Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1855-07-13
Republican Domination.
FOR GOVERNOR.
iNS0N p. MORRILL,,
OF RENpFIFLp.
- nemocrntlc Plntlorm

la,,ys1r sheppard Cary As liberal can.
I.h'r Nr Governor. .'umprl the state, anil
iu urc OF Of, steerhrs We hard him remark
.. tl1t ths REGULAR accused him and OF. par
tyarla,in. only ono ila." Q, which De-
aII.l echo wished they Dad as much a.
Hat. ,ri. they could not I1 frr thry were
fu' W,vy wei remember bow uc
Ar-a, anil other rrtahr prr drnounce
Cary anil r.lirul-l h., platform, hut a'
much ~ thcy .n-rr-l 20 him anil his " or.
rra's -uarl. "as they termed his PARTY,
tlry have bal @ wheel the whole l0moru-
r, iut, line. anil ry,uuav stand hlul Cary
AMI DIE 5000 rum.ur m'lrv.rs, upon the
very identical platform they h.' y.lr rIli.
rulrl. Last y.ar democratic party were
political organization r-filn' rr'ulrf',
,hgy ruh'j,ly Acknowledge thsy hal Oh,
political ly'irr that they merely handel
themselves tn-..hrr or che akeor thoTail.
anil trat This was 'h, only cohesive element
in ,he party.
TIL. YEAR th,.7 iu-.l.rs have constructed
a platform. anil what i.i,' Substantially
th, Oh Chandler platform of 1850, AMI the
cary platform of'jl. The following rc-,-
luton wa. adopted at the former Con,sn.
tian, AMI embodied tho sentiments of the
Chandler party of that year.
R.w'rg That ra, The people hrrr o..
l.mh'ri. arc 0ruusyl tnall snmutulry enact
uGnts. and tr all law. uuvauutah,y viola
iHs tha security ~ property, thr rights 0f
tho citizen, and the slnctIty ~ hi. huas' ,
and that w. recognize in he lsw passed hv
trr legislature Ur this State, drnominatrl
che " Maine Liquor law. principle yi0lat-
.u. the most l,-Hl AMI lHrly-rhcri,hel
rarSlrll rights OF ci'Iyrus. and In direct We
ulatiln or our gr1lt charter, the State Com.
stituti0n. aud that W. call upon anthrouch-
ont the State, q ynliltr their right, next
September, az the polls, lv supporting the
nomination fr Governor thisday made, and
hv returning liberal and enlightened men to
tho next la.i,aturr
w have before 90, the Resolutions passed
at ii. Cary Convention OF last year, but they
are o., Ion. 90 copy, and We give a synor.i,
as reported hy the Argus of juno l., 1851.
Nr. wilkinson. from Committee on Rc,o-
lrti1n. reported ill., Of them. Several Of
them. la-.d ON the fundamental principles
.ur democracy an could agree 90. Others,
declared the Maine law a. b. lad law, and
ought &, 10 repealed without dolav-anl
that thr friends of temperance should pin
in the desire Tor repeal, without regard 20
Tlrtv-anl al~p 20 promote substitute that
shall promote temperance.
Now let our readers compare the above
Resolutions with those adopted at the Au-
su,a Convention or the present year, and
they viii fnd them substantially the sane.
4 This comparison at once brands a sentiment
advanced In the ir,i Resolution at the Au-
susta Convention base filshood. They
ay that We Sc aogp' the political attitude on
thi. moral question we are forced to occu-
pv." When the Leaders Of the party have
practically been advocating those s-me prin-
ciplos f1r three years, and have thereby fore
ei the temperance question into the polite
al arcna-the interruptions hypocrites now
now turn round and say they "aooPi the
political attitude, &c. Tho very first plank
they put into their platform is nailed with
a baso lie. We should have before remark
el tina, at the Pillsbury Convention at Ban
gor in 80, they did not pass anti-law rcso-
lutions, bat they opened a liquor shop, and
a large number OF the members Of the Con
yention were boasily drunk. This they con-
sidcrcl a sufficient endorsement, OF the dem,
ocratic principle without passing ResOlu'
tons