Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-03
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
For, Electors at Large:
JOHN F. HILL of Augusta
TO the PEOPLE OF the UNITED STATES.
Republican National Committee,
Chicago Headquarters,
Chicago ILL Oct 81 1Sa6

Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 81, 1896
The earnest support which the loyal
citizens of the United States. irrespective
of former political affiliations. have rem
dered the Republican party and the cause
of sound money in the campaign about to
end justifies an expression from those
who have been called upon to conduct it,
No campaign since the war of the Re-
bellion has presented such great RESPONSE
bilities to those entitled to the elective
franchise. The dangerous principles
enunciated by the Chicago platform,
which proposes not only debasement of
the currency but the destruction of the
highest judicial authority of the land.
have justified good citizens. Irrespective
of past party preferences. in uniting to
rebuke those who would thus endanger
the very foundation of our national Or
ganization. [eef -,s4
Abandoning their time honored princi-
pies of a strict construction of the con-
stitution, the supporters of that platform
propose a system which endangers the
very life of the constitution and of the
nation itself. The proper enforcement of
law. recognition of the shighest tribunal
of the land, the maintenance of a high
and unvarying standard of our medium of
exchange, the payment of obligations.
public and private. in a currency equal
to that contemplated when they We're
made. are all repudiated and denounced.
both by that platform and the candidate
placed upon it. Their appeals to preju-
dice. to sefishness and to passion the
efforts to array the employee against his
employer and the laborer against that
which furnishes him the desired labor,
have led good citizens. without respect to
party lines, and thoughtful workingmen
irrespective of the class of their employ
ment. to array themselves against the
methods which would endanger govern
ment and property rights, and the en-
ployment which they guarantee.
1t is gratifying to know that the two
classes of citizens to whom these appeals
have been most strongly directed, the
farmers, and the workingmen of the cities
and towns have resented the imputations
which have been placed upon them by the
assumption that they desire to deal false
ly with those with whom they have bust
ness relations or with the people of the
nation. The proposition that the farmer
may repudiate a portion of his obliga-
tons by the coinage of dollar worth
but half that which he agreed to pay, has
been as Indignantly rejected as has that
which assumed that the workingman
held principles which he was ashamed to
avow and which are dangerous to the
peace of the nation.
The developments of the closing week
OF the campaign leave no doubt that the
Judgment of an overwhelming majority
of the npnn1a nf 10 tc ba
platform and candidate of reputation
and national dishonor. 1t now remains
for the voters to register at the polls
their answer to the attempts to excite
passion, prejudice and selfshness for the
benefit of few who are willing to de-
stroy national honor and endanger ma
tonal existence for their personal am
billions and individual profit. Good citi-
zens in every section and of every party
have united in publicly expressing them
selves upon this subject Their duty now
is to do SO in such a manner as will for
ever put to an end further attempts in
this line. There is but one way of doing
this, and that is at the polls While each
man has his especial field in the prelm-
mary work of the campaign. the duty of
election day is common to all. No man.
AiO"O'Si ihuCu he IrstS uOne IN Influencing
Others can neglect his personal duty at
the polls, and no citizen, however humble
or devoted to employment of business,
should fail to exercise his privilege and
duty on election day.
IL is not merely a privilege. but a duty
Ana While it is the duty of every good
citizen TO express his will at the polls on
all occasions. that duty was never more
arguments and expression of loyalty
count for nothing unless those who offer
them or are convinced by them exercise
that universal privilege of participating
In the actual direction of the government
by voting on election day.
1t is hoped. therefore, that all good cit
lzehs VIII join hands on Tuesday in main
tanning the honor of the nation by regis
terihg thelr ballots in favor of that can
didate who has been honored by the sun.
port OF loyal men of all professionalism
mckinley. The issue is between two men
ana TWO Platforms the one representing
national honor, good government. sound
"o"ey ana sound principles; the other
standing for doctrines dangerous TO the
peace and prosperity of the nation and
promising only system which must de.
pase the currency. destroy business and
ehd employment. 1t is. as has been no.
Gently said by Major Mckinley himself
Time when the voice of the partisan
"usneo IN the chorus of patriotism
which sounds from one end Of ~. 80
Try TO the other" Let every loval ci,,,.,
take this thought to the polls with IT..
oh election day. and the country mil, -
saved from the danger which confro.,
II. and saved by that sav,,a 49,, -, -
90 .,s op,herated party lines in defenc.
not greater peril. Ar. ~, ~
Election day.