The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-07
REPUBLICANS ATTENTION.
The National Committee Speaks Of
the Situation.
THE POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES
CONVINCINGLY C0NTRAsTED.

Record Which Speaks Volumes in Favor
of Republican victory-The Party's
Honest and Consistent Record Com
pared With the Double Dealing, Dam
gerous Policy and Evidences of Fraud
of Its Opponents Republican Success
Means rosperity-Democratic Victory
Would Foreshadow the Reverse.
New YORK, November 6.-The Repub
lican National Committee will tomorrow
issue the following address:
To the Electors of the Country:
The day of election is at hand. To
morrow you will be called upon to de
termine by your votes the most inn
portant questions fairly and squarely pre-
sented to the country since 1861. You
are to decide between a policy of pro-
gress and a policy of reaction in this
country. You are to say whether the
tariff schedules are to be adjusted as
furnish protection to the labor and pro-
ductions of the country while raising the
revenue to sustain the government, or
whether such adjustment is inadmissible
because unconstitutional. You are to
decide between policy Of protection
and free trade.
The party platforms leave no doubt as
to the position of the respective parties
on the tariff question. The Republican
platform favors protection to American
labor and American products. The
Democratic platform declares such a
policy unconstitutional and therefore
commits the Democracy of the nation to
the British policy of free trade. You are
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and stable financial structure built by
the fathers and founders of the Republi-
can party. You are to say whether
this sound policy shall be continued or
abandoned in favor of a Democratic
scheme for
The Resurrection of State Banks
and will cat currency. By your votes
you must say you do or do not desire to
disturb the present prosperity of the
country by involving our commerce,
manufacturing, agriculture and mining,
and finances, in doubt and uncertainty
for an indefinite period of time.
The reelection of President Harrison
will insure continuance of the splendid
policy under which the nation has pros
pered in every branch of industrial life.
His reelection will insure continuance
of confidence in the policy of the govern
ment and will eliminate all questions of
doubt as to the course to be pursued in
reference to important government oper-
at ons in the future. The election of Mr..
Cleveland would on the contrary, bring
business to standstill, involve every
operation in doubt and raise questions as
to the effect unknown legislation might
have on the economic and financial poll
cy of the government We confidently
submit to the country that no cause ex-
lists for the change, while abundant rea-
sons will occur to the mind of every 10y
al citizen in favor of the continuance of
the Republican policy and Republican
administration.
This committee has conducted the
campaign on the issues presented by the
respective parties Our opponents are
driven to the necessity of saying that
their candidate is better than their plat
form, and should be trusted not to exc
cute its declarations. r1lThey would have
the country believe that, through their
candidate, they can procure tariff re-
form, while the party, in convention as
sembled, declared itself absolutely in fa-
vor of free trade. The Democratic man
ayers would have the country believe
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to violate the pledges of the party in IA
vor of the resurrection of state banks.
In short, the Democracy of the country
has
Abdicated in Favor of Its Candidate,
and the management hopes to win in
this election by insisting that the party
does not support its platform, but relies
upon its candidate to violate the plat
form, thus hanging the prosperity of the
country on the slender thread of a single
human life Our candidate and the party
he represents are each in complete har-
mony with the other and both candidate
and party stand in the harmony with the
best interests of the Republic. We
dodge no issue and do not ask our candi-
date to aid us in catching votes by prom.
Using to violate or refuse to execute any
principle of the party as announced in
the national platform. The party nomi-
mated a candidate worthy of the conf
dence and respect of every citizen,
whether he be judged by his acts on the
field of battle while defending the ma
tion's flag, as q Senator in Congress or
as chief magistrate of the nation.
1t is gratifying to announce that the
patriotic press of the country has, to an
unprecedented extent, supported our
candidate and platform during this
campaign. Neither our campaign nor
our cause has proven popular in England
OF Continental Europe. The Democratic
nominee and platform have met with
universal applause in every country
seeking to rival us in the commercial
world. Not a single newspaper in.Eng-
land or on the Continent OF Europe, has
spoken kindly word for Gen. Harrison
OF the Republican party in this cam
paign. Our policy does not justify sup
port from abroad. Nor have we courted
favor
From the Champions of Alien Interests.
This cannot be truthfully said of our
political opponents. We relied for aid
and support on the friends of American
interests, and not the representatives of
foreign interests.
While pleading poverty the Democrat
in National Committee has been amply
supplied with funds intended to lnfiu-
ence American citizens to vote against
their own interests. We are advised
that these funds have been chiefly con-
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