The Portland daily press., 1886-08-31


brought in and set to work anotner corps OF
men and week in and week out they counted,
and they finally announced that out OF the
four hnndred and odd millions OF dollars
there was two cents qencieHcy, fd tba naTt
morning upon the floor, where Democfat
had dropped it in counting Great laughter
and applause.) After twenty-1our years oI
stewardship by the Republican party, l Wnen
called upon to surrender to tnelr sufcesSoLIS d onI
lected, they delivered every cent tnaI De1
longed to the American people, (Applause.J
So that instead of proving, as they sald tney
would, that the Republicans were a seG ol
thieves, they did prove that no nation upon
the face of the earth had ever been managed
more honestly and ably. (Applause.) Another
the claim they made was that we were hoard-
ing 400, 100000 in the Treasury. Mr.. Hen
bricks stated at the very first that should the
Democrats get into power they would open
the ''slash boards" as we lumbermen would
say, and let this surplus out among the
people. This was the first, last and only
speech he made during the campaign;
During the first nine months how much did
they reduce the surplus? The Republicans
had made practice of keeping $4,000 900
on hand to protect the greenbacks and the
specie basis and what was accumulated IN
excess of that they turned in towards reduc-
ing the national debt. During the first six
months after the Democratic party came in
power not dollar was paid toward the debt
but 100000 more was added to the sur
plus.
good friends to the soldier. They talked
that here in Maine, and made some of the
soldier boys believe it, too. But | knew that
way back the Democratic party, as a party,
did not quite toe the mark on the soldier
business daughter and applause.) And |
said to myself, 1T has been twenty years
since the war, and it generally takes Dem
ocrat twenty years to get round to anything,
and now let us hope that is true, that this
great party is the friend of the boys who
fought that the government might live"
They said, IF you will put us in power we
will give the soldiers the preferences in the
offices of the country, for their services to
the country entitle them to consideration
But has any Democrat here looked it up to
see how closely they have stuck to the soldier
since they came into power? Instead of IA
voring the boys who saved this nation, from
one end of this land to the other, the crippled
and disabled soldiers have been removed
from the little offices they held to make room
for the Democratic partiZan and eX-COnfed-
crate soldier The speaker here related the
case of a one-legged soldier who was dis
charged from the office Of postmaster at Vim
ton, Iowa, to make room for man who had
been tried and convicted of taking illegal
pension fees from soldiers, and who was in
Jail serving his sentence when appointed
He would not find fault in ordinary cases,
with the Democrats for filling the offices with
Democrats; he expected that, and he would
not be found preaching against it if, when
they removed Republican Union soldier,
in his place. if, when they put one-legged
Republican out. they would put a one-legged
Democrat in. He would not complain, but
in his travels over the country he found but
mighty few of the latter. Laughter)
The treatment of the soldiers today at the
hands of the Democratic President shows
conclusively that that party has no sympathy
for the soldiers of the Union. The Presi-
dent has thus far vetoed one hundred pen
sion bills, the total amount of which would
not exceed $4,000 a year. Congress has
power to pass such bills, but the President
has no more right to veto them than he has
to veto any ordinary pension bills he may
have the power, but he has not the legal
right so to do. No Republican President
ever took it upon himself to take such mat
ters out of the hands of Congress.
| do not believe, said he, take it as whole,
the soldiers of this country are proud, Of the
plause) That is my idea about it, and when
those boys have the chance to express their
| opinion at the polls, you will find how they
feel upon the subject. (Applause)
The speaker said that he had not the time
nor the inclination to discuss the great ques-
tion of protection, now being so fully and
ably presented all over this State by its dis
tinguished citizen Mr.. Blaine, but he agreed
with him that the best friend of the laboring
man in this country today is the law which
protects the workmen of this nation from
the pauper labor of the old world. ZAP
plause) And he would hope that at some
day we may have an administration In this
country imbued with the spirit of true
tion so imbued? Look at the fishery ques-
ton; question touching so nearly the peo-
pie of New England. rs there Democrat
here who thinks that Secretary Bayard is a
perfect ''tearer' on that question:? Great
laughter and applause). Is there a Demo-
crat here who is proud of the present Secre-
tary OF State? Here was a great industry
being stricken down. Here was England at
business of this country for her own benefit:
Where was MI. .Bayard? What had become OF
him? Echo answers, "where?" We would
not knlw that the American people have any
fride from anything that he has done, or that
Not feFft f6F tie sa With Me2cd Res HRess
caught fellow in Mexico and convicted him
Of slandering one OF their judges, and the
first thing we know Mr.. Bayard appears
with his epaulettes upon his shoulders, and
sword in hand, talking about the dignity of
the American people and the prerogatlYes OF
the State Department, and he was going to
have that man released if it took the whole
army of the United States! Why, poor Mex
leo would not be mouthful for us before
breakfast. daughter. | hope and pray for
an administration that will not only see to 1t
that Mexico does not intrude upon the rights
of single American citizen, but also that
John Bull shall mind his own business
Great Applause). Inever expect this to be
done by the Democratic party; it is too big a
thing for them to handle. daughter and
applause
As to prohibition, the temperance people
are indebted to the Republican party for all
the temperance legislation that has been ac-
complished. Have the Democrats ever
passed prohibition law anywhere? They They
and they do not practice one anywhere
daughter and applauSe) 1t has been the
Republican party that has passed the tenn
perance laws, and has been amending those
laws in the interest of temperance for nearly
twenty years, and it is proposed to-day to
advance that cause by putting it into the
hands of the party that has always been op-
posed to it; that has always been. its most
bitter enemy 1t is the old business, this
trying to cast ont devils by Beelzebub, the
prince of devils, and yet it has never been
known to work since the world began. Great
| laugher and applauSe)
The Democratic party claims to be the
champion of the laboring man, but upon
what do they base their claims? Where did
the Democrats get th9ir schooling on this
subject? What is it that gives them such
| love for the laboring man? | learn that the
Democrats in this District have nominated
horny handed son of toll for Congress-
| naughter) But as rule that would not
prove great deal. The Republican party
| has done more for the lab0ring men OF this
country than all the other parties that have
| great deal of humbug about the labor ques-
| tion there is great deal of talk that doesn't
amount to anything. | claim to be a friend
| of the laboring man from the fact that that
| is the way myself get my living. am one
of those fellows who had luck enough to be
| born poor | have known what it is to
| work hard at ten dollars month
| Let me say here that l do not believe
| we should have any trouble here in the
| United States upon this question of labor If
| it were not for the men scattered about over
| the country pretending to be the friend of
the workingmen but who are teaching false
doctrines and misleading them. 1t has been
said that the rich are growing richer and
the poor poorer; you have heard that stated
thousands of times but that is not true. 1t
is not true that the working people of the
country are worse off today than they were
thirty-fve years ago. You can buy more
now for $40 than we could then with that
sum; there is hardly an article used in fam
lilies today that is not sold cheaper. But
when we were working for $40 "a month we
did not use over one-third of what we do
now. We got along with less. We did not
use so much then as now; there was not so
could not consume as food things
that had not been Eproduced, or use ar
| ticles that had not been invented.
| it is claimed that the invention of machinery
has taken away the employment of
labor, but the invention that saves the drug
gerry of human toll is blessing to the human
race IT releases man from the drudqerV and