Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-09
PATTANCALL and MCC|L L|CUDDY
SPEAK ON CAMP A|CN ISSUES
AT DEMOCRATIC RALLY FRIDAY

Hon. William r. Pattangall, candi-
date for governor, and Hon. Daniel j.
McGillicuddy of Lewiston, We're the
principal speakers at the Democratic
rally in the Watervile Opera House
Friday evening.
On the platform We're Hon. D. J..
McGillicuddy of Lewiston, Mayor
Leon 0. Tebbetts, candidate for Con-
gress, Harry Belleveau and Mark j.
Bartlett, candidates for the State
legislature, and Hon. Alfred A. Mat
thieu.
Mayor Tebbetts in opening the
| meeting stated the candidates for the
legislature should have at least 1000
ma jority. He next introduced Hon.
D. j. McGillicuddy.
Mr.. McGillicuddy said he was here
tonight at a Democratic meeting, but
he was so impressed with the impor
lance of the issues of the campaign
I; that he hoped there were Republicans
present. THE welfare of the whole
people Of the country is beyond par
tisanship.
MY six years in Congress gave me
an opportunity Of seeing how easy it
is for the Government to be in the
control of the special interests if you
have the right kind of men there"
He quoted Abraham Lincolns die
tum that This is a government of
the people. for the people, by the
people" He quoted Thomas JEFF
ferson's Equal rights for all. special
privileges to none" He asked special
attention to these two principles.
Il am going to tell you to start
with. friends. that your government
at Washington is not a government Of
the people, for the people, by the
people. | believe there is an element
OF our citizenship that at heart want
to do the right thing when the facts
are known. In Congress the start OF
all LEGISLATION is through the commit
tees. There are certain committees
in Congress which lay the taxes. The
greatest committee is the committee
on ways and means IN the House Oh
representatives.
That committee on ways and means
is made up of II Republicans and
eight Democrats. Out of that IL men
II Of them are ulti-millionaires. That
never happened before. When l was
en- that committee there wasn't even
| man on it who smelled like MIL
| lionaire." Haughter)
The speaker then read a character
ization of the Republican members of
| the ways and means committee. from
! the chairman. Joseph W. Fordney,
millionaire lumberman, to Thomas A.
| Chandler of Oklahoma. millionaire oil
operator. (Which side do you think
| that committee would listen to when
any great question came up?' querled
the speaker.
The Congress had done things. They
! had repealed the excess profit tax. This
| was a tax on the excess profits OF the
| profiteers OF the country in the war
period and the period succeeding-not
the ordinary Profit, but the excess
profit.
"The amount that was taken off the
profiteers of this country was (and
| at this point a big delegation Of strik-
ing shopmen entered) $450,00o.0Oo.
They took that amount right off the
| profiteers.
| 1.-THE next thing this do-nothing
! Congress did was to repeal the high
surtax on incomes from $4,000 to $l0,-
! 10000 a year. We taxed those high
incomes up to e5 per cent. Isn't that
just the place TO put it? In the House
Of Representatives they cut it down
to SO. but the Senate cut it down so
per cent. That was a reduction OF
from $3.50 1000 to $2oO.oOoooo. A
tax is burdensome when it is taken
out of the necessities of mans life.
Put the taxes on where they will not
be burdensome. When this million
aires club got together and took off
those taxes they did wrong thing.
| Another thing is the seating Of this
man Newberry. He became a candi-
date for the nomination for u. S. SEN
ator in Illinois in the Republican pri-
| mares. He was indicted for violation
Of the corrupt practices act. He was