Show MAINE EKPUBLICANS The platform of the Maine Republicans indorses protection and reciprocity opposes free silver and declares the best interests of the party and country will be served by HARRISONS renomination and election Thus whilst they recognize the fact that BLAINE Is out they will not permit REED to poe as a favorite son at Minneapolis There has been a trace of secession in REED towards the later growth of his party and though the Republicans can afford to compliment com-pliment him for the subserviency to their interests shown when ho was Speaker of the House they have no further use for him In short Maine is joined to its idols and the truth is nothing is to be expected from the protected states in the present issues Rhode Island has lately proved this and Massachusetts notwithstanding her cosmopolitan population will be I equally eager to prove it whenever the lines are drawn sharply There is no such thing as a Yeomanry in Maine nor in any of the Now England states no agricultural population as the toxin is understood in the west Maino has no unprotected interest and no unprotected unpro-tected class All its interests and its classes are protectedits fishing business its lumber business its starch factories its cotton mills and all its other manufactures manu-factures and even its little crops of wheat corn rye barley and potatoes are increased in price by duties which protect them against Canadian competition but whose protective efforts fail to extend to the west In brief it may be asserted that there are no victims of protection in the state All its people are beneficiaries of the policy Its entire population are members mem-bers of the hightariff trust which was organized to include and does include the northeast section of the Union and which was organized to exclude and does exclude ex-clude the entire west It is too much therefore to expect anything any-thing but hightariff declarations or monometallic mono-metallic declarations and votes from Maine for not onlv are its people benefited bene-fited in all their interests by high tariff but they are on the moneylenders side on all other questions Nearly every voter is a bank depositor and their aggregate deposits de-posits in savings banks exceed those of the people of Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota nni Wyoming In addition to this they hold a large amount of the shares and bonds of what arecalled western railroads rail-roads but which are really owned in the eastthe very roads that claim and hold the unearned land grants When the people of Maino and Now England roll up compact Republican majorities year after 1 year they are only voting for their own intcrest which Is found on the side of a high protective tariff scarce and dear money The people of the United States are to be found this side of the Allegheny mountains and it is to them and them alone that deliverance from the sectional oppression that has so long been the policy of the government must be looked for |