Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-27
4 WORD TO OUR REPUBLICAN
FRIENDS.

FRIENDS.
The annual September election will
transpire in few weeks and all earnest
Republicans should be awake in season to
the importance of securing triumph OF
their principles by the election of their
candidates by good. safe majorities. Those
who claim membership in the organiza-
ton, yet are willing to spend their best
energies in beating other Republicans,
much better than themselves, and
are even willing to affiliate with Demo-
Gratis, cannot be relied on in an emergency
and have ceased to be Republicans for all
effective purposes. Some persons of this
stamp affect to believe that there is not
much at issue this year and would have us
believe that our old political opponents are
asleep. The true Republicans of Maine
will not be deceived by this deceptive and
pusillanious cry. They know that vigil
lance is the price of political safety, and
do not forget that there is still left much
vitality and strength in the Democratic
party.
In no State of the Union does the Re-
publican party stand on a firmer founda-
ton nor present better record in its pub
lie men. Its State officers have we'll es-
tablished reputation for ability, efficiency.
and fidelity, and have brought no regrets
to those who have elevated them to their
present position. Our delegation in Con-
gress is one of the ablest in the Nation and
has proved its power and efficiency in nu-
merous ways known and read of all men.
One of its number, for years the Speaker
of the House, with standing equalled
by few in the history of the Government,
another just called to a seat in the Cabinet,
the two Senators on the most important
Committees, with an influence which their
distinguished ability and large experience
give them, and another one of the most
eloquent speakers and influential members
in Congress, certainly the Republicans of
Maine have reason to be proud of their
delegation at Washington, who have done
so much for the interests of the State and
whose character and influence have been
SO effective in maintaining the command
ing position which the Republican party of
Maine occupies before the country The
people will continue to support those who
have so faithfully represented them and
will tolerate no collision with the Demo-
Gratis with the view to defeat them on any
pretense whatever. The past record and
the present position of the Republican
party are enough to secure its unity and
to command the enthusiastic support of all
patriotic citizens.
1t may as we'll be understood now as
two months later, that the Democrats in
this State are not asleep, nor do they in
tend to allow the election to 60 by default.
They mean business, and what they most
desire is quiet, secret, "a hide and 90
seek" kind of campaign. Their success
in Ohio, New Hampshire and Connecticut,
and the loose, disorganizing way that the
Republicans of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island have managed their Senatorial
questions, have given the Democrats great
encouragement, and they fatter them
selves that the era OF Democratic success
is dawning. They mean to get out their
full vote in September, to collide with all
weak or disloyal Republicans who will
collude with them, to favor all local issues
Or disagreements that seem to promise
them votes or favor the weakening the
prestige of the Republican party. If in
the South they favor the payment of the
Confederate Debt out of the National
Treasury. or sanction paper expansion, in
Maine they are ready to run to the utmost
extremes in meaningless twaddle about
hard money and the exceeding siniuness
Of the use OF national bank bills. They
seem to believe that now is the suspicious
hour TO awaken the political ghost of
Shepard Carey from It's grave and to re-
viye all the exploded fallacies Of former
decades. They forget that revolutions
rarely go backward in country of inves-
tigation and of intelligent public opinion.
Their Portland resolution in favor of
"Free TRADE ought to be enough to
awaken every sincere Republican of the
State from his Indifference and slumber
by his ballot in September to make another
emphatic protest against heresy fraught
with disaster and depopula,on to Maine,
which has such such vast resources and
vacilities for all those forms of develop
ment and wealth of which Free Trade is
SO sure and blasting scourge. Slavery
and Free Trade were the pernicious here
sizes, the fiery devil-mxture with which the
John c. Calhoun and jefferson Davis set
excited and crazed the Democratic party
and finally drove 1t into rebellion. One of
these errors was trampled out in fire and
blood at the cost of untold treasures Of
precious life and money. The other still
lives to haunt the dreams of some vision
airy statesmen and to serve as the partizan
watchwerd of the Democrats in certain