Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-13
A TALE OF WOE
From the National Demo-
cratic Party Of Maine.
A Proclamation from the State Com
mite to Democratic Voters
That Reminds You Of the Old Sing. song Calls
Of Long Ago.

Brunswick, Me-, July 12.-At meet
ing of the State committee of the Ma
tional Democratic party held at the
Tontine hotel in Brunswick. today,
pursuant to a call of Chairman C. Vey
Holman, it was unanimously voted to
issue the following call to the Demo-
cratic voters of Maine:
with a repugnance as insuperable
as in 1896 to the unsound financial
teachings and the revolutionary de-
mands of the Chicago platform, we are
irrevocably committed to the determl-
nation to support no candidate for
public office who accepts the doctrines
or advocates the enactment into law of
the false principles of that composite
of assaults upon the public credit. the
national honor. the federal judiciary,
the established standard of value ana
the individual right to liberty of con-
tract
Yet we are equally barred from
lending political or moral support to
the candidates of that party when,
achieving power through its pledge or
a reform of our currency, has not only
violated that promise to the ear but
broken it to the hope.
THE campaign of 1896 had but one
crowning and vital issue; the firmer
establishment of the single gold stand
ard and q radical and honest revision
of our currency laws, now disordered.
contradictory and constantly prevoca-
tive of uncertainty, confusion and
financial stress.
THE Republican party was entrust-
ed with supreme power in the govern
ment under the practical pledge that
no radical revision of the tariff should
be attempted.
''Its first public act of Importance wa
the recasting-to the serious detriment o
every business enterprise-of every line
in every schedule of the then existing
moderate law regulating duties upon i'm
ports Under the plea of an urgent nee1
for greater revenues, it proceeded t.
formulate and enact an extreme ant
ultra-protective measure, Well-nigh iden
teal in terms with the tariff act of 1880
which was devised and denominated as {
bill to reduce the revenues of the United
StateS-a measure upon WHICH, III lAi'
elections of 1882 and 1894, the people o
this country, under the guidance of tn
Democratic party, then wisely and con
servatively led by Grover Cleveland
placed in unmistakable form the stamp o
their overwhelming disapproyal
"In lieu of enacting any sound measur
of currency reform, the Republican part.
has given the country an iniefensiblt
unsound and vicious measure of imitation
in its act authorizing the coinage of tn
seigniorage of the silver bullion now il
The national treasury.
For this we condemn it as guilty of a
act of violation of public faith and of
attack upon the advocates of stabi
currency and sound financial Legislation
only less culpable than the threatene
debasement of our monetary standar
urged by the advocates of the free, unlim
tied and Independent coinage of silver.
with these sentiments and convictions
we are practically disfranchised unles
candidates can be nominated who will VI
hold these views and appeal for publ
support thereon.
1--WE therefore urge every Democrat VIII
who, in Difference to a conviction Of duty
cast his ballot for Mckinley and Hobar
to lend us support by attending publ
meeting of this committee which will b
held at the Preble house in the city {
Portland, on the DIST day of July, at
O'Clock in the afternoon, for the purpos
of nominating a candidate for Governo
of Maine.
National Democrat State Committe
of Maine. (Signed) G. Vey Holman
Charman; Harry G. Thompson, Secre
tary."