The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-14


the regular order for the other candidates.
The chair put the amendment of MI
Holman, and it was carried He then put MT
Porter's motion as amended and it was car
red
The chair stated that ample provisions bad
been made for delegates. If the seats in the
hall were occupied it must be by persons mol
delegates. Delegates were then accommodated
with seats who were not provided with them
At this point there were loud cries of "Frye!
Frye!" and the chairman, turning, said:
Gentlemen-It is with great pleasure l pre- pre-
sent to you a gentleman whom Maine has de-
lighted to honor, does delight to honor,
and will in the future delight to honor; Il
introduce Hon. w. P. Frye" Great cheer
ing.)
SENATOR FRYE's SPEECH.
Mr.. President, Gentlemen Of the Con0entlon:
had no purpose of addressing this conven-
ton, for on investigating the business when
must necessarily come before it, recognizing It's
importance. the great numbers of the conven-
ton, the limited time for consultation. deter
mined that this must be convention for WORK
and not convention for talk
And yet, Mr.. President, cannot fail to con.
graduate the Republican party of the State OF
Maine in this most magnificent delegation that
| have ever seen assembled in any State CON
vention in this State or any other. Magnlh,
cent in numbers, for almost every section OF
this State is represented, ffty-six men spend
ing four days of time coming down from ARGOS
took county (applause) every portion Iof tne
State responding to the call made upon IL.
This is no convention meeting in the city OF
Portland, and packing-weak delegations. EV-
cry man represents constituency, when Sc
lected that identical man to come here ana
represent it, Magnificent, too, in It's lnteill-
IFS avid
mination to lift the State of Maino out of the
Slough of Despond intolwhich it has just enter
ed the perilous edge.
And why should it not be magnificent con-
vention, and why should it not show lnteil-
gence, enthusiasm and determination? CEN
tlemen, you represent party which for
quarter of century has been the party OF pro-
gress, the party Of civilization, the party
against barbarisHn, the party for education, Tor
the enlightenment of the people, Tor the nttlng
of them for the high and responsible duties OF
American citizens under the Constitution; the
party in favor of temperance and to whom the
temperance men of the State OF Maine owe
every advance, every step of progress that has
been made in the last twenty-five years ZAP
plause).
You represent party, gentlemen, which
twenty years ago took the administration OF az
fairs in this great republic; which found a
bankrupt treasury, bankrupted by the Demo-
cratic party in time of profound peace, SO
bankrupt that it could not borrow money at II
Der cent, and offers were made for its bonds at
Sc per cent discount, and they were rejected.
You took this country and the administration
of affairs when seven states had seeded from
the Union; when the President and Vice
President OF Southern Confederacy had been
elected, when your forts and arsenala and SHIPS
of war had been seized by the enemy of the
flag, and the enemy of tho Union; when your
army had been scattered and q portion OF it
surrendered, when your navy had been scat
tered to every corner of the earth. You took 1T
right in that perilous time of war, OF discord,
and of anarchy, with no. army, no navy, no
money in the treasury. That party has raised
an army of millions, it built, equipped and
manned a navy ample to blockade every South
ern port. 1t raised by taxation and by bor-
rowing money five billions of dollars and in
it's extremity it resorted to that terrible expe-
dent of issuing paper money. 1t was an expe-
dent absolutely necessary to save the Union,
and it was resorted to- One hundred millions,
two hundred millions, four hundred millions
in all. And then you saw that party do what
no other party OH this EARTH what no nation
In all the history OF nations from the begin
ming has done; it stood up in the face OF every
temptation, in the face of bitter determined
that not another dollar of that paper moIey If
redeemable, should ever be printed and issued
to the people OF this country as money. 1t was
the greatest triumph of virtue, OF integrity, OF
sound principle that even this country or any
other ever beheid Gentlemen, that party
saw that money go down to 38 cents on the dol
lar. With the help of the war Democrats
of the country, with the bitter
opposition of the other portion OF the
Democratic party, for four years holding the
administration of affairs, that party brought
