Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-17
J0hnson'S Anodyne Linimen1

should be made living realities: that the
ballot-boxes at the South should not be
stuffed nor election returns fabricated nor
colored voters lynched or driven from the
polls.
He favors protective tariff duties suffi.
Gent to develop and sustain all American
industries, from wool on the sleeps back,
ores in the mines. and all the products of
agriculture, up to the finished products of
the most delicate manufacture which
America can produce.
He sustains the Monroe doctrine, and
believes in excluding European powers
from further possessions in the Western
hemisphere, and is in favor of policy
which shall bind all the republics of that
hemisphere in one strong bond of union,
which shall enable them to stand, If nec-
essary, against the whole European world
in armed hostility.
On the money question, where Republi-
cans differ, Mr.. Reed stands with the
great majority of his party. He is not
willing at this time to agree to the I'M
limited coinage of silver at the present
ratio, by the United States alone; but he
is opposed to the gold recommendation of
Cleveland and Carlisle, and in favor of
Republican b!metallism, to be secured by
the most feasible means and with the
least possible delay, SO that the gold and
silver, admitted to unlimited coinage at
an agreed ratio, shall together constitute
the standard money Of the world and the
universal measure of the worlds value.
All these views are. it is understood, en-.
tertained by Mr.. Reed in common with
the other candidates for the Republican
nomination. No other candidate can be
said to be more devoted to the principles
than any other, and it is not wise, we
think, to endeavOr to create any such i'm
preston.
On the one great issue of the tariff all
Republicans should stand as nearly to-
gether is possible in general and on de-
tails, and we think they do SO stand.
On products like those produced in
America, We believe in duties high
enough to equalize conditions at home
ana abroad 1.-THE American producer asks
nothing more) and not prohibitory duties
The Republican principle is we'll
known. 1t is not necessary in order to
proclaim our adherence to that principle,
that we should endcavor to pass a com
plete revision of the tariff through a
Senate where. as every one knows, the
Republicans have only plurality in order
to be vetoed by President whose hos
tility to every form of protection is
equally we'll known.
With the Republicans again in full,
power. no new protective tariff bill would
be differently framed in any essential
particular by the advice of Mr.. Reed, Mr..
Morton, Mr.. Mckinley, or Mr.. Allison
Fortunately, therefore, is the Republican
party on the eve of an election where sue
cess is to be foregone conclusion. in
having presented as candidates from
which to make the favored selection,
public men whose views are so completely
In accord on public questions.
Mr.. Reeds friends do not wish to be
invidious or to make criticisms of other
candidates when they claim for their own
the highest qualities Of craftsmanship
His leadership, when the question for the
first time presented itself for decision,
whether small majority could do bust
ness in the national House of Representa-