The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-05
BULLY BLAINE.
He Opens the Maine Gem
paign.
and TOOtH HIS Horn Like r.
exc Little Man.

exc Little Man.
New York, 4.-The Times gives,
in advance of publication, the copy
OF letter from James G. Blaine,
ex-secretary of state, to the repUb-
llcans IN Maine. Mr.. Blaine says:
1t was in many respects a great
misfortune thai the election, fol-
lowing directly after the nefariOuS
attempt to steal a state government.
was one primarily involving ma
tional issue in the choice of a pTesi-
dent and vice-president. l believe
there were many honest democrats
and honest greeubackers in the state
who sincerely desired to record their
diSapprObatlOn Of that iniquitiouS
proceeding, but found that TO do so
in 1880 involved a separation from
the party in the national campaign,
and an abandonment of the issue in
any way connected with the local
politics of Maine. They felt they
could not afford to turn their backs
on their honorable and gallant stand
ard bearer in national contest to
punish the misdeeds of state
officials at home. The time
has now arrived, however, when
no such embarrassment surrounds
the plain question Of duty, and it so
happens, by the perverse designs of
those who sought to impose a fraud
ulent government on Maine that the
issue of that evil conspiracy is
thrust upon the people in the pend
ing election. Whether they be will
ling or unwilling, every intelligent
man in the state recOllects that
thirty-seVen members of the legisla-
ture were fraudulently counted out
by Governor Garcelon and his coun-
ell, and would have been deprived
of seats to which they were elected
by the people, and spurious members
installed in their places, if it had
not been Tor the interpOsitiOn of the
Judiciary. The opinion of the supreme
court, asked in a perfectly regular
and constitutional manner, and the
answer as given by that tribunal
destroyed the conspiracy against
the rights of the people. The Opin-
| ion of the court was so strong in its
| discussion of the elementary prIn-
ciples of a republican government,
so able and so cOmpTehen-
sive that il secured the adj
ministratiOn of a much wider
circle than those directly interested
| in its conclusion. In the pending
election, therefore, the most i'm
pOrtant local question is that of suS-
tanning an honest and independent
judiciary; second, and in addition
to these important issue, the &C.
ton of 1882 involves many questions
of national Importance, questions
which deeply affect the prosperity
of the people Of Maine. Who ever
neglects to make his influence felt
: in the pending campaign disregardS
the interests which pertain to his
own future, and his own fire side
The choice of four representatives
in Congress and of a legislature,
that shall appoint a senator OF
the United States, brings directly
before the people every issue
involved in the administration
of national government.
Upon every question which parties
divide in this country. the interest
of the people of Maine must lead
them, after second thought, to sup
port the republican party. By the
spread of manufacturing industries,
by the growth of the agricultural in
terests Of the people, Maine has be-
come every year more and more IN
terested in the maintenance of a
protective tariff. No candid man
believes that a protective tariff will
be upheld for a single year if the
opponents of the republican party
should come into power; and by sc
, much as any voter in Maine helps
to elevate free traders to power, sc
much he aids to imperil the
manufacturing and agricultural
interests of the state. and
not less so in the matter of ship.
building Two out of every three
) landed free traders outside
of New England will probably
declare if their party were IN power
they would at once proceed to admit
, foreign built ships TO American reg
istry, and would break down what
they term the odious monopoly Of
coasting trade, the causes of which
need not here be enumerated, have
imposed a long list Of hardships or
the navigation interests Of the
country; but the free trade party is
the only one which has proposed tt
alleviate these hardsbips by the
utter destruction of the navigation
, interests. On the third point Blaine
says The legislature to be elected
will have the important appointing
, of q senator Of the United
States. Every republican knows
in advance that he is voting
for Frye, and that nothing is to b.
left to chance or uncertainty OF
: caucus. It is worth the Jealous eff
J fort Of all who cherish republican
principles, to see that Names pc
J sitiRn in the Senate now 50 honor
able and so strong, may not be i'm
: paired or impeTiled by the result o.
a rending election. Our prospects
are SO promising, the surrounding
, apparently IN Maine so auspicleus
. that We all have heart and cOurag
for the work In the campaign. Tn
discussions that distractreEpublican
l elsewhere are unknOW among us
and it may be or happy fortune b,
, unity and victory to show al
2 exannn1e IN the republican part