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MAINE. 



MANUFACTURES OF THE U. S. 



ships, as certain to destroy our ship-building in- 

 dustry. 



5. The only full legal-tender money authorized by 

 the Constitution to be coined or issued in time of 

 peace is gold and silver. The dollar of the one should 

 be coined so as to possess the same intrinsic value as 

 the dollar of the other, and all paper currency should 

 be redeemable in the one or the other. We deprecate 

 the eiforts made to overthrow the present banking 

 system of the nation, securing as it does to the people 

 a currency convenient, uniform, elastic in volume, of 

 equal value in all the States, and absolutely safe from 

 loss in the hands of the holder. . . . 



7. We are unalterably opposed to the abolition or re- 

 duction of the internal revenue tax on liquors, and 

 demand that all possible reduction of taxation shall 

 be made on necessaries and not upon luxuries. . . . 



9. We refer with confidence and pride to the gen- 

 eral record of the Republican party, in support of the 

 policy of prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors, 

 the wisdom and efficiency of which legislation, in pro- 

 moting the moral and material interests of Maine, have 

 been demonstrated through the practical annihilation 

 of that traffic in a large portion of the State ; and we 

 favor such legislation, and such enforcement of the 

 law, as will secure to every portion of our territory 

 freedom from that traffic. We further recommend the 

 submission to the people of a constitutional prohibi- 

 tory amendment. 



The Republican candidate for Governor, Colo- 

 nel Frederick Robie, is a graduate of Bowdoin 

 College, in the class of 1841. He afterward 

 graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, in 

 Philadelphia, and was engaged in the active 

 practice of his profession until the outbreak 

 of the war, in 1861. In that year he was ap- 

 pointed paymaster by President Lincoln, served 

 until the close of the war, and was brevetted 

 lieutenant-colonel for meritorious service. He 

 was elected to the State House of Representa- 

 tives from Gorham seven times, was Speaker in 

 1872, and again in 1876, was a member of the 

 Council under Governor Washburn, and was 

 chairman of the Council during Governor Da- 

 vis's and Governor Plaisted's administrations. 

 Through his influence the Normal School at 

 Gorham was established, and he contributed 

 liberally toward the fund necessary for the 

 erection of the building. In 1878 he was one 

 of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition, 

 and during his absence was made one of the 

 constitutional candidates for Governor, by an 

 agreement among the leaders of the Repub- 

 lican party, and was voted for as one of the 

 candidates for Governor by the Republican 

 members of the Legislature of 1879. 



The Fusion (Democratic and Greenback) 

 State Convention met in Lewiston on the 27th 

 of June, and renominated Governor Harris M. 

 Plaisted. For Congressmen, Joseph Dane, 

 Daniel H. Thing, George W. Ladd, and Thomp- 

 son H. Murch, were nominated. 



The resolutions condemn the purchase of votes, as- 

 sessments of Government officers ; demand civil-ser- 

 vice reform to the extent of abolishing the spoils 

 system ; accuse the Republican party of undermining 

 the foundations of all political morality; destroying 

 the sanctity of the ballot, debauching the people," and 

 paving the way to centralization and empire ; demand 

 taxation for revenue only ; condemn the appointment 

 of tariff commissioners, on the ground that they are 

 prejudiced in favor of the present iniquitous pro- 



tective tariff; condemn the policy which has shut our 

 markets against return freights, and made the inter- 

 national carrying - trade impossible in competition 

 with the ships and products of lower-taxed countries ; 

 demand of Congress the establishment and mainte- 

 nance, at all times, of a currency of general credit, 

 always convertible into and in value equal to specie, 

 adapted to the wants of commerce and the business 

 of the country, and suited to existing circumstances ; 

 protest against the substitution of the greenbacks by 

 the bills of banking corporations ; demand the abo- 

 lition 'of imprisonment for debt; declare in favor of 

 exempting wages from the trustee process ; demand 

 that the ten-hour law be made applicable to all classes 

 of labor ; condemn the Executive Council for reject- 

 ing nominations made by the Governor, on the ground 

 that such action was unconstitutional, illegal, and sub- 

 versive of the popular will ; indorse Governor Plaisted 

 for the dignity with which he has surrounded his 

 high office, and for his devotion to the Constitution, 

 and express pride and pleasure in his renomination. 

 A concluding resolution authorizes the State Commit- 

 tee to call conventions to fill any vacancies in the 

 congressional ticket, and, when an apportionment 

 shall have been made, to appoint district committees. 



The straight Greenbackers nominated Solon 

 Chase for Governor. TV. T. Eustis was nomi- 

 nated for Governor by the Prohibitionists, and 

 Warren H. Yinton by the Independent Republi- 

 cans. 



ELECTION RETURNS. The election in Sep- 

 tember resulted in the choice of the Republi- 

 can candidates. The vote was as follows : 



For Governor: Total vote cast, 138,567, of 

 which Frederick Robie received 72,724; Har- 

 ris M. Plaisted, 63,852 ; Solon Chase, 1,302 ; 

 W. T. Eustis, 895 ; Warren H. Vinton, 270 ; 

 scattering, 24. Robie's plurality, 8,872. For 

 Congressmen : Thomas B. Reed, 72,925 ; Nel- 

 son Dingley, Jr., 73,017 ; Charles A. Boutelle, 

 72,386 ; Seth L. Milliken, 72,495 ; Joseph Dane, 

 63,554; Daniel H. Thing, 63,722; George 

 W. Ladd, 63,381 ; Thompson H. Murch, 63,- 

 568 ; W. F. Eaton, 1,280 ; B. K. Kalloch, 1,276 ; 

 Eben 0. Gerry, 1,250 ; Benjamin D. Averill, 

 1,273 ; James M. Stone, 556 ; Henry Tallman, 

 283 ; Joseph E. Ladd, 232 ; Nathan G. Axtell, 

 284; Charles E. Nash, 257; Daniel Stickney, 

 184; scattering, 36. 



The Legislature chosen at this election is con- 

 stituted as follows : 



MANUFACTURES OF THE UNITED 

 STATES. The table below shows the statis- 

 tics of manufactures in the United States as 

 returned by the tenth census for the year 

 ended May 31, 1880. It includes every estab- 

 lishment of mechanical or manufacturing in- 

 dustry which was returned at the census as 

 having had during the census year a product 

 of $500 or more in value. It does not include 

 manufacture of fishery products, quartz- mill- 

 ing, petroleum-refining, the manufacture of 

 gas, manufacturing by steam-railroad compa- 

 nies, nor the operations of the various navy- 

 yards of the United States: 