that war to triumphant close. That party
then, by magnanimity never seen on this
earth before except that exhibited by the Sa-
viour of Man Himself, that party never pun
ished one single human being for the great
crime which had been committed, but pro-
ceeded to reconstruct the Union, 20 bring BACK
these men who had been in rebellion, into par
ticpation into affairs, into participation in
governing the great republic they had UNDER
taken to destroy, and it proceeded to that work
until every State was represented IN the Con-
gress of the United States and Peacs, beautl-
full, glorious Peace, an angel bright and mag
settled in our land once more to build
for herself a home there forever. That party
W nich at the close of the war, settled deli5-
erately down and balanced its books and found
by the current accounts that 1t owed S2,oOO,-
600, 600, enough to appal any man or any ma
ton, and its paper money So cents on the dol
lar-did 1t weaken, did it yield, did 1t go down
beneath the demands of honest but mistaken
men, to set the printing presses at work? No,
gentlemen! That party had virtue enough to
do the only thing there was left to be done Tor
the integrity of the Union, and that was to
build up the credit of that country; and imme-
diatey it commenced paying that great debt,
and from that day down to the hour OF my
speaking it has paid it at the rate OF one hun
dred millions year. Immediately the credit
of the country began to go up, and then that
party passed law after law, and they stand
on the statute book to-day just as the Republi-
can party put them there; the Democratic,
the Greenback party, the Fasion party and the
confusion party, enemies outside ana weak
friends inside, all contending thai that legisla-
+;< hs iOft ont I GQV
its manhood stood there and kept those laws on
the statute book and they stand there today.
That party which provided for refunding, and
refunded at per cent, at per cent at a per
cent, at per cent, at - per cent, ana to-day
by its legislation in Congress, by its fidelity to
principle, finds these 81 per cent bonds above
par, commanding premium; that party winch
took those greenbacks down at 81 cents on the
dollar and by wise legislation brought them
up until to-day they circulate at par with gold
in every great commercial centre IN the wide
world; that party which lifted the burdens OF
the people to an extent of over $3.50, 000, Co
wear in internal revenue taxation, and on the
tariff reduced an equal amount; that party
which, as | say, accomplished a financial Ieat
that is without parallel in all the history OF all
the countries in the world that party you, gem
tlemen, represent; that party which frst and
alone had the courage to stand up and declare
to advancing barbarism and slavery "Thus far
and no farther forever; that party when 1t IS
sued its call found itself sustained by the God
of battles and by the people OF the republic,
and saw five millions of shackles drop OFT the
hands of five millions of men; that party
which then took these five millions of I'M
shackled hands and opened them and put in
them the silent ballot, that mark of American
citizenship, and left it there, aud it is there to-
day; that party which for the last two weeks in
Congress has succeeded in keeping those bal
lots 10 those black hands and in securing to
those men all rights of American citizenship
guaranteed by the constitution of our country;
that party, which, taking the country as 1t did
over twenty years ago, business depressed,
men out of employment, Immediately went to
work and built up a law in the Interests OF la
boring men of this country and enacted in the
laws tariff under whose benign Influences for
the last twenty years we have lived, and in
agriculture and in manufactures, in the arts
and all of the ind lstries, have made greater
progress than has ever been seen in any cou n
try in this world in the same length OF time;
that party which has SO built up, so prospered
this grand republic of ours that now every year
a million of men are coming from the old
world into its bosom, and its bosom receives
them and they become part ct our grand old
republic Oh! my friends, why should NOT
men who represent party like that be men OF
intelligence, of enthusiasm of determination.
Gentlemen of the convention you have one
of the highest duties that appeals to you as
American citizens, to do, and that is to month";
ate men for public office that are fit to be
leaders of sucn party as described. LII IS
not your duty to be partisan Tor this man OF
that man. You do not come here to make war
on this man or for that man. You come here