Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-07-29
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
srNArOg HoAE's HrrfY To rErsiptNr
rfuor's CRITICISM,

f-rnaiof ifoar's fremont Temple speech
I see III, Prcsilen, % Harvard tells
h.s ncishbor. that the platform Is i'm
moral and demagosieal. Well. ! diiier
With the worthy President. / hope ev.
ery citizen Of Massachusetts, will make
himself familiar with the platforms of
both parties The republican platform
states squGrely and clearly what major
i,y u republicans think. /, cAnno, be
expected ,ha, the representatives of a
continent should M, differ on some in
portaat questions. Bat the platform de-
clAres tbs honesi belief of honest men.
The cisil service plank was dfawa BY
Geofge William Curtis. aud that atoai
the surplus by Cabo, Lodge Pfesiden,
Elliot thinks the civil service resolution
/. no, honest. Well. | would rather
stand fof civil service reform With the
men who passed the law Of las, year,
with Elmands and HAwley and John
sherman and D)rman B. Eaton. than
with the men who retired Pcndle,on TO
private life.
President Elliot expresses the senil-
men, Of little body OF men abou, Cam
bridge am happy . believe he does
no, represent the eollege-whose inha.
ice. IN my judgment. has tended inf
ni,ely to degrade the public life Of the
Commonwealth These men have taught
oar educated youth to be ashamed Of our
own history. They have told them thai,
..inee the close Of the war there has
been no time when a young man knew
how he could honOrAbly serve bis eoun-
try" They were preaching in the same
strain during the war, and before the
war. Their eyes are microscopes which
can see a blemish on the skin, but cam
no, take in q fair landscape or healthy
human figure. They can find no states.
manship and no public virtue In the pay.
ment OF the debt, in the settlement OF
the currency. in the return 10 specie pay
ment, in the sublime elemeney that deal,
with the conquered after the war, in the
great self.resiraini Of the Alabama trea.
~. in tae miraculous development OF
our manufactures, in the creation OF our
great domestic commerce. 10 the peace
ful se,tlemen, Of the disputed Presiden-
,ial succession. There is hardly man
who has taken any Of the responsibilities
OF public life who has no, been compelled
TO undergo the oOn,emp,uous criticism OF
these gentle hermiis Of Cambridge. IL
has been 50 from the beginning. Even
the men whom they are mos. eager TO
praise, and whose example they cite TO
show the decay Of modern statesman
ship-they dealt the same measure to in
their time-John Adams and his illus.
trious son, Sumner, Andrew. Wilson. As
they erect their mausoleum TO each, they
should write over !, the inscription. sour
fathers stoned this prophe, and we built
his sepalchre."
But Presiden, Ellio, has been reflect
ing upon the tariff. think | ought 10
detain you q momen, more to give you
his contribution to that discussion. Tie
says to his Cambridge auditors;
"Then this platform says great many
wrong things. for the sake Of trapping
votes in Ohio and elsewhere. about tsrif'
legislation That is ticklish subject,
gentlemen. and perhaps you wish would
no, say anything abou, it. IL Is dis
pu,ed question. and for tina, very reason
/ believe that = political party which i
undertaking TO have . profound interest