Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-02

Gently made several public state
ments excoriating the stand of
walsh and William A. CASTOR. Dem
ocratlc nominee for governor. who
favored modification. The anony-
InUus writer condemned him for this.
=, Inc Protestant Inter-Denomina-
Iional rally had for its spokesman
oishop Edwin H. Hughes of Chica-
go, VINO Tor a score of years served
sIe methodist Episcopal Church in
massachusetts,. He pictured the
churches as the Champions Of pro-
rnioi.lcn against the Democratic
Heading carefully from a type
Mi'.ten copy, former Senator Walsh
SAID In calling attention to the
use of money in his (Senator But-
ler 81 campaign, l stated in my
speech at Mechanics Hall Saturday
night that in an industrial CITY of
Ihls commonwealth Headquarters
mao been established for the buying
OF votes. / stated that the names
VI the voters We're taken, a certain
amount paid them in advance, and
the balance to be paid after the cleo
tlon, l also stated that bootleggers.
keepers of 'speak-easies' and officers
OF social clubs had been called in
ana told to get active in political
work or look for unhappy results.
The city 1 referred to was Sena-
TOR Buffers former city of New Bed
iord. The headquarters I referred
TO is In the Olympia Building in that
CITY The prevailing price of votes
wnich upon last Saturday was seven
dollars has been increased to ten
dollars.
The system used is called Book
ing and the men engaged in it are
knoWn to the people of New Bed
lord as 'Bookers.' The subterfuge
resorted to is the same subterfuge
employed in the Pennsylvania prim-
aries where thousands of so-called
workers were employed in the city
OF Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
and paid the same price of ten dol
lars each. The bagman who is di-
rectlng the distribution of this
money is subordinate public off
clal who. in past years, had a great
deal of experience in this same line
or work in municipal campaigns
Some OF those associated with him
have federal court records as viola
tors of the liquor laws"
He also charged that presidents of
social clubs in which beer flows free
ly had signed an endorsement adver-
tisement for Senator Butler and that
one of these presidents had stated
that it was threatened otherwise to
close the club.
Although police were assigned to
guard the church and rectory of st.
Patrick's. Monsignor Cassidy declined
a bodyguard. The postcard which
brought police action was postmarked
Plttsf1eld, $50 P. NJ, October 20. 1t
said:
Such things as you. who use liquor
and object to others having what you
have, are a curse. Read of the ex-
plosions in Catholic churches in the
west today, and may God have pity
on your damned SOUL
Monsignor Cassidy on Saturday had
declared The pith and kernel of the
platform of the Massachusetts Demo-
cratic party to be open the saloons
and close the nils" Monsignor Cas-
sidy is vicar general and rector of
St Patrick's. He is chaplain of the
Young Mems Irish-American Catholic
Temperance and Benevolent Society of
New Bedford. He has played a prom
inent part on citizens committees
which as Intermediates between labor
and manufacturers have prevented any
serious strike in Fail River since
1904
The Protestant rally in Boston to-
day was sponsored by DR. A H. Con-
rad of the Park Street Congre gational
church, in which it was held, Dr. Will
liam II. Van Allen. rector of the
Church of the Advent (Episcopal),
Bishop William F. Anderson of the
Methodist Episcopal Church: Dr. J. c.
Massee of the fremont Temple Bap-
fist church and the Rev. Robert Wat
son of the First Presbyterian church
of Boston.
Bishop Hughes, endorsing the can
didates and platform of the Republi-
can party, said in part; Personally,
/ am no partisan At various times
in my life | have voted for Demo-
cratic candidate. once for presiden-
tial candidate. In Pennsylvania to-
morrow 1 should vote against the Re-
publican candidate for the United
States senate.
Il do now declare that 1 would not.
on the peril of my conscience and
my soul, support a candidate of a
party that had been guilty of a
defamation of our constitution and of
the adoption of plank, which, If
made into law, would make the United
States government a brewer, a dis
tiller and a saloon keeper"