Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-10-29

The Battle Of the Ballots.
Within 4 week from this writing
the American people VIII have settled
az tia polls the most momentous
question that has been submitted TO
them since Lincoln's appeal n 81 for
men and money TO suppress a slave
holders rebellion.
Then me constitution and the laws.
liberty and union We're openly al
tackled BY force Of arms How quickly
and now nooiy the great President :
call was answered; how suddenly old
party ties were sundered. and how
graadiy loyal men, OF whatever pre-
vious political belief. stood shoulder
to shoulder for four long years,
bray-ly battling for the Integrity OF
the lnion need not De retold. The
Union was saved: its integrity as
sured, Is tag unsuIHes, It's honor
maintained
Now az equally dangerous and more
insidious foe has raised is hydra
head. and challenges 20 a battle Of the
ballot the voters Of our country who
believe il the maintenance Of the
public credit, a sound currency. the
integrity OF the supreme court. the
right Of private contract and common
honesty 70 creditors. whether public
or private.
For the first time since the war a
discordant, disorganized, mercenary
and heterogeneous mob, incorporating
under a stolen party name, is seeking
suffrage by appeals not to argument.
history, experience or common sense,
but 10 prejudice, passion and hate.
and promising. if successful, TO inau-
gurate a governmental policy utterly
subversive of all that loyal Ameri-
cans hold dear
That many of those who are help
ing 10 bring about this change are
sincere is unquestioned, but that
does not relieve the proposed change
from being the embodiment OF all the
direfal things that we have men
toned.
Promises and prophecies have been
the entire stock in trade OF the silver
party from the beginning of the cam
paign; arguments have not been pre-
scented. for there are none.
To assume that in great. growing,
powerful and wealthy nation like the
United States, the proportion of
the voters who believe in such absurd
doctrines and easily-refuted charges
as have been declared and made by
the Bryanites in this campaign is in
majority, Is 10 assume that the spirit
of loyalty to truth and 10 honor
and TO country has gone out from
among Us. and that we are no longer
a people capable of self government
on lines that make for progress, for
advancing civilization and for the
right
An honest dollar and chance to
earn it is the shibboleth that is
sweeping over the country; that is to
land the man who made it in the
White House at Washington. and
that viii forever put out of sight the
menace to the financial honor of
great nation of the earth.
Il Will be a great republican victory;
it will be more it will be a victory in
which loyal democrats, as in the war,
will participate. and for their part in it
they deserve and will receive from
ali right thinking republicans the
credit that is their due.
Day by day the victory seems more
assured. but the battle is not yet
fought or won. Let no man in Els
worth or in Hancock county, or in our
dear old dirigo State fail to vote be-
cause Maine is safe. or because the
North is safe. Let every man go TO
the polls as though the fate of the ma
ton depended on his vote, and so it
shall be that financial heresy and
political incendiarism shall be crushed
beyond recognition and buried be-
yond hope of resurrection.