Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-05-22
Call for the Convention.

We publish to-day the call of the repub-
vention, to be held in Bangor, on Thurs
day, the Goth of June. The call contains
clear and concise declaration of the
living, vital issues now before the country,
and the important questions involved in
the coming election. The leading issues
are the maintenance of the power and
prestige of the Union, insisting that its
Government shall be controlled by loyal
men that the course of the democracy,
now in the ascendaney in the national
Congress. is revolutionary in its charac-
ter; that the republican party pledges
itself against the dangerous heresy of
States Rights: insisting upon free cleo
tions-free from "bayonet rule" whether
from State or National troops, and free
from the bloody hand of the assassin; to
uphold the financial credit Of the Govern
ment, to assure to the people a sound cur
rency, as opposed to the mischievous
heresies of the regulators of the national
credit, and those who wish to debase the
currency.
On these issues and with these princ-
Piles, which are so clearly and tersely
stated in the call, the republican party,
with the noble record which it has behind
it, goes before the people of the State for
their suffrages. With these principles
honestly maintained, the republican party
ought to win, and will win. If reflection
and reading and discussion would not do
it, the attitude of Congress has fully
aroused the people to the danger which
threatens the nation, and whatever calam-
ity of business or adverse local interest
may have caused temporary alienation
from the ranks of the republicans, the
people of Maine now see that the party
unfolding the republican banner is the
only political organization in the State
that stands squarely for the maintenance
of principles on which alone rest national
honor and national security.
The Nihilists, so often referred to in our
intelligence from Russia, derive their
name from the Latin word nihil-nothing
They profess to be ''Belieyers in Nothing"
and are "a very radical set, who carry the
modern materialistic philosophy to its
greatest extreme. They are producing a
tremendous reaction from the ancient CON
sentative despotism. Since the attempted
assassination of the Car a reign of terror
has apparently begun in Russia. Report
gives fearful picture of the present CON
dition Of st. Petersburg. under martial
law. No one is permitted to be out Of his
house after nine O'Clock at night without
certificate or pass. Arrests are numer-
Gus. every place is watched and vet gren-
AIDES are exploded in the street every day.
At ten O'Clock at night every light in
private houses must be extinguished. The
police and the soldiers are kept in a con-
slant state OF excitement by the Nihilists.
Seditious piacards are put up at the busiest
street-corners, yet detectives can never
discover the secret bill poster. The fires
in Russia have broken out again. and sey
eral government and other ediices have
been destroyed.
The nego refugees who were in camp
at Lawrence, Kansas, have been nearly all
absorbed BY the surrounding country.
They ase in demand as laborers.
The eoaefed convention at Richmond dis
cussed resolutions, setting forth that col
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