The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11

names WHICH nave adorned Uno roll OF the
Republican statesmen and soldiers are
potent and popular. The great meas
llres of the Republican party are still the
best part of the history of the century.
The unequalled and unexampled story of
Republicanism in it's progress and its
achievements stands unique in the record
of parties in governments which are Free
But we live in practical times, facing
practical issues which affect the business
the wages, the labor and the prosperity
of today. The campaign will be won or
lost, not upon the bad record of James
K. Polk, or of Franklin Pierce, or of
James Buchanan; not upon the good rec
ord of Lincoln, or Grant, or of Arthur, or
of Hayes, or of Garfield. 1t will be won
or lost upon the policy, foreign and do
nestle, the industrial measures, and the
administrative acts of the
Administration of Benjamin Harrison.
Whoever receives the nomination of
this convention will run upon the judg-
ment of the people as to whether they
have been more prosperous and more
happy, whether the country has been in
better condition at home, and stood
more honorably abroad under these last
four years of Harrison and Republican
administration than during the preced-
ing four years of Cleveland and Demo-
cratic government. Not since Thomas
Jefferson has any administration been
called upon to face and solve so many or
such difficult problems as those which
have been eXigent in our condition. No
administration since the organization of
the government has ever met difficulties
better OF more to the satisfaction of the
American people. Chill has been taught
that no matter how small the antagonis".
no community can with safety insult the
flag or murder American sailors. Ger
many and England have learned in Samoa
that the United States has become one of
the Powers of the world, and no matter
how mighty the adversary, at every sac
rifice American honor will be maintained.
The Behring Sea question, which was
the insurmountable obstacle in the dip
lomacy of Cleveland and of Bayard, has
been settled upon basis which sustains
the American position, until arbitration
shall have determined our right. The
dollar OF the country has been placed and
kept on the standard of commercial ma
tons. and a convention has been agreed
upon with foreign governments, which
by making bi-metallism the policy of all
nations, may successfully solve our finan-
cial problems. The tariff, tinkered with
and trifled with to the serious disturb
ance OF trade and disaster to business
since the days of Washington, has been
courageously embodied into code which
has preserved the principle of 9he protec-
ton of American industries. To it has
been added benefcent policy, supple
mented by beneficial treaties and wise
diplomacy, which has opened to our far
mers and manufacturers the markets of
other countries The navy has been
builded upon lines which will protect
American citizens and American inter
ests and the American flag all over the
world. The public debt has been re-
dueed. The maturing bonds have been
paid off. The public credit has been
maintained. The burdens of taxation
lions of currency have been added to the
peoples money without disturbance of
the exchanges. Unexampled prosperity
has crowned wise laws and their wise adj
ministration. The main question which
divides us is to whom does the credit Of
all this belong.
Orators may stand upon this platform
more able and more eloquent thar I, who
will paint in more brilliant colors but
they cannot put in more earnest thought
the affection and admiration of Republi-
can for our
Distinguished ex-secretary of State.
yield to no Republican, no matter
from what state he halls, in admiration
and respect for John Sherman, for Gov
ernor Mckinley, for Thomas B. Reed,
for Iowa's great son, the favorites
of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan:
but when I am told that the
credit for the brilliant diplomacy of this
administration belongs exclusively to the
Secretary of State, for the administration
OF its finances to the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the construction of it's ships
to the Secretary of the Navy, for the in
PRODUCTION of American pork in Europe
to the Secretary of Agriculture, for the
settlement, so far as it is settled, of the
currency question to Senator John Sher-
man, for the formulation OF the tariff
laws to Governor Mckinley, for the re-
moyal OF the restrictions placed by for
eign nations upon the Introduction of
American pork, to our Ministers at Paris
and Berlin, am tempted to seriously in
quire who, during tie last four years.
has been President of the United States
anyhow. Caesar, when he wrote those
commentaries which were the history of
the conquests of Europe under his leader
ship modestly took the position of AHnes
when he said. ''They are the narrative
OF events the whole of which saw and
the part of which was.''
General Thomas as the Crock of Chick
amauga" occupies place in our history
with Leonidas among the Greeks, except
that he succeeded where Leonidas failed
The fight Of Joe Hooker above the clouds
was the poetry of battle. The resistless
rush of Sheridan and his steed down the
Valley of the Shenandoah, is the epic of
our civil war. The march of Sherman
from Atlanta to the sea is tie supreme
triumph of gallantry and strategy. It
detracts nothing from the splendor or
the merits of the deeds of his lieutenants
to say that having selected them with
marvellous sagacity and discretion, Grant
still remains the supreme commander of
the national army.
All the proposed acts of any admins
tration before they are formulated are
passed upon in cabinet council and the
measures and suggestions of the ablest
secretaries would have failed with a
lesser President but for the great good
of the country and the benefit of the
Republican party they have succeeded
because of the suggestive mind, the in