Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-04

Manchester. n. H.. Sept. 3-Tour-
ing by automobile through New Eng
land. Senator Wheeler. vice presi-
Dental candidate on the Lafollette
ticket, wedged in today three public
appearances, at an open air gather
Ing in Lowell, Mass, and a banquet
end mass meeting in Manchester, n.
X. He spoke from the city hall
steps in Lowell. pitting his voice
against street car and motor COM
petition, and urged upon factory
workers there their own responsible
ity for the government under which
they live.
The farmers and laborers of the
northwest picked out the men who
were for them" he said. land then
went out and got them nominated
ana elected. Senator Shipsted. in
Minnesota Senator Brookhart in
Iowa. and Senator Lafollette in Wis
consin. ii you don't like the kind of
government you have, YOU can do
the same thing. You get exactly the
kind of government you deserve"
The audience. which sparsely nlled
4 small grass covered triangle in
front of him, cheered the mention of
Lafollette.
when the people of the west,
and the middle west got tired. they
got another congressman" ne went
on. You can do the same. When
their senators were the creatures of
corporations, they changed them.
You can do the same"
He spoke of the findings Of the
senate investigation into former
Attorney General Daugherty's ad-
ministration, and linked the mention
up with charges of corruption
against the Republican administra =
ton.
"When l had the temerity to pro-
test against corruption. President
Coolidge's officers indicted me in
Montana" he asserted. president
Coolidge was the man who said the
other day he wanted to see American
standards of living kept up, and that
was the same Coolidge who vetoed
the bill to increase the wages of
posta, workers and the bill to give
adjusted compensation to the SOL
dierS who fought the war"
Again, he asserted that there was
no real difference between the politi-
CT! positions taken by John W.
Davis, the Democratic presidential
nominee, and President Coolidge, as
the representative of the Republican
Patty.
Suit yourself: take either one" he
said. land you who work lose as
Wall Street wins"
MancheSters welcome to the third
tickets campaign party was warmer
than that accorded previously in Sena-
tor Wheelcr's New England tour. 4
crowd. vaguely defined in the darkness
stretched away in the open air from
the arc light on the speaking platform
Mt the night meeting. He added Sena or
Dill. Democrat. Washington. to the list
of his associates in Congress who owed
election. he said, to the vote of the
workers.
"What / want to know Is now who
are you workers and farmers of New
Hampshire going to elect to represent
you down there" he demanded. I've
been in Washington some time and
haven't seen any senators or congress-
men doing it. I've seen some repre-
senting the mill owners, but nobody
who is for YOU
At the banquet preliminary to the
night meeting the candidate met a
brother and several other relatives,
residents of the vicinity. His itinerary
was modified again to hold him in the
city over night. while tour managers
did some calculating as to the order of
the next Rhode Island and Connecticut
cities that will be reached