The Portland daily press., 1890-10-14
Associated Press Report,

UTICA, N. Y, October 13.-The political
campaign in New York state was opened at
Utica this evening by speech from Speaker
| Reed. The occasion was a rousing Republi
can mass meeting at the Utica Opera House,
in which about $500 people, nearly all of
them being voters, gathered. The Speaker
was met at the train by the Utica Republi-
can Continentals, 500 strong. and escorted
through crowds of people and blazing fire.
works to the Opera House, where he re-
ceiyed splendid ovation. Besides Speaker
Reed addresses were delivered by State Sen
tor Coggeshall. Hon. Martin /. Townsend,
the Troy Congressman, James S. Sherman,
representative from this district. Consul
General Knapp of Montreal, and several 9TH
or prominent persons.
After thanking the audience for his warm
reception, Mr.. Reed said: 1.-Two years ago
you solemnly declared you were in favor of
the doctrine of protection; not incidental
protection, but protection on purpose.
[Laughter]. The Mckinley bill embodies
that doctrine and gives more fully than any
other law the markets to American people.
In order that it may have full support and
be useful to all American people, it must
again receive your sanction, for your sane
tion alone will give to it that stability which
will encourage business and give us prosper
ity.. L therefore appeal to this audience to
declare again by their verdict on election
day what they declared by their verdict in
1888. One would not think that
1t would be necessary to repeat this
tCtutCbs y6b buc SdcTtu WTlblQRS
tell us that when the good man sleeps GER
tain citizen of another country is going
about sowing tares. When the Republicans
stay away from the polls. the Democrats are
very apt to go there in force. You will find
your presence at the polls necessary for the
Inauguration of period of prosperity. /
desire to read your approval by the re-elec-
tlon OF Republican Congress, because be-
lleve that such an election will be conducive
to the Interest OF good government to this
nd ranO anNrtw .Af IL
zan sense, but on that basis ON which rests
the liberties of this country. 1t is great
spectacle, that OF government OF 64,000.000
people and the spectacle is more
wonderful when the, government carried
on by the people themselves. Did you
ever think what is meant by the government
OF the people, by the people? 1t does not
mean by the rich, for that was disapproved
when the property qualification for suffrage
was abolished. 1t does not mean govern
ment by the most intelligent for that might
leave you and many others off the voting
list. 1t does not mean the government by
those OF the highest morality for that would
mean the millineum. On the other hand it
any single class, but by the average sense of
all, rich or poor, all mingled together.
Government ever existed on the face OF the
earth.
The Speaker said that there are S,CCO,OOO
people in this country who are not repre-
sented in this country, and continued: Is
there anything in the burning sun of the
South that makes higher intelligence or
greater business sense than the chill of the
North. In Wisconsin, 10000 votes elect
nine members of Congress. Twenty thou
sand more votes in five Southern states elect
~ members Of Cangress. Every Southern
gentleman who has done us the honor to
come back to us for the laudable purpose of
governing us counts for three of you. Are
you prepared to endorse this? Are you pre-
pared to endorse this when it is in defiance
the Y Unlted States as recorded in the constitu-
ton? lApplausel l don't attempt to dis
gulse the fact that while we seek this yindi
cation OF the rule of the majority at the
hands OF the people of the United States.
that the dice are loaded that are thrown
against us. Our doctrine is that two men
know more than one Their doctrine
is that one man If from the South knows
more than three of us. After we met in the
House of Representatives it was a strange
sight that met the eye. What do you sup
pose the election of 1888 was for? Did we
marshal great army of speakers in the
field? Did we set to work able journalists? ?
Did millions of us go to the polls as a mere
Jest, or was 1t solemn act of government,
the sOundest act of the s0undest government
solemn declaration of the people, arrived at
with much toll, difficulty and thought, there
stood the minority proclaiming itself ready
to die In the defence of its rights" Among
those rights was the right to stop the regis
tering of the verdict of the people of the
Uniced States. That verdict was registered
and yet the minority did not die. TApplause.1
He that fights and runs may live to tell the
stoIy. Laughter.