Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-13

sible fealty 10 our own magn fcei home
market for production aud consumption
alike.
The Collapse Of the Maine Democracy.
portland Press.)
The collapse of the Democratic woe 10
simply astounding. In some towns it has
almost entirely disappeared. Town after
town shows Democratic losses of 80 per
cent. The slump is confined 10 no portion
of the State it prevails everywhere; slow
ing that it is the result of one common
cause, and that undoubtedly disgust and
encouragement at the conduct of the ma
tional administration. There Can no longer
be any doubt as to what the people of
Maine think of the Democratic tariff tin
kering, of Democrat. financial manage
ment and Democratic conduct in general.
No party ever received such treme ndous
rebuke as was given the Democratic party
by the voters of Maine, yesterday.
Regulating the Policy Of Infamy."
Boston Journal
- As Vermont was the first state to pro-
nounce upon the tariff poh'y of the Cleve
land administration, so Maine was the first
State to pass a verdict upon its diploma attic
policy, for it was in Maine that the Presi
dents conrse toward Hawaii and Samoa
was first definitely made an issue of con-
sp;cuous and commanding importance.
As the home, both of the Hon. John L.
Stevens, our former minister to Hawaii,
and of the Hon. Harold M. Sewall, ex-
consul general to Samoa, Maine was bound
in any event in its political campaign to be-
stow especial sttention on the fore ign as
pect of the administration. But with in
credible folly, The Maine Democrats &C.
tually threw their Presidents ignominous
record in the face of the Republicans. One
of the chief planks of the Democratic State
platform read:
His (Mr. Clevelands) course in direct
ing our domestic affairs has been sound and
uncompromising, and his management of
our foreign relations honorable and patri-
otto; and his humane policy toward the
people of the Samoan and Hawaiian islands.
In both he has manfully adhered to the
rule affirmed and approved by Washington
in his farewell address That the maxim is
no less applicable to public than to private
affairs that honesty is always the best
policy"
This was not only direct challenge to
the patriotic public sentiment of Maine, but
a wanton insult to two of the States dis
tinguished citizens. Mr.. Sewall, who had
hitherto been an active and earnest Demo-
crat, promptly withdrew from his party and
relinquished responsibilities with which it
had honored bin. Nor did he rest here, for
he met the challenge most manfully, and
before great Republican mass meeting in
Augusta he delivered tremendous arraign-
ment of the weakness and the imbecility of
the Democratic administration in its deal
ings with the two Pacific archipelagoes.
The "policy of infamy' has nowhere re-
ceived a more just, vivid and effective
exposure than from the vigorous pen and
tongue of the young orator who spoke from
a personal knowledge of its operations. Mr..
Sewalfs charges were not answered, because
they were absolutely unanswerable.
They bro ght out into sharp relief the
shifty. dishonest and disgraceful conduct of
the administration, and made Cleveland
diplomacy only less than Cleveland free
trade a dominating issue of the contest.
The result is the overwhelming vindication
of the personal attitude of Minister Stevens
and Consul General Sewall, as well as of
the general course of President Harrison
and Secretary Blaine. And the verdict is
all the more significant because it is given
by one of the most intelligent and thor
oughly and genuinely American communi-
ties in the United States.
Politically, the act of the Maine Demo
Gratis in making this issue prominent was
an act of downright idiocy, but it has
served a splendid purpose in affording fresh
DrOOf tn the entire countrv and tn tho world
that the pusillanimous diplomacy of the
Cleveland government is Indignantly re-
pudiated by the American people.