Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-06
The Maine Republican Platform.

The Republican party of Maine invite all the
people of the State who are in accord with the
principles of the following platform to unite in
a common course of action = III.
financial policy not in favor of monometal-
ism, either of gold or silver. as the basis of a
financial system, but international bimetallism to
be secured by strenuous efforts of the national
power. Now, and in the future all dollars should
be of equal value to the end that a suitable cur
rency, abundant for all wants shall secure to all
the people the full results Of their labor
The enactment and enforcement of all laws re-
quired for the proper recognition and protection
of labor.
The American Union, Its citizens and their great
privileges can be protected in no surer way than
paupers, criminals, and diseased of Europe. The
party, therefore, favors the passage of such re-
strictiye legislation as will admit to our shores
only those Immigrants who have the capacity and
desire to become good American citizens.
A firm and unbending foreign policy, which will
prevent the interference of European powers in
the domestic government OF American states and
countries. The party sustains the course of
President Harrison and eXMinister John L..
Stevens toward the people of the Hawaii islands,
and wholly disapprOves the un-American policy
of the Cleveland administration in relation there
Legislation for the benefit of the Union soldiers
of the war of the rebellion, their widows and
children and disapproval of the present policy of
the Pension Bureau in making such laws, to de
gree, q nullity.s
Full recognition of the benefits to all the people
of the State which have come from temperance
and prohibition and we pledge our continued and
hearty support of the enforcement of the prohibit
tory laws.
tariff for the protection of American labor
against the underpaid and pauper labor of foreign
countries.
The Republican party calls upon all the voters
of the State to express at the polls their disap
prevail of the Wilson tariff bill, the main vicious
features of which are maintained and added to in
the bill now before the Senate, which surrenders
the interests of Northern labor. while it protects
those of the South and delivers nearly every in
dustry Of Maine into the hands of our nearest and
most hostile rival, the Dominion of Canada.
The Blaine system of reciprocity and opposition
to the Democratic policy which attempts its aban-
dOnment and repeal.
Cordial approval of the course of the Maine del
egaton, in the Senate and in the House of Repre-
sentatives, in fighting the Democratic tariff bill at
every stage, and continued support in every fur
Their effort to obstruct and defeat the bill.
A full endorsement of the conduct of the affairs
of the State by the executive and legislative
ernOr Henry b. Cleaves for reelection to the high
office which he has so admirably filled.
The Democratic Graveyard.
The year 1894 is the graveyard of Demo
cratic politicians. Chairman Wilson's voice
from the tombs follows that Of President
Cleveland and while both say much of
great battles yet to be fought, they both
suit thus far is not a glorious victory.
They do not seem to know, it is fair to say,
how completely they have been beaten and
Inundated, nor do they yet comprehend
the tremendous power of the American
economic system against which they
have rashly battered their heads. 1t
seems advisable to Mr.. Wilson, as it
seemed to Mr.. Cleveland, to pretend that
the corrupt and corrupting trusts stood in
the way, but they fail to say that the Dem
ocratic assault was really broken and
hurled back, not by the power of the
trusts, bu. by the votes and the interests
of millions of American workingmen,
whose industries the Democratic party
had assaulted, and whose power over the
| political lives of senators and representa-
tivcs the various combinations were able
to use. The Sugar and Whisky trusts
could not have dictated any BILL if besides
the senators from Louisiana there had not
been senators from manufacturing and
mining states to whom it was political
necessity to defeat or change the bill
1t is singular fact that Mr.. Wilson,
like Mr., Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle, be-
| came committed too early to the very trust
which aftcrward dictated their humilia-
ton and defeat. Our Washington dis
patches have brought out the pregnant
fact that Chairman Wilson in the bill
matured by him and the treasury de
| partmcnt, proposed a protective duty of
a quarter of n cent on refined sugar, with
raw sugar free, but had demanded in
| the committee of ways and means pro-
tectivo duty of three cghths of cent,
which, with the duty of 10 cents per 100
pounds to meet bounty paid sugar, would
have amounted to Az cents per 100
pounds-about the protection finally Sc
cured by the trust. He was voted down in
committee, but the fact stands that, if his
efforts had been successful, the most
odious of all the monopolies, the one which
he says has the country by the throat,
would have gained on his motion pre-
precisely the advantage for which it
finally had to bargain and traffic in the
| senate. ..
1t is in order for Mr.. Wilson to explain