Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-03

city. 1t was satisfactory gathering in every
respect. All were enthusiastic and every
feature of the meeting attested to the fidelity
of Hallowell citizens to republicanism and
the Blaine and Logan ticket. The first
speaker introduced was Hon. Seth L. MILL
ken, our distinguished member of Congress.
He spoke for an hour and his effect was one
of the most brilliant of this campaign. Mr..
Milliken said:
Hon. Seth L. MiIIiken's Speech
NY friends, is it not time that every meas
ure of reconstruction carried out by the
republicans is a monument of democratic
defeat! In 1861 the republican party endea-
vored to give civil rights and the ballot to the
black man. 1t was met by the democratic
party. 1t attempted to educate the colored
race and better fit them for citizenship
Again it was met by the same party. Ere
long the great question of finance came be
fore tine country. The nation was passing
through an era OF financial depression. Such
interests demanded the attention and consid-
Grafton of every party. The democracy used
it In the spirit of demagogue and treated it
as a football. In 1868 the party was a unit
for HOratio Seymore; four years later for
Horace Greedy, who was in favor of resump-
ton at once. In 1876 and 1880 the position
of the democratic party on finance was similar
to its present stand on the tariff. Then it
was proposed to teach bond or soft money as
the occasion demanded. But Notwithstanding
the opposing democracy the republican party
has done mighty work for the country
financially. In 1865 the country owed 3d.
000. 0O0. 900; today its Indebtedness is but
81 ,450, 100000. The annual interest paid by
the country has been reduced from Sl5 900,
900 in 1865 to So, 000, 900, less that one third
and the rate which was then II per cent has
been curtailed to 3. (Applauoe Is it any
wonder that Gladstone stood on the floor OF
the British parliament and challenged the
world to produce another such case of
financial strength and growth as that of the
American republic The republican party
has also reduced the federal tax more than
than one half and at the same time paid the
ex-soldiers, who faced the rebel bullets,
5000, 900, 900 in pensions, and these men shall
be protected and aided just as long as they
remain in this land and the republican party
be in power. (Applause.) The speaker
treated the tariff issue in mastery
manner and at considerabl, length
Surprising one of you, my fellow citizens, go
to Europe and start a mandatory. Ninety
per cent of all your expenditures will be for
labor. Start a manufacturing business here
The labor will also form 80 per cent. Wages
in Great Britain are 90 cents a day America,
Sl.O0. While you pay interest on $50 pay
on Sl00 The result of this is that where it
costs you $50 to run your mill | am out
800. 1t /, evident that unless | am prOteCtt d
! in some manner 1t viii be necessary for me
| to close NV lac o \. ID, StrOy protection as
| the Golden Cub ash, thus reducing the
price of labor, anu wnat will the wOrkingmen
/ say? Can they be satisfied with the rags,
J the delapitated novels and insufficient food
! of the pauper laborer OF Europe, and which
will be their lot if protection falls? APP
/ plause. Why is it that yearly 500, 900 labor
| ers come to our shores? Why, simply to
better their condition Mr. Milliken dem
onstrated the difference between buying
goods of foreign countries and manutactur-
ing them ourselves. lie showed that by pro-
lection the producer AMI consumer are
/ brought together and are both benefited lie
paid his respects TO the dukes, dudes and
doctrinaries. The democratic plank was re.
viewed and its Inconsistencies exposed. The
speaker in closing made a stirring appeal for
voters to cast the republican ballot next
Monday.
( Hon. Julius c. Burroughs of Michigan
was next introduced. He occupied about an
hour and made a very convincing speech,
keeping the audience in roar of laughter
much of the time. He spoke as follows:
Hon. Julius c. Burroughs' speech.
The West is looking towards Maine to see
hat she will do. Let ROBBIE receive but 100
or 1000 votes next Monday and Mr.. Blaine
is surely defeated. Let him get 10000 and
| pprtharn north M
Mason and Dixsons line from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. Applause Democrats
who desire Mr.. Blaine's election were told to
vote for Robe. Everyone should vote for
the Plumed Knight as matter of State
pride. The platforms of the two parties were
reviewed, and the speaker gave an exceeding
| ly ludicrous account of the democratic civil
service professions. Let the democratic
party get the best of it this fall and
every postmaster and every clerk will
be Obliged to step down and out in the name
of civil service reform. (Laughter.) Look
at Pendleton the great democratic champion
of this reform in Congress. When he went
home for his reward what did his constituents
do? Retired him to private life. We ask
! clerks, postmasters, etc, to pay us certaln
sum and am not afraid to own it. What did
Hendricks do? He marked opposite each
/ name on tne ron tue amount Vi the ASSESS
ment and then deducted it. paying over the
| balance in the name of the civil service re-
/ form (Laughter.) Mr.. Burroughs discussed
the question of pologamy and said the project
/ of the democracy was to make
six pologamous, democratic states
| in the West and by giving II democratic
senators, control Congress for long term OF
wears, The case of Buchanan of Utah. who
! knocked at the door of the House for admis-
sion to a seat and was refused by reason of
his five wives was referred to. The plank OF
! free ballot and fair count was handled In
mastery manner. When we have free
/ ballot and a fair count in the South. he said,
we will carry seven states below Mason and
4 Dixon's line. The republicans wants free
ballot and a fair count. The democratic
( party does not. The speaker related with
( much effect the investigation of the Copiah
county outrages, by the congressional
1 committee. The offences were all committed
! in the interest of free ballot and a fair
/ count. The tissue ballot and other election
/ frauds were ventilated by the speaker. He
was glad that James G.. Blaine was aggressive
and hoped he would give every American
citizen his rights. He characterized
dishonesty at the ballot box and the buying
of votes as the two great evils which threaten
the existence of the republic. Mr.. Burroughs
closed by paying an eloquent oratorical