The Portland daily press., 1891-02-14

the Democratic party had recently declared
that for himself he Is opposed, and will be
opposed, to the proposition OF coming silver
In unlimited quantities. Our only safety as
a political organization Is TO talk unfiincn.
ingly and immovably against the proposition
that the owners Of the silver mines shall
compel this government to buy their surplus
products and make IL into money. 1t will
debase our currency, and bring inevitable d
nancial disaster TO the interests Of New Eng.
land, and the North and the West as well.
The party must stand, as 1t has always
stood, for the principles OF education as
against ignorance, for morality as against
vice, for temperance as against drunkenness,
for purity as against corruption; and unless
1t does stand there It Is going TO be repudiat-
ed by the intelligence and the patriotism OF
the American people.
Above all, and beyond all, the party must
stand for honest elections In every state OF
the Union. he sometimes wondered wheth.
comprehension OF the magnitude of the evil
that Is being perpetrated In this country by
the suppression OF the ballot In some of the
Southern States. He told how, In district
IN South Carolina, made TO have a Republi.
can majority of five TO one, 10 spite Of that
fact, elected Democratic represer tative to
Congress, because the machinery OF the cleo
tion was In the hands Of the Democrats
Are we going to sit idly by here In the North
and permit such wrongs to be perpetrated
without ra sing or voices In solemn pr0teStY
Do you believe that the North Is going to
submit to anything of that kind forever
He predicted that there would be revOlu-
ton Of opinion in the country on that mat
ter. and said that the Republican Senators
who stand today opposed TO the passage of
fair elections bill are taking upon them
selves responsibilities that no Republican
OF all issues Is the issue Of fair elections,
and the Republican party must unhinching-
ingly defend that idea.
On such a platform as that we will win the
next Presidential election. lapplausel anC
will keep the government in tbs
hands of the party that has al
ways been loyal TO the flag and tbs
Constitution, and Is going to gain more vic
tories because Of its loyalty and devotion to
the right.
Some Republicans are radical and some are
not. The danger TO the party comes from a
departure from the fundamental and radical
Ideas OF republicanism. Abraham Lincoln
Of blessed memory, did he live today would
not surrender one single right for which the
armies fought under his command from 1861
to 1865 You would not find Grant or Sheri-
dan, and you do not find tnat brave old man
struggling with death tonight, yielding one
Iota of the fundamental PRINCIPLES Of the
Republican organization; but you do find a
class Of men too good to be radical and Just
good enough to assist the party to defeat In
our elections.
In the great city Of Boston tonight the Re
publican heart is throbbing and beating 10
know whether they had better have Repub-
lican or Democrat for postmaster. He
read In Republican paper OF that city the
other day In headlines that the President
was "willing to appoint Republican" For
Heavens sake why should he be- willing to
appoint Democrat. IL they have not O Re-
publican who is capable of filling the Office
one can be sent down from New Hampshire.
RQnnhlQan oQt
OF that disease and insists that the principles
Tor which they fought shall De carried out In
their entirty, and In their radicalism, IL you
please, the Republican party Is In danger OF
walking straight along the lines Of Republi-
canism as against the reactionary and revo-
lutionary principles Of the Democratic party.
We are all right II we do not surrender our
convictions to the clamor Of the hour. We
are all right If we contend that the Republi-
can party shall have a sound platform. that
1t shall nominate good men, and that when
the battle Is Won the fruits of that victory
should be given to the victors and not to our
enemies. Tell me that there Is nothing bur
When we have won the battle we are enti.
tied to the offices that belong to the victors
and do not belong to the vanquished.
In closing the Senator expressed his
thanks for the c0rdiality Of his reception,
and said that he had seen something OF our
enterprise, energy aud prosperity. The
enterprise, energy and prosperity Of this.
aud every other community In this country,
are largely dependent upon the principles
tnat have been advocated and enacted into
law by the Republican party. He asked
that the obligations to his great party
would not be forgotten, the party that en-
acted tariff law in 1861. that freed the
slaves, that reconstructed this government,
that has stood for good government and cor
rect principles all through its history in op-
position to the reactionary ideas Of the
Democratic party. II we are only true to
the principles Of our party, IL we are only
true to the convictions that animated us
when the fate Of this nation stood trembling,
there will be no doubt what the intelligence
and the loyalty OF the people Of this country
will do in the next national contest. fGreat
applause.l
The thanks of the Club were then unani-
mously voted to the distinguished guests for
their interesting speeches, after which all
formality was dropped. and the remainder
Of the evening devoted to pleasant social
chats.