The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-09

one OIL IhtSe IWo great pdTtleS VIII control
the destinies Of the republic for many years
to come. We have always had two great
parties, as there has always been in every
civilized government where the people have
a voice in the administration of affairs, and
we shall continue to have these great parties,
and they are so constituted that they will
either be Democratic or Republican. The
Democratic party has held for the last twelve
years with the exception of two, the House
of Representatives by clear working
majority, and itnOw has one half the legis-
lative power and all the executive power in
this country. Is it likely to surrender that
power, organized, directed and controlled as
it is? We fail to appreciate its strength
without reflection. 1t holds 153 electoral
voters in the hollow OF Its hand, with
the force and power Of three or four States,
or possibly only two States in the North, to
elect President in 1888. 1t has within it
elements in the city of New York, which
need not characterize, but which you know,
can give vast majority for the, Demo
cratic party on demand, and which has in
many instances, and may again if not
watched carefully, overcome the fifty or
sixty thousand Republican majority which
always comes down from the rural districts
of New York State to that great city. OF
the 121 Representatives to Congress from the
Southern States, this party holds, believe,
ia now, and it will probably hold as many
in this contest of 1886. So that all it needs
to secure majority i'll the House of Repre-
sentatives is to pick up straggler here and
there. Take one from district in Maine;
one or two from districts in Massachusetts or
in Iowa, and add these scattering votes to
the consolidated vote in the South, and you
have majority in the House of Representa-
tives. Now, take the Republican party, on
the other hand, a strong, vigorous and repre-
free and fair expression of public opinion,
an honest expression of the public WILL and
there is not a State north of the old line OF
Mason and Dixon that would not throw its
power in the scale for the Republican party;
1t is because of old-time prejudices and old
time affiliations that here and there, and
now and then Northern State has been
found ON the side of the Democratic party.
So that when you cast your votes on next
Monday. here in Maine, you will throw them
for the benefit of the Republican, or for the
benefit of the Democratic party. Now, |
trust you will vote for that honest man for
governor, Mr.. Bodwell. Great applause)
And in this district [ want you to vote for
Tom Reed for your representative. loud
applause). | have known him for many
years. l need not speak of his ability, but
will only speak of him now as the chosen
leader of the House of Representatives be-
cause of his ability. .(Applause.l And it
would be loss not only to this district and
to the State Of Maine, but to the people of
the whole country as well to lose the service
of so good and great man as your present
Representative is known to be. (Applause)
And | want you also to vote for the. nomi-
nees for your State Legislature, for by the cleo
tion of Senator from this State the COM
plexion of the United States Senate may be
determined There are in the Senate 80
members from sixteen Southern States that
formerly held slaves, while from the North
and the West and the Northwest they have
majority of that body, and if they can add
seven members to that thirty-two they Sc
cure majority in the Senate of the United
States. 1t belooves You therefore, to see to it
that Republican members of the Legislature
are elected in order that you may return to
the Senate the Hon. Eugene Hale, whose
term expires on the Sd of March next. (Ap-
plause.) would be glad to see him returned
to that body, for his career there has been
an honorable and a notable one, and more
faithful and conscientious worker never set
upon the committee of appropriations. Jap
plause.)
Now, here we are a nation of sixty millions
of people. Ninety-nine one-hundredths, and
probably nine hundred and ninety-nine one
thousandths of our people desire good gov
eminent. They desire that their affairs, local
and national shall be administered with fl
deity, integrity and ability. They desire
that wholesome and just laws shall be passed
by their Legislatures and by their Congress
eS, in order that unjust burdens may not be
pressed upon the people, and they. desire
that the government may be just to
all portions of the country and to
its citizens of all sections: The employ
ments of our people should be so diver
sifed that all may be kept busy, active and
productive. No nation upon the globe has
today more natural advantages than our
own. We have all the minerals, and we
have the best soil in the world. Now,
what shall we do with them? If the
SO legislate as to best promote all these inter-
ests.. That is, ia general sense, what
should be done. In order to do that, we
should utilize our iron mines, SO far as they
can be utilized, for the benefit of our our own
people rather than for the benefit of the peo-
nothing to do with this except that it can
SO legislate with reference to these great in
dustries and occupations as to benefit our
own people, or so as to benefit the people of
other countries. Why? A great Govern
ment like ours is necessarily an expensive
Government expanding and growing, as it
is, and we must make large expenditures an
nually for many years to come. Now that
expenditure must be drawn in some
way into the treasury. The con-
sent two ways, one by duties on imported
goods, and the other by direct taxes and ex-
cises The Republican party stands upon
this principle, that in levying duties upon
imported goods, we. should so discriminate
as to favor those industries of our own
country, which can be so developed and
diversified as to furnish all the articles
needed for our own consumption. That is
the Republican idea. Great applause.) The
object Of this being to enable all our people
idea is that our revenue derived from duties
on imports shall be so levied as to secure
the greatest amount Of revenue only, taking
into account not all the varied industries of
our country at home One Of these methods
of levying duties is a method for the protec-
tlon of the industries of our own country as
against the industries of foreign countries,
and the other method is to encourage foreign
countries to export their goods here to COM
pete with the goods of our own people,
and if the latter method, the Democratic
method, is adopted you may be as certain as
you are certain that the sun will rise to-mor-
row, that panics and disaster, iquidations
and bankruptcies will follow.
Senator Allison then referred to the mar
velous growth of the industries in this
country, and continued: Last year, Dako-
ia, with her five hundred thousand inhabit-
ants knocked at the door of the UniCn for
admission as State. The Senate very
promptly-every Republican voting for it
voted to admit Southern Dakota as State.
The bill went to the House of Representa-
tives, but lies untouched in that body. Why?
Who are the people of Dakota? They are
sons of toll, who labor in their fields and
upon their farms from sunrise till sunset, to
procure livelihood for themselves and their
families. They are the adventurous sons of
the older States who pushed forward to the
West to build up new region and to devel-
op what was before virgin soil, These PEG
pie were not admitted as a State, and | know
of no reason why, unless it be that they gave
majority of $4,000 in 1884 for the ticket that
was headed by James G. Blaine. Great ap-
plause). The Democratic House did not
know but what in 1888 the addition of a Re-
publican State in that great Northwest
might have some influence upon the number
of votes that they have got to get added to
this consolidated power in the South in Or
der to enable them to elect a Democratic
President.
The whole range of questions rising out of
our currency and the character of our metal
lie money, and relating to our industries and
the labor problem, the rehabilitation of the
South, restoring to those people the rights
which the Constitution guarantees to them,
must be settled in the near future. Now, is
it safer to entruSt these great affairs to the
Democratic party, constituted and organized
as | have described, or to trust them to the
Republican party, which has for many years
shown itself capable to deal with the great
est problems of government with fidelity
and with intelligence? (Applause) These
are questions which you are to settle now
here in Maine, and which we are to settle in
November in Iowa, and trust that Monday
broken delegation to the House of Repre-
sentatives, and that you have elected large
majority in both branches of your Legisla-
ture that will return Eugene Hale to the
Senate OF the United States (Applause)