Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-09-21
THE HIGR-TAX FROG FALLS
BACK IN THE Mime WE'LL.

The State of Maine is Republican. Sol
| idly Republican. 1t is the State of James
G.. Blaine, He canvassed it thoroughly
after his return from his Carnegie tour in
Europe. It is the great New England
State of the lumber interest, and the Mills
Bill makes lumber free. Thousands of
! men in Maine are lumhermen. The chang
es were rung on the free lumber clause, in
the canvass. Great things were expected
| election for Governor, on this ISSUE
! 1t came off, and that night on the plan
| adopted in the Presidential campaign of
| 1876, it was proposed to get the advantage
| of Zach Chandeliers method of "claim
| anything" in advance. That night, that
political charlatan, James G. Blaine, sent
| off this telegram to the editor of the New
F., York Tribune
Augusta Me-, September TO- Whitezaso
| Reid: At IL o'clock I estimate Republican
majority at tacenty thousand 1t is not simply
great victory. 1t is almost political reyo-
| luton. 1t recalls immense majorities of the
war period The question of protection was
| the only one discussed Many Democrats
Signed JAMES G.. BLAINE.
This trick deceived a good many of the
Republican press of the country. Among
them, it caught our neighbor the Valley
| V1rginiam, who announced that the Maine
election had resulted in the greatest vic
tory for the Republicans that has been
achieved in many years." and concluded
with this eloquent apostrophe:
| "New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and
| Indiana, the doubtful States, will as forceful-
| ly reply in November next The tidal wave
which laved where rolls the Oregon and
| hears no sound but its own rushing has
swept over to the Kennebec, where the green
pine tops, kissing the clouds, throw their
shadow over the State, where in 1910, Maine
went hell lent for Governor Kent and will
| go whooping for Harrison, Morton and Pro-
lection in 1885,"
The official returns from Maine have
blasted this beautiful picture. Here they
are:
Putnam, (Dem.) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. G1, l08
Gushing, (Pro.), ...... ...."............. 1871
Simmons, (Labor), ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 979
This gives the Republican candidate a
| plurality of but IS .465.
Now let US go to preceding elections. In
1884, in the Presidential election, thu vote
stood-Blaine 1.716, Cleveland 81 ,656-
! Republican plurality, 10000. 49,.
Now 60 to the election for Governor
which preceded the Presidential election
| of 1884. and we find that the Republican
| plurality for its candidate was Is, 745.
| So we see that Mr.. Blaine's ''great poll
| tical revolution" was Republican loss of
l,575 On the Presidential election of 1884,
| and a loss of l, 260 On the State election of
| 1884
And, besides, the figures show that
while the Democrats have gained 9,454
votes on the vote Of Cleveland IN 1884, the
Republicans have only gained, 1857 on
the vote of Blaine in that year.
Mr.. Blaine bases his ''great victory'' on
the vote for Governor in 1885, when the
question of Protection was not discussed,
and when the Republican candidate had a
plurality of Is, 072-instead of the election
of 1884, when like the present one, 1.-THE
question of Protection was the only one
| discussed"
The result of the election in Maine is a
blow of great significance to the High
Tariff FAX Republican party. Held with
in fifty days of a Presidential election in
which Cleveland is again candidate;
after personal canvass by Mr.. Blaine. in
which State affairs were ignored and 1.-THE
question of protection was the only one
discussed and yet resulting in loss of
| 1875 Republican votes on that cast when
Cleveland was elected in 1884, it shows the
Mills bill-the issue of the contest-has
| strengthened the Democratic and weaken
ed the Republican party. 1t shows that
the lumbermen who work, do not feel that
free lumber hurts them. They well under
stand that while the lumber got out for
boards is protected So thousand feet,
their labor is not protected, while ''pauper
labor' from Canada is free to come across
the line and take their places any hour of
the day that their terms do not suit the
great lumber contractors.
The issues of 1884 and 1888 in Maine,
according to Mr.. Blaine, were the same.
The result was falling off in the Repub-
lican vote of 1875. The general result
will be the same Clevelald's election.
! GEN. HARRISON'S LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.