Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-31

CltlZens or Brooklyn-As am 70 De fol-
lowed by my distinguished friend, Senator
Sherman of Ohio, Capplsusel IN speech,
take it as my only dut3 Of the evening to fin
ish the text. spplause and that text shall be
brief summary of the effects TO follow from
the continuance of the republican party in
power. What is TO be assured: What is to
be held firm: To begin with the currency
system of the United States was brought back
TO par with gold by my distinguished friend,
then the eminent secretary of the treasury,
will be held at that point. [Great applause. |
Second, that the system of duties which
affords encouragement and protection alike
TO the laborer and capitalist in the United
States will be maintained Third, just
system OF settlement on the public lands and
the conservation of those lands for the benefit
OF actual sett ers be upheld. Applause.
Fourth, that the munifcent and magnificent
system of pensions which has rewarded the
fortitude and the valor of our soldiers will be
retained in honorable faith; and fifth, that
the encouraging improvement in the civil
service of the United States will be continued
and further developed as experience shall
point the way; and in that connection
desire to say that the republican party-with-
out speaking or intending to speak insiduous-
ly of any other party in the United States
past or presents the only one that ever had
the resolution and courage to limit its own
political power Tremendous applause.
The republican party did not gain power by
the struggle for reform in civil service, but
with the possession of a patronage larger and
grander than the imperial sway ever con-
trolled. The party voluntarily abandoned
the partisan control of patronage and initiated
that great reform within our ranks-the
oh ri nrappHanf al
in the history of politics, applause and what
has been accomplished is but n fureshadow-
ing of that which a more enlarged experience
and further trial shall demonstrate to be
wise. patriotic and effective, and lastly, those
great amendments to the constitution which
are the embodimelts of what was gained by
the war, the emancipation of the slave, APP
plause the declaration and definition Of the
right of citizenship, the guaranty of the
national credit by organize enactments, and
that liberal basis of suffrage which forbids
that it should stop at any line of labor-all
these will be maintained with patriotic tidel
ity. Prolonged applause In other words,
that great series OF measures and of laws
which were the outgrowth of the civil strug
gle, and which embodied and preserved It's
best results. are safe in the hands of the
republican party. Tremendous applause ]
To place these laws under the domination of
another party, if it did not destroy, would
certainly, in the opinion of the most prudent,
seriously imperil their usefulness and per-
haps their existence. Applause. These
briefly are the attainments not whereby prom
ised, but guaranteed by republican success
"a success that will embody as over all and
under all and before all other issues-fidelity
to the Union of States and loyalty to the
int of prnlDnUAH
cheering, again and again renewed
Sherman delivered long address, arguing
that the Mulllgan letters proved Blaine guilty
of nothing.
Meeting in the Grand Opera House.
From the Academy of Music, Blajne and
Gen. Fremont were driven to the Grand
Opera House. where there was another great
crowd outside and very large audience
inside On Blane's appearance there was a
repetition, on smaller scale, at the acad
emy. On being introduced by the chairman.
Blaine said:
"The republican party had its origin in a
combination of patriotic men 30 years ago to
prevent the introduction of slavery into the
territories of the United States. That battle
waged with persistence and courage and
resisted with a spirit of evil determination,
and finally eliminated in the election of
Abraham Lincoln cheers and resistance to
his constitutional right to be president ended
in bloody war of years duration. A party
which began existence by resisting slavery,
naturally and inevitably became the protector
of free labor loud cheering and with the
question .of slavery definitely ended. BY
issue of the civil struggle the party became
the embodiment of that industrial system,
which had for its end and its aim the eneour-
agement of American industry. Enthusias-
tic cheering. The step from relieving
tho blackman from the slave labor was natu.
raj and easy to relieving the white man from
the degradation of that form of labor which
reduces him to the servitude of poverty
renewed cheering] standing there many
years as the advocate of protective tariff.
Cheers. The results have been the great
enlargement of our industrial activity, vast
addition to our national wealth, encourage
facturers. elevation and better payment of
every man who earns his bread by the sweat
of bis face. Loud cheering Thirty years
of effort, "a years of power, have certainly
vindicated the claims of the republican party
to general and national confidence Tcheers
and the leading question now to be decided
by popular vote in all the states is whether
that industrial system and that financial
system, which go hand in hand, shall be
superseded and whether the experiment of
free trade, with a possible change in our
currency system be resorted to by voluntarily
consent of the American party. Never \
Certainly there is no man intelligent enough
to re exon up his wages on Saturday night
who does not know that the only difference
between a days pay for labor in the United
States aud days pay for labor in the Brit
ish Isle is that which is produced by and re
suits from protective tariff. Great and pro-
longed cheering. So that the American
laborer and mechanic who voluntarily casts
his ballot for the elevation to power of a
party committed to free trade, casts his ballot
for a reduction OF his wages. Enthusiastic
cheering. | desire to repeat here what
have said more than once elsewhere, that all
voluntarily associations which laboring men
and mechanics resort to in trades unions and
like cooperative efforts-well enough desira-
bic in many respects as they are and meeting
certainly with no word of criticism from me
applause are yet entirely ineffective as a
means OF upholding the scale of American
wages unless back of them there be that
protection and support which come from the
levyiug of duties on scale embodied in pro-
tective tariff Good, good and cheers I
Here at home the trades unions NAV protect
you from the unjust exactions of an employer
but how in an era of free trade can it protect
you from Importation of cheap fabric from
the old world which must necessarily reduce
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