The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-20
POLITICAL EVENING AT FREEpORT.
Republicans Have a Rally and the
Democrats a PowWow.
General Adam e. King of Maryland
on the Days Issues.
EngIand's Policy of Smashing a
Nations Industries.


lack for political meetings Saturday night.
The Democrats had a gathering over on
Pleasant Hill at which the Portland Club
performed as an attraction, and the Repub-
licans had a rally at this village. The ora
tors at both places were Kings; Col. Elliott
King, who won his title in the Greenback
hostilities !of 1879, was the Democratic
speaker; and the Republican orator was the
gallant Maryland soldier, General Adam E.
King, who was General Hancock's chief of
staff in the. war of the Rebellion. The
Democratic meeting over on the Hill was
not great affair in spite of the noise of the
Glee Club and the free barges run from this
village by enterprising and flush managers.
But General King warmed his Republican
audience up to the old fashioned pitch
The Republican meeting was held in tn e
open air, seats being improvised on the depot
platform. 81. G. Brewer. Esq, lcalled the
audience to order, and announced that next
Friday evening Hon. I. B. Reed would
speak in the Town Hall. This announce
ment was received with loud cheers Mr..
Brewer also announced that Congressman
Burrowes, of Michigan, who had been an
nounced to speak had been detained by sick
ness and that his place would be supplied by
General Adam E. King. of Maryland. ZAP
plause.] Then Mr.. Brewer introduced
Joseph E. Davis, ESQ.,. as chairman. Mr..
Davis took the chair, and in few appro-
pirate words introduced General King.
Besides having splendid war record. Gen.
King is stalwart Maryland Republican.
and has been all the years since the war. He
was the chairman of the Maryland delega-
ton at Chicago and on the eighth ballot cast
the last vote for Blaine that was given, the
vote Of Maryland standing 13 for Harrison,
4 for Sherman and / for Blaine General
King told his hearers that he was not him
self substitute during the war, nor did he
[Applaqse.l But he was glad to be able to
meet the people of Freeport, though he
regretted to be called on to fill the
place of his friend, Mr.. Burrowes.
General King said this was not the first
time he had left his home beyond the Sus-
quehanna to preach the Republican doctrine.
Aud desire, he said, now as at all times to
speak with Kindness, courtesy and good tenn
per we are citizens of a common country.
Inc Almighty has cast 60, 600 of freemen
on this side OF the Atlantic to work out
magnificent destiny. This is country dot
ted all over with free homes, free schools
and free men. [Applause.] How shall that
inheritance be preserved? In the eternal
DdtttC bCtW ccu but kUuu anu LUt Ddu. Lnere
can be but one side right; and we hold that
the Republican party is the side that has its
foundation on right principles. The Repub-
lican party had made some mistakes, he said,
It had some faults, bvt with all these, it was
the only party that had stood for human
freedom, for protection to our homes and to
our industries. No organization ever con.
ceived by the brain of man had had such
task imposed upon it as was imposed upon
the Republican party Yet that party full
In6 nv anaic hat dA nx.6 Isc,
pointed every prediction of its enemies.
The Republican party put down. a gigantic
rebellion, put the currency of the country
on a just basis, and took its stand for the
purity of the ballot 1t is the question of the
age whether every freeman north or south
shall cast his ballot and have it counted.
This was the duty of the government in
every national election, to guarantee the
right OF the ballot to citizens in those States
where the State government does not guar
power to do it, If it takes the, last adollar, in
the treasury and the last musket at Spring.
field. LApplause.l
The Republican party believes also not
and the laborer, but in protection to the
citizen abroad wherever he may stand in the
crowded streets of the marts of commerce in
the old world, under the shade of the palm,
or in the eternal snow fields under northern
aurora; wherever he may be, let him have
the help of his mother country. [Applause.l
But fellow citizens, my Democratic breth-
rem say, Don't talk about the achievements
OF the Republican party" | remind him
thet we came to power to find the lurid clouds
OF civil war hanging low over the country,
our navy scattered, our arms in the Sorth,
our credit low. Then President Buchanan
walked up and down the corridors of the
White house with copy of the constitution
in his hand, saying that in it he found no.
thing to warrant him to save the country.
But Abraham Lincoln lapplausel found au-
thority, and he called for men and navies,
and the highways Of old Maine were dusty
with the men who marched to save the c0un-
try. [Applausel, And the Democratic par
ty, in that dark hour of the nations trouble,
declared the war for the Union a failure.
And by that record they must stani as an
organization. The truth is that whatever
there is today good about the Democratic
achieved by the Republican party. They ac-
cept the Union saved, the public credit re-
stored, all OF which was done by the Repub-
licans.
After this Republican party of great ideas
ened by its own weight and the ambition of
some men within it. Jealousies arose.
formed by disappointments, theorists came
forward with new ideas. And the
Republican party was defeated by a narrow
false cry of"Cleveland and,reform" from the
purlieus of New York and other great cities.
There was not topper in the slums of New
York who did not, as he got his morning Bit
ters, say, Here's to Cleveland and reform"
And in the South there was not a night-rider,
white chameleon, or a bulldozer who W as
not for cleveland and reform" / sat in
Chicago in 1884 and heard George William
Curtis when he said: I'VE are confronted
and very thirsty, party that went out Of
power as a conspiracy against human lib
erty, and is plotting to crawl back to power
as conspiracy for spoils and plunder." Now
| If there is man who thinks this is a reform
administration, would like to have him go
to Maryland, where notorious ballot-box
suffers, scamps and rufians have been re-
warded by public office. One was made ap-
pointment clerk of the treasury, another an
Indian agent etc. And there has not been
great difference between Maryland and other
States.
But over and above all. the question is to-
night, whether the country as it stands to-
day, in its wealth and greatness, shall suffer
by the overthrow Of the system which made
has been able to recuperate from the tre-
mendous losses of the war, losses that
amounted to six thousand millions in the
South. alone. Stimulated by that system,
haS been seaSy aSs aDd To send snierpriss is
products to every cline. That system
| it is now proposed to destroy. The tariff is
a system. But some one says, the tariff
| makes Things nigh. Wen, am willing to
might buy my clothes little Cheaper es e"I un-
der free trade. But should be putting my
| OWE selfish wishes before the welfare Of the
hundreds of laborers who earn their daily
bread in the great work of protection for the
home market. The Lord Chief Justice of
England. said when here: Il am struck by
| your magnificent domain, by your riches and
| your enterprise; but most o. all have been
struck by the splendid appearance of your
| working people," Now the Democratic par
| ty proposes to break down the system which
enables such peerless working people to keep
up their high standard of life. Now, in this
imperial country, wide in extent and abun-
dant in resources, l hold that we should leg
islate for ourselves and for nobody else. ZAP
plause.l Now, gentlemen, l want to cali
| your attention to one fact generally over
looked by the free traders, that is, that this
system of protection has to do vitally with
| our national freedom. John Bulls policy
| hos aluaxs heen To hreak dnwn the lihar