The Portland daily press., 1886-09-13
wHArno YOU WANT 2

Do you want good State government?
Vote for the party that has never failed,
for more than quarter of a century to give
you such when in power.
Do you want respectable State govern
ment? Then do not vote with the men who
backed Garcelsn, Brown and Blood in 1880
and are to backing them today
Do you want an honest State government?
Vote for the man who has built up and man.
aged great industry with such honesty that
there is not whisper against his integ-
rity.
Do you have pride in the good name of
your State? Then do not vote for the man
who would have pulled the State House
down over the heads of a lawful Legisla-
ture.
Do you want an able and dignifed Legsla-
ture at Augusta? Then don't vote to help
rump Legislature of 1880.
Do you want Maine to keep her influence
in the Senate of the United States? Then
vote to elect Republican Legislature.
Do you want your State influential in the
council of the nation? Then send back to
Washington the Republican leader of the
House.
Do you want your interests looked after at
the National Capital? Then send back the
man who has shown that he can do it by
more than a decade of faithful service.
Or do you want your fisheries, your cooper
age and all your other industries put at the
mercy of the free trade Democracy of the
West? Then send William Fl. Clifford by
all means.
Do you want your labor protected and
your happy home left secure? Then vote for
the man who for more than ten years has
championed on the floor of Congress the pol
icy of protecting the products Of your labor
against the products of the cheap laborers
of Europe.
Or do you want your employment rend-
cred uncertain, your industry made unre-
munerative, and the industrial system on
which you have thriven disorganized? If
you do, vote for William H. Clifford, for he
and his party are pledged to the policy that
will do these very things
Do you want the First District of Maine
to retain its old reputation? Then don't
vote to send an inexperienced politician to
Congress in place of the famous statesman
who now represents you.
Do you want to merit the applause of every
friend of right government in the nation?
Then vote for Thomas B. Reed today.
Are you laboring man? Then do not
vote for the candidate whe holds that your
honest toll makes of you and your associates
lower class; who speaks of labor as it is
spoken of only in lands of slaves or serfs.
Are you veteran? Then will you vote
for the man who called your famous organ
ization ''set of bummers?"
Are you friend of prohibition? Then
don't throw vote to help into power the
party that declared at Bangor last summer
its unqualified opposition to the prohibitory
law. stigmatizing it as an act that vexes the
citizen and interferes with individual liberty
Do you want the curse of rum banished?
Then do not vote to defeat the party under
whose rule Maine has gone twenty-five
years ahead of the license States, according
to the testimony of Neal Dow himself
Do you want the law enforced in Cumber-
land county? Then do not vote to put into
the high office of Sheriff the man whose
record shows that in 1882 he unblushingly
traficked with the rumsellers.
Are you Republican? Then vote the
ticket, the whole ticket; vote early and see
that your neighbor does the same.