The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-09-08
THE LAST RALLY.
General HawIoy and Col. SnOwden nj
City HalI-A Splendid Audience Listens
to Their Telling Arguments.


the Democracy, there was splendid audience
of ladies and gentlemen gathered in City Hall
to hear the polished orator General j. r. Haw-
ley, and that most convincing speaker Col. A,
Lowden Snowdon. At 8 o'clock preeise1v.
amidst music by Merima ms band, long file
of distinguished citizens escorted the speakers
to the stage. The Blaine and Logan Glee
Club sang with fine effect SIN November"
which was followed by "We are the Riff.raff
Boys" Mr.. Frank S. Waterhouse, chairman
of the City Committee, introduced Hon.
Joseph S. Locke as president of the meeting.
Mr.. Locke was received with applause and deliv-
cred a stirring ten minutes speech full Of GOOD
points. He said that does Justice to hinseIf
unless he learns wisdom for the future BY exneri
enee of the past. Our nation, our state and onr
people will not do justice to themselves unless thew
shall have learned by the experience of the mast
wisdom to guide them in the coming election. All
the great things accomplished by the Republican,
party have been accomplished by its wisdom fore
thought unfaltering zeal and its determination TO
do right every time. (Appiause). But there is vet
great WORK TO be accomplished In great MANY
sections OF our country ignorance is prevalent The
purity of the ballot box disregarded and the Iiher
* OF personal and political opinion is forbidden.
These things must be rectified and the Republican
party must be continued in power until thew are
rectifed. (Applause).
After the conclusion of Mr.. Locke's remarks
he introduced Col. A. Lowdsn Snowdon, of
Philadelphia, who, in speech of an hour and
a quarter, reviewed in mastery way the his
tory of the Republican party, and contrasted
it with that OF the Democratic party
Among other things he said that one of the great
difficulties we have had to contend with in the last
"a years is the fact that mems party affiliations
hold them against their judgment against their in
terest and against the welfare of their country IF
we could nave men look at public questions simply
as to their bearing upon the welfare Of the country
there would have been no trouble during the war OF
since as to the majority of the Republican party
But unfortunately Tor and our country the great
mass OF the Democratic party have blindly voted
upon the great questions without discussion or
sideration as to whether they were aiding in the
welfare OF the country or NOT We, as American
try: II it is best that the Republican party should
retire from power and the Democratic party should
take its place there ought to be some substantial
reasons given why such change should take place.
For "a years the government has been in the hands
of men who have followed certain principles and
convictions and the whole legislation of the country
has been in one direction, and this legislation and
policy proclaimed by the Republican party has
constantly met with opposition from the Demo-
grated p Itself Into te Oh bre ana Of
life. Our financial policy, our revenue
laws, our mode of transactng business are all ell
known and approved of; all branches and classes of
citizens affected by legislation know exactly what
their condition is and what to expect, but if you
change the administration of public affairs is there
ocratic party will do?
Col. Snowdon said the Democratic party was
party OF promises; and then to show how much re-
lance could be placed upon them he cited the case
of Buchanan, a friend of his father, who promised
publicly and privately that if elected he should
observe the constitutional rights of all sections and
he would see particularly that fair plsy was ac-
corded to the people of Kansas and Nebraska who
were resisting the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise, and the extension of slavery within their
borders. But no sooner was Buchanan elected than
he became the plant tool of Jefferson Davis Robert
Toombs, Howell Cobb and men that led the advance
in the attempted extension of slavery. Col. Snow
don contrasted the financial condition of the coun-
try under Buchanan's administration with that of
to-day and asked if that condition under the last
Democr tic President was such as to command the
respect and confidence of the best men of to-day.
That administration with no such debt as we have
to-day, in an attempt to borrow ten millions of
dolsars actually had to pay from six to twelve per
cent interest and our bonds were selling for eighty
cents on the dollar, but to-day after "a years of
Republican rule the administration does not need
to borrow money, but if it did they could borrow it
at two per cent. (Applspse)
Colonel Snowdon then briefly reviewed the tariff
question. Speaking of the Democratic platform
aad whether it was for protection, quasi protection
or free trade he said that when he found a tariff
plank that suited ank Hurd, Mr.. Watterson, Mr..
