The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-09-20

s"0 a'iS iedueFH, ana despite all
the dlsgulses, denisls and deceptions the
people could not be misled. Maine fol-
lows Oregon and Vermont, making a
continuation and crescendo of Repu6li
can enthusiasm and victory. The elec-
tlon Monday resulted in a Republican
victory OF uuexptc'ed and sweeping
completeness.
This victory is the greatest since 1886.
II has been won against formidable
administrative influence of office and
money. The ten thousand dollar check
Of Cleveland established precedent for
bleeding all the federal officers and a
vast sum has been realized and used in
this struggle. 1t was OF vital Import-
ance to break the prestige and mower Of
Blaine and reverse the tide from Oregon
and Vermont. All their resources were
tasked TO the utmost-Cleveland checks.
official assessments, millionaire contri.
buttons, the money of English importers
and the ablest speakers in their service.
Blaine must be beaten, Tom Reed kent
at home and the State carried for Cleye-
land and free trade. Against this tre-
mendous array, the Republicans stood,
without official power or patronage, but
strong in their cause and dauniiess in
resolve and confident of the intelligence
and fidelity of the people. And their
faith is gloriously vindicated by the re-
suits. The Cleveland sham and fraud
has been mercilessly exposed and buried
out of sight and smell. The pines Of
Maine answer and echo the shouts of
victory from Oregon and the Green
Mountains, and foretell the popular cy-
clone that will smite the sham Demo-
cracy in November. 1t is in the air and
in the sky, 1t is on every tongue and in
all hearts, that the people are reused.
They have made the same mistake they
made when they fired upon that flag in
in Charleston harbor, they have reused
the sleeping lion of the North. 1t is too
late for political tricksters TO repair the
blunder. The grapple must come be-
tween the great industrial system of the
North and the revengeful oligarchy Of
Confederate leaders. The Mills bill re-
veals what they intend to do when they
have the power. They have put on the
free list one-sixth of the products now
protected by the tariff, amounting to
$40, ,0OO,O IN value, and have cut the
other industries with fatal reductions.
No denials and lodges on the eve of
election will avail to divert the people.
The lines are drawn, the battlefield is
fixed, the trumpet sounds the call to the
battle OF the ballots. The northern
states are resolved that their great bust
ness interests shall not be sacrificed bya
minority of southern planters and re-
bellion leaders.
STALwART VERMONT.
Vermont is as firm as her everlasting
hills. Her people have the proverbiai
courage, intelligence and fidelity OF the
mountaineers. In all climes, the men
who live on the hills scorn tyrants,
tricksters and toadies. Vermont has
always been republican, but last week
her people spoke with louder tones than
ever before. In the presence of free
trade conspiracy against northern bust
ness and prosperity the republicans cast
the largest majority of her history.
This is the largest ma.
jority ever given for republican can
didate. This is the answer of Vermont
to Cleveland, the sham reformer, Cleve-
land, the tool of confederate free trad
ers, Cleveland, the advocate of the Mills
bill. The result shows unmistakably
the set Of the political current and the
strength OF the popular indignation
against the principles and purposes of
the democratic party. 1t shows the
union of the farmers and the working
men in defense of the farms and the
wages OF labor. 1t repeats the verdict
of Oregon and reveals the prevailing
sentiment Of the people in all the north
ern states. The tide is rising and SWELL
ing in every state. AS the discussion
exposes the Mills bill the more danger
GUS and hateful it appears. The longer
the people study it, the clearer becomes
its purpose to guard and protect south
ern industries while it sacrifices the in
dustries of the North. The longer the
advocates explain and defend the bill,
the more the people comprehend it's
shameful injustice and sectional greed.
The sophistries, the tricks, the decep-
tions and falsehoods employed in this
free trade crusade have worked their
own cure and produced disgust and in.
dignatIon. The demagogues who told
the farmers that free wool would bring
a higher price, and then told the manu-
facturers that free wool would give
them cheaper raw materials, thought
they were very sharp, but they were
only stupid liars, and were despised by
both farmers and manufacturers. The
free traders who denied that the Mills
bill meant free trade when every free
trader in America and England was en-
Enthusiastically supporting it, and when
the bills put on the free list seventy mill
lion dollars worth of American pro-
ducts, made the same exposure Of them
selves as the demagogues who lied to
the farmers and manufacturers. The
advocates Of the Mills bill have COM
mitt6d similar contradictions and incon-
sistencies from the start. 1t has been
continuous stream of paltry and palpa
ble sophistries, evasions and solid false
hoods. In congress- on the stump, in
the press, wherever the Mills bill has
been defended, its ADVOCATES have dis
claimed free trade purpose, and in the
next breath have denounced protection
in principle and as policy, as robbery,
extOrtion, unjust taxation and mo-
nopoly. They are not for free trade, but
they oppose protection as an abomina-
tion. And so this democratic and mug
wump deception and fraud has been
conducted from the beginnIng-under
false colors, with inconsistent argu-
ments, cowardly evasions and unmanly
tricks. The intelligent farmers and
workingmen have not been deceived,
they have seen through all the dishon-
est tactics and pretenses Of the Cleve-
land leaders, as their ballots show in
Oregon and Vermont. The Cleveland
leaders are frightened and dare not
stand up for their bill and defend its
purpose and principles. They see that
the people are immovably opposed to it.
They see that every northern state is
sure for Harrison on that issue. This
explains the democratic denisls that the
Mills bill threatens protection, this ex-
plains the Cleveland flop and change Of
front on the fisheries treaty. They arc
afraid that New York, Indiana New
Jersey and Connecticut will desert
them. They are desperate. But it is
too late. The handwriting is on the
wall.
During the past year it has beel noted