The Portland daily press., 1884-09-03
MR.. HAMLIN's SPEECH.

Mr.. President Ladies' and FelLosc Citizens:
j should be more than human if did not feel
thankful, and do tender you my most cordial
thanks for this generous reception. But there is
another view that is of more importance and these
generous plaudits admonish me that you alive
to the duties of the hour and in that light indvi
duals pale into forgetfulness and insignifcance l
might as well come here and take coal from the
fires that are burning brightly upon your affairs
and apply it to my life for inspiration to hope or
expect in the few brief words may utter that
may either instruct or interest you in the rugged
pathway of duty. l came here this evening to wit
ness this audience containing go MANY friends
who have stood with me shoulder to shoulder in the
conflicts of the past (Cr1es OF that is SOY have
come literally from my grain field to mingle wi h
you, and let you know that private 81 izen in
your ranks, am marching with you shoulder to
shoulder onward TO victory. (Applause) have
come to tell you that in my judgment you met not
here Ia the darkest day of the rebellion when
higher duties were imposed upon you than are inn
posed upon you this very day. We met then to de-
vie the ways and means of sending sons to the
front and they went and in legions went down to
the harvest of desth. We are here tonight to yina
cate their memory. We are here tonight to swear
each with the other that we will preserve what by
their valor was won. Applause) come to pay
heartfelt tribute all the boys in blue who went to
the front and who by their acts preserved our
Government and left us home and a country in
which to live. (Applause.) 1 pay a heartfelt
tribute to these good men who gave their lives in
that cause, and when meet the man who has been
made beautiful by scars. who has been adorned
by dismembered limbs bow in humility and think
that wreath of eternal glory should mantle the
brow of every one of them. (Applause) / came,
with so many of the good people of this city, that
have been associated with in the past and to assure
them that have an nndiminished interest in the
promotion OF that cause which in my judgment is
for the best interest of our country. We have our
standard bearer before us, and We have here with
us the eloquent gentleman who placed his name in
nomination. Great applause) He was nominated
because he was the foremost man of the country,
best qualified by long training in the public service,
because he was familiar with all the departments of
our Government and all our foreign relations Zap
plause) While on the other hand our political OPP
ponents sought to nominate and did nominate
They didn't dare to nominate Thurman
because he had done something or said something.
He had been identified with the Democratic party
in all its disloyalty, in all it's treason, save that
which was absolute and overt in the last "a years
They had their Bayard who had said some hard
things against the men who were fighting to pre-
serve the common country, and they didn't dare
nominate him. They had Randall of Pennsylvania,
emlnently and admirably qualified so tar as intel
iect and SO far AS snowledge of the government is
concerned, to be chief magistrate of the country,
but he had positive opinions on the tariff, and they
didn't dare to nominate him. But they nominated
Grover Cleveland simply because he had no opinion
upon earth that either he himself knew or the pso-
pie knew applause And on the great vital
country they adopted condition in their platform
which corresponds precisely with Grover Cleveland
where you want protection there it is protection,
while IL isn't really one way the other. Then
we nominated that glorious soldier, John A. Logan
(appause), and he made out ticket what suppose
any seafaring man would say was double ender''
good either end foremost, and that is just what
| ticket ought to be. If God in His wisdom takes
| away our President we want man as Vice Presi-
dent fit to sit in the chair of the Executive of this
| great nation. But Logan was Democrat! Twas
once. QLaughter) Logan stuck by them a little
longer than did, but / stuck by them until they
rolled off from every honest Democratic principle.
| lapplause9 Mr.. John A. Logan was fighting the
battles of his country when his competitor for Vice
President Mr.. Hendricks, was will not say plot
ting treason but copper-headed ana copper-fasten-
ed doing everything he could and avoid the penal
| ties of the law to aid the rebellion.
The great and underlying question involved in
the issues which all the labor and all the industries
of the country feel eensby and are interested In ID
that of the tariff, and upon that question, while
am not going to discuss it, l want simply to say
humble that labor, every industry however extern
sive or limited it may be, is deeply and vitality in
| terested in that issue. There is a maxim in the
GOOD Book which tells us that he is an infdel who
will not provide for his household, and think
that may well be applied to the political condition
| of the parties today. He who would not preserve
protect and provide for the great in ustries of the
country and the labor of the country is than
| an intdel. (Applause.l We are arrayed today
be settled and determined at the election which is
soon to take place. We want good round majority
in the State of Maine in September. We want it
1or the whole ticket, and every man who does not
vote the whole ticket either gives half vote to the
Oem1cIauc ticket | ne wlthholds 1t or
with them. There is no half way business. man
who is a Republican cannot vote for man who
will sustain all the doctrines of the Democratic
from the ASSOCIATION of his party the results that
would be produced by the success of that party
Hence hope that we shall find here and every-
where the party united. We want to elect our
Governor by large majority and we are going TO
do it by 10000. little paper up in Massachu-
settsscaled the ''Globe' has quoted me continually
as saying that we were going o get a majority Of
$4,000. never said it. did say this at time:
when said we ought to give 10 600 majority, some
told him there a statute of the State of Maine
which prohibited crue ty to animals. daughter }
The Boston Globe is entirely NH taken in supposing
that ever predicted anything like $4,000. 1 said
l believed We should have 10000 majority and
believe we shall be able to elect our entire Con-
grasslonal ticket. (Applausel am not in my own
district but am ctizensof the State Of Maine and
business man If they afford in crisis like this
TO try and swap horses in the middle of the stream
CApplause) appeal to them of intelli-
geDce as men who love the best interests of their
country. Mr.. Reed, your representative,-(great
appause) that's right that's got the right ring to it.
boys,-is today the foremost man in the
halls Of the House of Representatives. applause
the business men OF Portland and this district. and
ask them if they can afford to put in his place
man whose vote may be destructive to the very en-
ergies and interests of all the people, "a voice
Mo- Down in our district We are going to elect
NM. Boutelie by rousing majority, and in the next
district we shall elect Mr.. Miliken by great ma
1ority. Mr.. Dingley, near neighbor Is to have a
still larger majority. Now what are you going to
do in this district? "a voice-Going to elect Reed1
disabuse himself from all prejudice, any i-feeI-
ing, and not lower the standard of his manhood bv
allowing that high privilege of elective franchise ia
be controlled by mere piQUe and prejudice, FAM