Carlisle and men of those free trade principles he
wanted nothing to do with it. He said a gentleman,
member of Parliament, said at dinner of the
Reform Club in London while ago that the only
good an Irishman ever does Great Britain Is when
he emigrates to the United States and votes with
the Democratic party for free trade. That gentle
what Irishmen had done for Great Britain. He
forgot that Great Britain had been robbing Ireland
continually. He forgot that the policy of England
had dried up the life blood of Irishmen as if q
pestilence had sswept over them. He forgot that
the Duke of Wellington was an Irishman and that
the victories of England in the last century have
been won by Irish blood. (Applause.) He lied in
his throat. England would be tottering in her power
if it had not been for the courage of that gallant
race that they have chained to them as with links
of steel. (Applause)
Mr.. Locke then introduced Senator Joseph
R. Hawley of Connecticut. Senator Hawley
received perfect ovation in applause and
cheers.
General Hawley said that Col. Snowdon was en-
tirely right in regard to the Democratic party-we
have way to judge of the future but by the past;
there is no way in which we tell what the party
will be as well as by showing what it has been. A
party is not what it promises be- IL is what it
says it is going to do. party is like man; it is
compounded of all its old deeds and folles the ed
ucation OF lifetime and of Hfetimes before it, and
is the work of generations. party is what it has
loved and hated and done; what it has hoped for
and prayed for, and worked for and voted for That
is what the party is. All these things go to make
up its moral and mental fibre, They are the guar
anty of about what it will do in the future, Here
are the two great parties drawn up in battle array
before you-the Republican party, calm, confident,
powerful, courageous and proud of its past that
they talk about it so much that the Democrat
things have all gone by.'' "That is all dead what
do you want to talk about that for?" When two
men come for employment the man who is proud to
haul out his letters and show where he has been
and what he has done impresses you favorably.
But the stranger who absolutely declines to an
swer any question, but says he is great in promises
leads you to suspect that he has been in the pen-
Tertiary (Applause.) We have been endeavoring to
find out from the Democratic party why we should
be turned out 1t is not for the mere fact that we
have been in SO long. There should not be changes
made simplysbecause people have been in power
80 many years. The fact that men have been in
banks and counting rooms for many years is a rea-
flnaxxt ,orra haau
faithful. know it is so in my own limited bust
ness; men who have been with us fifteen or twenty
five years We are deyotedly attached to and nothing
but death shall take them away. If we have fall
en- short in our duty we wish them to point it out.
That is what are waiting for. If we have proven
unfaithfu as party to the trusts imposed upon us
tell us where it is. But there was such work
called for since the world made has been put
upon the people since 1860. And save the time of
full Of good for the human race socially
and politically as this present era. (Applause.)
General Hawley then alluded to the great achieve
ments OF the Republican party. He said the Demo-
cratic party comes along a few years behind US and
every time it comes up to the ground we occupied
they say "We won't fight about that any longer the
Republican party Was all right Do they say that
we should be turned out of power because we have
been only an abolition party? But we have shown
that our principles are broad and generous not de-
pendent upon race, Color or religion, but we have
endeavored to discharge the New Testament democ-
racy In regard to all men. Who occupied the pub
c ,anGs as great 1fust and gave l6o acres to
ocratic party had voted it down? Who secured the
rights of our adopted fellow citizens? Before the
war remember that when you went back to the
country of your nativity it assumed the same right
of control over you that it had when YOU were a
resident thereof. And after the war one of the first
acts OF the Republican party was to secure from
every leading nation the right of self expatriation
so that the German, the Englishman, the French
man, who comes to our shores and takes up his allie
glance is acknowledged by those countries to have
lost his old obligations. Perhaps they say that we
have plundered the treasury and been wasteful in
collecting public money. L have here record from
the departments of all collections and expenditures
for all the administrations showing what the loss
has been upon every thousand dollars. 1 will read
part of them. They are among our scalps and
medals and like to show them to account for our
stewardship. Under Washington it was 1922,
jackson 50 ,52, Van Buren,, closest and worst of
all Sill, Harrison and Tyler $6 40, Polk $4.OS
Buchanan 1881. Then came Lincoln with the
great system of internal sevenue taxation, with
hundreds and thousands of officers a revised tariff
enormously increased machinery to say nothing of
the great contracts connected with the war and
thousands of millions paid out by pay1nasters of the
army any navy the loss was only rs per $1,000.
Under Mr.. Hayes who was favorite subject of de-
nunciasion by the Democrats, the loss was only
three mills and under Chester A Arthur it is onlv
one mill and eight tenths. (Applauss.) Are these
things exaggerated or made up for campaign pnr-
years were made up in 1879 and circulated all over
the United States. This is what say or believe
but it is cold fgures-just cold as Fair
banks scales and there is no more
moral principle about them than there is in
the multiplication table. During the war the Brit
ish Exchange would not allow bonds to be list
ed, they would not permit them to be put on sale