Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-10-20

Remembering with tender thought OF love
our friendship tried.
October 9, 1892
Powerful Address by Ex-Governor John D
Long,
At a Grand Demonstration at bingham.
Mass.
| only wish, nv fellow citizens, that 7
had something TO say worthy OF the cor
dial introduction of my friend Mr. Bouve
| have listsTcd TO the speech of the even
Ing made by one whose words assure us
that, while We cannot always beat Yale In
boat race. we can in public debate. Ap-
plsuse. My purpose is not TO make a
speech; | have forgotten how; but rather
To come AMI have few minutes plain talk
with you. | almost wish that We could
forget the names Democrat and Republi-
can. like to pitch into the Democrats
outside aud lick them. but when | see
neighhor and friend | do not like to call
him names. Laughter If we could
omit the names and simply talk about this
question Of politics a. we do about the in
PRODUCTION Of water into bingham, We
should all be Of one mind There not
any doubt about H. | remember few
Years ago we could not get majority in
this town tp vote to introduce water into
bingham, and those who opposed n. were
as earnest and as honest as could be. but
to-day every one is in favor Of 1t and glad
we have IT,
The Mckinley bill was under debate
year ago; ii was an experiment, and there
was an honest difference of opinion, and
there were people who went about this
Commonwealth saying the Mckinley bill
was going 10 increase the cost Of eyerv
necessary OF life TO the consumer; that il
was going to diminish our foreign COM
merce, going 10 psralyze and injure our
industries and be damage to labor and
capital and everything. Isn't that true?
Now, In the year gone BY. only one short
year, now the Mckinley bill is the only one
great contest IN the campaign. aud it is
fair subject for discussion. Now, IL has
been proved, not by any word but by ex-
perience, just As you have proved the wa
ter question here. 1t has been proved that
that bill has not raised the price of sin
gle necessary Of life; that many Of them
have diminished under it. Under the Nc
hlnley bill 81 year-more than that-has
been saved 10 every consumer OF sugar in
this country. You have been saved In this
country sec 000, 900 year on your sugar
alone Your foreign commerce. instead
Of being diminished, has been increased
millions aud millions of dollars Your IN
tustries have been advanced. The wooden
business, about which they had so much TO
say, has improved by it so that the product
is not only larger. so the mills not only
produce more and pay better wages, but
they import more wool; and instead of
part OF the time, they run full
time; and instead of having q surplus of
goods on hand, they have sold their sur
plus and can hardly meet their orders for
goods.
The tin plate business. which was
laughed at, i, deserting Wales and Eng
land, is finding its field here and Is becom-
ing one of the great industries OF this
introducing new labor for our EN-
ployes. introducing new source Of wages
for our people, yet not increasing the price
to the consumer. Now, | undertake to
say, II it was the question of the introduc-
ton of water into bingham, we should all
say, I'VE want this" that is settled
question. But generally, somebody will
be bowling about the increase of cost to
the lsborng man. and those of US who
want TO vote won't pretend to believe it,
and We shall vote that way, and We shall
only have the ordinary Republican major
lty of thirty or forty thousand APP
piause. And on that issue We ought all
to stand together
Now this is a business campaign. In
the old times, which the young men can
not remember, We used to have the stir
ring appeal of the war, the old Southern
prejudice which we do not rake up any
more; We used to have the great question
of the credit Of the country; but to day it
is business question. question which
comes home to our homes and our firesides.
And | say first, We ought TO vote the Re-
publican ticket because it is for the busi-
ness interests of the country to do it. You
ought to re-elect the present national Ad-
ministration. and the national question is
the real one here, because you have to day
one of the best. one of the trues., one Of
the most efficient and beneficial Admins
trations this country ever had. There never
sat in the Chief Magistrates chair a more
Harrison. Applause. There is not bit
of magnetism about him; there is not a
bit Of that which appeals to the general
it would not occur to you to fling up your
hats and shout; and yet that man has a
hold on the country, which is greater than
that, simply because the people of Amer
lea have their confidence there. ZAP
plause. Universal confidence. A man
not only Of character, but Of ability, an
ability rare even among Presidents, an
ability which fits him not only to occupy
TIA Presidential al nhoir m in 10
Cabinet; man who has been sincere
enough in civil service matters to keep
what our friends on the other side would
never have kept, such man as Theodore
Roosevelt on the Civil Service Commits.
sion; man who has not INDUCED in those
practices Of the late Administration; q
eign affairs have been conducted in a noble
manner, and the Naval Department has re-
suited in a more efficient navy than we
ever had before, and we have had reforms
such as we never had before.
l said these are business questions.
Now, do not like to indulge in setting of
has any experience or knowledge at al
but what admits that the history of tht
Republican party for the last thirty year.
10 thC bioeoiy VI Souhty' ahN ~ IS
a history of growth and enlargement il
material prosperity and principles of hu
manity. But there is difference between
the principles. 1t is constitutional dit
ference. 1t is difference of mental con
struction. 1t is the difference between thu
man who never can do anything and th'
man who does something, the man WHIT
accomplishes and you have an excellen
illustration of that in comparison OF tn
last two Houses of Congress. -Four year
ago you had Republican Congress by
pretty good majority. That Republican Al
Congress passed more bills in the interes
of the country than any Congress ha
passed for years. 1t had at its head In tn
Speakers chair man who. whatever yo'
may say of him. stands for an epoch o
parliamentary reform [spplause], and vii
be recognized as promoter of that reform
fifty years from now, exactly as to-da.
recognizes Alexander Hamilton as th
founder of our financial system. In tina
House of Representatives, 325 men, it wa
claimed by those rules which promote fill
clustering that If a Representative sat II
bis seat he was not there If he did not sa
so, and that was succeeded by the Demo
cratic Congress which elected its Speake
and accomplished absolutely nothing e1
c. pt talking about the extravagance OF 1t
predecessor, and making appropriation
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