Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-10
SOUND SENSE
Embodied in the Eloquent
Remarks
At Granite Hall, Saturday
Evening.
What Republicans Have Done and What
Democrats Have Attempted To Do.

Saturdays rain did not prevent quite
large number of our citizens from attending
the rally at Granite hall By eight O'Clock an
audience of between two and three hundred
had assembled to hear republican doctrine
expounded and listen to the forcible preseDta-
tlon of the great industrial question by the
distinguished gentleman from Tennessee.
At eight o'clock, after the Augusta National
Band had rendered some pleasing selections,
Hon John L. Stevens, the chairman of the
evening, called the meeting to order. He
said
History is the servant of divine Providence
to teach nations their duties. For nearly a
century the democratic party has been a
menace to the peace and the prosperity of
the American people The mother of the
extreme doctrine of State righ-s and the pro-
tector of slavery, it has always been opposed
to the central idea of the American union.
think there are those here to night who re-
member freshly as | do, forty-eight years
ago, when the whig statesmen told the peo-
pie of this country that if they would expel
the democra ic party from power, the indus
trial interests of this country should be pro-
tected. Their appeals were responded to by
the election of General. Harrison to the Pres
ideLcy, and the country cred on a career
of industrial prosperity. In 1860 the repub-
deno unced the democratic party as the enc
/ my of the American union and the friend OF
slavery, the most internal system of slavery
this world ever saw. This terrible indict-
ment was vindicated, verified by the tremend-
Gus war of four years, filling this land with
| orphans and spotting it all over with the
graves of our heroes. To day the democrat
&c party with the same allies is waging war
against the industrial system of the United
States. We, of Augusta, are bound by every
fair and honorable sense of duty to oppose
this unhaloTed alliance. | will not say as
close before introducing the speaker as did
Cato, the old Roman patriot Carthage
must be destroyed !" but / will say that il
the light of history, in the light of existing
facts, patriotism demands that the democrat
ic party shall be defeat ID and expelled from
power. and | say more,-it will be. Ap
plause. l now have the pleasure of intro
duclng to this audience a gentleman who
has never been known 10 cherish ans partic
ular partiality for the democratic party. Hon
George Nancy of Tennessee.
Mr.. Nancy received cordial greeting a
he came forward. He said
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GEsTLEMES
Before entering upon the consideration o
public questions that We are assembled her
to night 10 dispose of, | will assume the lib
erty of giving a short expression of the i'm
! preston made upon me by this my first visi
10 the good State of Maine. | believe it wa
Mr.. Holland in his Middle Ages" VIII
! wrote that in all ages, the architecture Of
people is the stra gely true criterion by whic
to judge their true history. As have pasi
: ed over your beautiful State with its acres Q
green grass, its wide expanse of hill an
dale, its landscape of land and lake, an