The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-06
BLAINE ON THE THIRD PARTY.
A Large Audience Addressed at
Unity.
A Question of superlative Interest
The Democratic and Prohibitory
Coalition.

had discussed the relations of the protective
tariff to the industrial interest and progress
of Maine in his speech today, he said: The
great trouble with any public issue is to get
it so presented to the people as to secure a
fair, direct, unqualified vote upon it. The
minority party is always struggling to evade
that form Of submitting the question to the
Democrats Of Maine. They always ran
from an issue when made directly upon the
tariff, and were always seeking the advan-
tage of some third issue. The question un-
der discussion today of superlatiye interest
to Maine is the election of four representa-
tives to Congress, devoted heart and soul to
the system of protection
Your representative from this district,
Hon. Seth l.. Milliken, is thorough, active
and valuable man in that position. He pre-
sented the question in his speeches at the
late session of Congress with great clear
ness and force, applying it with happy di-
rectnesS to the needs OF our own State. The
distinguished representative of the first dis
trict, Mr.. Reed. leads the House in the sue
cessful fight against the movement of the
free traders. The candidates opposing the
reelection of our delegation are not willing
to come before the people and join issue
fairly upon this subject They seek to evade
it and to interpose third issue. For in
as the adage has it, with a silver spoon in
his mouth, never under the necessity of do
ing a days work in his life, presents
himself as the "laboringman's" candidate
device to draw from Mr.. Reed part of his
legitimate support. But Mr. Clifford has met
the usual fate of men who rely upon dema-
goguery. In political campaigns he has over
done the matter, and has, to say the least,
placed himself in an attitude that may well
10 fQrpnad lu6ipr0uc N n fnrVid a6drncc 0n
the interests of the workingmen, delivered
by Mr.. Clifford in York county, with new
born zeal which quite ran beyond his discre-
| tion, he spoke of them as the ''laboring and
lower classes who labor for their bread"
His blunder recalls somewhat vivldly a
similar one made by distinguished citizen
of Portland nearly 40 years ago. The law
yers who do me the honor to listen to me
will readily recall the stately, elegant form
of Thomas Amory Deblois, the law partner
at one time of the late Senator Fessenden.
Mr.. Deblois was once an aspirant to a seat
in Congress from the Portland district, and
was addressing Whig convention from
which be had expected his nomination The
committee on resolutions introduced an ad-
mirable series and an eloquent address to
the people. You all remember that the old
| Wings were famous for resolutions and elo-
| quent addresses. Mr. Deblois came forward
| to speak in response to the address. He
| eulogtZed its language and its tone, and Sug-
gested that a large edition should be printed
for circulation among the common people. F"
| Mr.. Deblois was not nominated and was
never afterwards heard of as candidate for
Congress. The common people" somehow
will attend Mr.. Clifford. The '.laboring
and the lower classes who labor for their
bread so patronizingly referred to by Mr..
| Clifford, will take good care to give
him leave to. stay. at home and learn a
better form of public address when referring
| to the millions of American workingmen
who constitute the bone and sinew Of the
land. (Cheers) The third party of laboring
men will certainly not wish to join an organ
ization whose leaders so fippantly insult
| tempted third party Prohibitionists have
| any greater success, in my judgment. The
| great leader of prohibition at the time it was
| incorporated in the laws. the Prince Rupert
| of that fight, the man who led the forces
| against ali opposition and carried the cause
| triumphantly forward, is still living at SO
| years of age, hale and hearty, with the old
| fire burning and all his faculties aglow. An
| son P. Morrill, has spoken to the Prohibit
tionists of Maine, advising them to stand by
the Republican party, as. that party has
| stood by their cause, warning them against
| the insidious efforts being made to lead them
| astray in the pending election. He warns them
| against the insincerity and the danger of the
| third party movement, and earnestly but
| politely warns and arraignS Mr.. Dow for
| his desertion. 1t is a significant fact that
| Mr.. Dow, in attempting to reply to Mr.. Nor
| rill, is compelled to use the Portland Argus
| constant foe of prohibition and the libellous
assailant of Mr.. Dow through all the stages
| of his active and philanthropic life. Cheers
| and cries of "GOod.'O
The papers in the State which are promi-
nently devoted to Prohibition, which have
held that issue high through all contests,
the Lewiston Journal, published by Hon.
