The Portland daily press., 1884-06-23

cannot sustain the flag and protect the inter
est OF our citizens at home and abroad he does
not deserve to be President of the United
States. (Applause9 But it would be an out
rage for me to stand here any longer and talk
10 you about Blaine You do not need me and
you are all Tor him any way. But before
close let me say that as far as the West is con-
cerned Mr.. Blaine is essentially their choice.
The evening paper said was for Edmunds.
Certainly was; but they say / was bought
over by the election to the chairmanship of
the convention. Well I wish somebody else
bad been elected because was in no condi-
ton to serve satisfactorily to myself nor to the
convention. But the difficulty is 1 was nomi-
mated and elected by the opponents of Mr..
Blame. Ny friend Grow received the Blaine
vote and wish he had been elected, for in the
first place he is better chairman and in the
second place he is better looking man. I
was Tor Senator Edmunds not that had any
ooJections to Mr. Blaine for personally he is as
warm friend as have upon earth. / have
known him since he entered Congress in
1868. He has been upright in his conduct and
has carried the flag of the national industry,
the nag OF civil rights, the flag of honest
money aud the flag of protection and national
prosperity. (Applause.) He now stands be-
fore the country as a fit representative not only
OF the little Safe OF Maine but az the repre-
sentative OF American generosity, American
craftsmanship, American knowledge and
American wisdom. Great applause.)
Chairman Reed-Not for the purpose of
enabling you to make the comparison which
the gentleman who nov sets down has spoken
Of but in order you may listen to gentleman
whose name must be associated in your minds
with the early gloIies of the Republican party
I present to you Speaker Grow of Pennsyl.
vania.
REMARKS OF MR.. GROW
Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens
My friend Henderson's modesty is only
equaled by his generosity and came to show
you he was mistaken, that while all Re-
pubicans are good looking do not think his
comparison was just between us. There
have stood before you tonight living
illustration of the great changes which in
your lifetime has swept over the institutions
of your country. When Abraham Lincoln
was elected President the first speaker upon
the stand this evening was a slave
under the laws of Mississippi and today he
speaks to you as freeman in all the rights
and dignity that belong to human being The
lives of this generation of men have been cast
in one OF the most eventful eras of the worlds
history. All You of middle age began life
without the telegraph or railroad and today
hundred thousand miles of railroad
score the continent and the lightning of heaven
bears your messages OF business, love, joy and
sorrow around the world in the
changes in the material deyelop-
ment have been equaled by the still greater
changes in the political and social institutions
OF our country wrought by the spirit and
genius of the Republican party. What has
the Democratic party done towards accom-
plishing these things? Instead of one flag
floating to-day from the gulf to the lakes and
from ocean to ocean, to-day we should
have had dismembered union. There is no
law on our statute book, there is no political
act for the last fUantv.fiua nf xvhi Oh
Americans are ashamed. There has been no
measure attempted of which the Americans
are ashamed except those attempted by the
Democratic party. All the great achievements
in which you take pride have been accomplish
ed BY the Republican party. The constitu-
9ion of the United States has been amended so
that human bondage can no longer exist 1t
was done by the Republican party the Demo-
cratic party with five exceptions voted against
making shat change. The Democratic party
stands to-day in the same relation to the pro-
gress, spirit and genius of the age as the hind
wheels of the wagon do to the forward wheels.
Whenever the hind wheels come up. where the
fore wheels were the fore wheels have gone
on. The Republican party accomplish results
against the protest and solid vote of the
Democratic party and twenty years after it is
accomplished they come in and say they are
for 1t. What use has young and progressive
country with party that is all hind side and
no fore side. (Laughter.) Twenty-four years
ago the Republican party then in its infancy
nominated Abraham Lincoln for its standard
bearer. La the election he received in the
fifteen slave holding states less than twenty
seven Thousand votes. Four years later the
Democratic party in national convention de-
clared the war for perpetuity Of the nation
failure and demanded cessation of hostilities.
Sixteen years later with one flag floating from
the gulf to the lakes aud from ocean to ocean
with our institutions and people homogeneous
the Republican party met to renew its plighted
faith in liberty aud justice and selected as
standard bearer james A. Garfield. He re-
ceived in all the slave holding states not
single electoral vote. The Republican party a
day or two ago selected as its great standard
bearer James G. Blaine who will carry the
banner, equal rights of all men before the law,
protection Of American labor and enforce
nent of the constitutional guarantees of citi-
zenshiD to triumph on the ides of November
next. With Blaine's election in my Judgment
there will be no longer a solid South. (Ap
plause.)
Chairman Reed:-I have the pleasure next
to present to you distinguished citizen of
Kentucky, Hon. William c. Goodloe.
SPEECH OF MR.. GooDLoE.
Mr.. Goodloe commenced by saving that ba
had never been farther north than Boston bnt
he had been SO carried away with what he had
seen since his arrival in Maine, that he had
fallen in love with the country and with our
distinguished citizen. the nominee of the partv
He spoke of the Chicago convention. whars
without the slightest bitterness or feeling he,
tween the friends of any candidate. Mr..
Blaine was nominated in friendly and fair
contest, without resemblance of fraud, with
out any pretence of dishonesty, bat bv large
Overwhelming majority of the Republicans of
this country. ~
There is no name in the section of the
country, said Mr.. Goodloe, from which I come,
to which the people are so closely endeared as
that OF your nominee. The whole West be-
lleVe 10 him. They promised you what thew
would do II he was candidate, and they will
make their promise good in November. All
the kicking we have in the West is kicking
up our heels with joy and pleasure at the
nomination. Oaughter) 1 have heard it said
that there was some disaffection in the adj
Joining commonwealth of Massachusetts,
do not believe Massachusetts,, the mother of
the Republican party, will decline to support
the nominee OF its representatives. Whvt we
have been taught out my way to look to Massa.
chusetts always for Republican inspiration and
guidance. we have but followed her teach
lngs in going along in the path of Republican,
ism. But if the blow is to be struck at the
Republican party it could come from no better
source than from the mother that gave birth
to the grand old party. Bot there will be- no
such blow. love her people too much. L ad-
mire her civilization, / love her TEACHINGS
which are scattered broadcast over the land too
well to believe it. Never until the day comes
and is passed will we believe that the grand
old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or apv
other New England State will turn her back
on the Republican nominee. (Applause) IL
these Independents expect anything from the
Democratic party they will be woefully mis-
taken. There will be one question more than
any other that will be presented to the Ameri-
can people for their decision at the coming
election and that will be simply whether or
not we shall have for this country an English
tariff or an American tariff. (Applause.)
England has always been our
enemy in war and our commercial
rival in peace. But I love the old
mother country, and to destroy her from the
face OF the earth, you would destroy one of the
greatest civiliziHg agencies the world has ever
known. But are we to follow the lead of Eng.
land in America. or shall we follow the lead
OF America alone? LIST us pursue the course
which will best advance our own interests
Let America, peaceably and with love for her
own citizens, move on to do that which is best
for America and is best for American interests
There is no such thing as war in the future of
this country. 1t is but the clsp-trap CRY of the
Democracy, with peace everywhere, as we
will have it with Blaine for our President
peace all over this country and the adjoining
ones. What endears Blaine SO much to the
hearts OF the people of this country is that he
is essentially an American, and ali American.
Is he to be stricken down because he loves an
American more than foreigner? Is he TO be
censured because he loves the interests of his
own people above the interests of all others?
That is the man you have nominated; and as.