Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-08
sen. MCCORMICK EXPRESSES
FAITH MAINE WILL ENDORSE
Constructive ADMINISTRATION

good sized audience gathered at
the City Opera House Thursday ev-
ening, the occasion being the Re.
publican rally. Congressman John
z. Nelson. Miss Betsy Edwards and
U. S. Senator Medill Mccormick were
the principal speakers.
After a selection by the waterville
military band, DR.. L. G. Bunker of
the City Committee called to order
and welcomed the audience. He said
that the speakers would entertain as
we'll as give deal of valuable infor-
nation. He introduced Mr.. Nelson
as the first speaker.
Mr.. Nelson said he was grateful for
the opportunity. He appreciated the
magnificent support he had received
from the people of Waterville.
It's difficult to talk politics, in ones
| family. in a city where politics were
set aside in my support.
You know that next Monday you
I are to lay aside your usual duties to
| exercise the duties of citizenship.
Il am glad to see present here to-
| night so many women. The Repub-
| llcan party is not hypocritical in
| welcoming women. OF the first "a
| states to ratify the suffrage act, 20
| were Republican. The women of this
| state are the best organized Of any
state in the Union. Woman has made
her advent into politics at the dawn
| of new day. We realize that hui
manity fused in the white heat of
war has undergone change. And
believe that in this woman is to take
a great part
| "Nonpartizanship is impossible in
our form Of government. Men differ
in thought on political questions. In
order to serve government best we
should choose one party or the other.
| Nonpartizanship is the No Mans
Land of politics, and to be non-parti-
Fan is to be a monthly in politics.
Il believe no meeting of Republic
cans is complete without reference to
its past. We are proud to remember
that it sprang into life as a rebuke
| to slavery. We are proud to remem-
Der that its first candidate for presi-
| dent was Abraham Lincoln, and with
him as vice president was Hannibal
| Hamlin of Maine
| 1T was Gil years ago that the Re-
publican party assumed control. With
but slight interruption the Republi-
can party has been in power. Three
times at least the Republican party
! has saved this nation" The speaker
cited the Civil War. the opposition of
the fallacy of 16 to 1. and the OPP
position to the League of Nations.
| h., MI oil to1
courage together. Maine through all
the years has furnished the Republic
can party it's leaders and constructive
statesmen. We can say that from
| Fremont down to Harding the State
of Maine has never failed in its sup
port of Republican principles.
you men and women have sent me
to Washington. l found there in Con-
Eress body Of men, earnest, honest,
diligent. and giving to their country
the best that was in them. There in
the halls of Congress the names of
| Blaine and Reed and Hale and Frye
are still named.
Il found that our senior Senator
from Maine. Frederick Hale. was an
influential and powerful Senator.
believ ethat the people of the State
whom he has served so well will go to
the polls and return him to the SEN
! ate.
mo administration ever came into
power amid such conditions Every
department of the government was
accustomed to extravaganza Agricul-
/ ture and industry were in a period of
| depression We had passed through
an orgy Of extravaganza, imitation
and had arrived at the morning after.
"One of the first acts of the admin
| istration was the Inauguration of a
budget system. now presided over by
Brig. Gen. Herbert NJ. Lord, former
ly OF Rockland.
| I'VE revived the tax law and as
, result we have raised from the
shoulders Of the tar payers for the
year 1921. sS0.O00,00O and for 1922.
$3.50. 000,0 900.
1.-The leaders OF the Republican
party have ever had as their object
wise economy. / wish l could tell you
what this administration has done for
agriculture and for the veterans of
the World War. They founded the
Veterans Bureau, and each day there
goes out for this purpose s1,200,000."
The speaker next mentioned the
Disarmament Conference. Its result
exceeded our fondest hope. They
work a new era. 1t was fine to go
to Washington, but 1t was finer to
come back home. 1t was fine to clasp
the man of the farm and field and