The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-30
fCoMMUNlcArERl,
HANNIBAL HANLIN.

engaged in stamping that State fol
Booth and the Mongolians. As he is
a Senator, and has been Vice President
of the Nation, he was probably induced
to come out to the Pacific Coast by the
friends Of the President, that the weight
Of his great name might be added to
the cause of the monopolists, who are
making desperate efforts to obtain the
endorsement of the people of California
for the Grant family and its admins
tration and the greatest of all the
monopolies west of the Atlantic.
What particular line of argument
Mr.. Hamlin will use before the people
is not yet known, but it would be
interesting to have him explain the
operations of the protective tariff, that
pet measure of the party he now trains
in, and its effects on the leading
branches of business in his own State
of Maine. He may be able to persuade
the mechanics and farmers of California
that the system which has killed the
ship building interest of the country
and driven our commerce from the
ocean, which requires consumers to
pay double price for everything they
eat, drink or wear, and curtails the
e of earning the "wherewlth"to
pay, is a m~arvelously proper system.
10 p, nI~~ H. IL
State, where he is now engaged in mis-
sionary work, thai the railroad monop-
oily is a blessing to the people of the
United States, and particularly to those
of the Pacific Coast, and for this great
blessing they are indebted to the great
party of progress-the Railroad party,
and should vote for its nominees. The
time was when Mr.. Hamlin opposed
all the monstrous theories and practices
that are now paralyZing industry and
depressing the masses of the people,
making. the rich richer and the poor
poorer. But that was twenty years
ago. Mr.. Hamlin was a Democrat then,
and banks, protective tariffs, and ali
other monopolies designed for the ben
eft of the few at the expense of the
many. Were zealously opposed by him.
When the s.coon-killer'' in that me-
morable year,, 1914, travelled through
the wilds of the Penobscot, exposing
to the crowds that fllocked to hear
him, the iniquities of the protective
system, none cheered him more
heartily than our present eX-Nice
President. Now he supports a tariff
system far more unjustan oppressive
than the one that existed in 1914, a
banking system than that which
Jackson strangled, and a gigantic
swindling railroad and land monopoly
that will extinguish civil liberty on this
continent if it succeeds in deluding
people fol- a few years more into
the support of the political party that
has fostered it and built it up.
When our ex-Vice President first
public life, some thirty years
ago, his State was Democratic. So
.ong AS it remained so, he was a Dem
ocrat, and during nearly all the time.
ior more than twenty years, after his
first election to office, he was a sue
aspirant for position at the
hands of the Democratic party. In
1854 SO he was in the Senate of the !
United States, ciassed as a Democrat, |
md he claimed to be so. During these
years when both the great par
les were disorganizbd and the Wing
party IA dissolved, III willy politi-
ian from his secure position carefully |
the course of events, vet
made no demonstrations showing a
to leave his party and turn his
back on his principles. But when the
party in Maine was formed
1886, some of its leaders claimed
"Hamlin would be with them
when the proper time came"
Many who had been Democrats
we're ready to forsake their old associ-
ties and join the new organization
Under the excitement OF the anti
agitation, and its success in
he State seemed almost certain. The
proper time" tor Hamlin came when
he State Convention was just at hand,
nd the last man from his party eX-
ept himself, had gone I'VE to the Re-
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