Show POLITICAL DRIFT arkeat amount of comment has ha been b mc as mcd y blaines sp vh esir du during the I 1 lato ato canvass ia in maine alain the plumed knight announced a doctrine protection and prohibition skillful ly combined commenting L on ahe pa position the X Nework e v alvo f alc iichi oun bays ay ma Z it I 1 t is 19 noticeable that while mr blaine i is s emly persuaded or at I 1 As 1 l ie is bent on persuading llie tile voters the pine treo tree state that protection prote clion ia is tho one issue beaw between i c eh the republicans p and the democrats and the linchpin of present politic the straight out prohibitionists its decline to be stomp stampeded eded by hia his alarm alarta about protection protect iou and insist that prohibition i s fabe chief chief of issues and the one thang needful mr john peter st john for instance wh who 0 1 is i rl blaine through the slate said eaid at tit rebii sebago 9 0 the other day 1 but ya vie 0 are told that tho the success of the democratic p party arty meane means free trade and free rum let us see sea if it does democrate democrats have ve had a good working majority in the lower house of congress for fourbears four jears at each session an attempt hai has been made mide to reduce the tariff which utterly failed failed and this too in the face of the fact that even the republican party in its n national platform in 1881 a i ledged edged that after twenty four years of republican rule there were line inequalities in the tariff and promised to correct them but i they hey have made no serious attempt to do so nei neither ther pf the old parties lias has any well defined policy touching the matter alliba all the protectionists are not in the lie republican party nor are all 11 democrats Demo crata free tra traders and then the chief of the drys jumped upon tho the republican party for ite its neglect of prohibition not a ug doe does mr st john care about protection although he lie has alwa always Y s been a protection protectionist isi the thing that interests him is prohibition and here ie is where mr bla inas great protection act fails to draw protection la is a estt and c 1 I 1 e lots of p people eo pit e ts I 1 it thing I 1 but tut exactly what its got to do with the ques question don who shall be tho the next governor of lle kanj man good people fail to cee the prohibition come outers aro are not to be scared by the kotc protection bogey they are of age and know what they want and i in a this particular oH off year they w want ant to do their best to pulverize tho republican party 1 in A maine wile itself this evil disposition kioa of the prohibitionist iso tany not do the republicans any harm barm but I 1 in n new york new jersey penn sylvania for instance protection is too strong to be frightened with itt in a 19 aff year the pro bo powerful 41 enough to do th republican republicans a deadly hurt and what will mr JHa inea aines protection speeches avail I 1 tho the people he really fears the confident bonfi and persistent enemies who are resolved to ruin the republican party if it will not make itself wh wholly q ily theirs are the prohibition I 1 as far as the present cam pa tee i no more about protection than they do ao about abouL the tho decease of or the mysterious am assailant ailant of billy pa Pat tt tereon erson I 1 men of one ono idea there ia is no place place fo for r protect protection lon speeches in their cerebral storehouses they want prohibition with a lug P and protection t with a big P they dont c care rc a congressional record for mr blaine is probably aa as sharp an observer oba orver of the of f the prohibitionists as there is and we venture to think that the more hesues he sees of them the more be he dislikes aben th v are queer fish and will not nibble at protection I 1 bait perhaps the elv augusta auguta f fisherman can land them and then aga again in pr perhaps aps bo he will have bay e to fall in the water after them |