The Portland daily press., 1884-09-02

SpeecmeS DT EAOMs w AAA
Cumbach of Indiana and Hon. Thomas
rs. Reed.
Inc Republican demonstration at Ferry
Village last night was great success. From
one thousand to fifteen hundred people gather
ed at the space in front of the store Of J. n. &
+. II. Hartford where Mr.. George f. Henley
was introduced as the chairman of the meet
ing After few Introductory remarks he
gave the signal when q beautiful Blaine and
Logan flag was unfurled amidst the cheers of
the great crowd, and the lively strains Of
Chandler's Band.
Mr.. Henley then introduced Hon. Will Cum
bach of Indiana who spoke substantially as
follows:
BeJEo,0 Citizens Of the State Of Maine:
am here on the invitation Of the chairman of
the Republican committee OF State to take
some part in your campaign. 1 am happy to make
a visit to this State where the pine trees grow so
tai and your sons become 50 great that the people
them and demand that he shall he the chief magis-
trate of our union Of states. know good reason
why an humble and unpretending citizen of Indiana
may not come here for such a purpose. In our
political contests in the asst we have had in our
State the pleasure of hearing many of the eloquent
men OF your State and four years ago when Indiana
had the brunt of the battle in October gallant
standard bearer, James G. Blaine, came from Maine
and infused bis own energetic spirit in the canvass
and his eloquent appeal so inspired the HOosier
Republicans that they closed up the ranks and in
October we sent you report of a victory that
turned the tide Of battle and made the election of
Garfield an easy one in November.
L am not hero to attempt to discharge the debt
Indiana owes Maine. 1 here simply to
acknowledge 1t and to express the hope that next
Monday Maine may give such an account of herself
as 70 enable Indiana to see that Blaine and Logan
had in 1880. 1t is not SO much difference about
States it used to be before party took charge
of affairs. We have restored the good old doctrine
of the fathers that the whole nation claims our
affection and regard-that the supreme authority
is there-that these States are bound together by
the indissoluble bands of the constitution they
make the American union. Not a mere confeder-
acy that may be dissolved and uttered at the will
and pleasure of any of the States but solid and
enduring nationality for the perpetuation of the
blessings of freedom 10 the whole people.
The very preamble of the constitution declares
thai we the peopie-and MOTIVE the states but We the
people-the whole people of the nation-do ordain
and publish this constitution for the perpetuation
of the blessings of liberty to ourselves and pos
terity and the constitution itself declares that it is
the supreme law of the land. The modern Demo-
cratic theory that the sovereignty in the state
and not in the nation was invented and proclaimed
in the interest of liberty but in the interest of
human slavery, theory that bred sectional oiscord
and arrayed the South against the North, filed the
minds of men with the gravest apprehensions of
dissolution of the Union, and to hold the states to-
gether compromises had to be made and treaties of
peace to keep order among the dscordant family of
States. These treaties and compromises were kept
by the South, in whose interest they were made,
only so long as the interest of slavery was pro-
NOTED by so doing. They were then cast aside and
others were demanded under the old threat that if
these new demands were not acceded to they would
fall back their State right to dissolve the Union
IL was the policy OF the Democrats to magnify the
State Our Republican party while it recognizes all
the nation.
1t is not our boast now that we are citizens of
Maine or Indiana, but claim that higher rank, that
lobler title of citizens of the Republic-American
citizens, than which prouder title can be claimed
by man in the domain of civilization. By this
restoration of the true meaning of the constitution
our citizenship means something, our flag with its
stars means Union as perpetual as the stars above
us, and the civilized world are recognizing us as
power among the nations of the earth and one that
has come to stay and one whose friendship it would
be well to cultivate. 1t has given us financial
character, also, that did have before. Under
the last democratic admins srations Of twenty-five
years ago our ten per cent. bond went begging for
bidders at twelve per cent. discount. Now our
three per cent. bond commands premium.
The old heresy of the right Of secession and dsso-
luton having been buried by the side Of the insti
tuition of slavery the money lenders OF the world be-
gin to have confidence that the same Government
that issued the bond will be in existence when the
bond is due, aud while the:Repubicaniparty has the
control they feel that the bond will be paid when it
is due; hence the whole world is seeking to buy our
bonds and our credit which was the worst under
the last Democratic administration is the best
of any nation in the world That something to be
proud OF. It's national and not a state pride,
it is the legitimate result of the overthrow of
Democratic policy and the substitution of the
national principles of the Republicanism.
