Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-20
From the Albany Journal.
81 Don't Want to go Back to
Quarter Time"

Quarter Time"
A manufacturer in neighboring county
who employs more than thousand men,
said few days since that, in business
point OF view, he had never been more
anxious for the election of any candidate
for the Presidency than he now was for the
election of Gen. Garfield: Why said
he. If ten thousand dollars would hell to
secure such result | would pay it with
pleasure, tor. after two wears Of steady
work, i don't rant 10 90 back 10 quarter
time"
This brief sentence embodies the whole
philosophy Of an important phase OF the
canvass. Having come up out OF the hard
times OF the past few years, business men
don't want to return to them. They are
content and hopeful under the existing
condition of affairs. and the outlook is full
Of promise and good cheer.
The manufacturer who said what we
have quoted is but type Of many thou
sands who have had similar experience.
During the protracted depression ont of
which we have so recently emerged, not
only have manufacturers suffered, but
their operatives have suffered with them.
If the one has been often on the verge OF
bankruptcy, the other has been oftener on
the verge of starvation, and if anxiety
came TO the one suffering came to the
other
1t is coming to be believed that a con-
tinuance of the prosperity at present en-
joyed by tn country is contingent upon
the success of the republican party. The
policy which has resulted in the revival Of
business is the policy Of that party. Not
only did 1t originate and perfect every
measure embodied in that policy but every
such measure encountered the persistent
hostility of the democratic party. While
the republican party has been laboring to
lift up the business interests of the coun-
try the democratic party has been doing
its utmost to keep them down, and in
their desire to defeat whatever their politi
cal opponents proposed they lost sight Of
what the best good of the country de-
manded.
To working man, the difference be-
tween full and quarter time is the differ
ence between abundance and beggary.
And there is just this difference between
the policies of the two parties. Success
has come from the one; disaster would
flow from the other. Under the cne there
is abundance under the other there would
be beggary. The change sought would
bring fat offices and full tables to the few,
but hard times and empty larders to the
many.
But there is no need of change No
change could improve the business cOndi-
ton of the cou try-least of all the change
sought by the democratic party for with
such change would come change of
men not only but Il change of measure
as we'll. With the opportunity to repeal
what they opposed it would be an impu-
tation upon their honesty to assume that
they would not do so and if they should,
the evils which have been averted by the
policy they antagonized would come to us
as certainly as effect follows cause and as
light follows darkness.
Business men who prefer certainty to
an uncertainty and who are willing to ''let
well enough alone" will vote for Garfield
and Arthur. Only those who are willing
to take the risk involved in change of
measures as well as change of men will
vote for Hancock and English.
Operatives of every class. who wish to
work full time and receive full wages. will
vote for Garfield and Arthur. Those who
are content to work quarter time" and to
receive starvation wages. will vote for
Hancock and English.
The change coveted by the democratic
party is full of peril to every business and
individual interest. and it is largely be.
cause this fact is fully app eciated that We
expect the election of the men who are
pledged to the principles which have
brought to the country the prosperity ii
enjoys and to the people the hope and
gladness which this prosperity inspires