The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-06

| L OH are nOG cfed1iHS IN excess OF your
| income, but are paying promptly all
legal demands upon the receipts of the
| treasury. And in addition to paying the
| current liabilities during the past wear,
| you have paid on the outstanding tenn
porary loan of the State the sum of $780,
600 and an additional sum of $4,000 has
| been paid on your bonded indebtedness,
| reducing the State debt during the year
| $3.50, 600
| This year the State FAX assessed on the
cities and towns has been reduced $751;
| 555. 81. And even with this large reduc-
ton, you will still be able to paw. from
the receipts of the treasury, the present
year the entire balance of $1,000 due
on your temporary loan, and the further
sum of $50, 600 required by law on your
| bonded Indebtedness; making a total
reduction of your outstanding State debt
during the years 1888 and 1894, of $780,
| 600.
| And at the close of the present year,
| with your temporary loan entirely paid,
| the financial condition of the treasury
will be such that you can in the future
| be necessary to promote the interests of
the State, or her people and her benefi-
cent institutions without any embarrass-
| ment to the treasury; and you will still
| be enabled to continue thepolicy of grad
ually reducing the annual State tax levy
upon the cities and towns of the State.
| And should our opponents desire to con-
| duct their campaign on State issues, as
well as national, we welcome the freest
discussion,
And in conclusion, my friends, look
ing back over the past record of the
great party that was brought into being
| to resist the encroachments of slavery
upon the free territory of the nation, you
can find the grand and progressive work
recorded in the legislation of your coun-
try. In it's early history 100000 slaves
were made into American citizens The
shackles were struck from their limbs;
and it is part of the grand work of the
Republican party in the future, to break
and destroy the fetters and chains that
are now, under the guise of tariff reform,
being forged for the enslavement of
American labor and American indus
tries Then prosperity will again come
and abide with the American people.
Let US, as mem bers of the party of pro
gress, as citizens OF grand State, and
as American freemen, address ourselves
to the work that is before us.
The Resolutions and the Platform.
The Republican party of Maine invite
all the people of the state VINO are in ac-
cord with the principles of the following
platform to unite in common course of
action.
A financial policy not in favor of mon
ometallsm, either of gold or silver, as
the basis Of financial system, but In
ternational bi-metalism 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
suitable currency, abundant for all
wants, shall secure to all the people the
full results of their labor.
The enactment and enforcement of all
laws required for the proper recognition
of and protection of labor.
The American Union, it's citizens and
their great privileges can be protected in
no surer way than by absolute exclus-
ion from our country of the paupers
criminals and diseased of Europe. The
party, therefore favors the passage of
such restrictive legislation as will admit
to our shores only those immigrants who
have the capacity and the desire to be-
come good american citizens.
A firm and unbending foreign policy,
which will prevent the interference of
European powers IN the domestic govern
ment of American states and countries.
The party sustains the course of Presi-
dent Harrison and ex-Minister John L.
Stevens towards the people of the
Hawalin Islands. and wholly disapproves
the un American policy of the Cleveland
administration in relation thereto.
Legislation for the benefit of the I'm
Ion SOid1erS OF the war OF the Rebellion.
their widows and children, and disap-
proval of the present policy of the pen
sion bureau In making such laws, to a
degree, nullity.
Full recognition of the benefits to all
the people OF the state which have come
from temperance and prohibition.
A 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 disapproval of Notwithstanding
.bill, the main vicious features of which
are maintained and added to in the bill
nowsbefore the Senate. which surrenders
the interests of Northern labor while it
protects those of the South, and delivers
nearly every industry 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 it's abandonment and
repeal.
Cordial approval of the course of the
Maine delegation in the Senate and in
the House of Representatives, in fighting
the Democratic tariff bill at every stage
and continued support in every further
effort to obstruct and defeat the bill.
A full endorsement of the conduct
of the affairs of the state by the execu
tive and legislative branches. and
cordial Recommendation of Governor
Henry B. Cleaves for reelection to the
high office which he has so admirably
filed