Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-08-22
bey's most honorable course in a crisis
which threatened the peace and good Or
der of the State.

before the people of Maine, the question
involved in this attack upon an indepen
dent and fearless Judiciary is enough t
arouse every man in the State to activit
and zeal. The Democratic party los
power in the nation more than twent,
years ago, and one of the potent cause
of their defeat was the attempt made b,
Mr.. Buchanan's Administration to i'm
pose spurious government upon the PEG
pie of Kansas. But the Lecompton swim
die, as it became popularity known, was
not so bad nor so bald nor so shameless:
a destruction of popular rights as wa.
attempted in the Garcelon conspiracy o
lS79-S0. And now to-day, in the year
of grace 1882, nearly three years afteI
the ignominious failure Of that conspiracy
Governor Plaisted asks the people o
Maine to entrust him with the Executive
power Of the State in order that he may
punish an able and upright Judge, who
rose superior to all his party associations
and maintained the right Of the people
to choose their own Legislature, accord
ing to the Constitution and laws. AL
power resides ultimately in the people,
and to that Cour, of last resort the case
now goes. The candid and fair-dealing
character Of the people Of Maine gives
full promise of righteous judgment.
2ad In addition to this important
State issue, the election Of 1882 involves
many questions Of National Importance
questions which deeply affect the prosper
ity of the People of Maine. Whoever
neglects to make his influence felt in the
pending campaign disregards the interests
which pertain to his own future and his
own frcside. The choice of four Repre-
in Congress and Of Legisla-
ture that shall appoint Senator of the
United States, brings directly before the
People every issue that is involved in the
Administration Of the National Govern
ment. On every question on which par
ties in this country. the interests Of the
People Of Maine must lead them after So
Der, serious thought, TO support the Re-
publicans. BY the spread of manufacture
ing industries, by the growth Of our ag-
ricultural interests, the People of Maine
become every year more and more inter
ested in the maintenance Of Protective
Tariff. No candid man believes that a
protective tariff could be upheld for sin
gle year if the opponents of the Republi-
can Party should come into power, and
by Just so much as any voter in Name
helps to elevate the Freetraders to power
by so much he aids to imperil the manu-
featuring and agricultural interests Of the
State. And not less so in the matter Of
Two out Of every three
candid Freetraders outside of New Eng
land will probably declare that if their
party was in power they would at once
proceed TO admi, foreign built ships TO
American registry, and would break down
what they term the odious monopoly of
the coas,ing trade. Causes which need
not here be enumerated have imposed
list of hardships upon the Navigation in
,erests of the Country; but the Free
trade party is the only one which has
proposed to alleviate those hardships by
tie utter destruction of the Navigation in
terest itself
In the transfer Of so large proportion
of the an freighting TO steam ships, the
sailing vessel has relatively lost its i'm
portance; but i: still represents very
large interest, in which the people Of
Maine have a great stake. During the
year 1882 our principal ship building dis
trict will launch as large a number of
wooden sailing ships as it ever did in a
single year even when those vessels were
the ocean Fighters of the world. What
ever contests may be before us in regard
to a revival of American commerce, no
Maine man who is intelligent as to the
future of his State can vote to sacrifice an
interest which under every Encouragement
has thus far been so energetically main
tanned.
1t would be curions to call over list
of the occupations of the people of Maine
and after a careful inspection of its details
to have the Free-trader point out one that
would be helped by the destruction Of the
Protective Tariff or indeed, one that
would not be harmed by 1t. The first
one indicated by the Free-trader would
probably be the navigation interest, which
he would boastfuHy maintain is seriously
injured by Protective Tariff. But the
ship-owner would not desire the destruc-
ton of the protection to manufactures If
at the same time it carried with 1t the
destruction to the protection Of the navi-
CATION interest, which comes from secur-
mo the coasting trade to American built