The Portland daily press., 1898-07-13
Maine Coli Democrats Not Satisfied
With Bangor Nomination.
RESULT OF A CONFERENCE HELD
AT BRUNSWICK,
Eight of the Ten Committeeman of the
National Democratic Party i'll Atten-
dance-A Call Issued for State Con-
vention i'll Portland, j uly FL.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.J

ESPECIAL TO THE PRLsE.J
Brunswick, July 12-There is no longer
any doubt about the course of action to
be pursued by the gold Democrat of
Maine in the present campaign. The call
OF Mr.. G. Vey Holman for meeting of
the state committee Of the National
Democratic party brought together here
today eight of the ten members of that
committee. They met at the Tontine hotel
and after prolonged discussion decided
to call state convention of gold Demo-
Gratis at Portland, July 81. The follow
ing call, submitted by Mr. Holman, was
issued:
With a repugnanoe as insuperable as
IN 1876 to the unsound financial teachings
and revolutionary demands of the Chi
cago platform, we are irreyocably commit
Ted to the determination to support no
man for public office who accepts the
doctrines or advocates the enactment into
laws of the false principles Of that COM
posite of assaults upon the public credit,
the national honor, the federal judiciary,
the established standard of values, the
individual right to liberty of contract.
Yet we are equally barred from lending
political or moral support to the candi-
dates Of that party which, Achieving pow
er through its pledge of reform Of the
currency has not only violated that
promise to the ear but broken to the
hope The campaign of 1895 had but one
browning and vital issue; the firmer es-
adjustment OF the single gold standard
and a radical and honest revision Of our
currency laws, now disordered, contra
dictory and constantly provocative of UNI
certainty, confusion and financial dis
tress. The Republican party was entrusted
with supreme power under the practical
pledge that no radical revision Of the
tariff should be attempted. Its first pub
lie act OF Importance was the re.casting
to the serious detriment of every business
enterprise, of every line in every schedule
of the then existing moderate law regu-
lating duties upon imports, under the
plea of an urgent need of greater reve-
nues. 1t proceeded to formulate and
enact an extreme and ultra protective
measure we'll nigh identical in terms
with the tariff act of 1850, which was de-
vised and denominated as bill to reduce
the revenues of the United States-a
measure upon which in the election of
1882 and 1894 the people of the country,
under the guidance of the Democratic
party, then wisely and conservatively
led by Grover Cleveland placed in unmis-
taxable form the stamp of their over
whelming disapproval
In lieu of enacting any sound measure
of currency reform the Republican party
has given the country an indefensible,
nnsound and vicious measure of initiating
in It's act authorizing the coinage of the
seigniorage of the silver bullion now in
the national treasury. For this we con-
denim it as guilty OF an act of violation of
public faith and of an attack upon thu
advocates of stable currency and sound
financial legislation, only less culpable
than the threatened debasement Of our
monetary standard urged by the advo-
Gates of the free and unlimited and in
dependent coinage of silver.
With these sentiments and convictions
we are practically disfranchised unless
candidates can be nominated who will
uphold these views and appeal for public
support thereon We therefore urge every
Democrat. who in 1895 voted for Palmer
and Buckner, or who in Difference to
conviction of duty cast his ballot for Mo
Kinley and Hobart, to lend US support by
attending public meeting of this COM
mittee which will be held at the Preble
house, in the oity of Portland, on the
Dist day of July at 2 o. clock in the after
noon, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for governor OF Maine.
National Democratic State Committee
Of Maine,
(Signed)
= G. VEY HOLMAN. Chairman.
HARRY +. THOMPSON, Secretary.