The Portland daily press., 1888-08-27
AUGUSTA, AUGUST 25. lsss.

"a aNNA@NS~@AeAA
@ 2sate treasury and subsequent personal i'll
ness nave necessarily postponed my formal
repiy r,is9 70 W your letter advising me that was
nominated by the Republican State COnven-
ton as the candidate Of the party for Gov
ernor. My hrst duty on my restoration to
health Is TO announce that accept the nomi-
nation with deep sense Of the honor cen
!tssIrea, !s ana Win sincere appreciation Of
should be ratified by the free choice Of the
voters OF Maine. The duties Of the position
are so plainly manifest under our cOnstitu-
ton that | need not dwell upon them at
length. My conduct in the important Offices
with which have already been entrusted by
Ine state Will, hope, give a sufficient guar
antee OF the faithful and conscientious dis
eharge OF all duties that may hereafter be
deyolved upon me.
| agree most cordially with every principle
State convention. - '"0
In our federal system Of government the
questions which are at issue In a national
election so directly affect the interests on
eacn State that 1t is practically impossible 10
mold State election the same year without
having first and special regard to the ques-
uons involved In the choice Of President
and OF representatives In Congress. The
vote OF Maine in September will be her ex-
| preston OF opinion on the weighty questions
which are TO be finally settled In the national
election Of November.
make no apology therefore. for directly
calling the attention Of the voters Of Maine
10 the leading and absorbing issue In which
| so many OF her material interests are direct
| ~ involved. In the changes Of duties en-
bodied In what Is known as the Mills tariff
Dill, recently passed by the Democratic
| House Of Representatives, and now pending
before the Senate, the leading interests Of
Maine are seriously and, 1t would seem,
reeklessly injured. The products of our ex-
tenslve forests, in which so large number
| OF our citizens are directly and indirectly in
telested, viii be subjected to ruinous eOmpe-
ttlon II the Mills bill becomes law. That
bill places all kinds Of timber, all
varieties Oh unmanufactured wood, all
sawed sawed boards. pllanks and deals,
laths and shingles, elapboards Of either pine
or spruce, and all logs on the free list, and
invites the mmbermen Of Canada TO take
possession Of the American market In adj
dltion to this the bill declares that hubs for
wheels, posts, last blocks. wagon blocks, ar
nlocks,i gun blocks, heading blocks and all
Ike blocks or sticks, rough, hewn or sawed,
snail be admitted free Of duty. IL these pro-
/ would prove a serious calamity to the whole
state, but especially TO our frontier couLties,
i In Washington, Aroostook, Penobscot Pis-
cataquis, Somerset, Franklin and Oxford, Ii
| would enormously diminish the value of prop
nected with lumber.
| Nor would the lumbermen Of the State suf-
Ter any more seriously than the farmers. III
this tariff bill be passed and goes into effect
on tle hrst OF October, as proposed by the
Democratic party In Congress, all woods and
| woods on the skin will be admitted duty free
from all parts OF the world. So also with all
roots, and grains and vegetables, and all
| fruits, and all meats and tall0w, and game
| and poultry, and milk and beans, and peas
and Seeds Farmers in every part Of the
| State can see at a glance how seriously and
now inJuriOusly II will affect them to permit
all these products OF Canada to come into our
own markets as freely as their own products
do.
As if especially bent on shifting the indus
trial interests Of Maine, the Democratic
House Of Representatives declares that all
stones, free stone, granite, sand stone and all
Dulidlng OF monumental stone OF which
Maine has such endless variety. shall come
In freely from Canada, and In many cases
by reason Of the nearness to the sea, the
stone Of the Canadian quarries could reach
the markets of the United States more cheap
ly than can the product of our own quarries
and thus continually undersel us in our own
markets. And in addition TO stone the
Mills bill freely admits brick, also extensive
ly manufactured In many parts Of Maine.
All the articles have thus far mentioned
are put upon the free list and are given
equal right In the American market with the
articles produced by our own citizens. Many
other articles while not made entirely free
are to be reduced to so much lower duty that
our manufacturers and our laboring men
will inevitably be sorely injured. The duty
upon all fabrics Of cotton and wool, both so
largely manufactured in Maine that they
have created prosperous cities In our midst,
Is greatly reduced, and the same with slate
roofing, slate mantels and all other manufac-
lures Of slate The duty on potato starch
Is lowered to one cent per pound, which will
prove almost fatal to that industry. already
hard pressed by competition. In fact there
Is scarcely an Interest among all the varied
industries Of Maine which is not involved In
the wide sweep Of destruction which the
Mills tariff bill threatens.
Not satisfied with assaulting the agrieul-
tural, numbering, manufacturing and grazing
Industries OF Maine, the Democratic party In
power has CONTEMPORARY refused to aid
our navigation interests in the slightest de-
gree. III certain products Of iron, angles,
bars. etc, could be added to the articles
made free Of duty to aid ship building, the
Industries Of Bath and other ship building
towns OF Maine would be greatly benefited.
That proposition was made in the present
Congress by our own Representatives and
received the full approval OF the entire pro-
lection vote, but the Democratic majority
opposed ii unless II should be accompanied
by the liberty TO import the entire ship free,
thus declaring that they would legislate In
favor of ship builders on the Mersey and the
Clyde rather than in favor Of those on the
Penobscot and the Kennebec. Gould mad
hostility TO the interests OF Maine go fartherf
The coast towns Of our State will certainly
learn from this act that nothing but un-
terests can be expected from Democratic
Congress, and no recommendation of any
other character from Democratic President.
Nor has Names interest In the fisheries
Jared better at the hands Of the Democratic
administration than her other industries.
The frmness Of a Republican Senate
has presented the rurrender Of
that great interest TO England by treaty but
u ls impossible at this time to foresee what
other form OF injury the President may ulti-
mately infiict on that patriotic body Of men
who are engaged In their hazardous and
meritorious calling. Their reliance for pro-
lection Is solely upon the Republican party.
The most serious feature of the whole as
sault upon our industries is the inevitable
effect that it will have upon the labOrlng
men Of the State. Should the Mills bill be-
come a law, the field for labor In Maine will
be narrowed, and those who should still find
employment would have to submit TO a
ruinous reduction Of wages. The prosperity
OF our State so rapidly developing in late
late years would be arrested, and we should
once more have familiar acquaintance with
hard times" among our people.
But let us be truly thankful that the ballot
Is in the hands of every wOrkingman, that
he can protect the interests OF his own hre-
side and his family by his own vote, AMI that
unlike the Democratic States Of the South,
his vote can be counted, as he may choose to
cast IT, II Is in the power OF the working
men OF Maine TO defeat the assault made up
on their interests by the Mills tariff biil.
posing majority that other States will be in
fluenced by their example and the Democrat
ic conspiracy against the rights Of Labor IN
the Nation will be destroyed.
The laboring men Of Maine, under the in
huence Of the protective tariff, have been
enabled to save millions Of money which
they did not acquire and could not acquire
under the system Of free trade that preceded
the advent Of Republican power In the ma
tion. Another element has greatly added 20
the prosperity Of Maine. The industrious
habits OF the State have kept pace with the
growth Of temperance among the people.
and temperance among the people has been
widely and wisely promoted by the policy of
prohibition which has now been confirmed
by the experience Of an entire generation.
To that policy Maine will tenaciously adhere
and the Republican party win labor with
prohibition from being divided into rival and
possibly hostile parties. | am,
Very respectfully yours,