The Portland daily press., 1890-09-06
Mr.. Reeds Speech.

the consciousness that they sustained his
course in Congress had been of material ben
| eft to him. He complimented Judge Emmons
for his practical advice, saying that that sort
of talk was what was needed, the only nee
essity being to impress it strongly enough
on the peoples minds. Passing then to the
main part of his speech, Mr.. Reed said that
it was a strange thing in the arrangement of
the world that things would not stay re-
formed. One might imagine. he said, that
after we had struggled and fought to estab-
lish reform, that the reform would stay es-
tablished. But it will not. When after ,es,,
tablishing reform the righteous go to bed
nights, the wicked men sit up and saw. tares,
and 1t costs the righteous man good deal OF
| labor after he wakes up to root up to des-
troy the tares. There is, however, one con-
ISOLATION. 1t is not given to man to have
more than one days work in day, We
have only one election at a time. After all
| the tremendous struggle that an election
brings upon US we have a season for rest
and recuperation. Ge then emphasized the
necessity OF contesting every election fully,
my over the whole field everytime.
| Government by the people he said is worth
| fighting for, 1t is easy enough for anyone to
| go to sleep and let king govern him, but
when he as one of the sovereign people,
| governs himself he must be- perpetually
awake, active ana combative for his rights
| and privileges.
The Republican party he said is the party
| which fulfills its promises. 1 am not going
| to tell the achievements OF the party, lest
| should be accused of dealing too much in the
| past The history of the country for the last
| thirty years has been the record of the
achievements of the Republican party. This
statement he challenged any Demo
necuse to rsae ba 6 not mako PubSe bm o con he
| spicuous, but in his own mind. Let him go
| over the record of the past and disprove
| what / say. He then passed to the record OF
| the House of Representatives during the
| present session, saying. that. what it had
| to rule. He said that on the I'd CT December
| the Democrats in Congress, Notwithstanding
| the fact that the Republicans had the Presl-
| dent and both Houses of Congress, declared
| that no business should be done without
| their consent. "We said business should be
| done," said MIR. Reed, 'and it was done. "
| Tremendous applausel. He then briefly
| enumerated the important measures passed
| by the House. but said that he should leave
| it to Mr. Greenhalge to speak more at length
| on that subject. He said that he had come
| to Saco not to make long speech so much
| as to see the people again and to read in
| their faces that they still had confidence in
him as he had in them. The strength of
government is not, after all, he said, in the
| Congress nor in the notable men, but in the
plain people. Whatever the common people
| want, Congress must do, and whatever Con-
| gress does that they do not want must
| speedily be undone.
Mr.. CreenhaIge's Speech.
Hon. f. T. Greenhalge was then intro
| duced. He sketched the doings Of Congress
| during the session in manner that highly
| pleased the audience. When Congress came
| in on December 2. he said we had a terrible
| thing to contend with, precedent, a scare
crow 100 years old which the Democrats said
would prevent us from doing any business.
| The people might demand tariff legislation,
| reform in the coinage, relief to soldiers and
| their widows, and other important matters
| might press on us for action, but this scare
crow of precedent would prevent us from
| doing anything.
Mr. Greenhalge then briefly paid his re-
| spects to Chaplain Milburn, whom he called
2 legacy left over from the last Democratic
congress and then spoke of the Silcott de-
Ialcatlon: lie said that In certain way he
admlred oilcott. True he stole other peo-
| pies money, but having stolen it he ran
| away and put himself to much discomfort
| for the sake of the money. Mr.. Greenhalge
drew comparison between him and the
| pies money at the rate of $13 per diem. but
"f the House, III present. enf'' foT seats revenae IN
| only. but absent for all good purposes He
then discussed tne wonderful proposition of
| the Democracy that a man could be present
to oppose. anything but when it came to ap-
| proving it he became suddenly and ner-
manently absent. Then passing to the
| Speakers method of dealing with this same
| proposition, he described with great
| minuteness the circumstances that
Leo up to to the famous quorum ruling
House when it was first made. land"
said Mr.: Greenhalge Il ask you to submit
that ruling to any company of sensible bnsi.
ness men, be they Republicans, Democrats,
see If they will not sustain it," Mr. G11een S
halge then told how the House by virtue Of
| the Speakers ruling had redeemed the
| pledges of the Republican party in the plat.
! form Of 1888, and said that all sensible men
| saw and fully understood what a victory had