Show GOVERNOR AND Governor Spry's advice and influence the last legislature were wholly and he should be urged to stand a little closer to that body next in the procuring needed During the last state campaign in Maine both parties in their platforms made a solemn promise to the people of Maine to pass the income tax The senate voted down the bill which was to keep the party's Democratic senators violated the most honorable pledge which public men can make and by a vote of 16 to 0 the senate was about to give the country another illustration of the stern necessity for the initiative and referendum and to put another blot on the new white page whereon the Democratic party has scarcely yet begun to write its But a very modest man happens to be the Democratic governor of For years he has led forlorn hopes for the sake of his principles in the Pine Tree when success had crowned his labors beyond his hopes by giving to his party the complete control of the government of his he was confronted with an apostasy which would have made him and every other honorable man wish that the party had never been raised in that state so high that its fall might be so A man who has led forlorn hopes and faced discouragement for years does not surrender Nor did Governor He called the Democrats to conference and reminded them of their their duty to the people of Maine and to the Democratic party of the They heeded their returned to the reversed their saved a great cause from a check and saved their from All honor to Governor Plaisted of and may our Governor Spry at the next session still more to and stand for measures conducive to the public especially for state state and good |