The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
Why MAINE WENT DEMOCRATIC


NJ Maine has gone Democratic Let
IA stop for : moment and look al the
..s,x and conditions that have exist
ed in Maine which caused thousands
of u,en xho have before teen voting
n. Republican ticket ali their lives
and this year felt II their duty TO
xo,s the Democratic tickle; for the
frs, time.
In the first place. Maine and MassA-
chusetts. and all New England. for .
number OF years. were able To buy
from US In the South our raw mate
rails at q very cheap price, New
England manufactured these raw
materials, and then sent them back
to US and sold them at an enormous
profit. The people OF the South were
each year getting poorer by selling
a part OF the great heritage of their
wonderful resources for much less
than they were worth to New Eng
land. and when We bought them back
we paid not only the freight on the
raw materials from the South to New
England. but. we paid for high-priced
labor in New England that manu-
featured these goods. We paid an
enormous profit TO the manufacturer.
and we also paid the freight back TO
the South; thus New England was
getting rich under the American poll
cy of protection. while the South was
each day getting poorer.
For a number of years past this
condition has been gradually chang
ing. The South has walked up to the
value Of her enormous resources, and
have begun to develop and manufact-
ure them ourselves. Thus the South
has been. and is each day, getting
richer under the beneficent influences
of protection. When New England
could no longer buy our raw materi-
ais as in the past, she was left with
nothing but her rocky hillsides, and
even with her wonderful Yankee in
genuity she was not able to make
money out of these rocks. Then 1t
was that she began to look to Canada
and abroad for some place to again
buy raw materials, and thus the
cry has been growing stronger and
stronger each year in New England
for the kind of sugar-coated free
trade called Reciprocity.
If, today, a vote was taken in all
New England on the square question
as to whether or not those States
favored the present system Of protec-
ton by which the South is growing
rich, or if they favored changing that
system so as to give them that meas
ure of free trade which they called
Reciprocity New England would
vote overwhelmingly with the Demo
Gratis for reciprocity. The only thing
} that deters them from going solidly
with the Democratic party today is
because they do not want to go to an
absolute free trade basis, and they
know that that is where the Demo
cratic party would land if it should
control the next Cong sss and elect
} Champ Clarke, wlo is al avowed free
trader, for President
For the reasons list given, Maine
will not vote for a Democratic Presi-
; dent two years from now, but II
voted Democratic this year as a kind
of protest against protection which is
making the South get rich faster than
New England.
There is another condition in
Maine that had a great deal to dc
with the election, and that is, the
growing protest among prohibition.
lists at the failure in that State tc
enforce the prohibition law; also the
growing sentiment in that State, as
well as over the whole country, in
favor of returning to the fundament.
al principle of local self-government
the corner stone of a republic in
which the people are to rule.
These are the facts and conditions
that caused the Republicans of Maine
this year, in their desire to protest
against their party. to go to even the
extent of voting with the party OF
reaction and negation. We submit
that every Republican voter in Maine
who Tins east hic uafa for rhacn roa