Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-25

DC possible. lie would IofeStdi INC
protests of some who would be likely
| to say I'VE should not dividein the face
of a common enemy. Free silver forces
are united, sound money should be.
| The issue is above politics, we must
vote for the Republican ticket"
| He in effect says that the Republic
cans have made it impossible for sound
| money Democrats to unite with them.
! Just how they may have done so he
, does not make clear. He says the Re
publicans should have been the first
to welcome sound money Democrats to
non partisan union; that Mckinley
continues to discuss the tariff (which
| has ceased to be an issue" Now so
| far as we have been able to observe
| the very things he complains of, with
| one exception, have been done by the
Republicans. They have taken an I'M
equivocal position on the currency.
their platform stands for our present
form of government in contradistinc-
ton to a semi socialist form of govern
mcnt Upon that platform in which
the Republicans thoroughly believe they
to stand for the time and until the
financial heresies in this country can
be checked. They do not expect Demo-
Gratis to believe with them on all points
but they appreciate the gravity of the
situation and the need of united ac-
ton. and their candidate for Presi-
addresses boldly faced the problem and
accepted without hesitation or the
slightest attempt at quibblng the
position that should command the sup
port of every man III this broad land,
: who would repudate Reputation.
; Thus far all of Mr. Whitney's OBJ
jections have been met. Indeed the
. injustice of his complaints on those
grounds must be apparent to all. But
, when he declares that the tariff is not
to be considered in this campaign, he
asks too much, more than such an in
telligent man as he could fairly eX-
pect the Republicans to grant. The
Republican party is certain that the
tariff is and must be an issue. This
belief is as much a matter Of principle
, with them as sound money is a matter
of principle with Mr.. Whitney. More
, they believe thoroughly that the very
, first thing to do in order to remove the
, conditions which now make the fiat
craze possible and lend it whatever for
midable strength it may possess, is tc
8 have an adequate revenue, to bring the
, balance of trade between our people
;. and the people of other countries bach
. to our favor and in so doing raise the
revenue in such a manner that goods
now being made abroad shall again b.
+ made in this country and that mel
: now idle shall have work, that conf
r dcnce shall be once more restored ant
l. the uncertainty which, from Whatcvel
e point you view it, has, for some reason
: existed since 1898. To do this we be
= lieve to be an imperative duty and tn,
d only sensible and substantial way il
l. which the foundations of national ere
y dit can be rendered impregnable
II. Every man in this broad land who i
l. feeling the pinch of hard times is in
le terested and very many of them hav
Is abiding convictions that Il wise protec
Is tive tariff must be restored. Secretar,
m Wakeman of the American Protectiv
s. Tariff League says he is overrun wit
a. orders for tariff literature and cannO
as begin to fill them all. Moreover man
is of these orders come from source
ID hitherto unknown to the league. TIL
OF people are thinking about the tart
he and they will be thinking about it O
the third day of November when the
go to the polls to deposit their votes.
n Hon. Seth l.. Mlliken has accepte
an invitation to deliver the Memoirs