Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-06
MAINE DISPATCHES.
LARGEST YET.
Mr.. Blaine Addresses Ten
Thousand People at Old
Orchard
On the English Attitude Toward American
Politics.
ROV Ensland'S Love EmbarraSseS the
Democrats.
A Body Guard of Tippecanoe Veterans.
A Body Guard of Tippecanoe Veterans


OLD ORCHARD, Sept. s.
Mr.. Blaine came into Congressman Reeds
district this afternoon and addressed that he
described as the largest mass meeting he had
seen in Maine for ten years. The camp.
meeting grounds were crowded, every one
Of the five thousand seats in the auditorium
being occupied, and then only a part of the
great crowd was accommodated. Indeed
the opinion of Mr. Blaine himself Was that
ten thousand people were present.
On the platform sat forty-eight veterans
Of the tippc campaign, of nearly half a
century ago, one of whom, a native OF
Maine, had come from Oregon to see Mr.
Blaine, aud on the out.kirts of the crowd
stood two or three hundred men, who formed
II campaign club from Biddeford. The lat
ter carried tri colored umbrellas and at their
head was borne the sign, Have you heard
from Vermont, 2S 900"
Hon. Thos. b. Reed was the first present
ed by the chairman, Hon. A. l.. Allen OF
Alfred and he made a brief speech on the
tariff issue, speaking of the geographical
character of the Mills bill for instance. Then
Mr.. Blaine was presented and the great en-
thusiasm which had marked his entrance into
strongest of all the champions of the repub-
lcan policy of protection to American in.
dustries and good wages for our working.
men, holding high the banner of Harrison and
Morton, stands our own great statesman
of Maine" said the chairman, and the state
ment was applauded. "You have come here
to hear him today" he continued. "He has
come to speak to you and take great pleas
ure in presenting to you James G. Blaine. y
After the applause which greeted him as he
rose to respond to his introduction, Mr.
Blaine made II short speech upon the English
attitude as to American politics and upon the
fisheries. He said
Mr.. Chairman:
The democratic members of the ways and
means committee, of whose one sided pro-
ceeuings MIR X. ed has just spoken, had al
been reading before Congress reassembled,
that oriental story in which man charged
with crime was brought before the Caoi for
examination and punishment. Alter his ac-
cuser had stated the case against him the
Cadi was about to pronounce sentence, bu'
yielded to the prayer of another who wished
to say something IN his defense, VINO made
the Innocence of the accused 50 plain tina,
the Cadi SAID the mau might go free, but he
declared that the case had taught h,m the
great lesson OF never embarrassing himself
by hearing more than one side of any ques-
ton. LA ghter and applause AMI 50
these d, mucratic members OF The ways and
means Committee, thvs men SO well ac-
auainted wiih the ahufacturers of WOODEN
and cotton, of iron and steel. down in Ar
kan-as and Kentucky, (laughter) said their
minds were made up on the subject OF the
tariff and they did not want to hear any thing
from New England manufacturers Oh their
side of the question. Laughter. They
were afraid that their Judgments
might be changed by hearing the
facts, and therefore they locked the
door of the committee room, and sat down,
aud lllum mated their mind, by the all of "A
.tallo~ DIP" and framei the Mills Dill.
Laughter and applause. Well, gentlemen,
that Mills bill heard vi across the ocean
and II gave great JO, to the manufacturers
over there. 1 hap. ened 10 be in Englani when
both national tickets were homlha'ed' anu II
/ had foreseen Just the turn this campaign
might take, / thIuk | sbould have preserved
the cvp,es OF all the + lg,isn papers | real
from one end ut Great Dritlan 10 the other.
Astue, sa, did not rad sinsle paper,
.nd 4 r, au t,,aii,, that Was not IN raptures
over the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, and
Inch Ia, Was nlar,AI. and
did not $, in ANY glsh pap,r ~halever. the
least appru,a. OF Harusoa Il Morton, or of
the pru,ect,ve system which they represent
This hal gone on 80 strong an SO long and
was making ITS weight So felt III the minds of
Am rican people. that ever, body began To
INQUIRE why snouli England be 50 -unani-
NOUS on both. tor the democrats and against
the republicans. and II was becoming all EN-
bsrrassiug question. The i'res,d, mt felt that
the tide had begua to run strong that some
thing must be done to make the voters of
thls country believe il WAS the repuoicat
party thai Engl Was fayoring. Laughter
If YOU have read some of the hnest specimens
ut what IN the southwest they call double
breasted lying, you may have observed 1t Ii
recent issues OF papers supporting President
Cleveland for reelection. | read one mol
| loo miles from where | stand. | will moi
| further name it, for do not want TO be per
s,nal, that said that no more ingenious false
hood wa> ever palmed OFT upon the American
peo, than to say that the republican part,
was not tavorite in England Why, III,
hole tory administration, with Lord Sails
bury at It's head am quoting the paper
was Just radiant with hope, anxious and over
| borne with expectation tor the republican,
| to be returned to power in order that the
markets of the United States should be KEEP
at the low ebb of enterprise and prosperit,
nto winch the protective policy had driver
them in the last twenty-five years. Laugh
tell That just keep US in that lowiy CON
d,ti, n and England would maintain he
march across the seas and across the CONT
nen,s, and secure prosperity of which VIZ
never could dream until we adopted fret
trade after the pattern laid down. IN Presi
dent Clevelsnd's message of last December
Lord Salisbury WAS selected by the demo
cratic paper am quoting as the one Englisl
statesman who is so closely attached to INT
republican party. Well, when we had ou
civil war, Lord salisbury was known as Lor'
Robert Cecil, and he Was one OF the Eng
lishmen that openly and deiantly placed thel
desire for the success of the rebellion on th'
ground that England ought to 50 manoeuve
that the prestige Of this country could D
ch, cked and thwarted by its dlsunion
| GCrles of That's so," you're right, "yo'
bet" and applause.l l said to mysei