Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-07
Absentees Republican Held in Bangor Thursday

NepuDllC:
Gould of Old Town, Mrs Elsie Slower
of Bangor. l..
Piscataauis-Vice presidents, n. N.
Scales of Guilford. Mrs. Lillian owen
of Milo; resolutions, John F. Sprague
of Dover, Mrs. Martin L. Durgin of
Milo.
Sagadahoc-Vice presidents, j. L.
Drake d Bath. Olivia Corliss of Bath,
resolutions, Willis A1alett of Top
sham, Mrs John G.. Reed of Wool
witch.
Somerset-yice presidents, Fred w
Lane of Pittsfield, Abbie j. Ladd of
Fairfield; resolutions, Z. A.. Pattee
of Harmony, Mrs. Forrest Colby of
Bingham.
Waldo-Vice presidents, Mrs. Eu-
nice p. CARL and Arthur Richie of
Belfast. resolutions, Wilfred H. Lord
of Winterport and Sadie II. Bates Of
Stockton Springs.
Washington-Vice presidents, AL
fred X. Ames of Machias, Mrs. r. J.
Peacock, Lubee; resolutions. Roscoe
G. Emery of PASSPORT, Mrs. f. E
Talbot of Machias.
1ork-Nice presidents, Grace Rid
ley of Alfred; DR.. J. w. Gordon of
| Wells; resolutions, Joseph w. Simp-
son of York, Mrs. Laura Black Stick
| ney of Saco.
The report of the committee on
| credentials was received with APP
| plause
Hon. Frank Butler of Harrington
moved that al resolutions be referred
| to the committee on resolutions with
! out debate. Carried. The convention
! tren took a recess to 100.
AFTERNOON SESSION
| That all the delegates had reach
| cd their seats when the convention
| was again called to order.
| The make up Of the several COM
mittees was reported and as soon as
| affairs We're in order Miss Robertson
| was introduced.
! Miss Robertson Addresses Convention
The audience seemed to sense the
great treat in store for them when
Miss Robertson was introduced and
| in her inimitable manner began her
speech with the remark: We've got
too much to do to waste too much
time on talk. We, in the West, look
to YOU as to the sunrisc& l thought
of that this morning when the sun
came up go clear, good omen of
what is to come"
Maine. she said. is 4 marvellous
State with its beautiful waters and
forest, though with less OF hot air
than have some of them. Uaughter).
Maine will show her appreciation of
the fact that the Republican party, is,
has been, and will be a leader for
great things for America and the
world. She said the first phase of
her speech would be party loyalty
which she would take up later.
! Gaughter. She then paid her re-
spects to Senator Willis of Ohio, who
sat upon the platform, and raised q
laugh in which he Joined. She said
he was older than she-in politics,
but if anyone wanted to know just
| how old she was. she would say that
she was just as old as the best thing
| in the country, the Republican party.
She confessed she originally was
an anti -suffragist. She had been
| very busy in canteen work when they
put it over, but one of the first things
the women must learn is to be good
losers.
Man, she said. was made a little
lower than the angels and woman
was made a little higher than man.
If you want man to do something get
Eve to see that he does it. But hav-
ing done a mans work much of her
life she had some regard for him. She
told in her inimitable manner of her
question to a woman who had been
complimenting her on what she had:
will you take all that and give me
your husband" This had staggered
the lady for moment but she final
~ retortcd: IF you can get him"
We must not forget that this one
woman and this one man and the
children, that's the ideal in this
world. But, as to woman suffrage,
this fifty fifty proposition, it's a
question of doing ones duty as a
citizen. But the women want to re-
member its equal rights, not expect
rs per cent. of the privileges and ac-
cord man but % per cent.
Women must get among those who
make the laws. and because they do
this. whoever they be, are our peers
The women must go to the ward
caucuses.
The speaker told of her experiences
in trying to get certain improvements
from those who administered affairs
In her state. She met with defeat
first in the precinct and all along the
line but kept at it.
BY and by, she said a man came
to her and asked her to run as a
/, candidate for Congress. This had
surprised her as would slap in the
face. She told him she wanted time
in which to think the matter over
II most any decent man had been as
insistent that she change her name
as was this man who asked her to
run for Congress, she doubted
| whether she would now be an old
| maid. applause an dlaughter.) The
Democrats told her she was too old
She told them to look at the young
cotton wood trees breaking down
early in life then look at the aoks
which were sturdy tho hundreds OF
years old. I'm oak" But her