The Portland daily press., 1888-08-16


[Great applause.l
When the applause had subsidized, Mr..
Reed spoke as follows:
MIR. REEDS SPEECH.
Fellow Citizens and Ladies and Gentlemen.
Ii there ever was a spontaneous gathering
of the people of the State Of Maine it is to
be found in this hall and in the region sur
rounding it. [Applause.l So spontaneous
has il been, and so lacking seemed to have
been certain preparations usual on such &C.
casions, that even those Of us who are to ad
dress you were not aware that we were to
have that honor until quite a late moment. L
had Intended, myself, not to let of the aud
fence that usually gathers in this hall by so
short speech as / shall make to YOU to-
night. do not intend, however, to discuss
the tariff question in half an evening, nor do
| intend to infiict upon the gentleman who IS
to follow me the necessity OF discussing the
same question in divided evening. in
tend to give him and you the benefit OF the
whole evening together, excepting few pre-
liminary remarks.
l do not remember to have seen such
enthusiasm throughout the country as exists
to-day since the year 1856 when, boy OF six
teen, began to have and to express my
views about politics. [Applause.l At least
half of this audience can remember that glo-
ri0us time. Ii was great season, when the
conscience of the nation was awakened,
when every man felt, as every freeman ought
w lcci db CNClt CtCCtiOu, iidb hIO uOotiniCo
of the nation were in his hands and he was
himself determined to do his duty to his
country [Applausel No such great audi
ence as this could then greet the speaker, for
no such magnificent hall as this threw open
its doors, but such as we had was packed to
repletion, as this hall is packed tonight.
And l well remember the uprising of the
multitude as Hannibal Hamlin loud ap-
i plause,l that spotless statesman who so well
deserves your applause, stood up after his
State. / believe we shall find when we get
through that all over the North there will be
| the same uprising by men as determined as
those men were that the institutions of this
| country should be preserved as they have
been made by the intelligence aid good sense
| of past times. The question after all tonight
is the. consummation of the good which
| we know, the preservation of the
| system which we have proved by actual
| experience to be sound, safe and enriching.
heard from, and teat portion is in the end of
| that great belt which stretches from Maine
to the Pacific coast; that great belt which is
to this country the belt of empire. for it con-
ton, of even this thriving and vigorous
| country. Great applause.] The State of
| Oregon lapplauSel has spoken, and no mem
Der OF the Presidents party today but be-
comes restless when the name of Oregon is
mentioned. Laughter and,applause.) That
was the eliminating point of the attack upon
the industries of this nation. 1t is there
that the great timber belt terminates; it is
there that the shepherds tend their sheep; it
Is there that the great principle of protec-
ton gives its strongest assurances of success
TO new and growing country, Before we
shall speak the State Of Vermont, ever faith
| full andtrue, ever sound, ever true to the
great doctrines which have thus far ruled
this country and will forever rule it. Yer
| mont will speak in tones that none can ever
| mistake In1aprSl and than will
portunity to say what we think of this
| four years of Democratic rule ZAP
| plause.l Four years of Democratic rule
do say? Let me correct it. -Four years of
| the rule of President from New York and
his friends. Laughter and applause.l The
Democratic party used to be divided into men
| who believed in free trade and lived under
| the swelter of a southern sun, and protec-
tionists who lived in the North, but for the
| second time in the history of that party. its
majority has taken control, and it rests with
| the Democratic party in the North which
| has witnessed sixteen Democratic represen-
tatives, all but four of them, driven in by the
power OF the Presidents administrations, to
| say whether they will remain true TO the
| principles that have always professed, OF
| whether they will do as they did once before
| in their history, yield to numbers against
| right We shall witness the spectacle. For
my part believe now as | believed then
that many of them will be found
| ing their opinions instead of their
| leaders, and the result will be a great
| triumph by the true majority of the people of
the United States; IGreat applause Al
ready there are all over the country signs
not only of separation, but signs of retreat.
How bold and brave they were when thew
started outl From the South came the de-
claration that the constitution of the United
States would not permit the doctrine of pro-
lection, and today 1t has dwindled to faint
echo from Mr.. Putnam, who suspects that
may be the constitution of the United States
won't permit 1t after ALL [Laughter.I | do
not know that onght to reproach the Presi-
dents party with being inconsistent [ do
not know that we should recognize them if
they were not. Laughter i do not know
that we should realize whom we were fighting
1t they were not looking one way and rowing
another. Laughter. do not believe we
should know our old foes If they did not
paint picture of one animal and label it UNI
derneath another. [Renewed laughter.l 1t
is notInatulal to them. IGreat laughter and
applause Their great chieftain has set them
the example, Laughter After declaring
doctrine which every member of the Cob
den Club and every doctrinalre in this coun-
try will recognize as the broadcast statement
OF free trade, namely, that you not only pay
the duties on every article that is imported
but you pay like amount in excess Of price
on every article that is manufactured in this
country, declaration that every man who
knows anything of free trade knows to be the
very essence OF it, he then declares that
really free trade is out of the question. As |
have said elsewhere, it is as If Mr.. Ingersoll,
after one of his violent assaults upon the
Bible, should proclaim to an astonished
world that on the whole he was very friend
ly to Christianity, laughter and ap-
plause.J or. as if Wendali Phillips,
after one OF his magnificent on
declared that on the whole he was bunker
Democrat, dyed in the wool [Great laugh
ter and applause.l But have no right to
say word more. [CrieS of 'go ON, Ego on. j
am going to stop with a bit of exhorbita-
ton. You must remember that four years
ago we did very well, having very good
cause for it; having man whom we were
pleased to honor, whom we did honor to the
fuli extent OF our votes, and whom we have
honored today to the full extent of our hur-
rams. That has set the mark high, and it
becomes your duty to reach it again, to put
forth your energies so we may show to the
rest OF the people of the United
States that when question like this
arises the people of the State of Maine. ac-
tive, vigorous and intelligent, are in the van
OF the great march to victory. loud cheer
ing.
Chairman Spaulding then introduced Hon.
A. W. Tenney, of Brooklyn, in fitting
language. Mr. Tenney spoke as follows
MR.. TENNEY's SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
New York clasps hands with Maine to-
night and felicitates this audience upon the
magnificence and suspicious opening of your
own State campaign, as well as on the ma
tlonal campaign in which we are to decide
whether we are to be freemen or slaves.
Never have we had presidential campaign
Ia IN winch there were less of politics than this
we are to decide in this contest whether or
not America shall own herself. Whether her
markets shall belong to American products
or European. Whether the price of Ameri-
can labor shall be measured by the
european standard or by the American.
IL is In fact simply home question, a cues
lion OF the Preside and of the hearthstone.
NO question more important can be pre-
senteQ TO the American people or any people
than that OF the industries relating to that
people. The questions that summons us to
action this autumn are as tremendous as |
tn0se which called patriotism to action in |
1860. [Applause.l
The parallel running between these two |
1ates 1860 and 1888 is peculiar and very sug- |
gestive. In the year 1860 an attack was |
made by solid South, aided and abetted by |
2 large fraction Of the Democratic party in |
North against the political system of our |
country. Today an attack is made by the |
same section OF the country and by the same |
traction of the Democratic party upon the |
INDUSTRIAL system of the country. [Applause.l |
1 know there we're many Democrats |
VINO put on the blue, stepped into the ranks
u the Union army, and with high resolves
lsciared that come what might, and cost
wnat 1t would, this Republic should not die.
APPLAUSE know that in this early :au-
umn there are thousands and tens,of thous-
tc rftarr fhn