Show i 1jf < GALL AND WORMWOOD Today the people of Maine will elect their state ticket and all things point to a largely increased Democratic vote and a very close call if not a defeat for Elaine his boom and the Republican party in that state The readers of the DEMOCRAT will recall a recent editorial in these columns wherein it was shown that the old gentleman of the New York Sun and his office cat would plow into Elaine and his boom at some time before the election and dance all over him and the other pier of the bridge in the person per-son of Allison just as an Apache dances a scalp dance To prove the DEMOCRAT was right we give space to the following editorial from the old man Danas pen on Brother Elaine and assure our readers read-ers that it has had time to be read digested j I di-gested and do good work in todays j I fight It is from the issue of the 8th inst Mr Blames speeches in the present Maine canvass may be described as protection with incidental prohibition Protection is his leading suit and prohibition his small I I trump And he is a protectionist generally and throughout the United States while asa as-a prohibitionist he appears to be severely local and confined to Maine It is noticeable that while Mr Elaine is I firmly persuaded or at least is bent on persuading per-suading the voters of the Pine Tree State that protection is the one issue between the Republicans and the Democrats and the linchpin of present politics the straightout Prohibitionists decline to be stampeded by his alarm about protection and insist that prohibition is the chief of issues and the one thing needful Mr John Peter St John for instance who is tagging Mr Elaine through the State said at Sebago the other day But we are told that the success of the Democratic party means free trade and free rum Let us see if it does Democrats have had a good working majority in the Lower House of Congress for four years At each session an attempt has been made to reduce the tariff which utterly failed and this too in the face of the fact that even the Republican party in its National platform plat-form in 1884 acknowledged that after twentyfour years of Republican rule there were inequalities in the tariff and promised prom-ised to correct them but they have made no serious attempt to do so Neither of the old parties has has any welldefined policy touching this matter All the protectionists are not in the Republican party nor are all Democrats free traders And then the chief of the Drys jumped upon the Republican partyfor its neglect of prohibition Not a fig does Mr St John care about protection although he has always I al-ways been a protectionist The thing that I interests him is prohibition And here is where Mr Blames great protection act fails I to draw Preteotionis a great thing and j I lots of people think it is a good thing but I exactly what its got to do with the question ques-tion Who shall be the next Governor of I Maine many good people fail to see The prohibition comeouters are not to be scared I by the protection bogey They are of age I and know what they want and in this t I II particular off year they want to do their I I best to pulverize the Republican party In Maine itself this evil disposition of the II Prohibitionists may not do the Republicans Republi-cans any harm but in New York New Jersey Jer-sey Pennsylvania for instance where protection pro-tection is too strong to be frightened with bugaboos in an off year the Prohibitionists Prohibition-ists may be powerful enough to do the Republicans I Re-publicans a deadly hurt And what will Mr Blames protection speeches avail The people he really fears the confident and I i persistent enemies who resolved to ruin the Republican Party if it will not make itself wholly theirs are the Prohibitionists and the Prohibitionists as far as the present campaign is concerned care no more about protection than they do about the decease of Hecuba or the mysterious assailant of Billy Patterson Men of one idea there is no place for protection speeches in their cerebral storehouses They want Prohibition Prohibi-tion with a big P and Protection with a big P they dont care a Congressional Re cord for I n Mr Elaine is probably as sharp an observer ob-server of the proceedings of the Prohibitionists Prohibi-tionists as there is and we venture to think that the more he sees of them the more he dislikes them They are queer fish and will not nibble at protection bait Perhaps the sly Augusta fisherman can land them and then again perhaps he will have to fall in the water after them The people of Maine who have trained heretofore with the Republican party are so tired of specious pleading and guttering gut-tering humbug that even Blames magnetic mag-netic utterances fall flat upon their ears and in their savage fight for Prohibition they are determined to sink the little respect res-pect they had for that partys tenets and do their level best to elect men who will at least enforce the laws even if they had no hand in framing them The bugaboo of Protection is aptly explained by St Tohn and we repeat the people of Maine know better today what they are voting for than ever before |