The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-11
LIKE A SLEUTH HOUND.
Thus Does Democracy Follow the
Republican Party.
SENATOR FRYE SPEAKS TO PORT
LAND REPUBLICANS.

uaS5O IntTOuuCcS IAIs rye w ho
Is Enthusiastically Received-A Telling
Defense of the Mckinley Bill and the
Republican Tariff Position-Hypocrisy
and Incompetency of Democratic
Pretentions.
The reception rendered Hon. William
P. Frye at the summer house of the
Portland Club at Great Diamond Island
yesterday, was largely attended by
prominent Republicans of Portland and
other places in Cumberland county.
Among those from out of the city were
Messrs. John E. Warren of Westbrook,
Charles E. Townsend, Barrett Potter,
Geo. L. Thompson, o. T. Despeaux of
Brunswick, E. B. Mallet of Freeport, 1.
l.. Elder, Wyer Aver, c. A. Woodbury.,
T. E. Thompson and II. F. Milliken of
Deering, Edward Harding of Gorham,
M. A. Hanna and J. G. Rundlett of Cape
Elizabeth, Sheriff Parker of Norway,
Edward Kimball of Bridgton, Barnabas
Freeman, L. L. Shaw, J. Y. Hodsdon,
and Walter B. Allen of Yarmouth,
Liberty Moulton, George T. Pratt, Frank
Whitney, Fl. R. Millett and 81. R. Coles
Worthy, of Gorham, VIM. Fl. Scott of
Deering. Alexander Spiers, J. j. Grant
and F. II. Moody of Windham, Almon
and Peter B. Young of Hiram, W. W.
Lamb, Arthur K. Walker, A. A. Cord
well, Lemuel Lane, E. B. Haskell, B. F..
Roberts, Mahlon Black, Charles A.
Moses and B. F. Harris Of Westbrook.
Previous to the speaking Senator Frye
had an informal reception on the south
piazza of the club house. Mr.. Frye was
looking we'll, Drowned and hearty, wear
ing good old Rangeley Lake tan.
Thee speaking took place in the two
large rooms on the northwest side of the
house, where tables are usually set for
club dinners. The two rooms were COM
pletely filed. Several ladies were in the
company. Mr.. Frye's speech was large
ly devoted to the Mckinley bill, of
which he made a glowing and telling
defense. His description of how the
country was fooled in the election of
1891 by lies about the new tariff bill was
particularly enjoyed by his auditors.
Mr.. Frye was introduced by
Judge Joseph W. Symonds,
who said that it would be plainly out of
place today to spend time preliminary to
the address which the distinguished
Senator was to deliver, unless to say a
word Of welcome personally to the dis
tinguished guest and to congratulate
themselves that they were to listen to a
presentation of the issues of the day
from one so competent to present them.
Judge Symonds spoke eulogistically of
Senator Fryes public services, and of
his abilities, which were hardly yet at
their zenith, promising even brighter
things for the future. The speaker
referred to the fame of the Republican
party as the party of law and order, the
party which never appealed from law to
force. Whatever defiance of individual
rights, personal or political, whatever
defiance of the right to cast ballot and
have it counted, whatever right hand is
raised against law and order, under
whatever guise,a all these must be met un-
finchingly and cast down. America
loves the sovereignty of law, the col
lected will of the people constitutionally
expressed. The Republican party.
through it's great statesmen, such men
as Sumner, Fessenden and Lincoln, has
always upheld the supremacy of law,
under whatever guise and in whatever
name it has been assailed.
Judge Symonds then presented Senator
Frye, who was received with loud and
enthusiastic applause.
Mr.. Frye
said:
Gentlemen:
wish that deserved the very compli-
mentary introduction which your presi-
dent has given me. | myself know that
l do not. I deserve of you but one thing.
During all my public life I have tried
honestly, by hard work, to serve my
state and my country. Nothing more
do 1 claim. [Applause.] The making
of Republican speech on this beautiful
day, and at this beautiful spot, and to a
Republican club of the city of Portland
to this intelligent audience of Republi-
cans-seems good deal to me like car
rying Goals to Newcastle. The idea of
undertaking to persuade you that you
ought to vote Republican ticket! And /
do not know that ever addressed an au-
dience in my life when it did not seem to
be an absurdity and waste of time to at
tempt to convince an intelligent, patriot
ic American citizen, young or old, that
he ought not to be Democrat and that
he ought to be Republican. Why, think
of the Republican party and of its ac-
complishments for the prosperity and
welfare of our beloved country. 1 have
stood by the shore of an ocean in the
night time and have seen the full orbed
moon rise from out of the waters, and as
it rose higher and higher cast across the
sea cleaning, glittering, magnificent
pathway of light, narrow at my feet. but
broadening out in..glory and beauty as it
stretched away to the herizon. Such a
pathway the Republican party has trod
for the last 80 years. Applause
And what has been the pathway of the
Democratic party for the same length OF
tirne0 A carar drain in Paris cannot be