The Portland daily press., 1882-09-09
To Republicans.

" AeOPGO4ACNA0.
With the questions, State and National
under discussion in this campaign and to be
passed upon Monday our readers are
familiar, for during the last few weeks they
have been deliberately discussed on the plat
form AMI o. the newspapers. Our readers
are familiar with the his DRY and under
stand the tendencies of the political parties
now fighting for supremacy in Maine They
know the professions made by each and the
practice of each and every man who has
a mind has made his choice between them.
Nothing, probably, can be said at this late
day to change the opinion of voter in the
State. Many of our citizens, the majority,
we are convinced, hold that in these politi-
cal controversies that agitate the Nation and
the State the Republican party is in the
right and the Democratic party In the wrong.
To people of this opinion we make
our appeal. With them, in all proba-
bility, rests the government of the next
Congress, and to-that Congress is confded
the electoral count of 1884. If the four Re-
publican candidates for representatives.,
Messsrs. Reed, Dingley, Boutelle and Mill
ken, are elected the Republicans will with
out doubt, have majority In the next
House. If a Republican Legislature be
chosen, Mr. Frye will be returned to the
himself and with so much honor to the State,
and the Senate be made surely Republican.
If these men are not chosen the next Con-
gress will probably be Democratic. The pro-
gressive policy will be abandoned, and the
reactionary policy adopted. Legislation
will cease to be controlled by the political
organization that has governed the country
SO wisely and well for the last twenty years,
and will be shaped by the political organ
ization which the people Indignantly re-
jected in 1860 and which they have since
wisely distrusted.
These are the consequences of the Maine
election. Upon it depend the complexion
of Congress that will shape legislation for
two years to come, and that will have the
counting of the next Presidential vote.
The choice of Republican Governor here
will give fresh hope to every Republican IN
the Union. The choice of Republican Rep
resentatives will encourage Republicans in
every Congressional district in every State.
! The choice of a Republican Legislature will
ensure Republican Senate. Are not these
objects well worth working for by all who
believe the Republican party to be in the
right and who wish for its success?
And the only thing needed to secure these
objects is full Republican VOTE Maine is
Republican to-day if a full vote is brought
out. That is what is hoped for and conf
IDENTIFY expected by the party throughout
the country. Everywhere in every
State of the Union, Republicans are
looking to Maine for aid. Upon Maine
they depend for the preservation of the
Congressional majority, for the securing OF
an honest count in 1884. We must not dis
appoint them. We shall not, if Maine
Republicans do their duty, go to the polls,
and cast their ballots for the tickets selected
by the delegates they sent to their conven-
tions.
Of our candidates, State, Congressional
and County, little need be said. Their mer-
its have been thoroughly canvassed. They
are men for whom the Republicans of Maine
should be proud to vote. Their political
records are unimpeachable; their characters
as individuals beyond reproach. They will
dignity the State they serve and honorably
represent the constituencies that return
them. The ticket is admirable, and no Re
publican should neglect to cast it.
We repeat: full Republican vote ensures
Republican victory Monday. Let no Re
publican be found wanting.