The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Not by you, my Democratic brother, who
rushed to Washington early in the full flush
of eyuberant hope; but by some Democratic
brother who has not defiled himself by work,
and has graduated from high school.
The second mortgage on the administration
will not be lifted 1t was given to the East
ern Financiers and the title was well looked
up. | do not complain of this, and yet feel
sympathetic
1t moves the coolest heart to see the West
ern and Southern Democracy, which through
good report and evil rep0rt-mostly through
evil report-have struggled for. four and
twenty years for an ADMINISTRATION, to find
itself put off in the very hour of victory by
a mere Equity of Redemption. And yet
there are ear marks, strawberry marks of the
Democracy, about the administration after
all. They have been for fifteen months in
power Fifteen of 1.-THE best months have
lapsed and what record of achievement
stands to the credit of the administration |?
1t has ruined and broken up the business of
John Roach, an old Irishman OF three score
and ten, once the greatest shipbuilder in the
United States, and has accepted the Dolphin
| believe that is ALL
The Secretary of State has managed the
fishery question on so broad an international
scale that we are still in the suds. You, who
know the close knowledge which Mr.. Blaine
had of these affairs can judge what condition
he would have had things in by this time
sided over the destinies of this unfortifed
country that during all these troublous times
there has been no strike of the department
clerks. The Secretary of the Navy, empow-
cred fifteen months ago by the Republicans
of the last Congress, assisted by a minority
OF Democrats, to build four war ships, has
thus far not yet completed even the specifca-
tions or plans of one of them. Two years are
likely to lapse before a stroke of work can
be done on either of them. 1t is true that
he tried In hrpaly down the DOlnlin DIIf
he did not succeed | cannot put that ON the
list of his achievements.
The Postmaster General, in the interest of
the mail service, has issued a justly celebrat-
ed, though confidential circular, on the ways
and means of proving that new postal crime
offensive partiSanship-and has refused
American shipping the encouragement voted
it by the two houses OF Congress.
The Secretary of the Interior, in addition
to the slight aid he was able to give the
prevent General Sparks, his Land Commits
sioner, from upsetting all the land titles in
the far West.
The Attorney General, with the powerful
assistance of his able Solicitor General, has
so managed the Pan-Electric as to occupy the
attention of all the people for nearly year.
The Secretary of the Treasury has fol-
lowed the course of his predecessors and so
deserved well of his country.
The Democratic House has forty majority.
on its record after six months of session ?
Some voice better equipped than mine must
take up the wondrous tale. We Republicans
helped them at the outset to change the
rules so that they might have full power,
and never once have we thwarted their
action by parliamentary tactics or dilatory
maneuvres. A Democratic House and a
Democratic administration, and both in
power for fifteen months! The newest of
new brooms and not even a back entry
swept out yeti
And yet | am not partisan enough to blame
the Democratic party for this outcome.
blame the people who put them in power.
They knew what they were. After they had
been bed ridden for twenty-four years it was
folly to expect from them anything athletic.
The whole generation of their statesmen
have spent their lives in obstruction. They
cannot blaze the pathway of the future.
You must permit me to repeat in closing
what have often said even If do so at the
expense of seeming tedious. If you want
progressive work done you must have re.
course to the Republican party No doubt
that party has its faults, its unwisdom, its
mistakes, but the men of progress, the mer
who believe in better future, who are will
| ing to take the responsibility Of doing some
| thing, are there, and there is no salvation
without their aid
had not intended to say more but the pro
ceeding of the Democratic State convention
| of yesterday bring iup two other topics OF
which will say brief word if do not tire
you.
The labor question does not need rhetori
cal treatment. 1t is a question so deep so i'm
portant that it should be lifted above al
partisan abuse and recommendation The
problem of a just recognition of what is due
to workmen and employers has been tough
Overt for years past and will be fought over fol
years to come Its just settlement of basi,
| fair to all demands our most careful though
and for one | protest against any treatment
of it by mere phrases which do not recognize
| its deserts and its difficulties.
The fishery question has here great loca
interests. While the Democracy yesterday
gave it fair sounding words, the resolutions
gave it the severest blow it has yet received
| Why the very thing the Canadians are con
tending for is our market. The Morrison
bill which that convention urges the Con-
gress to pass is the very one which makes
| fish free, both salt and fresh, and gives tC
the Canadians, without money and without
price, the very thing for which they would
pay any money, and any price, and for which
they are making all this disturbance.
After the treaty was abrogated our fisher
men looked forward with hope and high an.
ticipation to the time they should have Oul
markets, the most splendid in the world, to
themselves and now this convention held In
this State, of all the States in the world, rec.
ommends, nay demands the passage of bill
which gives the Canadians all the benefits of
the abrogated treaty for nothing. Cannot il
be that these statesmen did not know what
the Morrison bill means Tine language OF
the resolution favors that idea.
This large audience gathered together, I'M
der circumstances that would ordinarily
make it small, shows your interest inlthe cam
paign which is your just due. ask you to
do in the future, as in the past, your whole
duty as members of the Republican party
Mr.. Reeds remarks were frequently inter
rupted by loud laughter and applause as in
his eminently satirical vein, he raked over
the non-doings of Democratic administra-
ton, and at the close, was greeted with three
hearty cheers.
The following were chosen a district COM
mittee: Andrew Halves, Deering; J. M
Leavitt, Alfred; E. M. Goodall Sanford; J
Fl. Banks, Freeport; S. W. Jaaiias, York
w. w. Cross, Bridgton; W. NJ. Marks, Port.
land.
The convention then adjourned