Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-04


vote of the nation, deprecated, public fnan-
ces succeeded by unchallenged national credit.
dangerous violence against an honest | allot
condemned at the bar of public opinion, an
( increasing civil service, already measurably
guarded from the decentralization of public
! slavery, together with q vast advance in inter
nal developement, popular enlightenment and
national wealth and dignity, all attest that
during its course of a quarter of century
the national republican party has kept abreast
with the demands of progress and the needs
of the country.
| And we affirm that it, and it alone, of the
existing parties stands ready and equipped to
wisely and considerably deal with the ques-
tions of the day, both State and national. We
favor a discriminating tariff, formed with
regard to the careful protection of the tax
payer, of American industries and of the
American labOrer, to whom il should give its
full share of the national prosperity. A tariff
in which reforms and corrections should be
made with regard TO a view TO reduce the
surplus and at the same time to correct inc
qualities and not by the illogical making of
a horizontal reduction as a step toward the
disastrous experiment of free trade.
The republican party has long been and is
now the organization which has the tenderest
| regard for those who depend on each days
labor for their daily bread, and the protection
of whose interest has of late become a more
and more prominent public question, and it
stands pledged to further their best interests
! by every legitimate means which the govern
ment may employ. We call the attention of
those who in the past have held with the
party which sustained human slavery, or who
have been led to support men that by deceit
| full promises have persuaded them to falter
| in their allegiance to the fact that the meas
ures which have been incorporated into the
laws of the nation and States for thirty years
| in their behalf, such as the regulation of hours
| of labor. wages of the laborer lightened, of
corporated engagements of free men, easv
exemption from the ever pressing creditors,
and the giving of the homestead to actual
settlers, have been conceived and enacted
under republican administration, and nota-
/ bly, in States which, like our own, have been
long under republican rule.
| We favor continued and honest further
ance of reform in the civil service already
begun, so that executive appointments to
| office. Notwithstanding the political policy of
the administration, should be based on the
! fitness of the appointers. should assure a SER
want of his place through a change of admin
istration, and should free encumbents from
forced political assessments and service.
We favor a foreign policy which shall in
sist upon respect for American name and
scrupulous regard for the welfare of the
Ameaican citizen, whether native or natur-
allied, everywhere, and which shall foster
the growth of our commerce and shall pre-
serve from interference with the rightful
pre-eminence of our nation among the peoples
of the western world We insist that it is
the province and duty of the general govern
ment to exercise its power to ensure a free
ballot and an honest counting thereof, with
which self government becomes a mockery to
all whom the constitution has declared equals
under the law throughout the land.
We favor liberal legislation to reestablish
and assure the prosperity of the merchnt ma
rine of the country and to restore the navy,
so that it may be an establishment commen-
surate with the nations dignity.
We endorse the recent recommendations of
.the President and Secretary of the Treasury,
advising against the further coinage of silver
dollars. We further accept the declarations
of the national convention at Chicago, as
wisely ennnciating the principals and policy
of the party.
We commend James G. Blaine and John
A. Logan as worthy of the support of Massa-
chusetts as statesmen of experience, fidelity,
patriotism and earnest devotion to the prin-
cipals we believe to be right, and as men to
whose hands the honor and welfare of the
Union will be safely entrusted.
We congratulate the nation that after the
tragic death of President Garfield, we found
in President Arthur one who under the most
trying circumstances disarmed hostile criti-
cism, devoted himself to conscientious and
successful discharge of the duties of his
great office, and has given the country a safe,
honest and able administration.
Massachusetts has always maintained a
conscientious leadership in devotion to free
conscience, temperance education, education,
good order and economy of government, the
relief of the unfortunate and distressed, rec
ognition of services of the patriot soldiers
and Imprisonment of the condition of labor
ing men, and the republican party, now as in
the past pledges itself that in its administra-
tiOns there shall be no backward step in this
regard and no spot shall stain the lustre of
her record.
| We heartily commend the able and faithful
administration of His Excellency, George ID.
Robinson and feel certain that his modest and
digniied bearing in office has won the esteem
of the people of the Commonwealth, that in
nominating him again for Governor, we but
foreshadow his triumphant election
MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRATS.