The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-14
VERMONT HEARS MIR. REED,
Three Speeches Yesterday Made Be.
fore Great Crowds.
THE MAINE MAN RECEIVED WITH
GREAT ENTHUSIASM.

Montpelier and Addressed an Audi
ence Which Crowded the House in
Burlington in the Evening Democratic
Incompetence, Republican Progress
and the Duty of Vermont, Mr.. Reeds
Subjects.
MONTPELIER, vt, April 1S.-The Re
publican convention today chose these
delegates at large to Minneapolis: Con-
gressman II. Henry Powers of Morris
vile, L. D. Hazen of st. Johnsbury, Col.
George 7. Childs of st. Albans, Col.
Fred E. Smith of Montpelier. These are
the alternates: A. A. Fletcher Of Middle
bury, Nathan Hobson of Brighton, JEFF
ferson R. Hudson of Arlington, O. B.
Royce of Barre. The committee on res
olutions reported as follows:
Resolved, That we recognize in the well
known principles that have guided the RepuDll-
can party in its illustrious career safe rule OF
Resolved, That the Republicans of Vermont
regard protection for American industries
an honest dollar and an honest ballot as Leading
considerations deserving continued and earnest
national endorsement.
Resolved That we endorse the adminlStra-
ton Of President Harrison as pure and pro
gressiye. and in its treatment OF foreign ques-
lions, broadly and courageously American.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed of Maine, was
introduced and greeted with wild ap-
plause.
Mr.. Reed Said:
ssI have not come as duty, but as a
pleasure. 1t gives me great joy to stand
in the presence of those who have al
ways been righteous and to feel sur
rounded by a century of good deeds and
enjoy even the one sin Vermont com
mitted long ago when she elected DEM
ocratic governor for one year. But for
that, YOU might have been translated. In
this place, where there are no Democrats,
we can express what we think OF the
Democratic party. A Democrat is that
way because he can't help it. He was
born that way or wouldn't be SO. It's a
matter not for reproach, but for sadness.
The Democratic party is remarkable for
it's power of vociferation. 1t can pro-
duce more cry and less wool per sheep
than any flock in Vermont or Australia.
In the past thirty-two years what argu-
ment, or assertion of facts have they
made which is today alive or believed in?
don't ask you to recall what they have
done, for they have done nothing. This
curious world, after great event, is apt
to want vacation. The people OF the
United States want breathing spell.
For this, they usually put the Democrats
in power for the Republicans are abso-
lutely certain that nothing will happen
during that time. The Democrats are
incapable of carrying out even the wrong
things they promise to do. They are
three to one in the House, but cannot do
anything, because or their strange make
up. In the last half dozen years the de-
mocracy all over the country,
except in New England atmosphere,
has been promising the free coinage OF
silver to help the laboring man pay off
his debts at seventy cents on the dollar.
They have the power in the House but
are unable to carry out positive meas
ure. They have not the mental force to
carry out what they promise. When this
country is in health and sound it is Re-
publican to the backbone. Why, the
Democrats even speak respectfully of
the first Congress. What has become of
all the stories they told about the Nc
Kinley bill? Dead as Julius Caesar. The
gospel of the Lord has to be preached
but the gospel of the devil seems to
preach. itself. Thank Heaven the Repub-
lican party is tremendously recuperative,
because it is on the Lords side. don't
believe the Republican party needs fear
defeat at the next election. The country
is becoming every day more prosperous
and prosperity can only be made sure by
adherence to the Republican party. 1t
is progressive, conservative, and takes
no step forward without knowing what
it means. The Republican party be-
lieves in the average sense of the people
of the United States, the grand old com
mon sense, the sense of the Republican
party Don't talk of Andrew Jackson
and dead patriots, but of the living pos
sibilities for the glorious future"
The Second District Convention
this afternoon in the Opera House, chose
two delegates and alternates. At
o'clock Hon. Thomas B. Reed addressed
an immense audience of delegates and
citizens. He said in part: ''The Repub-
lican party deserves success because it
| represents the average American citizen.
Its disposition is to have the most intel
ligent people do the talking and voting.
Laws, being intended for all human be-
ings, ought to be adapted to all. One
reason why I believe in protection is that
| the average common sense of mankind is
| in favor Of it. The whole world, except
Great Britain and the Democratic party,
is against free trade. They say the Lord
has arranged things, let them alone. But
we don't let things alone in this world:
That is what legislation is for and
brains are for. The fact that
all civilized nations accept protection
makes it good enough for me. The mag
nificent possibilities of the United States
are going on in the future as in the past
and the Democratic party can't stop us.
We hear great deal about the laboring
man and the farmer starving. AS &C
up and down the country, the only starv-
ing workmen 1 see are in the halls o1
Congress and on the Democratic plat
FORM
In closing, Mr.. Reed said: 'Verm ont
wants to do this year as she did foul
years ago. The intelligence of today
does not last till tomorrow. Vermont
good as she it, must be kept stirred VI
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