The Portland daily press., 1888-02-28
VETERAN REPUBLICAN, CLUB.
Mr.. }. n. Fogg's observations in
the New South"

The Veteran Republican Club had good
night for its meeting last evening, and those
who were present were well repaid by talk
from Mr.. j. ii. Fogg, on his observations
in the South he having just returned from
trip to the great manufacturing centres.
After referring to the organization OF Re
publican clubs, their purposes and useful
ness, said he had great respect for veterans,
and did not share in the belief which some
entertain, that in politics and war old veter-
ans should be laid aside as old fossiliferous
substances of little or no value 1t was the
old veterans in arms and in the councils OF
the nation that saved our country in the
hour Of its greatest peril 1t is grand old
veteran who, today, Is fighting the battle for
Irish liberty. And he, who bore aloft the
standard of the Republican party In 1884,
whose magnetic charm and electric tongue
thrilled the hearts Of his eountrymen, and
does today, though in foreign lands, IS none
other than veteran. Surely the time mas
not come when it is prudent to ignore the
veteran!
We are now approachinga campaign under
circumstances quite different from those
heretofore existing. We are the outs IN this
campaign. and we fully realize that the ex-
ecutive chair IS full of stuff offensive partl-
sanship does not express it), and in the ap-
preaching campaign we propose TO clean IL
out and install therein man who has
knowledge and proper appreciation OF
American labor and American industries.
Ever since the Democratic party was
forced to lay down its arms at Appomattox,
it has declaimed on the stump, in the forum
and through the press that the mission Oh
the Republican party had ended, and have
no doubt it has many times wished 1t had
ended then; but so long as there is Demo-
IL L.. fhe
and practice Of fair vote and honest count
and return, and who does not believe in the
protection of American labor and American
industries, the mission OF the Republican
party will continue.
The home and nursery Of the Democratic
party is in the South; here too is the. will
power that dominates that party, ana It's
policy. Here Is the power that recognizes
no personal political rights in the eolored
citizen, unless that right Is so exercised
as to perpetuate the hold OF the Democratic
party on political power. The eolored
man in the South is as completely dlsiran-
chised today in municipal, state and national
elections. when the issue is one where their
vote would determine 1t against the Demo-
cratic party, as they were before emanelpa-
tion. and the only excuse made is that they
do not propose to be governed Dy negroes.
But the real objection is apparent, VIZ. tnat
the col0red people vote the Republican ticket.
was told in Georgia that it was not healthy
ganZe Republican campaign, and a native
white man who was candidate for Congress
as against Mr.. Stewart, the Democratic can
didate, indOrsed this statement
In all the manufacturing centres visited,
found the people who were interested in the
development Of their national resources
earnest protectionists. They are apparently
sincere and admit the necessity for it-yet
they vote the Democratic ticket, and will
probably continue to do so, until
the emigrati on from the North which Is now
setting in that direction, becomes sufficiently
strong to create division among the whites
on political issues affecting their industries.
They have an abundance of iron, coal, tim
Der and all the natural resources necessary
to make them one Of the most prosperous
sections of our great country, and by the
aid of northern capital and men OF brains
from the North they are makidg great pro-
gress in manufacturing, especially in cotton
and iron. No more courteous or hosptabie
people can be found and the time Is not far
distant when protection will be the battle
cry there as it is today in New England. Mr..
Fogg dwelt at some length on the resources
of the South and the reasons why those in
terested in manufactures are, and will be,
for protection.