Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-26
And RATCHET Brand TEA win just suit you.

pull the millennium down You can't
agree 20 do il. Republicans don't Try
10 Go better than they ca and so do
nothing; We try to 90 as well as We
can"
We women are practical: We use
the tools we have. We are very
practica: lot, whether yoI know II
Or rot. It's the men who have time
for dreanaing-women cam, take the
time when they have 20 dress chill
dren. ge- meals and keeo~house."
/ We can't dream the world into
perfection but ne can hc.p build il
90 and tina, lis why the Republican
party appeals TO women
Let's bring Up our children 50
that the next generation vii! BE- bet
ter then ours"
Better than ans theory = i.se Arle-i-
can i6aa: individual reward for ind
viGJal service We don't want ~ vote
t.zcaus= az expec, 20 double i noule-i-
caTly. W. want % double its inteil:-
gence And 50 men ard women, hand
10 hand and shoulder 20 shoulder, lets
.s1.Id fer better AIner.csnlsu-
Mss Stewart was given another ire
lre1dous ovation as she TOOK her seat
and ne women n the convention swell
ed with pride a. the brilliant and clever
address Of the woman who had be@a
chosen 10 represent ,hsn.
Senator Watson
Senator James p Watson o. Indiana.
the keynote speaker followed Miss
Stewart He .as introduced BY ChSir-
man Hersey as tVp:cal big American
.-ogn me 1-g W-s-. who towers aoove
;1e fog II public ard pirate life
senator Watson % ID his respects %
Maine as { state. 70 her great men II
Co.grsss y Old Tines. Tom Reed and
Ne son p:ngey. and 20 her present de-,
egat!on = The House and her senators.
Hale and Fsrrald- Every Republican
OF he country has z genuine affection
for Maine
Women. re said. are mos. apt pupils
h.gl standard the men have So. and it
MA are no. careful they vii cap De-
.ond j.
The mote struck ~ Inc senator was
criticism Of the Wilson admin isI-atio
and Democratic policies. He brougn.
forward facts. some o. them familiar
and others rev. IN support Of mis-
charges ard contentious. and laid bare
the Democratic war record as suHic!sn,
reason for not returning that party 20
power. The -ailroai administration, the
censorship. the reckless spending OF
money ard the League % Nations. also
came in for AT er-aigrnenc- His title
n gin: well have been WI: am Op-
posed 70 tie Wilson Administrations :
He explained how the Underwood tar
z injured business and therefore. labor
TIE Aasco IL Mexico h. declared had
It's influence not on'y n Mexico but in
Subsequent events. All We did after
each fresh outrage was TO write an
other rote." He asserted that L the
American army had teen sent there
and American rights protected there. a
stable government would have been set
Up in Mexico and Germany would not
, have started her world war. TIE
. 'watchfui waiting o. Wob5ly Wood
Eow" was responsible. ne said
in Wilson's second administration Re-
P-S'-16HS NSi- cPfOsrG III IiIfi ot-d0SS
Of the hypocrisy il the campaign.
Hughes meant war, Wilson meant
peace said his servants. They say he
fooled The women in California He did.
but he fooled the men, too and the
men. like Adam. laid i, onto the women
. Senator Watson quoted statements OF
Wilson and Baker showing that thev
knew we must enter the war but kept
quiet about II until after the elections
When Wilson knew We must enter the
war he allowed US 70 make no prepare
ton Only Roosevelt advocated pre-
paredness. Wilson made speeches ury-
! ing Us TO keep ne1tral in thought as we'll
as dec ds We had a cabinet OF paciis.s
and the President playing politics.
After We got in We didn't prepare
Wilson thought ne could win the war
. by language. Whsn We did prepare We
did il in Democratic fashion" We
spent 81 81. tfnNS for airplanes and We
, had not one battleplsne in France a:
. the time OF the armistice; N.ls1 en- oee
/ for ordnance produced - guns in
| France. Eighteen billions. a vast sum.
! was put in the hands of Baker. a pac-
! inst. ''Wh" Baker nigh. either die or
resign without creating a vacancy"
Senator Watson gave an array Of
1 statistics TO prove the ineficieacy o,
( Democratic war preparations. Vast
| heaps Of material were contracted for,
| all out OF proportion 10 the needs OF
f, mobilization.
| The Democratic party IS spending
| money now as they did then and will
as long as they are in power. You sign
blank check and put it in their hands
! IL you reflect them. Baker wasted and
! lost nine billions Of the Is billions he
had given him.
| The autocratic power Of the Presi-
dent came in for a scathing denun-
citation. The President, greedy for
| power. got it because he said ne
needed it: and We Republicans did
not want to put anything in the way
OF winning the war. We demand that
he surrender it back now. We DO
not wish to set up an autocracy as