Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-04

opening address was delivered by Ii. L..
| i.oucks of South Dakota. The
speech was full of sympathy and
feeling which caught every member
of the vast audience. The one sentence
that broke the painful stiffness of the
gathering was the declaration that the pco-
pie of the new movement looked to l.. l..
Polk as the Lincoln of an era of freedom.
"Brothcr Polk" the speaker continued
''was the one man whose place cannot he
filled. He was the one around whom all
our hopes eentered as they can round no
other man. He died martyr To our cause
from overwork."
Editor Mcclure followed lie said :
Those who knew our lost friend best
loved him best, The noble soul. the mag
nifcent brain, the wonderful oratory of l..
l.. Polk, were given to the cause of our
movement. He devoted himself 10 the
destruction of sectionalism which had been
fostered by those corrupt politicians who
this land in the interest of those by whom
il was robbed. The cause which Col. Polk
led meant freedom of labor and the triumph
of the people"
Had he been here tomorrow" declared
the speaker, amid the rousing cheers of the
audience, ''he would have been selected to
bear your banner aloft. Let us keep in
view the example our last leader and deAr
mine that We shall not lay behind until the
cause which he championed shall be ear
ried to success"
Mrs. Todd of Michigan, paid a touching
tribute to the deceased leader. She said
his attitude towards the debauchery of the
present system of government had gained
for him persecution and villanious slandcr.
She said he was crucified as the savionrs
of the people have either been crucifed in
one form or other. But he is not dead
lie never lived until now, and the recollec-
tions of his deeds will ever act as an inspi-
ration until the victory Of our cause is pro-
claimed.
Gen. Weaver summed up in pathetic
and well chosen words the public life and
deeds of Col. Polk. He loved his race. He
declared and despite the fact that he had
full knowledge and complete understanding
of the great wrongs under which the people
of this country were suffering
his faith rose superior to all diff
culties. and he felt certain of the ultimate
triumph which is certain to come to
the movement which shall free the down
tro,lden people of this nation. The SEN
tence, that was received with the longest
eheer'ng' was quo'a''o' ifo"' ''e ''"'
reiorher'
am s'a"hns no" Jus. oe''''" u'e cur
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scr. behl"u me are '"e s"a'o" Wv
rack pefore me heS 'he "afk ,a''y
"heh 'h'nge WIN ,'s u"'h "a,e''' want
70 cast one lingering 'ook "po" we s'uh''l
whose government Is oI '"e Pe"p'e' io' "'e
people ana oy ,,'e people,
ne name o. oil. rolk' the speaker
coheiahea' VIII rsi.'a'h ior ages n'ohn
men' Oh po~eI !" .nis cou,,,rs' ,,, grea' h na' ,
'u..i "t -, IL.
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los. hea'' anu .a'hsr s',a'i Se ea,ei , io''
his reierenee 10 '''r ia'il'is Vi 'ne ueeea'e'
was rece',e" "i.' IaNofa''e r.spo"es'
u.stnass bv Mrs Lease of Kansas wa.
s,,,,nwaJ h, ,ha mos, ,,oo,.n, e,I,..y of m.
,a,. ,h.t nf Uon Io,a,;ns n,nn.Iix
IA are,, man sa;a NJ Donnellv ..bas
f.l,ar :, W. ,n.a, today ovar the dust of
n,r Ja.a friend and h,o,ber \. mopumen,
more enduring than brass or marble a
! monument of ,iB;ction and honor His
,re,t heart was in the work r. III. moves
smono NJ. ;rv;s;hla a, mis- momen, h. i'm
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h,,, ,,a saos ,h., vos, y;sta az ,ba f.,nra and
Tho ureoun,ahla miII;on. of other n,,;ops
~hosa facas az. 70 be wrea,hed in .m;,e.
~ J;s,ortad with agony az we succeed a,
f.;I
NJ, nonn.,,v than ,ouehod u,on ,b.
charae,sr Of CoI polk and called u,,o,
the audience 10 look 10 him as their OK
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