Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-09-06
Addresses Delivered by Hon. ].
d. Blaine and Hon. William
Gibson OF Ohio.
A Large and Enthusiastic
Meeting at Unity.


AIter Mr. Blaine had discussed the relations
OF the protective tariff to the industrial inter-
est and progress of Maine, he said:
The great trouble with apy public issue ia
TO get 1t so presented to the people as to
secure fair, direct, unqualified vote upon
L. Inc minority party is always struggling
10 evade that form of submitting the question
10 the democrats of Maine They always ran
from an Issue when made directly upon the
tarlf1, and were always seeking the advantage
OF some third issue. The question under
discussion today of superlative interest to
Maine Is the election of four representatives
TO Congress. devoted heart and soul to the
system OF protection. Your representative
from this district, Hon. Seth L. Miliken, is
a thorough, active and valuable man in that
position. He presented the question in his
speeches at the late session of Congress with
great clearness and force, applying it with
happy dlrectness to the needs of our own
state.
The distinguished representative of the
nrst district, Mr.. Reed. leads the House in
the successful fight against the movement of
the free traders. The candidates opposing
the reelection of our delegation are not will
ing to come before the people and Join issue
fairly upon this subject. They seek to evade
1t and to interpose third issue. For instance,
In the third district, Mr.. Clifford, born as the
adage has 1t, with silver spoon in his mouth,
never under the necessity of doing a days
work IN his lite, presents himself as the
''iaboring mans" candidate [laughter1, |, seek
ing by somewhat shallow device to draw
from Mr.. Reed part of his legitimate sup
port. But Mr.. Clifford has met the usual
fate of men who rely upon demagoguery. In
political campaigns he has overdone the mat
ter, and has, to say the least, placed himself
In an attitude that may we'll be termed
ludicrous. In fervid address on
the interests of the workingmen delivered by
Mr. Clifford in York county, with a newborn
zeal which quite ran beyond his discretion,
be spoke of them as the "laboring and lower
classes who labor for their bread'' His
blunder recalls somewhat vividy similar
one made by distinguished citizen of Port
land nearly 40 years ago. The lawyers who
do me the honor to listen to me will readily
recall the stately, elegant form of Thomas
Amory Deblois, the law partner at one time
of the late Senator Fessenden. Mr.. Deblois
was once an asprant to seat in Congress
from the Portland district, and was address,
ing Whig convention from which he had
expected his nomination. The committee on
resolutions introduced an admirable series
and an eloquent address to the people, You
all remember that the old Wings were ia
nous for resolutions and eloquent addresses.
Mr.. Deblois came forward to speak in re-
sponse to the address. He eulogized its Ian
guage and its tone, and suggested that a
large edition should be printed for circulation
among the common people" Mr.. Deblos
was not nominated and was never afterwards
heard of as candidate for Congress. The
'common people" somehow did not fancy his
Eha
Clifford. The ''laboring and the lower class
es who labor for their bread" so patronizing-
ly referred to by Mr.. Clifford, will take good
care to give him leave to stay at home and
learn better form of public address when
referring tie the millions of American work
ingmen who constitute the bone and sinew of
the land. Cheers.
The third party of laboring men will GER
tainly not wish to join an organization whose
leaders SO flippantly insult them as does Mr.
Clifford Nor will the attempted third party
prohibitionists have any greater success, in
my judgment. The great leader of prohibi-
ton at the time it was incorporated in the
laws, the Prince Rupert of tlat fight, the
man who led the forces against all opposition
and carried the cause triumphantly forward
is still living at S3 years of age, hale and
hearty, with the old fire burning and all his
faculties aglow. Anson p. Morrill, has
spoken to the prohbitionists of Maine,
advising them to stand by the republican
party. as that party has stood by their
cause, warning them against the
nsdious effort being made to
lead them astray on the pending election.
He warns them against the insincerity and
the danger of the third party movement, and
earnestly but politely warns and arraigns Mr.
Dow for his desertion. 1t is significant fact
that MIR. Dow. in attempting to reply to Mr.
Morrill,, is compelled to use the Portland
Argus for his organ, the Argus that has been
the constant foe of prohibition and the libel
ious assailant of Mr.. Dow through all the
stages of his active and philanthropic life.
Cheers and cries of good. The papers in
the state which are prominently devoted to
prohibition, which have held that issue high
through all contests, the Lewiston Journal
published by Hon. Nelson Dingley, the
Bridgeton Reporter, by Maj. Shorey, the
Camden Herald, by Hon. 7. r. Simonton,
would ordinarily have been the organs through
which Mr.. Dow would have communicated to
the public. But he feels himself now not
only out of the line with his fellow republi-
cans, but out of line with those earnest tenn
perance workers in the state who have never
wavered in the past, and who stand earnestly
anu consistently Tor tbe republican party to-
day.
There is on instructive lesson, painful and
extraordinary, contained in the simple fact
that Gen. Neal Dow is using the Portland
Argus as his personal organ for communica-
ton with the public. The fact is so signfi-
cant that it requires no comment or explsna-
tion in submitting it to the comprehension of
an appreciative public. That comprehension
of the public will readily reach the conclu-
sion that coalition closely interviewer exists
between the democratic party aud the So
called party of prohibitionists. They both
labor to a common end which is the defeat
of the republican party and victory for the
democratic party. The so-called third party
could not stand moment without democratic
support, and unless the imported speakers of
the third party are greatly slandered, they
are directly in the pay of the democratic par
ty. But, like all coalitionsts, they distrust
each other, and a rumor has it that oratorial
efforts in the cause of the third party prohi-
bitionists must be paid for in advance 'no
pay, no Speech" is the rule. lGreat laugh
ter. The end, with such coalition, JUS
tifies the means, and both parties of the coa-
lition seem ready to resort to extreme ends
to compass the defeat of republicanism.