Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-24
Democratic Outrage.


predominating force of the Democratic
party In Washington, is being exerted to
keep the great and rapidly growing State
Of Dakota out of the Union until after the
Of the six hundred and fifty thousand
people Of Dakota are Republicans. be-
lievers in Protection, friends of Home
Industry and Home Markets, they must
not be allowed to cast their ballots for a
Republican Presidential candidate. nor
have an influence in defeating the Free
Trade programme of Cleveland and of the
majority of Carlisle's Committee of Ways
and Means. The Democratic leaders do
not pretend to deny the right of the young
giant State to enter the Inion, for its
wealth, numbers, schools. railroads, and
general development conclusiyely prove
its qualifications and it, right to admission.
The opposition of the Democrats has
become fact simply because they think
they have the power to keep her out.
But in order to conceal their design, they
favor of Jumping together New Mexico,
Montana. Washington and Dakota.
and then raising the cry, that
II one il defeated, all must
share the same fate. 1t may not be wise
to admit now New Mexico and Montana.
for they hay. no such claims for statehood
~ Dakota. II Is neither wise, just, nor
patriotic to resort to the omnibus plan of
uniting measures of certain and greater
importance with those of uncertain and de
batable value. Log rolling to force the
admission of States. or to keep them out
when they have all the required conditions,
L. neither honest nor -tatcsmanlikr. II is
not enough for the Cleveland democracy
TO rob Il half million of Republicans of
their votes in the South; they mean if
possible to deprive "A hundred thousand
their ballots in the approaching national
political contest. Yet the hypocrtical
Mugwuinp newspapers make no protest
against this wicked programme so palpa-
of the Constitution of the United States
aud so emphatically in opposition to fair
play and common honesty.
The war on Randall continues, aud there
are no signs of it, abatement. The un-
yielding opposition of the sturdy Penn
sylvanian representative To the Cleveland
tariff programme increases the determina-
ton of a majority of the Democratic
leaders to crush him at whatever cost.
The oiiicr-holdcrs of his own State have
been forced by Washington instructions
to aid in his overthrow, aud the Free
Trade newspapers throughout the coun-
try are stimulating the crusade against
him. The Boston Herald, than which there
Is no more INSCRIPTIONS partisan organ in
the land, has the following in an editorial
under the heading:
Nix. RANDALL MuSr Go.
Now that the President has placed the
Democratic party solidly and Enthusiastically
upon the tariff reform side Mr. Randalis
political affiliations place him, so to speak
next national campaign is to be fought on the
tariff issue. the Democrats taking the side
that the tariff needs radical rcyision the
Republicans taking the ground that no special
revision is necessary and that tax reduction
should come from internal revenue abate-
ments. If Mr. Randall sided with his party
An improbable suppositon-iu favor of
honest tariff reform. he would lose his seat
in Congress, for he has been the representa-
tive of a district in which politics is counted
as nothing when compared with protection.
If. on the other hand, he cones out in oppo-
sition to what will be the Democratic theory
of tariff reform, he cannot hope to be any
longer tolerated as member of the Demo-
cratic party. He has for five or six years
past been species of political traitor selling
out his influence to the enemies of the party
to which he has professed to belong. But au
open avowal that he cannot support the party
will give its members an excuse. which they
should not have waited for. to exclude him
from their organization.