New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-29
CAN DEMOCRATS BUY MAINE1

The people of Maine are fairly warned The
same Democratic management which flooded
their State with ruption-money just before
the election four years ago, is preparing to try
it again. The same professors of perjury and
forgery, the same past masters in bribery, are
at work this year for cleveland and Reform"
Meanwhile, as before, the Democratic organs
are carefully preparing their readers to hail any
Republican majority less than 10000 as Re-
publican defeat. If the people of Name want
a victory of British free trade In this country,
they can contribute to that end by neglecting to
vote for the Republican State ticket in Septem-
ber
The Democratic tactics are thoroughly dis
honest. The industries of the country have
been greatly depressed ever since the election
of Democratic House in 1882. That prOstra-
ton became more severe, and to the
working people more disheartening, when
the Democrats devoted the last session
of5Congrcss TO "a desperate effort to cut down
the duties, and, in the language of Mr.. DORIS
heimer, the close friend and official biOgrapher
of Mr.. Cleveland, to take &" a first firm step to-
"ward free trade" Yet the very suffering
which their own misconduct caused, the Demo
and its policy. 70 people in Southern States
the Democrats openly avow their free trade
purposes but to voters in Maine and Newly
they deliberately tell falsohoods about the
matter The free trader who led the raid on
the tariff in the House was the same Mr.. MorTi-
son who reported the platform to the National
Convention, and yet the Eastern Democrats
pretend that they are genuine and sincere pro-
tectionsts. Frcc-tlade cilOrtsand pledges have
brought to Their aid all the conspicuous free
traders at the East who have been Republicans,
from Mr.. Curtis and The Acr- iork Times down
to the least intelligent and therefore least
blamcworthy importers clerk. Yet the boilers
pretend, and the Democrats at the East assert.
that the objection is to Mr.. Blaine, and the real
object Clean Government and Cleveland"
What Mr.. Cleveland is, the people are be-
ginning to learn. A man whose personal char
actcr moves religious journals that at first
ferccly supported him TO dcnouhce Inn in the
strongest terms, and 10 demand his withdrawal
from the ticket; politician who has no knOwl-
edge OF public affairs, and who never uttered
thought that impressed the mind of anybody
a Sheriff who defrauded the county by con-
tcmptblc little OveT-ChaTgcs, as only little man
would; n Governor who prOstitued his Office to
get Il Presidential nomination, and shielded
from punishment 5000 Thompson and tho in
dcted Sheriff, getting as his reward the votes
of their rings IN convcntion-suc is the candi-
date through whose election "Sevcn- Mule"
Banum, the concOctor of the Morcy forgery,
promises " clean government" AS for the local
leaders who once robbed Maine of It's rights.
and now are trying to rob the United States rs
well, the people of Maine know how jealous
they are also for " Cleveland and Reform"
What Mr.. Blaine is, the people of Maine have
shown that they know, and their high regard,
their contempt for the ISLANDERS with which he
is assailed, insure majority for HIM In the
State which has hOnOred him so Often It is
only needful to add that the Democrats think
the people of Maine are for sale.