Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-28
WITH A BOOM
Gov. CIeaves Opens RepubIi-
can Campaign in Somerset.
An Enthusiastic Rally, Monday Even
ing, at North Arson.
Splendid Gathering Addressed by Gov cIeayss
and Hon. E. N. Merrill Of Skowheoan.


publican campaign in Somerset ccun-
ty was opened here, tonight, by Cover
nor Cleaves, who, with Hon. f. n. Merrill
OF Skowhegan, addressed large and en-
thusiastic audience. The Governor, in COM
mencing his address, spoke of the loyalty
of the Republicans of Somerset to their
party and of her people to the State. He
said the questions at issue in this campaign
affected the welfare of every horne. of
every industry and of every citizen through
out the entire borders of the State of
Maine.
We live in manu- featuring, an agri
cultural and commercial State. You ca
not pursue policy of legislation that will
iniure one industry without causing an IN
furious effect upon the others. These
great industries combine to build up our
towns and cities, they furnish employ
ment TO labor, they induce enterprise end
give prosperity at home. Our present ad
gantages as State are equal to almost any
tate in the American union. With wise
protective legislation guarding our indus
tries, our future growth is assured.
While you ate combining your energies
and using your efforts to encourage indus
rial growth and to build up and advance
great American interests that give employ
nent to labor, the gentlemen who row
nave the distinction of controlling the Dem
Jcratlc party III Congress, are bringing de-
preston upon the great business interests
of the country, and depriYing labor of en-
ployment in their attempt to undermine the
q ,,,t
the prosperity of our people has rested for
80 years, Their attempt to carry out the
policy they have inaugurated has had its
disastrous and baneful effects; and they
have already Impoverished many of the
great industries of the country.
In their last campaign they expressed
great s. ympathy for the farming interests of
the country, but q Democratic Congress has
taken almost every article the farmers of
Maine produce, and either taken the duty
entirely off or so greatly reduced ii, that his
products must hereafter be put into compe-
tition with the products of foreign countries.
And when you strike down the great barrier
of protection that now surrounds the pro-
ducts of the great agricultural interests of
The State of Maine, its disastrous effects
will be felt throughout the entire State.
Even their present tariff act, with its 600
Senate amendments, amounts to practical
surrender of the American market TO the
products of foreign labor, to the prejudice
# our own people. The farming and agri-
cultural interests Of Maine must be sacri-
feed in order that they may grant special
privileges to the great sugar trust, the lead
trust and the coal and iron trusts. Their
oolcy of legislation has brought upon the
people financial distress and disaster; it has
losed many of the mills: it has checked
public improvements it has depre ssed the
agricultural interests; and today the high
says of trade are strewn with wrecks of
business enterprises and labor throughout
the country is out of employment.
The principles of free trade as taught by
Calhoun and Davis still prevail in the
South; and the South is in control of the
Democratic party, aud the Democratic
party is in control of the Congress of the
United States, and they are seeking to fss-
Ten this blighting policy upon the industrial
progress of New England and of the North.
The Governor continued in the discus
ion of the present policy of the Democrat
c party and the effect of its legislation
npon the industries of the country. He
-heorv of free trade, for more than quar-
Ter of a century, and just so long as our
oarty exists it will never consent to put the
producing and laboring people of America
INTO immediate competition with the poorly
paid labor of other countries. The Demo
cratic policy of tariff reform permits this;
The Republican policy of protection will
prevent it.
The Governor then alluded to the excel
lent financial condition of the State OF
Maine. While a Democratic national adj
ministration had increased the pub ic debt
of the government in single year more
than $50, 900 600, while they had reduced
the gold reserve in the treasury 70 the low
est amount ever known since its establish
ment. while they had run the government
in debt more than $50 900, 900 by the issue
of five per cent bonds, the State of Maine
il meeting all of its liabilities from its or
dinary receipts, and paying its outstanding
debts
The Democratic party in Maine has no
words of condemnation for the extravagant
course of a Democratic Congress, but thsy
are family making their biennial charges
az TO the States expenditures and finsnces.
[ invite them TO examine the financial con-
di,ion of the State of Maine. The tax
psyers of our State are interested in the
question of taxation; snd with their CO.
operation we shall steadily continue to re-
luce the State tax The people of Maine
believe that sound business principles re-
quire that our State expenditures shall not
exceed our income. And our Democratic
friends will observe that we are following
this wise policy. and at the same time psy-
ing our debts. They will observe that since
the first day of January, 1898, in addition
TO meeting all liabiliies,we have paid S22o,-
600 on the temporary loan of the State; we
have paid $50, 900 on the bonded indebted
ness: and there is only balance of Sa5,-
600 due on the temporary loan,
which will be paid from the ordinary re-
oa;nts of the State in October next, retiring
wholly and permanently the entire floating
indebtedness of the State. We shall, the
present year, pay the further sum of s5o'-
600 on our bonded Indebtedness, making a
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