The Portland daily press., 1898-08-03

results would be the Reputation of finan'
ciaI obligation TO large degree, de-
moralization of business and its interests,
and an uncel tainty in values, and a re-
lapse into the financial condition OF such
countries as Colon bia.
We take great pride in this state in the
fact that SO many men, women and
deposited them in the savings banks,
/ their deposits aggregating millions OF
dollars. The establishment of the free
silver doctraine as law and as legal ten
der would practically reduce the value of
these deposits one half, for the banks
would be able to meet their liabilities to
their .depositors in the payment OF silver
dollars Of about the value of fifty cents.
And the same general rule holds good
wherever people have made small accu-
mutations, and the Bryan politicians in
their greed strike at their homes and at
every dollar that has been saved for the
hour of need.
In the hands of the laboring man who
has not saved dollar the Bryan dollar
will have purchasing power of fifty cents
of good, sound currency. What the peo-
pie want. and what we all want, is dol
lar as good as gold the world over, and
the only concern to be benefited by the
adoption of the free silver policy is the
great silver trust OF the far West, under
whose fostering care the silver dooJine
has been advanced and promulgated
throughout the United States.
The general decline in prices which the
Bryan followers attribute to our financial
policy cannot fairly be SO attributed. In
March, 1892, MIR. Bryan in discussing the
matter gave this explanation: 'tYou must
attribute 1t to the inventive genius that
has multiplied thousand times, in many
instances, the strength of a single arm
| and enables us to do today with one
man what fifty men could not have done
| fifty years ago. That is what has brought
down prices in this country and every
| where
| So said Mr.. Bryan bel fore he undertook
to carry out and convert into law the de-
sire of the great silver trust at the ex-
pense of the people Of the United States.
The Democratic party of Maine ask us
voters to say at the polls that our judicial
system. our federal courts, should right
fully become blots of censure and re-
proach. The good people of Maine have
always sustained our courts and are not
ready to follow in the wake of the upris-
ing at Chicago. We discussed it before
the people at the last presidential election
and they returned their verdict.
z But what does the Hon. Luther F. Nc
| Kinney, named as a candidate for Con-
gress upon the free silver platform, say
E1o gives us HIS cAE6E iouCS, anu u6 uhS
lived for three years where an attempt
was made by the legislature to make sill
yer equal tU gold, and he knows what the
! result has been to the people and country
of Colombia. We all know it to be a
miserable failure, and he states 1t as his
candid belief that if the silver men should
succeed in placing q law upon the statute
books to coin silver free, ata ratio Of
sixteen to one, 1t would be the greatest
curse that ever happened to the American
people. He says that an insanity has
taken hold of his party, and that it
should be reorganized, and he predicts
that if a free silver President and Con-
gross were elected in 1896 the Democratic
party would go out of power with the ex-
ecration Of the people on their heads.
Now, citizens of the First district, BUSH
ness men, you have the consistent doc.
trine Of the Republican party that has
brought prosperity upon you, and you
have the free silver platform of the Bryan
Democracy denounced in most vigorous
terms by the candidate for Congress rum
ming on that platform. Choose for your
selves which doctrine to follow.
| Give us the financial policy that has
established credit for this country the
| civilized world over. Give us such a
policy as will make our country resound
| in the future, as it has In tine past, with
| the hum of Industrial energy, such q
policy, with propersreoiprocal Commercial
| relations as shall enhance the desirability
| and influence of our own port of Port
land; that shall make this nation con-
| tinue to be what it is now, one Of the
greatest powers of the world, whose flag
| fioats upon the distant islands of the sea.
and whose voice is always for civiliza-
tion. christianity and home.
The committee on credentials made it's
renort and on motion of Mr.. Andrew
Hawes of Deering, the temporary orga-
nization was made permanent.
Judge B. E. Cleaves of Biddeford moved
| that the chair appoint committee of
seven to nominate district committee
for the ensuing two years. The follow
;rg nominating committee was chosen:
r. Cleaves, Biddeford; W. Q. Wylie,
, Eliot. Joseph ID. Carter, Freeport; George
M Seiders, Portland; John M. Burleigh,
copth Berwick; Richard Cook, Casco /;
1oseph S. Pickett. South Portland.
On motion of Mr.. James N. Read of
ooering, the following committee on
resolutions was chosen Il. James N. Read,
neering; Francis Fessenden, Portland
C,orl, Fl. Barker, Portland; Walter IL.
nowns. South Berwick; Alfred Mitchell,
prunswick. On motion of Mr.. G. +.
woodside Ct Portland, it was voted to