Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-28

Maine Democracy met in State convention,
first to settle old scores and retaliate fol
past wrongs received in the ranks; second,
because convening annually has become Z
habit, and our Democratic brethren are BY
nature social and do delight to get together
and rub against each other, event il it be the
wrong way of the fur.
There isn't in any act or utterance Of that
sssemblsge, however, the least hint that
with their party in national control they ex-
pect to poll their old time vote in Maine
next September. Platform and address ig-
more the glaring blunders, the desertion Of
principle, the trucking to trusts and utter
inconpetency of the Democratic admins
tration and perfunctorily and parrot like
reiterate charges and rebuild forsaken plat
forms. There was never in all the history
OF the Democratic party in Maine
a greater farce enacted than at
Lewiston on Tuesday. With the words
of the leading Democrat of this country
Senator Hill ringing in their ears where
in he exposed the base surrender Of every
principle which the Democratic party could
call its own, these veteran war horses
plsgarize the worn out charges, give utter
ance to the same exploded doctrines which
deceived the voters two years ago but never
will again, land tackled up the same old plank,
tariff for revenue only" which doesn't
bear the imprint of a single Demo-
cratic footstep. That Chicago platform
repudiated by President and party, and
which the senatorial scandal committee was
unable to find trace of nor Senator Hill to
resurrect is once more dragged to light in a
Maine Democratic convention. If defeat
were not doubly assured would they dare
to thus expose it? 1t is indeed difficult to
tell what party with nothing 70 lose and
nothing to gain will do on occasion. 1t
denounces Republicans as responsible for
trusts at time when q Democratic Senate
is believed of all men to be controlled by
trusts. 1t declares that the Republican
party is responsible for millionaires and
tramps when every intelligent observer
knows that the Democratic administration
has ground out from the millstones
about its neck, incompetency and hostility
to American industry, greater grist of
tramps than were begotten during thirty
years of Republican administration. This
too, when Millionaires German and Brice
are debating the terms of sugar trust
which shall fatten on millions of tribute
exacted from every dinner table in the land
and shall fall heaviest on that of the poor
man; debating tariff bill for favoritism
and relying on northern incomes "for
revenue only"
It's so-called platform denounces Prohibi-
ton in view of substituting license in its
stead. This is to be expected. Not one
word has a Democratic convention ever
said Of the good Prohibition has done, and
always has there been glee in the Demo-
cratic camp when by any possibility there
has been opportunity for truthful criticism;
when not, contentment has been found in
denouncing it. 1t calls for "honest" pen
sions ignoring the cutting off of the many
honest pensioners without a hearing,
assuming they were guilty and giving
them no chance to prove themselves inno-
cent. And at last as if to close in a laugh
at its own expense. it perpetrates thht
mouldy old joke about extravaganza admin
istration of State affairs.
The agglomerated production of the
Maine Democratic State convention is a
tissue of recklessness, rubbish and rot cal
culsted to amuse even the stoics.