The Portland daily press., 1896-09-05

cess. We must remember that when dis
appointment has come Before, we have
only cherished the more those principles
of the party to which he has given the
service of his life and will continue to do
so to the end. Our loyalty must not
abate In the face of the magnificent ex-
ample his is now setting US. We must
not be deceived by false issues or by any
false sentiments of State pride, because
! perohance our oponents have placed the
name of one of your citizens upon their
ticket. The real prid consists i n pride
In those principles and policies in which
its interests are eternally bound.
The campaign has approached TINT
stage when 1t Is superfuous to urge upon
| any of our people the peculiar position
which our State shall occupy on Septem-
Der IA In the eyes of the country. Yer
mont could not have done less than she
has, magnificent IA is her victory. 1t is
the candidate of her first choice whom she
has endorsed, and we must show that the
allegiance we rendered immedi ately after
| that nomination was made, Is no less
honest than had we not been disappoint
ed in our most cherished hopes. Our
| fight after all is easy. Our conviction
of success rests upon that strongest of all
basis, the conviction that we are right:
and our course Is made clearer than 1T
has been before since the party was born
| by the declaration of the Chicago plat
! WHICH lohVbh 6tdu lOT 81 mday VI
| our opponents no middle course. We are
opposed to it all IN it's every line and
letter. And while we echo the words Of
Mr.. Reed in opening the campaign at
Alfred and tender to our opponents a
hearty welcome, not because We expect to
make Republicans Of them, but because
we arc to have them with US, yet as hon.
est men respecting us as we respect them
| they cannot ask or expect that we abate
in any degree our devotion to the princi-
| Piles of our party because theirs has de-
| serted its own, nor our freedom to express
those principles wherever we may. We
tell them frankly that we are opposed to
their platform even to the only declara-
ton which may be supposed to promul-
gate Democratic principles. We recognize
| the propriety of the tariff plank as it
stands in the Chicago platform. for it
promises only a continuationof the de-
struotive policy to whose effects the con-
dition of our State bears such sad testi-
mony. We owe it 60 honesty to say at
the outset that our first duty in return to
power, is to put on the statute book a
labor protecting and revenue producing
protective tariff Any Democrat SO SEN
sitive that this avowal shall keep him
| from remaining with us, from him say,
we must part rather in SORROW than in
anger. We believe that protective policy
has been the source Of great prosperity,
and that its impairment Is the source of
the curse that now rests upon our coun-
try. We are opposed to the other plank
in that platfoT m, but none concern you.
more than the plank l have named and
that other plank declaring for the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver. Permit
no Democrat in your presence to say un-
challenged that their party has made the
issue in the currency. 1t has never made
an issue. 1t has shirked responsibility
and avoided action. 1t is rule govern
ing the action of parties that the party
in power shall hold it's convention before
that OF the party out of power, and frame
the issues upon which its administration
shall 90 before the country. But the
Democratic party did not dare to hold It's
convention until our convention had
been held our platform Fmade, and our
candidates put into the field. The issue
in regard to the currency was made then.
Indeed it has been made by the whole
record of the Republican party. It was
CONSEQUENTLY made, SO far as Maine was
concerned, when Mr.. Reed, knowing
full we'll the import of what he said de-
olared three years ago that the proudest
part of the proud record OF the Republi-
can party had been its devotion to sound
finance. ! remember that quoted this
at the last State convention in Bangor,
and added then when the Tory and Mug
wump press we're ringing in our ears the
charge that the Republican party would
not dare to be true TO Inls record, that
while we could not be sure who was to
be our chosen chieftain, we were sure
beyond the possibility of doubt that tho
currency declaration of our platform
must declare that the standard of our
currency shall be maintained as high as
that of all the world, that upon that
declaration the next Republican nomi-
nee would take his stand. So he did
most heartily on the day of his nomina-
ton, and has not varied in this stand a
moment since.
The issne was finally triumphantly
made at ST. Louis when in reply TO the
pleadings of Teller and threats of Can
non that convention amidst such patri-
otto enthusiasm as have never seen sur
passed, proceeded to put into its platform
the plank we have there declaring AGAINST
an attempt to debase the currency.
Mr. Sewall declared he was not an ex-
tremist and not mere to declare there
were not those in this country who
would be benefited by free coinage. He
was not altogether sure that that type of
capitalist who boards his money and has
gold that he could turn to immedi use
would be harmed. He was suro that the
enemies OF thrift and all who could
benefit by general disorder would be
helped but such, he was glad, did not OK.
ist in Maine. For us be foresaw only
distress and disaster, the imminence Of