The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-14
MR.. REED IN BOSTON.
His Speech at the Great Republican
Rally.
The Speaker Received With APP
plause and Cheers.

Among the speakers at the great Republi-
can rally at Boston Tuesday night was Con
| gresham Reed. He was introduced by Gov.
Robinson, the chairman of the evening, in
the following language:
| A short time ago our sister State
| of Maine sent abroad report that car
| ried enthusiastic joy to many people. Jap
| plause.) 1t was said with pathetic forebod-
| ing that we were liable to lose some of our
| delegation to Congress, but especially from
the first district 1t was said that the Repub-
lican candidate was to be buried, but we
knew it would take very large place to put
him in, and gigantic force to keep him
there. (Applause.) Those who. know him
find him to be tower of strength in the par
ty, and perfect arsenal of power and de-
struction to the enemy. (Cheers.) 1t is not
necessary to speak his name. / have pleas
ure in calling on Hon. Thomas b. Reed of
Maine.
As Mr. Reed stepped forward the enthu-
siasm was very marked, indeed the hall had
resounded with calls for him before
Senator Dawes, who Immediately preceded
him had finished, and when somebody in the
audience called for three cheers they were
given with will. When the applause had
subsidized Mr.. Reed spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen and
Fellow Citizens,-I thank you most heartily
for the cordial greeting you have given me,
and wish l was in a condition to repay you
in any word which may have to say for the
reception you have given me. But l shall
make to you to- night very short and serious
discourse, because 1 am in the presence of
Massachusetts audience, and they would ex-
cept nothing else from any one. l shall not
add my compliments to your candidates, for,
after the earnest and noble greeting which their
friends and Aeighbors have given them, COM
pliments from a stranger are unnecessary. The
high compliment which you will pay them on
election day will show how superfiuous such
would be.
The Republican party in the United States
was in power four and twenty years, but there
are those who are astonished that the people OF
the United States could dismiss true and tried
servants and submit themselves to the bland
ishments of the enemy they had fought through
all those years. But students of history know
that the most remarkable of events is the long
continuance in Office of the party. IF you go
back to England and recall the days of the
origin and fall of the great Puritan revolution,
you will find that Oliver Cromwell became
lord protector in 1915, and in 1860 the popu-
lace Of England welcomed that noble man
Charles III, and recalled him to the throne.
The French revolution began in 1898, and
Nineteen years mark the entire control of
England by the Puritan party; % years mark
the control of France by the revolutionary
party. We have been favored by longer
continuance in power than any great party
that ever did great work for great people.
What is the secret of that facts You will
read in modern history that the Republican
party grew with the country, that it honestly
set itself to work day by day and year by
year in manly fashion to find out what was
for the good of the American people and in
manly fashion to do it. Those of you who
think that the Republican party was formed to
do all this work have very weak memories.
Think back some of you, and remember how
small was the task we set ourselves to perform.
If we could keep human slavery out of the
territory dedicated to freedom, we thought we
should have done enough; but how little
such work seems to us to-day who sit here
under the noble fruition of the patriotic
labors of the Republican party. How was it
we accomplished all these great deeds, the very
mention of which is alarming to the Demo-
cratic partys 1t was because we did whatever
our organization thought so be true and good
for humanity, and that enabled us to meet the
great question as it arose and cope with it
honestly and manfully, and that
will be the secret of the future
ouCCOSS VI tilC 1eSpQOllCdh party 1hC SethS
great fact that we have done whatever shall
have most met the intellect and the heart and
the foresight of the American people in their
everlasting march toward freedom, will lead us
in the future. We have never disguised our
selves or our sentiments. We have never been
afraid to place before the people the men who
are identified with us. We have never been
found foremost in picking up all the strange
ideas which occur to men at various times in
their history. We have always met new ques-
tions as they deserved, carefully, honestly and
soberly. And we have endeavored TO act for
the interest of the people, and never to use them
for our own interests. When the Greenback
cause spread, the Republican party met it man
fully, but the Democratic party was swallowed
up in it. The facility of the Democratic party
to adopt candidateswho do not belong to them
and cover themselves with principles in which
they do not believe, 1 should think to be a
subject OF reproaeh to them. But there are
some kinds of wood which lneed veneer to
cover them. The history of the Republican
party IN the main has been history of honest
endeavor to do the best thing which the wis
dom and the good sense Of the American peo-
pie demand, and allege it has been the his
tory of the Democratic party for "a years that
it has endeavored in every campaign to en-
deavor to be something which it had never
been before.
They say to us as a reproach that this ad
ministraton of Democrats has not been sub
ject to criticism, or to that criticism which our
orators made in the late campaign. The mon
etary system has not gone to rack and ruin
civil service reform hourishes in golden man
ner. WE'LL the monetary system has not gone
to rack and ruin, but there is one thing we did
not know. We supposed that Democratic
administration would be a Democratic admin
istration. We supposed whoever was the
President elected by the Democrats would rep
resent the Democratic party. Does he: My
Democratic brother, if he dared to talk,
| would tell you how closely he does
not. Now, the secretary of the treasury has
followed in the wake of his Republican prede-
cessor. Was that what the Democrats de-
manded with loud voice in multifarious toness
Was that what they expected from Grover
Clevelands Before he was elected his position
in the future was carefully and heavily mort
gagged. The first mortgage was to the mug
wumps. The second mortgage was to what
the Democratic stump orators for 20 years,
with much violence of mouth, called the
money power. That terrible monster
was going round seeking whom he
might devour, especially good Democrats
Now the first mortgage will be lifted. Don't
give yourselves the least annoyance, my noble
democratic DrOtnerS, on tnat dccOuut, loi
before the end of four years you will enter
into the promised land. But mean time, do
not reckon without your host. You have got
a cabinet of old reliables and people who have
nowhere else on earth to go. They have out
grown their welcome at the White House, and
have to remain in the Democratic party. On
the other hand, the President thinks he
has noble body of men whom he
can secure permanently, but he will find they
are like the long tailed birds of paradise that
fly to heaven and never light. Meantime they
are to be amused, and they are ready to be
amused. For them to admit they were wrong
in supporting Cleveland is to admit, what none
of them ever admitted since the world began,
that they were i'll error.
Now and then you see some wonderful
things to show devotion to civil service reform.
For instance, the appointment of Republican
| postmaster at New York and then the collector
| of internal revenue in Maine, the very man
whose courage almost accomplished the theft
| of a State. Now l know we are almost
| about to have a similar event. In Wiscon-
| sin, they have nominated a Democratic DIS
| trict attorney as a member of Congress, and
| they have had a cabinet council about
| it, and came to the conclusion that the
| act of running for Congress Of DIS
| trict attorney would be wrong. What good
world it is A solemn cabinet meeting seems
to have determined that. Now, when you lind
bank cashier boldly posing as an honest man,
| ;ne+ soil ont vour stock When YOU lind q