The Portland daily press., 1888-09-06


with the Democratic party, and that those
that had been Americans, had they been on
shore with an opportunity to vote, would
have voted with that party; the balance of
those on board the Alabama were of the
English persuasion, and are good Democratic
friends today. Applause. No Republican
ever hred at the flag, my Democratic friends;
no Republican taught treason in the land. L
Deg you to understand that do not mean to
say that all Democrats were disloyal. l
know, as Mr.. Russell says, there were thous-
ands of good loyal Democrats who never ut
tered words in aid of secession; men who
went into the army and who were as loyal
and as brave as any other men, but IL you
will study the history of the. country you
will find it fact that not two in ten OF those
party since. [Applause.l l am telling you
the truth, my young Democratic friend,
when tell you that not two-tenths OF all the
loyal Democrats who entered the army, who
were loyal war Democrats, ever Afterwards
soiled their hands with a. Democratic ballot
unless it was to throw it in the mud APP
plause.l There never was a Republican en-
gagged in the shotgun policy, either at the
North or at the South, that policy has always
been carried on by the members OF the DEM
ocratic party. No Republican ever belonged
to the infamous gangs known as the X .
Klux and the White Raiders, during thos .
terrible Yeas of reconstruction, those terri
BILE years of wrong and outrage,
The speaker devoted considerable time to
discussion of the election frauds in North
Carolina. Louisiana and Mississippi, and
other Southern States, and exhibited samples
of tissue ballots which were used in the
South in the last election, and declared those
States would be Republican today by good
majority, with fair ballot and an honest
count.
The position of the administration in re-
gard to the civil service was then discussed,
and the President was arraigped and criti-
zised sharply for his course in regard to the
pension vetoes.
The speaker was warmly applauded as he
closed.
The President then said 1--WE Down East
ers read a good deal about the great West.
We know good deal about Iowa corn, and
we hear a great deal about the Iowa Repub-
licans and the great majorities they roll up
there. We have here with us, tonight, one
of the live, enterprising Republicans of that
State, and l now have the pleasure of intro
ducing to you Hon. J. p. Dolliver, of Iowa."
MR.. DoLLIvER's SPEECH.
Mr.. Dolli,er was enthusia 'tically received,
and made brief and telling speech. in which
he said:
The President says. in a recent message,
when it protects its citizens at home The
miserable acquiescence of the American peo-
pie in the notorious felonies that have abol-
ished the rights of free citizenship at home,
has prepared the way for the gradual decline
of the national spirit, and at last has enabled
the government to accept with every evi.
dence of gratitude whatever construction Of
our rights foreign diplomacy chooses
to lay before the American De-
partment of State. Macaulay. refer
ring to BoswelPs devotion to DR.. John
son describes the symptoms of new COM
PLAINTIFF disease of admiration. The open
concession, between drinks of Mr.. Chamber
lain's wine, of all the historic claims of the
fishermen of New England indicates that
out foreign Office has caught that disease, in
its worst form. [Laughter] Without brains
enough to negotiate or sand enough to get up
from the table. the venerable Secretary con
cluded to take u.s. under English auspices,
and through the solemn ritual of initiation
into the ancient order of humility. The
Senate of the United States refused to Join
and straightway the President gives away
the secrets OF the order and calls for bean
shooters to pelt the seductive persons that
beguiled his administration to enter the
lodge. His dramatic demand for new powers,
with the dust of two years thick on the re-
taliation act Of 1886 presents comedy, that
If enacted outside of Washington would be
condemned as an improbable fiction. Where
was the President in the fishing season of
'S5, 'S6' 1877 and 'SS. when outrage after
outrage was committed against the seafaring
citizens Of New England? Why he was
fishing himself at the time. He knew
that there was trouble among the
fishermen along the Canadian coast
He knew he had been authorized to stop the
aggressions of Canada against American
rights. But from anything that he said or
did you would imagine that he believed that
the real trouble was that the fish would not
bite, and that the true remedy was to spit on
the bait. Laughter and applause Pos
sibly the discretion that serves as an over
shadowing background to the Presidents
display of holiday valor, was derived from
able to whip the Queen. There was the
struggling and friendly Republic of Mexico.
She happened to get hold of a border vaga-
bond and hold him to answer before a local
magistrate for crimes that had long deserved
recognition by some government. And at
once the State Department became blunder-
buss, loaded to the muzzle with slugs of bad
law and worse facts, ready to be set off
against a friendly Republic, dotted from
Vera Cruz to Ell Paso with fourishing Amer
lean enterprises. Mr.. Bayard felt that some
thing must be done to distinguish his diplo-
matte career, and so he wanted to whip Mex
leo. don't recall how the luclxless Cutting
came out of the scrape. The last thing the
American public heard of the international
episode was an echo from the Mexican cap
ital, from procession of the young bloods
OF that hospitable city, bearing our special
envoy up the main avenue, decked on the
outside with flags and streamers gay and on
the inside with an overdose of Mexican
pulque, laughter and shouting in the ears
of the whole Aztec civilization: "Vice la
Ambassadors americana"
Taking everything into the account guess
Mr.. Cleveland is right to reserve his buster
against Great Britain for the closing months
OF his administration. 1t may serve to sup
press a slowly dying cause. And if, in the
accidents of politics, the administration
should survive the November earthquake,
1t will cost his secretary no further humilia-
tion to invite new negotiators and acquiesce
in the demands of fresh arrogance. [Ap-
plause.l