Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-26
Senator Frye's Speech.

Senator Frye's Speech.
Senator Frye made his opening speech in
the campaign at Houlton. He spoke to
large audience in very effective manner.
After summarizing the achievements of the
republican party he said:
every single subject that the republican
party took in hand was fought BY the demo-
cratic party of this country. They simply
warmed their cold heels in the warm ashes
of our camp fires. and vet two years ago the
people deliberately took the country from the
hands of the republican party and delivered
it to the democratic party, which sought to
destroy it. To-day you are represented in
nearly every foreign port in the world by
democratic copper-heads. How did it hap
pen? There we're three distinct causes.
First, the suppression of the right to vote
in the South did it. What next defeated US?
The republicans did it. What kind of repub-
licans? Mug~unps. What are mug~umps?
Men who thought the republican party had
done an immoral thing in nominating James
g. Blaine for President of the United States.
Men who thought they were better than the
majority of men in the republican party.
Men like Carl Schurz. George William Cur
good to vote for James G Blaine. tell you
to look carefully at every man who thinks he
is better than the majority of the voters. If
you see a man marching through the streets
marked, Il am an honest man. distrust him
at once.
Now there was another thing that beat US.
The prohibitionists beat us in New York.
And yet l ar1 q prohibitionist and believe
in the enforcement Of the law to the bitter
end. Applause. But l say deliberately
that some of the prohibitory leaders are un-
blushing, impudent scoundrels, who are
helped by the democratic party to defeat the
republican party. said some of the leaders.
If wanted to name them could do so. 1
say some of them are fanatics. don't say
anything against fanatics when / say that.
There was no greater fanatic than Martin
Luther, and he did a world of good. All
credit to fanatics. If they did not go out and
lead US on moral questions, we never should
rise from the earth. They say the republic
can party 10 not doing all it can do for tenn
perance. OF course there never was church
that did all it could for the promotion of re
ligion. But do you organize another church
to destroy that one ? You know there never
was prohibition statute put upon the books
north of Mason and Dixon's line that was not
put there by the republican party. You
know the democratic party is supporting this
temperance party with their contributions
Whst has the democratic party done? TWAS
going to do marvellous things it was going to
turn the rascals out. Laughter. Every
nomination made by the President is sent to
the Senate, and thus know that only two per-
sons have thus far been turned out for rascali-
ty. The rest have been turned out for partisan
ship. | can point out a number of democrats
who have been appointed to Office who are
drunkards, thieves and have been in Jail
can pick out eight or ten appointments which
the President has bsen compelled to with
draw. and twenty or so our senators rejected
because they were 80 vile and wicked. More
than that. they were going to take off your
taxes; they have increased them instead.
They were going to cut down the appropria-
tons. They have increased the appropria-
tons The fact was there was only nine
millions of surplus money in the treasury and
the republican party had paid the debt as fast
as it could do so.
No republican House of Representatives
had ever attempted to instruct the Secretary
of the Treasury that he should paw the national
debt When the present Secretary of the
Treasury kept the money in the Treasury the
democratic House of Representatives d.
rected him to use it to pay the national debt.
They had no faith in the democratic Secretary.
The bill went to the President and he refused
to sign it. He had no faith in the demo-
cratic House. Laughter.
When the democrats came into power YOU
know the first thing done was to revise the
tariff. The moment they do that business
goes into the air. While wa. on the Com.
mittee of Ways and Means found out what
they meant by revising the tariff 1t was put
TING thIDus n tho FREQ lief Thav al
to the House the worst bill ever brought be-
fore that body. The bill was killed. Mr.
Morrison got up new scheme. which was to
cut piece off from everything. With the
help of few democrats we republicans
struck out the enacting clause and killed
that. Then came this House and
the first thing Mr.. Morrison proposed
bill, and got the democrats to practi-
cally agree to it. The bill went into COM
mitIee. When Morrison got into the commit
tee it was suggested that iron and coal should
be put upon the free list. MIR. Randall, who
lives in Pennsylvania. was interested in coal
and iron and he got enough democrats to OPP
pose the bill to defeat it.
Having called attention to several local in
dustres which would have been ruined by
democratic tariff measures, Senator Frye
said: They put wool on the free list They
~"" ai'c ""oi III hustrdlIa IoT Ten cents per
pound. You can't raise it for less than tw enty-
five cents per pound, They can get their wool
into Liverpool for four cents pound They
can get it into New York for two cents more
per pound. making sixteen cents. They have
got &C, 900 sheep in Australia and in less
than five years they could supply this market.
The sheep business in this country would be
destroyed if wool should be put upon the free
list. Under that bill you would not have
5000. 900 sheep in this country in five wears
instead of $4,000, 900, as now. We put ten
cents duty upon that wool and you can thus
raise wool.