The Portland daily press., 1888-08-27
The Maine Leader Received by /;
Vast and Enthusiastic Crowd.
CIeveIand's Sudden Zeal and His
Method of Showing 1t.

broke out and were repeated again and again.
Outside the station, the long column was
drawn up ready to escort Mr.. Blaine to the
Dewitt house. In the line were over 4OC
uniformed men from Lewiston and Auburn,
who, in their handsome new suits, made a
fine turn out The Cushman Harrison and
Morton club. composed of over 100 of the
employees of Ara Cushman & Co., who are
among the leading manufacturers of the
two cities, attracted much attention.
The order of procession was as follows:
Platoon OF Police Deputy Marshal Geo. w.
Metcan, Commanding.
Drum Major Jackson.
Brigade BANDIT. G. Payne, Director.
Chief Marshal GoSS and Aids.
Lewiston Harrison and Morton Club, Capt. G. A
Drew, Commanding.
Cushman Harrison and Morton Club. Capt A. A.
R0wel Commanding.
Auburn Republican Club, Capt f. III. Storah,
Presiding.
Lafayette Band-D. f. league Leader.
Lafayette Club, j. z. Campbell, Presiding.
City Committee and Guests In Carriages.
During the parade the new flag Of the La
fayette club was raised, the procession pass
ing beneath it. Along the line of march the
crowds were enthusiastic. and there was a
vast gathering of people around the hotel
where after Mr.. Blaine had entered the house
the procession was dismissed.
About everybody in the crowd who wit
messed the parade wanted to hear the
speeches, but everybody could not, because
the capacity Of the Lewiston city hall was
not sufficient to accommodate more than four
thousand of them. The lucky four thousand
filed every nook and corner Of the big room.
On the platform were many of the leading
citizens of Lewiston and Androscoggin
county. Congressman Dingley was the first
speaker, and his Lewiston fellow citizens
gave him cordial reception and literally
applauded his excellent speech on the tariff
and the issues of the campaign At the close
of Mr.. Dingey's speech, Mr.. Blaine, accom-
panied by Walker Blaine and Chairman
Manley, entered the hall. Mr.. Blaine's ap-
pearance was the signal for storm of cheers.
The crowd arose, men standing in their
seats and waving their hats, while handker-
chies fluttered all over the room. When,
after several minutes, the cheering ceased,
Mr. Blaine was introduced, and spoke as
follows
MR.. BLAINE's SPEECH.
Fetlolo Citizens of LelciStoR:
When accepted your invitation to speak
here this evening. l had intended to present
some facts with peculiar relation to the in
terests which the many thousand wage
workers of your city have in the mainten.
ance of a sound protective tariff, but that
question has already been discussed this
evening by your distinguished representa-
tive, Governor Dingley. and / shall be fol-
lowed by Hon. John A. Kasson, long a dis
tinguished representative in Congress from
Iowa, and equally well known for the dig
nifty and ability with which he has repre-
sented his country in two great empires of
Europe.
shall, therefore, devote the few moments
speak to the consideration of the fisheries,
which very deeply interest thousands of the
citizens of Maine, and hence in larger
sense, interest the whole State.
| did not happen to have the opportunity
OF reading the full text of President Cleve-
lands message on the subject until this
morning, and, with all due respect to the
chief executive of the nation, / must say
that, considering all the circumstances, it is
the most extraordinary document that ever
was. sent from the White House to the
Capitol
You know the main facts of the issue be-
tween Canada and the United States, or,
perhaps, to speak more exactly, between
Great Britain and the United States, in
respect to the fisheries. 1t was our belief.
and still is, that after the articles of the
treaty OF Washington relating to the fish
cries had expired the Canadian government
behaved in an unneighborly, unseemly and
unjust manner towards our ishemen in re-
fusing them rights which they had enjoyed
by long prescription.
In order to bring the government of the
Dominion to just appreciation of the sub
1pCt. Congress anfhOriYnd fhn Dracidarf in
the spring of 1887 to adopt at his discre tion a
policy of suitable retaliation, directing,
among other things, that whenever and so
long as American vessels were deprived of
ommerclai privileges in the ports of Can
ada, Canadian vessels should be deprived of
States.
This, if l may indulge in appropriate
slang, was genuine tit-for-tat policy, in
which the punishment was admirably fitted
President Cleveland declined to enforce
the policy, and allowed outrage after outrage
upon our nShlng vessels to 90 unredressed.
lie was bent on some form of negotiation
with England, even against the expressed
wish and will of the United States Senate
and in defiance of the large share in the
treaty-making power which the Constitution
assigns to the Senate.
Finally. without the consent of the Senate,
and practically against its protest the Presi-
NOhe A5aAiSOA a SoliiiulSSlOu 10 IIdlnc q urea
ty that should settle all points Of dispute.
he thus gave what was never intended by
the ConStltutlon, partisan side to an inter-
national discussion. 1t was never designed
by the founders of our government that in
tercourse with foreign nations should be con-
Quoted by Republicans or by Democrats. or
by Wings or Federalists, it should only be by
the nation as a whole.
We can have our partisan differences at
home ana settle them on our own soil in our
dG all g.
the globe we should present one united. indi-
ylsable American republic.
but tnls was not done, The treaty was
launched as Democratic partisan measure,
rather than a patriotic American measure,
and the London papers have been following
their usual vocation of eulogizing the De-
mocracy and abusing the Republicans, with
greatly increased vituperation against the
republican party ever since it was found
that the Senate was bent on maintaining the
national dignity.
1t is plainly apparent from the text Of the
Constitution itself that the wise men who
framed it, intended that the ordinary legis-
latiye power should be committed to the ma
lority,, however small, but that no treaty
could be framed without the overwhelming
support of public opinion. They provided,
therefore, that it should rebuire in all cases
two-thirds of the Senate to ratify g treaty.
But despite this, the national administra-
tion went ahead, regardless Of results, and
American instinct Of national self respect
that instead of securing ratification by two
thirds of the Senate, it was absolutely re-
lected by a majority vote.
What then2
At the first rebound, the President has
leaped so faE over on the other side that he
asks authority to cripple all our commercial
relations with Canada from Passamaquoddy
Bay to Vancouver's Island: Having for
three years offered to waive the rights Of the
fishermen and the national dignity at the
same time, the President desires now to
cross over to the other side OF the question
and out-Herod Herod in his demands for re-
dress. He seems eager today to discharge a
whole battery OF Krupp guns on the ques,
tion, when last year blank cartridge from a
pocket pistol would have settled the whole
affair."
After subjecting the country month after
month to the humiliation OF an unprecedent-
ed surrender, the Presidents supporters,
with the zeal of new converts, rather,
with the extravagant enthusiasm OF pretend
ers are now manifesting such renewed and
deep and keen sense of the wrongs we have
experienced from Great Britain and Canada
in the matter of the fisheries, that they Sec
ond the Presidents extraordinary somersault
and in the slang Of the Democratic heelers
they are thirsting for Canadian gore
The Democratic papers were but a short
| time ago telling Massachusetts and Maine
| that their cOntemptible little question over a
| few Goldfish on the banks of Newfoundland
was not worth consideration in the national