The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-20
Wendell Phillip. Mt Music FKall

SoutSo III IostoH was OeuVered on Tuesday
evening by Wendell Phillips, who discussed in
his usual trenchant manner the political stu
alton in Massachusetts, crticising the old par
ties, and defending the new issues of temper
.ance and labor reform. 1t will surprise many
to learn of Mr.. Phillips new attachment for
Gen. Grant, and his warmly expressed desire
for his reelection. lie vindicated the Presi-
dent from the charge of responsibility for the
want of protection for the ballot-box in the
South, and laid the greater fault upon Con-
SIS. His arraignment of the Republican
party for its faltering upon great issues. is
rather pungent, in fact it is emphatcally after
the manner of Phillips
There is not one laurel on the brow of the
republican party to-day which earnest hands
did not press down into its forehead-on its re-
luctant forehead! There is not one step. not
one; there is not one proud effort crowned with
victory which the republican party was not
crowded into by outside pressure. General
applause.) The republican party stands to-day
before the country, and you know-accustom-
ed to come to these lectures every year-tbat
IN every successive noble step they were kick
ed into 1t. General applause.) You know,
every man OF YOU knows that Abraham Lin
coin stood in Washington and said: 81 want
to know what the people wish me to do."-
You know that and others of nv section
nave stood here on this very platform year
after year during the war, and have proDo1nd-
ed the duty Of the republican party, often amid
your misses. You went out OF this hall saving,
This is too much; the party is not ready for
It, You can't expect US to shoulder that meas
ure: We urged, we bayoneted, we forced you
up 10 IL. And alter twenty months or thirty
by outside PRESSURE this machine of the repu6,
lican party was made to assume the new posi-
ton. What is Mr., Summers fame TO-DAY?
what is the exact measure his friends claim
for him? Why it is that, standing at the head
Of a small and compact body of radicals in the
United States Congress- he has tugged his MT.
most strength to drag his party up to the level
OF which it now boasts. Applause. If he has
any laureis, that is exactly the greatness of
them. You know it, every one of you. Now
this party, which, by. an outside and continu-
GUS, critical, aggressive, continual and tireless
criticism, has been made to go up to its duty
turns round and says to US, ''Don't you see
what useful servant am? s'Don't you see
now much l have done? Yes, do. But
when go into dry goods store and see a
large number of beautiful dresses hanging up.
don't turn round to the sewing machine with
- thank you" don't allow the sewing
machine to stand and say: "See what did,
say to the dead wood and cold iron, there
must have been very GINNING and intelligent
hand behind you that made all that. Gap
plause.) Beranger, the French poet, used to
say that the city clerk of Paris thought be was
the father of oil the children in the city be-
and laughter.] Well, always think of it
when listen to republican speech announ-
cling the victories of the republican party
1 read long one yesterday. Turning to
!ne next column Of the paper found little
Joke which ran, "Bill, l always tell my wife
everything that takes place. "That is moth
ing, sam. tell my wife a great many things
that don't take place." Laughter Well, I
thought it ought to have been added as foot
NOT note to the speech. don't intend to Lattack
the Republican party. [Applause.] 1 should
as soon think OF attacking nv erandfatber-
Applause and laughter.] No. that is not a
GOOD nmiie,Cmy grandfather had ideas. Zap
plause.1 Now, this party never had but one
territorial extension. Into everything it has has
been forced BY an outside criticism-every sim
gle step. Why? III stood on an anti-siayery
platform to-day, 1 could summon one and an
otner OF our Old agents and SCARED veterans
ana say: Don't you remember the day that
Henry Wilson came into our meeting in the
hottest hight of the war and said: "If YOU don't
60 out and rouse the country and compel us to
act, We never shall act, we never shall act
1et TINS Is the party that comes up to us and
claims such direct, voluntary, self-moying
practice OF victory that we are not to ATTEMPT
any pressure upon it. What are we doing to-
day? Just what we have done for ten wears:
Watering the Republican party to make it
g, EN- lLaughterI Pressing it in order to
nshe II act; drawing off somewhere by some
m me-; force that shall compel its recogni-
ton OF the duty Of the hour
THE TWO GREAT LOCAL ISSUES
There remains two great questions in reoa-d
to which the earnest friends of each have or
ganIzed themselves into political party One
Is. the interest of temperance and the other the
protection OF labor. Temperance and the
claim of the working men. These are the on
Up two live Issues to-day in Massachusetts. The
Republican party is an honorable party, but as
the old critic said of the man who was praising
his ancestors, "if you judge it by its present
canvass, its great merit rests, like the potato,
under ground Laughter and slight ap-
plause Its past is all its claim IL put forth
no effort for the future. The negro question is
favorably removed from the arena, the protec-
tion OF his transition state passing into an ad-
!nlnistratlve field, matter of the administra-
.,on u government, not great political issue
on whose pivot the nation turns. the Common
weaith mas nothing lett but to look at the 9TH
er greatissues which stir the conscience. alarm
anu anu rouse .ne citizens of the State. And these
Iney nave organized. They stand before Won
side by side with their lists OF candidates Ill.,
are endeavoring to rally the forces of the SAT-
IN behalf Vt their question. They break out |
cratic parties, and rally each round a new han-
ner
WHY NEW PARTY WAS FORMED.
Well, we have come outside of party. Wbv
have we come outside the party? Well, GER
tain wise critic, long conversant with legisla-
ton, gentleman who has served them Off
cialy more than a dozen years, when lately he
was accounting the defeat af prohbitory
statutes, says: II think the prohbitionists
would have stood firm if they hae not been de-
moralized by dancing attendance ON the Re-
publican party. Well, we propose giving up
dancing attendance on the Republican party.
We propose to avoid the danger of being de- |
moralized in the future. We mean to draw off |
ana get into a wholesome atmosphere, outside |
tne region of temptation, where we shall sup
port the other, where we shall stand shoulder /
W shoulder and keep each Others purpose |
warm I'D Its great cause. There is not city
.his country that has been governed on the
pIlhciPles OF universal suffrage. For twenty |
y es New York, ruled by drunkards in the |
nands OF its own grog .shops. ia the stand;no
gibe, the undertaking arg1Dnent which torn;s,s53
In Europe offers to the American Nno wi ,si
not govern great city Wall ~ o
not, don't blame, in ono so, me can
mayor and aldermen of the citv of Rn,s,a ene
They hold divided duty The men VIII no ''o
mate and elect them take q pledge hesar.L nun,
that they should keep their eyes So closet Shrt
that they could not see a grog-shop. It was not
put into the form of a written agreement ao
knowledged before justice of the peace and
recorded in registry of deeds; but it was lust
as much An honorable agreement, and when
the mayor Of the city is elected he walks into
,ne city hall, and there stand the men that
Iifted him there, with the promise beaming out
oL tneir eyes,-and there stands the statute Il
mat ne has sworn to obey. Well. if he has
TT If ms legal duty, that is what he is to do