Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-16

that Senator Fernald in his speeches
was stating that Coolidge would be
elected because Of the advance in the
price of wheat.
He said that the government should
be by open legislation and the gov
ernor and council and bv courts open
to the public, not by any organization
of the underlying policies and princi-
pies which would be destructive to
the principles of American govern
ment. He stated that IL the princi-
pies of the Khan were lived up,to no
Roman Catholic nor Jewish nor
negroe nor foreign born person could
attain civic prefernent in the United
States, and gave illustrations of men
who came under these ignored class
es, who had served in high positions,
both in Maine and in National affairs
and who had been an honor to their
state and country. .E
Mr.. Pattangall said that If war
should come and no one can say it
will not come, that IL we should tell
these same excluded classes that they
were not one hundred per cent Am
erican citizens when they We're eX-
cluded from civic preferment in the
country but that the country needed
liiCiI- SSIlNSSS III Tie IIillS Vi war IIlcN
were 100 per cent citizens as far as
that service was concerned; that we
would be most likely to have a civil
war, and he gave in round number
how many there We're that would be
excluded if the ruling of the Khan
was accepted.
Mr.. Pattangall said that he did not
believe that only seven years after
tho World NNo,, ha
cept the Klan principles and by so
doing say to the parents and friends
of those who gave their lives in the
great war that because they were
Catholics, Jews, Negroes or foreign
born that they were not 100 per cent
American.
He said that we must unite people
and not disunite them and that the
country should unite in whole eff
fort to keep the present government
and all should be warned of the dan
ger of the Khan and to keep the coun-
try united we must have love, faith
and hope and work, love of state and
faith and hope in the future and
work for the state.
Mr.. Pattangall left Immediately for
Madison after his address, where the
same speakers were conducting n
rally. Fulton ]. Redman, candidate
for senator, was delayed in arriving
because of his address at Madison.
but very few left and nearly all were
waiting to hear him. He told a few
amusing stories to begin with and
said that a good many Republicans
had been telling him recently that
they were going to vote for Pattan-
gall and asking him if he were elect
ed to the United States senate, what
his position would be-
He stated that he should do all in
his power to elect that splendid
American, John w. Davis, as presi-
dent of the United States, but that
If Calvin Coolidge is elected he will
entertain no bitter political policies
but shall stand behind President
Coolidge in everything for the well
fare of the country.
Mr.; Redman, who was chairman Of
the Maine delegation to the Demo-
ing manner of the convention. He
said that he wanted to conduct a
campaign with Senator Fernald. the
Republican candidate for U. S. SEN
ator. and from correspondence with
Mr.. Fernald he thought that he had
accepted the proposition. but later
Mr.. Emery. chairman of the State
Republican committee, wrote him
that there would be no union cam
paign-that he thought Mr.. Redman
would not get home from the Demo-
cratic convention in time.
He said that one did not hear OF
the United States senators paying
much attention to the Maine farm
ers and that this same rise In the
price of wheat would make -four
higher by $1.SO per barrel for the
consumption of the Maine farmer.
He said that there was plenty to
look after the national affairs and if
Maine people did not take care of
Maine affairs there would be no one
to do it. Had Senator Harrington
been nominated for governor the
matter of the Industrial life of
Maine would have absorbed his at
tention and mind and he could have
been met fair in a fair argument
but harrington is not the nominee
and Brewster, who is the Republi-
can candidate for governor by the
recount is the Ku Klux Khan candi-
date and this brings an issue into
Maine which cannot be avoided nor
ignored and must be met; that
Maine shall not be governed by any
secret oath bound fraternity The ,