The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-07-14
Republican Convention
Maine.

| 49, FAH@ ~ Pes% - HNAA ~ SRAt
vention a few days since in the Pine
Tree State, and renominated Henry
b. Cleaves for Governor by acclama-
ton. Congressman Boutelle presided,
and on taking the chair made char
acteristic speech. No man in Con-
gress can outrank Boutelle in reckless
ness of statement or partisan mean
ness. On this occasion he compared
the condition of the country as it was
when it was handed over to the De
mocracy by Republican President,
and its condition to-day after only a
few months Of Democratic control
'"There never was time when the
country was SO Frustrated by Demo-
cratic blight"
The Governor followed in the same
strain and betrayed the same reckless
ness of statement and disregard of
the truth which characterize all the
speeches OF Boutelle in or out of Con-
gress. Both Of these men declared
that the hard times the country was
now suffering were justly attributable
to the Democratic party. They as
sumo that the voters of Maine are ig-
norant and credulous. There is not a
voter in Maine with sense enough to
vote intelligently who does not know
| that these representative men deliber-
ately and maliciously lied when they
attributed the hard times to the De
mocracy. They were precipitated up
on the country before the Democracy
came into power: before they had an
opportunity to do anything good or
bad. The hard times were an inheri-
lance: the legitimate fruits of the
mal-administration of the party of
Boutelle. To the full extent of his
ability, he aided in bankrupting the
Treasury by prodigal and reckless APP
preparations. The district he repre-
sents is very sparsely settled. Aroos-
took, one of the counties in his dis
trict, is larger in area than the whole
State of Massachusetts, and extends
north beyond Quebec. That part of
his district is occupied chiefly by the
Canadian French, who know very lit
tie of our institutions, and blindly
vote to keep Boutelle in Congress.
With the possible exception of his
district, there is scarcely man in
Maine who does not know:
/. That President Cleveland dur
ing his first term was confronted with
an overlooking Treasury and that he
urged upon Congress the reduction of
taxation, insisting that unnecessary
taxation was unjust and that all
money not needed for an economical
administration of the Government
should be left in the pockets of the
people, and in the channels OF bust
ness and trade.
2. He knows that when Harrison
became President, by reckless and ex-
trayagant appropriations, the Treasu-
ry was emptied. "To h-ll, with the
surplus" was the watchword of Bou-
telle and his party.
3. He knows that the leaders of
the Republican party insisted that
heavy taxation brought prosperity.
4. He knows that when the Re
publican party, under the leadership
of Harrison, was restored to power
the large manufacturers the corpora
| tions and trusts, the beneficiaries of a
high tariff, were invited to construct
the tariff schedule in their interests
and for their profit that Boutelle aid
ed in putting the Mckinley bill upon
the statute book.
5. He knows that the outrage up
on the rights of the people was per-
petrated under the false pretense of
protecting American labor and of Civ
ing better wages to the producing
classes.
6. He knows that the wages of la
Dor were reduced in every protected
industry, and that strikes and lock-
outs have been the order of the day
ever since, and that to-day millions of
men are unable to obtain remunera-
tive employment, and that the ar
mics of the unemployed are crowding
every highway, threatening the pub
lie peace and the safety of life and
property.
I. He knows that the Democratic
party was in no way responsible for
the calamities which befell the coun-
try, and that it was so understood by
the immense majority which voted
Harrison and his party out of power
He knows that the Democracy has
been delayed in correcting the abuses
which have brought us to the verge
of universal bankruptcy by the parlia-
mentary tactics of the old, foxy poll
ticians, who are in the service of the
trusts created by them.
| Knowing all these facts, it does not
seem possible that any man can read
the lying allegations of such dema-
gogues with any feelings but those of
loathing and disgust. We would not
be understood as acquitting the De
mocracy of blame. They have been
criminally negligent in not promptly
counteracting the effects of vicious
legislation and in not restoring the
country to its normal prosperity. This
Congress had its instructions from
their constituents and unless they
proceed without delay to obey those
instructions, they will be driven from
power by an indignant people.
s. They will deserve Punishment
If they continue their trifling. This
great and confiding people have stood
all the nonsense and false promises
of demagogues of both parties until
forbearance will soon cease to be a
virtue. -Enqutrer.
On Saturday last John E. Kenna's