The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-29
MAINE DEMOCRATS.

LEWISTON, Me-, June 27.-The Demo-
cratic State Convention met at noon,
and Harris NJ. Plaisted was unanimous
ly nominated for Governor.
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed the following:
RESOLVED, That this Convention, rep
resentative of Democratic citizens of
principles of their political creed.
Under a Republican form of govern
ment the method by which the sovereign
power exercises their right of self-gOv-
ernment by the election of such men
to offices OF legislation and admins
tratiOn as will represent and carry
out their opinions and principles,
and when elections are carried by
purchasing votes with cOntribu-
tiOns from corporations and capitalists,
who expect to be specially favored in
legislation, and from assessments upon
salaries of Government officers who eX
pect to prOlOng their terms of Office, the
very sources of political power are cor
rupted and the right of the people to
self government practically denied.
Such a reform of the civil service of the
Government, National, State and judi
cial, is emphatically demanded as shall
make public employment open to all
persons competent to discharge the du-
ties, instead of being the spOils of party
victories to be distributed as they are
now among workers and managers of
self-cOnstituted political leaders and
"bosses." The Government of the United
States, at present administered by rings
and bosses of the Republican party, has
become an Oigarchy of Office-hOlders,
perpetuating itself by the corrupt use
of money acquired by assessments levied
upon subordinate Government en-
plOyes, Star Route contractors and pro-
tected mOnOpOlies, and by plunder
of the Treasury by Congressional
jObbing and wasteful extravaganza,
of all political morality, destroy
ing the sanctity of the ballot, de-
bauching the people and making a way
to Capitalization and empire. The right
of the producer and manufacturer to
sell the products of their industries in
the dearest and to buy what they can
not pro6tably produce in the cheapest
markets, is right which the Govern
menJ ought not to interfere with or re-
strict except so far as may be necessary
to raise revenue for its support, and all
such interference tends to lessen the
profits, trade and wages of labor.
The present tariff, whereby 100000
600 of surplus revenue is annually eX-
acted from the laboring and producing
classes, should be reduced, so as to leave
this money in the pockets of the people,
where it belongs, and is most safe, and
thus curtail the reckless expenditure of
a corrupt and spendthrift Congress, and
remove the oppressive load of unneces-
sary and excessive taxation, which is
crushing out the life and substance of
the people.
The perpetuatiOn beyond twenty years
and beyond any public necessity, of tax
alton imposed on American industry by
the sO-called protective tariff, whereof
large excess above what accrues as rev.
enue to the Government, is protested
against, as it goes to enlarge the profits
of favored manufacturers and imposes
burdens upon labor.
The sixth resolution declares that Con-
gress has power and is bound to estab-
lish and maintain at all times a cur
rency of general credit, always converti-
BILE into and equal in value to specie,
adapted to the wants of commerce, etc.
The seventh, that COngresf is bound to
protect the community against the evils
of debased coin, and against the greater
evil of excessive issue of paper money,
and having established United States de-
maId notes as such protection, to with
draw them now and substitute bills of
banking corporations is to change SUI
perior for inferior currency, and to sur
render the power conferred on Congress
by the constitution. and to hesitate and
recede at the dictatiOn of interested
capitalists in concentrating the sover-
eighty of legislation over all that con-
stitutes the actual money of the country.
The following nominations for Con-
gressiOnal candidates were made and
accepted: Samuel j. Anderson, First
district; Daniel H. Thing, Second dis
trict; Geo. w. Ladd, Third district; T. H.
Murch, Fourth district.