The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-13
l,NcoLN COUNTY REPUBLICANS.
Harmonious Convention Held at
Damariscotta and Officers
Elected.
Text of the Able Speech of Hon.
Eugene Hale
At a Mass Meeting which is also
addressed by Hon. Nelson DingIey.


At a Mass Meeting which is also
addressed by Hon. Nelson DingIey.
DAMARIsCOTTA, Aug. 1.-THE Lincoln
county Republican convention was held hert
today. Seventy-one of the seyenty-six dele
gates were present. Judge Orrin McFadder
of Dresden presided. The following nomi
nations were made:
Senator-Sebastian S. Marble, Waldoboro.
Commissioners John W. Perkins, Nobleboro
Albert B. Erskin, Alma.
Treasurer-John Smith, WiScaSSet.
Sheriff-John E. Kelley, Boothbay,
Attorney-Azro d. Castner. Waldoboro.
Register of Deeds-James FL. Varney.
Register of Probate-Howard E. Hall, New
castle,
This is Mr. Marbles third nomination to
the Senate.
gresham Dingley addressed large mass
meeting.
SENATOR HALE's SPEECH.
On the 4th of March, 1885, the Republican
party gave up the administration of the Ma
tional Government and went out of power.
The Presidential election, in the previous
November, had gone adversely, and when it
was seen that the electoral vote of New
York, had been given for the Democratic cam
didate, by few hundred majority, the great
issue was settled. However this result had
been accomplished in that great State, it was
acquiesced in and the party which had held
the reins of government for twenty-four
years peacefully made way for its success
or.
The outcome of the election was most re-
markable. The politics of all republics
change rapidly, but this change was one to
surprise the world. Twenty years before
the United States had been engaged in a
gigantic war for the preservation of the I'm
ion. The Republican party was the war par
ty. Under its management the Union was
restored. All the great measures that fol
lowed were its measures. 1t brought about
emancipation, reconstruction. the National
credit, the reduction by one half of the Ma
tional debt, specie payments and, under its
administration, the population of the repub-
lie had doubled and the wealth of the people
had quadrupled. 1t was the party of Lin
coin and Stanton, of Grant and Sherman, land
Farragut, of Fessenden, Wade and Chand-
ler, of Garfield and Blaine and Logan.
The victors in the remarkable contest, rep
resented the same party and in many cases
were the same men who had undertaken to
destroy the Union. They had vainly turned
the issue upon the battlefield. They had re-
sisted emancipation. They had opposed re-
construction. They had obstructed every
,+o,, II, +ba 6ponoioI N, arcb of tho Rnnub1i-
can party. Their leaders had participated
in the rebellion or, at best, had been half
hearted in the effort, made for its defeat. The
Democratic party had been the party Of Sey
mour and Fernando Wood. of Hendricks and
Vallandigham, of Slidell and Mason and JET
ferson Davis, yet, it came again into power.
The achievements of the Republican par
ty had failed to arouse further enthusiasm.
The people were like the Greeks who had
tired of hearing AriStideS called the Just.
The voters were willing to risk. change,
and the new order Of men promised every
thing. They would reduce taxes, they would
lessen expenditures; they would abolise half
the offices; they would give the people all the
money that was wanted and would steal none
of it; they would ensure revival OF busl-
ness, the restoration of good times and the
advancement of the cause OF labor. :,
They had murdered the suffrage in the
South and could count on fourteen States
with absolute assurance and needed only
two or three States in the North which they
carried. Moreover, the air had been filled
with charges of mismanagement and c0rrup-
tion in the Republican party which the new
order promised to investigate and expose.
So the Republican party went out and the
Democratic party came in. All the rascals
were to be turned out, the Augeal, stables
were to be closed. There was to be an ad-
ministration of reform. iCertainly II then
fn hp
be set right no party ever had such an op-
portunity as the Democratic party. The
President with his vast powers was theirs
all the departments were turned over to
them; every door to the public files was OPP
ened; every key was given up; every paper,
every document, all the archives relating tc
the administration of the government by
the Republican party were open to the ran
sack of the new men. Behind all this they
had the House of Representatives, with its
great power of iniating legislation and Its al
most unlimited right to investigate.
The country has had year and half OF
Democratic administration and over eight
months session of the Democratic House OF
Representatives. 1t is worth the while to
look fairly and see what, during this time,
the Democratic party has done, either to
fulfil its promise or to show its capacity for
administration. There has been not one eX-
posure of Republican mlSmanagement, not
one corruption laid bare. On the contrary
the new administration has, in a feeble way,
been obliged to initiate the old. The best
side Of this civil service performance is
Republican and not Democratic. Whenever
the President or the Secretary of the
Treasury has been found sound upon finan-
cial questions they have been following in
the. way as their Republican predecessors
and have looked for help to Republican
Senators and Representatives rather than
to their own party
Mr.. Samuel Randall who has so many
times saved his party from political bank;
ruptcy follows Democratic protection and
can party stands to-day before the country
vindicated as never before. The works Of
its enemies praise it. Defeat has brought
out its record in brighter colors.
Senator Hale here took up. In detail the
pledges of the Democratic party and showed
in National expenditures, but instead OF
this, were spending every year millions OF
dollars beyond what had been needed by
Republicans. In nearly every department
of the government Congress was. asked fol
more money than had been given before.
AS member of the committee of appro'
priations Mr.. Hale said he had an opportu'
nifty of measuring these new requirements
Almost every department of the goverumen
thought its leading officers, appeared before
that committee and instead of asking fol
reduction of expenditures sought for appro
priations in excess of the preceding veal
and in cases demanded an increase of theil
office and clerical force. The net increase
of the regular yearly appropriations for al
| the departments of the government for the
| year ending July /, 1887. above the appro
| priations for the preceding year is more
than 45 million dollars, the appropriations
| for the next year being 264 millions, il
round numbers, against 219 millions for thu
| last year. The only marked case, when {
| saving has been made by a decrease of off
| cial force results from Republican legisla
| ton in the winter of 1885 when the Republi
| can party was in power. In almost all case
| the departments wanted more men and more
| money.
When the promise had been made to turn
| out bad men and put in good ones the rol,
| has been precisely the reverse. In some o
| the most important branches of the publi
| service the new Secretaries and their as
| sistants have been obliged to retain Republi
| can subordinates in the interest of the publ
| service, .and in making removals and new
| appointments no administration has eve
| turned loose into the public service so man.
| irresponsibly incompetent and unsuitabl
men. The record of those bad appointment
| as partially given by Senator ingalls,, was S,
bad that no Democratic Senator undertook
| to answer it.
Senator Hale spoke next of the Democrat
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