The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-02
Hancock County.
Mr.. Hale's Hal 1u cinatiOns.

Congressman Hale. in this city last Satur-
day, which we elsewhere publish, vii! be
found the issues which his party make in
| the present campaign in Maine They are
of accusations that the Democrats, once in
| power, will endeavor to compass two OBJ
.ects-ilrst, the paying of southern claims
tor damages by the war 81, that in con
junction with the south and west the cur
rencY will be debased
The Democratic policy, Mr.. Hale SAYS,
| is to build up the south, and when it has
become prosperous use its strength for
political purposes That the south needs
| building up, that it can be built up, and
| that the Democratic party can do it, seem
to be conceded. Mir Hale is right The
| Democracy do contemplate building up
the south to its old time prosperity, and
/ beyond. And in doing SO the north will
at the same time build up itself. The pros
| perity OF the two sections is inscparable.
Increased production and increased popu-
lation there, means = demand for northern
manufactures to be consumed-tor shoes,
hats, clothing, flour, pork, ice, lime and
| fertilizers 1t means a demand for north
ern vessels to exchange the products of
the two sections, and rc-cstablish life civ
ing commerce. Democrats believe that the
country is like 4 man whose vigOr and use
tulness are impaired by dragging about a
Withcred limb, that might be restored to
health-and are willing to have the pur-
pose Of restoration imputed to them.
Mr.. llale's constituents are specially in
terested in this matter Within q stones
throw of Mr.. Hale, at the time he was
speaking, was 4 shoe manufacturing cs-
Enlistment the products of which are cX-
clusiyely for the southern market, and the
proprietors Of which have debated for
months whether the difficulty of selling
their goods would not compel them to
shnt down the factory If they are COM
PEELED to do 50, two hundred and fifty per-
sons 90 out of employment. That and
like industries need Democratic policy.
Again, the long sea coast of the Fifth
Congressional District is lined with YES
sells tit for the coasting trade, that are
hauled up for want of business Wages
Of seamen are at a starvation point, and
the earnings of masters are next to moth
ing And Mr. Hale brings it as a serious
accusation against the Democracy that the
party proposes to build up the south, and
as Il consequence revive the shipping bust
ness!
We are glad that Mr. Hale limited his
charge of the contemplated payment of
claims to those outside the constitution
because he is reported rs having said in
Portland speech that the plan included
those barred by that instrument He is
probably convinced that he was in error
in that particular, and will live to find
that he is wholly mistaken. These south
ern claims are as vague and shadowy as the
witches that confronted Macbeth. The
earth hath bubbles as the water hath, and
these are Of them.' There is nothing left
in the shape OF claims, outside the consti-
tutonal limits, that will be recognized by
any Congress Everybody lost by the war,
except the brood of radical leeches. and
all will have to stand their own losses
The other spook raised on this occasion
was that of an expansion of the currency,
as a tavorite Southern notion, to which
northern Democracy would be pledged by
the South. One would think, to hear such
talk as Mr.. Hales that the Democrats
were the fathers of the present rag money,
instead Of resisting its creation as they
did 1t is bird of your own party hatch
ing, Mr.. Hale, and nc Democrat wants
its continued longer than it can be got rid
of without loss and danger. The lovers
and advocates of rags are still too numer-
GUS in your own party to allow this abuse
of it. Why, the head OF your party, Pres-
dent Grant, so late as his message of a
year ago last December, declared that
The experience of the present panic has
proven that the currency of the country.
based as it is upon the credit of the