| Nelson Dingley, the Bridgeport Reporter,
by Major Shorey, the Camden Herald, by
Hon. T. R. Simonton, would ordinarily have
been the organs through which Mr.. Dow
would have communicated to the public
But he feels himself now not only out of the
line with his fellow Republicans, but out of
line with those earnest temperance workers
in the State who have never wavered in the
past and who stand earnestly and consist
emily for the Republican party todayz There
is an instructive lesson, painful and extraor-
binary, contained in the simple fact thai
Gen. Neal Dow is using the Portland Argus
as his personal organ fol-. communication
that it requires no comment or expla
tion in submitting it to the compre
hension of an appreciative public
That comprehension of the pub
lie will readily reach the conclusion
that a coalition closely interviewer exists be
tween the Democratic party and the so-calle'
party of Prohibitionists. They both labo
to common end, which is the defeat of th
| Republican party and a victory for the Dem
ocratic party. Tine so called Third Part.
cratic support, and unless the imported
speakers of the Third Party are greatly Sian
| dered, they are directly in the pay of tn
Democratic party. But like all the coali
tionists, they distrust each other, and I'll
NOR has it that oratorial efforts in the caus
of the Third Party Prohibitionists must b
paid for in advance-"no pay, no speech i
the rule. Great laughter.l The end, witt
such a coalition, justifies the means, and bot
parties of the coalition seem ready to resor
| to extreme ends to compass the defeat o
Republicanism and the triumph of Democ
racy. Unfortunately for their success, thel
schemes are all known, and are therefor
condemned in advance tremendous, applause
and aside from the Importance OF the issue
presented there is much in the character 0
the men who embody them as candidates an
as the exponents Of the policy.
| Certainly the people of Maine have pro
found reason for pride and satisfaction i
the character of those who represent. ther
Senate and those in the House. Compar
sons are often insidious and not to be freel
| INDUCED in, but am sure l do not trans
gress the laws of courtesy any more than
do the bounds of truth, when | say | thin
that the delegation CT Maine in Congres
will favorably compare with that of an
other State in the Union. They will do ho1
or to the State, which, in turn. does hone
to them. Nor is the language OF eulogy les
to be applied to our admirable candidate .fo
Governor. Mr.. Bodwell is not politician
With the exception of representing the CIT
of his residence in the Legislature, he ha
never held public office of any kind what
ever. He has been immersed in his buslnes
affairs, and, while doing much for himself
| has done much for others and for the. Stat
| 1t may almost literally be said that he an
| his associates have created the granite II
dustry. There is not citizen in the Stat
, | who has been more just or generous en-
, ployer of labor within the past % years tha
Mr.. Bodwell. He has had during that loI
period, upon an average, at least 1000 men
his employ, and the labor of 1000 men reprr
sents probably the support of 5000 peopl
What other citizen of Maine can do more
What other citizen of Maine has done
3 much? The wages paid by Mr. Bodwell
: the laborers of Maine have averaged fro
+. $500, 600 to $500, 600 per annum, and nave,
| some years, gone beyond million. lie IS
4 modest man, an honest man, an lndustrlo
man, an enterprising man, generous ma
just man. He embodies as much as al
candidate ever did the honorable traits OF
gentleman. He hath virtue which doth .
. seem public office.
. Mr.. Blaine, accompanied by press repl
! sentatives, Immediately upon the concluS1l,
+. = of his speech took special train for
. Harbor.
ID Ex-President Arthur Improving
Health,
WASHINGTON Sept. Am letter