Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-29

when you separate yourself from the party
whose principles and purposes ere yours;
you effectually abandon those principles and
purposes. You might as we'll say, when the
army of the Union was about to engage the
enemy at Gettysburg or Lookout Mountain
or Five Forks, that you didn't approve the
plan of battle. or didn't like the general, and
that. for that day onlv, YOU would go over
10 the enemy or fight at smother place
You cannot do it without being de-
serter No matter whether you dis
ike Grant or Meade or Sheridan The
battle on which the hope of Union and hu-
manity hangs is TO be fought there on the
lines they form. No man knows this better
than Grover Cleveland. Il am chosen" he
saws, ''to represent the plans, purposes and
policy of the democratic party. II elected.
he will do it. James G.. Blaine is selected
TO execute the plans, purposes and pohcy OF
the republican party. And he viii do IT,
You NAV not like the general the commits
stoned authority of the republican party has
selected But you fight on the democratic
side. with the democratic party against the
republican, on everything on which those
two parties differ, if you vote for Grover
Cleveland Ii YOU elect Cleveland you aban-
don further hope of Civil Service reform for
this generation. You take the side of free
trade against protection. You bid fsre"ell
for a lifetime to honest elections in the South
You suffer the great Mormon cancer TO spread
over the breast of the republic. There Is
but one thing on which Grover Cleveland has
Enthusiastically planted himself. That Is. that
if elected, he will be a party instrument
What he said in his speech of acceptance, he
echoes in his letter. In that feeble docu-
ment, which, as compared with Mr.. Blaine's,
is as a mole-hill to the Allegheny Mountains,
he declares that when 1.-THE party has outlined
its policy and declared its principles, moth
ing more is required of the candidate than
the suggestion of certain well known truths.
Is he for protection: Nobody knows. Does
he wish TO put down MOrmonism? Nobody
knows Is he in favor of repeating the ten-
ure of office Law? Nobody knows There is
not a single question at issue before the peo-
pie in regard TO which YOU have any warrant
of his action. except in his avowed purpose
TO carry out the will OF his party
Mr.. SchurZ further says that if anybody
hereafter charges that the opposition to Mr..
Blaine is free trade movement it will be
lie. Hitherto it may have been mistake.
But since he has reminded you that they
were ready to support Mr. Edmunds, you will
lie if you repeat the statement. Well, II is
true they favored the nomination of Mr..
Edmunds. who is protectionst But is 1t
not true that every newspaper and every
prominent man who has come out against
Blaine, leaving the Republican party this
year, has a strong leaning to free trade
DO you think of an exception The men
who love. honor and support Mr. Blaine have
quite as lofty an ideal of purity and integrity
in public station as those who oppose him.
They make 10 distinction between public
an I nriyatp ICa man he Centralized
by the law Of right and duty in private life,
he is not TO be trusted amid the temptation of
public office. We will vote for no corrupt
or unclean man for President. At the same
time We do not mean to help any party to
gain the Presidency by crime.
The PARTY GROWING BETTER AND BETTER.
| said in 1876, just after the Belknap trial,
that there had been not only less corruption
relatively to the size of the country in the
twelve years that followed the rebellion, but
less absolutely than in the twelve years of
administration of Washington and John
Adams. That is equally true if we compare
the last twenty years with the first twenty
under the constitution. The Independent
address enumerates some recent cases of dis
honesty in high places. In some of them
retribution has been tardy. In some there
has been natural, but indefensibe reluc
lance to accept evidtn Of guilt against po-
litical associates. But in the main there are
cases where dishonesty has been detected
and remanded to private life by republicans
themselves. The party has been growing
better and better. 1t was better in '6S than
in "a, better in rs than 6S, better in "a
than in 80. Attention is called to the fact
that there are unworthy men still conspicu-
Gus. | think it likely. Wherever a victori-
he tInnSa
vultures flying in the air. The company of
men who have formed hastv and unjust
judgment of Mr.. Blame contains many per-
sons whom | love and honor manv of whose
friendship | am proud. They have
been honestly misled. But in the main
the honesty, purity, education. strength
of the nation is in the Republican
party. The men who saved the nation are
more patriotic than those who tried to de-
stroy it. The men who abolished slavery
love freedom and labor better than the men
who struggled to preserve it, The men who
paid the debt are more honest than those who
tried to repudiate it. The men who kept the
currency sound, are better fnanciers than
those who tried to debase it. The men who
stand for fair elections in the South are
more fit to be trusted than the minority who
are hoping to seat their man in the Presiden-
cy by murder and fraud. The purity of the
American home. without which there can be
no purity or health anywhere. is safer with
those who are trying to extirpate Mormouism
than with those in whose eyes Grover Cleve-
land is the standard of personal excellence,
The men who have achieved the independence
of American manu- facture, whose policy has
called our vast industries into life, and who
would exert every influence which Govern
ment can rightfully WELD to keep up the
rate of the workmen's wages, are wiser and
more far seeing than those who would put
these great interests under the heel of Eng
land again, and would let the price of Amer-
can labor be determined in the British mark
ct. lam, yours ever atfectiOnately,
GEORGE F. HoAR.
From the New York Tribune.l