Great as was the cost of the war in money and
the ineAlculable value of the precious blood that
was shed, yet we destroyed slavery and all the
Democratic heresies that grew out of this hot bed
Of iniquty. We cleared the horizon of the threat
ening clouds of disunion, restored the standard
of the Nation to It's rghtful place above hat of the
State and compelled the world to recognize the
American citizen as Ii peer of the iiZen of any
other Nation. We have inaugurated new civil
cation. This is no longer the land of slavery but
the abiding place of freedom. The flag now rep.
res0nta liberty and ma
citizen as be goes to other lands proudly hold
up his head and need not fear as IN old Democratic
times that the taunt that we are Nation ruled by
slavery and shareholders will be thrown in his
teeth. We have no more dsgracsfuI compromises
with oppression to bring the blush of shame to
cheeks. We have no more fugitive slave laws to
compel you and l to hunt, arrest and bring back
the painting fugitive fleeing to place OUTSIDE of the
Union where he might claim to own himself. We
have no more disgracefui statutes making it
penal offence to teach the poor black man to read
We have now no decisions of highest judicial
tribunal that one man has rights that another
OF lighter color is bound to respect. We have no
more of the selling of the husband from the wife,
and the wife from the husband, the mother from
the child and the child from the mother. We
shudder when we look back at this barbarism. But
all this barbarism and much more would have been
ours if had not put the Democratic party out of
power. 1t has taken almost quarter of a century
to inaugurate this better state of things and the
work is not YET complete. Every progressive step
we have taken has been met with the bitter oppo-
stion OF the Democrats and every victory for this
better state of things has been not by the help
but in spite of the Democratic party.
say the work is not complete and will not be
until the full right of every citizen, white and
black, shall be respected everywhere, until the
government shall be able to protect every ballot box
In the land from the filthy fingers of fraud, until
the shot gun shall cease method OF electioneer-
ing and every vote shall be counted as deposited in
the box. We must have government with an arm
long enough to reach out everywhere even TO the
extreme limits of the land, and protest the poor
black man in his cabin, and strong enough to take
the murderous Ku-Klux by the throat and choke
n nj ganO F10h frb han
him. We have been waiting for the South to do
this PLAIN act OF justice until patience has ceased to
be a virtue. We will have electoral votes cast in
several of the Southern States for Cleveland and
Hendricks that will be obtained by violence and
fraud. We have score or more OF congressman
who vote down the repre- sentat1ves from Maine, who
are in sense the choice of the people they claim
to represent, but the vile spawn of intimidation
and fraud. Ii these poor people are ever protected
removed, i5 will have to be done by the Republic
cans. The perpetrators of all these outrages are
Democrats of the South, and have never seen
line OF condemnation in any Democratic platform,
or in the Democratic press of the North, of these
outrages on the rights of citizens
BY making the negro citizen we increased the
representation in the South, and thus increased
their political power both in Congress and in the
electoral college, and they deny the right of the col
ored man to vote, refuse to count his vote when
cast, and thus add to their own political power in
the nation by the violation of the constitution and
laws. This ought no longer to be permitted A gov
eminent that is powerless to protect the rights of
her own citizens, when those rights are invaded
allows The perpetrators of the wrongs to go unpun
ished, is unworthy of the name of government. IL
was not for this that Revolutionary fathers with
heroic sacrifices fought England for many long
years to gain the right to govern themselves. 1t
was not Tor such government that their no less
gallant sons in Maine and Indiana went the front
Of the battle against and dissolution The
shattered constitution of the gallant band that
main and the empty sleeve of every pensioner re-
mind us of the fearful price have paid to main
tain government where all shall not only be free
but where all shall be protected in their rights.
Shall all the sacrifices of the revolutionary
fathers and of the equally valiant sons be in vain?
Shall it be said that any here in this broad land
beneath the Stars and Stripes man shall be robbed
of his rights and that there is redress for the
wrong? That he cannot be allowed to exercise and
enjoy the privileges of a citizen If he be black?
Shall we invite the poor man to como to shores
to fee from oppression in other lands-and after
We have clothed him with all the powers and duties
of citizenship trample his rights and give him
voice in the government? If political position can
be in the aouth with the shotgun and the
bludgeon or by the destruction OF the ballot box,
will not the same party introduce the same methods
majority the rights of the minority will be trampled
very long since that here in Maine Democratic
governor did try to have the minority rule the ma
jority, but the scheme failed.
The ballot box must be kept pure. Our safety as
a nation depends on the confidence that it speaks
Citizen no matter what party has won the day, will
yield cheerful acquiscence to its decision. There
must not be doubt or well grounded suspicion that
what il the uncontrolled and fraa chOica of