Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-18
S1EnoeRlPaIc REPORT
(centinued from Paee TWe)

charge four weeks, a mailman, an
attempted murderer, and destroyed
Of IN entire VILLAGE II he coa2d.
watching IKE the Addiing Ne4o white
II burned. and tins man Gays wait
= nRinnte aAd I viii see.r
New let ~ see what he d1d re. It
il here. The person to whom he was
talking replied after = minute or
two mo, we consider him only a
little foolish" What man on the
Judiciary com mittes, what honorable
m smber Of this distinguished body,
aud yoa are . distinguished body be-
cause yeu represent q diatngui1hed
people, and your predecessors have
'dis&iuguished you as many Of you
will distinguish those who follow
you'll will never be here, again in
the interest OF juStice-I appeal to
YOU, gentlemen-'No. we consider
him only a little foolish" when the
sheriff in your county told you he
was a mailman and dangerously in
sane. when two doctors of the city
Of Bangor who are not in the habit
Of testing the mental qualifications
Of any man and only saw him for q
few moments said he was danger
ously insane, when everybody who
saw him said he was dangerously
insane. when the three selectmen OF
Veazie who lived right alongside" OF
this insane hospital and are men
who are not experts committed him
because they knew he was danger
ously insane, and yet they may
make all the minutes that they
choose, gentlemen. they may make
all the comments that they IKE, the
record speaks and before our COM
mittee they came in the second time;
that testimony came in TO- us not
from the lips of three as honorable
members of your community as ever
stood in a pair of shoes. not IN DIS
mute. and in the fairness that shouin
mark Tiese hired men that they catt
LAWYERS we gave them a second near
ing and let them come in and pre-
sent their cause second time, and
in that second presentation they
tried disputc that. that they dIdnt
know who was called MP. am.
frank TO say ] do not believe II. ana
when that mani am going 10 prove
something to You n0w---wnen ina
man said NO. we consider MN 4
little foolish Drinkwater then salo
I'VE I'D here consider him dan
.erous man and are afraid of HIM.
THAT is the third selectman. Drlnk-
water stated that his warning was
given in his capacity as one OF lhe
selectmen Of the town of NeaRe. ~
was the next day, April 2oth, that
stanchfieId was returned to the nos
nital by his mother and -paroled ~
DIR Hedin. No, no.. gentlemen
stanchfield was not d little foolish.
No matter whether you vote with the
minority or the majority of the COM
mittec, you know who was 2 ilttie
foolish. You all know that Stanch-
field was a mailman. You all know
that he was dangerously insane. But
YOU known that the men VINO heio
the leash and power over him IN lhat
institution where madmen are kept
and ought to be kept. were a llttie
foolish--just little foolish. Sentle-
men. Let them get away from that
evidence if they can.
Gentlemen. let me ten you before
tribunals of Justice the rules have
changed. Noise and hot air won't go.
You have got to have the goods on
your person. You have got to state
your cause fairly. You have got to-
marshal your facts so that jury and
court know that every word you ut
ter YOU believe to be based upon the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
a
that. Every civilian knows that.
Therefore in the interests Of two
splendid young men, who took a col
lege education TO go up and buy an
abandoned farm in the town of Veazie.
and with their hands directed by
their brains to make that farm rejoice
and blossom as the rose, who s tarted in
and gave to the agricultural interests
Of the state of Maine seventy of the
hest bred Holstein cattle in your State,
splendid men Of State reputation.
known to all the people in the State,
came in before our committee and
testified that the values given were
not anywhere. near what the value
really was, that it was great loss to
The whole people of the State of Maine
to have this thing done.
And now, gentlemen. come to the
two reports, and in all sincerity from
my heart l appeal to the dis tinguished
senator and great lawyer as give my
idea of the position. / may be wrong.
| believe, as I said before, that in
the resolution which he helped to
lr xpl, oh he eli will
find breathed spirit of fairness, of
honor and of truth, by which he will
be ever branded everywhere. l do not
think we are far apart. Because in
that resolve this distinguished SEN
e ator and lawyer of your Senate has
gone farther with his colleagues than
| have ever seen men go before. 1t
was because of the fairness of the
men. whose fairness / respect so sin
cerely, that it pains me to disagree
with them, and from whom I continu-
ously take advice upon your judiciary
committee. ~>-
They have given us the right to sue.
We thank them for their fairness.
They did not stop there. They have
given us the common law rights of
going up against the State of Maine as
re would go up against another cor
poration or another individual and
any man arguing the cause which
represent who would not respect and
honor that position taken by those
splendid gentlemen, would be most un-
fair. But, gentlemen, ] say to you.