Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-06-26
Maine DEMOCRATS.
Probable Candidate For
Governor is Johnson.
VERY LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The Party's Vows on the Present
Political Situation Outlined.

Der of delegates are In attendance at the
Democratic state convention which con-
vened here this forenoon. It is big
convention aud an enthusiastic one
The delegates all wish Hon. Charles II.
Johnson, who was the candidate two
years ago 10 aooept q denomination. but
for business reasons he does not want to
accept. IL IL thought, however, that he will
be given a unanimous nomination, and
will not decline. Other names men
toned are Hon. Galen G. Moses Of Bath,
Hon. John w. Deerin9, Portland; Hon.
NJ. p. Frank, Portland; Hon. K X
O'Brien, Thomaston.
Hon. Joseph e Moore Of Thomaston
presided.
The resolutions favor resubmission
OF the prohibitory amendment to the peo-
pie and favor q Shour Law, support
President Cleveland's administration and
tariff reform.
Chairman Moore outlined his party's
views as follows
Gentlemen of the Convention, We
meet today, when the business depression
gives the maligner and croaker pretext
for upbrsiding the Democratic party, and
an opportunity. by Misrepresentation and
falsehood, to make the unthinking and
illogical believe that party respo nsible for
II. The Democratic party Is not in the
slightest degree responsible for its origin
or continuance. The cause lies at the
door of the Republican party entirely
and completely. from whom we received
IL as an unwelcome legacy.
Money and Misrepresentation they be-
lieye the IN at potent instruments to as
sure success and continuance In pow er;
and they have used both wibhout stint
A Thrust st TrustA
In government policy, In politics, In
any great moral and religious reforma-
tion, IL is not possible to specially arouse
the friends of q cause to activity without
also arousing its enemies, and 30 In the
radical move of the Democratic party for
tariff reform, every trust, every special
industry. singly and In com binstion. that
were fattening at the expense OF the
masses, came to the aid OF the Republi-
can party; their natural allies poured
money into its treasury. threatened and
frightened their employees, and the cleo
ton of 1888 seemed temporarily adverse
to the reform.
New political organisations are formed
to wage war against class legislation; but
II rightly viewed, they are unnecessary.
The true remedy is to join with the Demo-
cratic party In Its war against granting
special privileges, do away with paternal-
ism In the government, and give the
largest individual liberty consistent with
order and o proper maintenance OF gov
ernment, and II all the Ills they suffer are
not thus cured, they will be reduced to q
minimum.
Protection Is egoism; free trade is
Il. ha Ia aalHah fha nthar
selfish. Protection seeks the aid Of the
government for personal aims and gains.
The thorough going protertionist Is most
likely to be- man who has something Of
his own he wants inflated. He usually
wants protection on what he manufac-
lures, and free trade in what enters into
the mposition OF the article.
Industrial Armies Encouraged
Com binations are formed to this COM
mon end, and the Republican party is the
medium. They influence legislation, or
try TO, by shutting down manufactures
on the pretext that proposed tariff legis-
tion will ruin them, and so compel their
help to sign protests. They produce suf-
ferlng that they may make greater
gains For political effect these Repub-
licsn proteotionists encourage, II they do
not organize, what they term industrial
armies, and then point to them as the
product of Industrial depression, from
threatened tariff reduction, knowing It's
f7lsity, and that such armies are made
up. not OF honest laborers seeking en-
ployment, but mainly OF men who "toil
nor. neither do they spin"
Now there are different views as to an
income tax. aud much has been said for
and against It. Like other forms of taxes,
those who have to pay IL object most. 1t
Is the easiest tax paid, for IL Is on per
sons known ability. Give me the income
and I'll not quarrel about the tax.
BE not impatient at the delay Of con-
gress An important q uestion is involved
IN the Wilson bill, and be who thinks It
can be passed In haste by Democratic will
has not duly considered its magnitude Of
detail, nor the obstacles that hostile
minority can place In the way. and have,
to their disgrace and the country's in
Jury. Republicans are only filibusters.
and the Republicans Of Maine endorsed
that.
The governor and lesser lights an
athematize the Democratic and applaud
the Republ party for treatment of the
soldier. They expect soldiers to forget
that Repu blioan bosses In Maine sus-
tanned them In the Geld with paper credits
when lives were at stake. that they might
put money in their purses How many
soldiers have been In the United States
senate or national house from Mainei
Hawaiian Question Brought Up.
Non-intervention in the affairs OF
foreign countries is Democratic doc
tEsSe, and has been observed. We have
been saved the disgrace that would have
attached TO us by the abduction Of Ha-
wall. under Hsrrison's so o-called treaty Of
annexation. made with a revolutionary
government first established and then
recognized by that administration for
that purpose. Its wrong was confessed
by Offering To pay the deposed queen.
Ex. Minister Stevens had the ill-breed-
ing to charge, In an open letter, the
sovereign with whom he had had diplo-
m attic relations with licentious conduct.
How did he knowi II by virtue Of his
official position, he was base 10 state IL,
and II from rumor, baser still His let.
ters, read impartially, condemn him.