslide in November"
Referring to Republican state
ments that the host of Democratic
clerks in Washington should be re-
moved, Mr.. Roosevelt said that they
were all in their positions because
tthey had satisfactorily passed
civil service examinations and re-
minded his hearers that the civil
service is nom partisan. He admit
ted that some of the clerks should be
gotten rid of and declared that the
whole government departmental
service ought to be reorganized. He
a inod in,
equaJities of the wage scale and the
confusion of titles for the same gen.
eral kind of work and charged much
of the ineficiency to inadequate SAL
aries. He said he himself had offer
ed to save the Congress money in
his own department and immediate
ly afterward told how Congress had
failed to give him as much money
as he wanted for certain things he
wished to do. He reminded his
hearers that the Democratic plat
form promised reorganization and
that Governor Cox was the man who
could do it, having put Ohio on
business basis in it's state govern
ment.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he believes the
Republican managers are worried
and almost despeeate, and that they
are hard put to it for arguments. He
took up statements made by Col.
Parkhurst in regard to the Under
wood tariff as Democratic measure,
and said that in 1913 for the first
time the tariff was taken out of poll
tics and the tariff commission was
Cd IN hA Ii
body to handle the matter. Demo-
Gratis are as much opposed to free
trade as Republicans are, he said,
and denied the charge that the pres
ent tariff is at all a sectional meas
ure.
Asserting that Col. Theodore
Roosevelt had attacked Cox as a
pro-German the speaer referred to a
meeting in Cincinnati during the
had paid a compliment to the war
governor of Ohio. Going into other
past history. he described his i'm
preston of the Hughes campaign in
the west, as it was told to him by the
peoples he met on his recent speak
ing tour The general tone of it,
was, he said, one Of criticism. SLAM
der and black prophecy of what
would happen if the Democratic can
didates were elected. The present
Republican campaign, said Mr..
Roosevelt, is much like that one of
1916. He finds nothing constructive
in the Republican platform nor in
the campaign speeches of Republi-
can leaders. The Democratic plat
form, he said. proposes definite ac-
ton to solve the problems of food
production. agriculture, transporta-
ton, cost Of living. etc. while the
other side only criticses and does
nothing at all.
As to winning of the war. 1t was.