Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-13
"GALL AND NORWOOD" "

To-day, the people of Maine will elect
their state ticket, and all things point to
largely increased Democratic vote, and
very close call if not defeat for
Blaine, his boom, and the Republican
partv in that state. The readers Of the
DEMOCRAT will recall recent editorial
in these columns, wherein it was shown
that the old gentleman OF the New York
SIN and his office cat would plow into
Blaine and his boom at some time before
the election, and dance all over him and
the other pier Of the bridge, in the per-
son OF Allison, just as an Apache dances
a scalp dance. To prove the DEMOCRAT
was right, we give space to the following
editorial from the old man Dana's pen
on Brother Blaine, and assure our read
ers that it has had time to be read, di-
gested and do good work in to-day's
fight. 1t is from the issue OF the Sth inst
Mr.. Blaine's speeches in the present Maine
canvass may be described as protection with
incidental prohibition. Protection is his
leading suit, and prohibition his small
| trump. And he is protectonist generally
and throughout the United States, while as
prohibitionist he appears to be severely
| local and confined to Maine.
1t is noticeable that, while Mr.. Blaine is
firmly persuaded or at least is bent on per-
suading the voters Of the Pine Tree State
| that protection is the one issue between the
Republicans and the Democrats and the
| linchpin of present politics. the straight-out
| Prohibitionists decline to be stampeded by
his alarm about protection, and insist that
prohibition is the chief of issues and the one
thing needful Mr.. John Peter st. John, for
| instance, who is tagging Mr.. Blaine through
the State, said at Sebago the other day:
"But we are told that the success of the
Democratic party means free trade and free
rum. Let us see if it does. Democrats
have had a good working majority in the
| Lower House of Congress for four years.
At each session an attempt has been made
to reduce the tariff, which utterly failed, and
this, too, in the face of the fact that even
the Republican party, in its National plat
form in 1884, acknowledged that after
twenty -four years of Republican rule there
we're inequalities in the tariff, and prom
ised to correct them, but they have made nc
serious attempt to do so. Neither of the old
parties has has any well-defned policy
are not in the Republican party, nor are all
Democrats free traders"
And then the chief of the Drys jumped
upon the Republican party for its neglect Of
prohibition. Not a fig does Mr.. st. Johr
care about protection, although he has al
ways been proteotionist. The thing thai
interests him is prohibition. And here ii
where Mr.. Blaine's great protection act fail
to draw. Protection is great thing, ant
lots of people think it is good thing, bu
exactly what it's got to do with the ques-
ton, Who shall be the next Governor oi
Maine? many good people fail to see. Th
prohibition come-outers are not to be scarce
by the protection bogey. They are of age
and know what they want; and in this
particular ''of" year they want to do thei
best to pulverize the Republican party.
In Maine itself this evil disposition of tn,
Prohibitionists may not do the Republi
cans any harm but in New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, for instance, where pro
lection is too strong to be frightened will
bugaboos in an off year, the Prohibition
lists may be powerful enough to do the Re
publicans deadly hurt. And what will Mr.
Blaine's protection speeches avail? The
people he really fears, the confident and
persistent enemies who resolved to ruin the
Republican Party if it will not make itsel1
wholly theirs, are the Prohibitionists, an6
the Prohibitionists, as far as the present
campaign is concerned, care no more about
protection than they do about the decease
of Heouba or the mysterious assailant OF
no place for protection speeches in theil
cerebral storehouses They want Prohibi
ton with big p, and Protection with a
big p they don't care a Congressional Re
cord for.
Mr.. Blaine is probably as sharp an OBJ
server of the proceedings of the Prohibi
tionists as there is, and we venture to thinl
that the more he sees of them the more h
dislikes them. They are queer fish, and will
not nibble at protection bait. Perhaps tn
sly Augusta fisherman can land them, ant
then again perhaps he will have to fall il
the water after them.
The people OF Maine who have traine
heretofore with the Republican party
are 50 tired OF specious pleading, and gilt
tering humbug that even Blaine's mag
netic utterances fall flat upon their ears
and in their savage fight for Prohibition
they are determined to sink the little res
pect they had for that party's tenets, an
do their level best to elect men who wi
at least enforce the laws, even if they ha
no hand in framing them. The bugabo
OF Protection is aptly explained by 81
John and we repeat, the people OF Main
know better to-day, what they are votin
for than ever before.