Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — The Maine Victory. [ARTICLE]

The Maine Victory.

Indianapolis Journal. The Republican victory in Maine does not shrink; The majority will be as Mr. Blaine telegraphed Monday night, 20,000, with both branches of the Legie lature overwhelmingly Republican. This is the largest Republican majority for twenty years. Garfield, popular as he was, only carried the State by 8,868. The local enthusiasm caused by Mr. Blaine’s candidacy in 1884 resulted in a Republican majority, in the September election, of 19,709, and of 20,000 for Mr. Blaine himself. That was high watermark, and the present majority exceeds it. Mr. Manley, chairman of the State Central Committee, telegraphs to Gen. Harrison, “This means 25, ‘ 00 for you in November,” and we have no doubt it does. The force of this victory cannot be broken. The same causes that operated in Maine are operating in other States, and will produce a like result. Democrats are trying to belittle the victory by saying that it was a forgone conclusion, that they made very little effort, etc. This is not true. They made great efforts to reduce thb Republican majorities. All accounts from Maine agree that both parties did their best, and it was a very hot campaign. The Democrats expected to make a reduction in the Republican majority which they could claim as a victory. Instead of that they are completely “knocked out,” and the Republicans come up smiling with the biggest majority" since 1866. Unless we mistake the signs of the times, this is the beginning of a tidal wave which will sweep over the country and land every Northern State high ajd dry in the Republican camp. Stronger than ever, the Republican party is more united and more zealous, for a reason which few men fully appreciate. It is human nature to find fault with what we have, and to strive for something better. Perhaps that tendency is more strongly developed in this country than in any other. Criticism of everything and everyoody has become so much a habit that foreigners may easily imagine it the rule for Americans to believe “whatever is is wrong.” So during twenty-five years of Republican rule criticism was perpetually directed at the Republican party and its shortcomings. An entire generation grew up under the constant influence of this criticism. From early boyhood men heard of Republican faults, and they had no memory or knowledge of Democratic behavior in power. The last four years have enabled the voters to see what the Democratic party actually is. Men who never can read history, or if they read can not get at the meat of it, see daily events and understand them. They take a look every day at the sort of men who hang round the postoffices and other places held by the party in power. They read enpugh of the story of current events to know what sort of inen have been selected for important places of trust. They know that Garland is in the Cabinet and Lamar on the Supreme Bench. „ They know that appropriations are larger under this Administration of sham economy than ever before. They know that the foreign interests and honor of the country are being recklessly and madly risked in the game of partisanship. They know that every year the party in power under the control of fanatical Southern free traders has threatened and disordered the industries of the whole Nation, in its desperate’efforts to overturn a system .Which has "made the growth and prosperity of the United States the wonder of the world. Having seen Democracy tried, they are disgusted. That is the meaning of the returns thus tar, and it is likely te be the meaning of she returns in November. / Protection proposes to convert American raw mate rial into finished products for Americans by American labor, while free trade would import the finished products of foreign labor. Protection would pav American wages while free trade would pay foreign wages. One would keep the pay-rolls in this country, while the otner would send them abroad. No country in the world surpasses the United States in the variety, extent and richness of its natural resources. Oar fields and farms, mountains and plains are rich with undiscovered or undeveloped wealth. Every kind of metal or metallic ore exists here in abundance. Our forests yield every kind of timber. We raise more cotton than we can use, and ought to raise more wool. There is nothing manufactured in the world that cannotoe manufactured here, and very Jew things produced in the world that cannot be produced here. Nature,there-

fore, and the God of nature have indicated protection to home industries asr thp true economic policy of the United States. Let us manufacture our own raw material with our own labor and keep our pay-rolls at home., Mr. Cleveland vetoed, daring the first three sessions of Congress, 171 pension bills, and up to the Ist of August he had refused to sign 157, which makes 328 bills that did not meet his approval. The record of twenty-four years’ Kepubican administration is three actual vetoes. The record of a trifle over- three years of Democratic administration is 171 vetoes and 157 disapprovals. These figures are absolutely correct, and can be verified by the records. No Democratic newspaper dare publish them and then assert that Cleveland, the man who hired a substitute and turned his back on the exercises of Decoration day, is a friend to the veteran or his canse.