Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-07

tee Of the National Union League held
. meeting at Philadelphia, and ap-
pointed subcommittee. consisting OF
c. A. Boutelle. William F. Cook
and C. H. Grosvenor. to prepare and
issue an address to the people on the po-
litical situation of the country. The adj
dress has just been issued and is terse.
vigorous and well-considered statement
Of political matters and an earnest appeal
to republicans to stand together in support
Of their party. In this timely address the
case Ii summarized as follows:
The democratic party was directly re-
sponsible for the civil war and for the blood
OF more than quarter OF a million of the
best citizens of the republic; it placed
great debt, and steadily strove to bring
about substantial reputation of the obli-
cation Of the government to pay it; its de-
mand now TO be put in charge Of the gov
eminent implies that it will come into
power proud OF its record, apologizing for
nothing. repudiating nothing. 1t is enough
to say Of the republican party that it has
made powerless for harm every principle
that the democratic party has advocated
during the past quarter of a century. 1t
has restored nationality; it has reeducated
public opinion it has reestablished loyal
ty; 1t has made liberty universal and eter-
nal; it has obliterated all distinctions
from among men before the laws
of the United States; it has lifted up the
down trodden; it has encouraged the
weak it has rebuilt the wasted places of
the nation; it has spread abroad prosper
ity like mighty canopy. by its legis-
lative enactments and by the protests OF
its conventions and the grand intelligence
Of its press, the republican party has stood
tor years. and it stands to-day as wall
Of fire against the determined assaults of
the democratic party upon the industries
Of the country, with its pernicious heresy
OF tariff for revenue only" that dogma
which. wherever it has been tried, has
Frustrated and destroyed the interests OF
free labor. The republican party is the
only shield to-day that protects the indus
trious. the educated, the intelligent mass
es Of American laDorers from the blight.
ing influence of the cheap labor and de-
graded habits of the pauper millions of
foreign lands.
The closing paragraph states the i'm
mediate issue in the following forcible
manner: 1.-The issue Immediately before
the American people is simple one
shall the democratic party with its history.
its career. and the purposes they so I'M
mistakably indicate be brought into pow
er without any guaranty, without even a
promise OF better government in the future?
And shall this beautiful country. with all
these splendid institutions, the handiwork
OF republican administrations, be turned
over to the blighting sirocco of democratic
rapacityP Or shall the republican party.
Reimbursed by the American people, re-
instructed from the source of all political
power and intelligence-the voice of the
people-be re-commissioned to go for
ward in its great work. and continue to
guide the Nation upon its glorious path
way to ultimate perfectionP In the
language of the third resolution OF our
Philadelphia platform - 1--WE call upon
the masses of the republican party
throughout all the States of the Union.
to stand together in support OF the prin-
ciples of the republican party. and to
labor together at the primary meetings,
at the conventions. and, finally. at the
polls. to aid that party to secure har-
monious action and ultimate victory and
to this end. we urge aggressive opposi-
tion to the democratic party. believing it
to be now, ~ heretofore. the exponent
Of political views hostile to the best in
terests Of the country"