Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-09
ALREADY JUSTIFIED.
Ex.Spsak6r Feed Makes a Splendid
Speech al Washington
On the Grand Work Of the 5lst Con.
grcss- Rough OH the Democrats.

| WASHINGTON, March s A reception
was gwen this evening to Hon Thomas b
| Reed of Maine at the National Rifles Arm
| ory by the National Republican Auxiliary
| Association.
Senator Perkins OF Kansas presided, and
congrstuist0ry addresses were made by
| Hon. c. Burrows OF Michigan and
| others, to which MIR. Reed responded. He
said
"Oaly one year sgo last Friday, only one
short year ago, March i'h, 1891, had oc'
cssion to address an sugust assembly in the
| presence of many spectators.
| This Republican party had been sub.
| iected in the election just before to the Sc
verest reverse, but one in all Of its history
| All partisan malice could DO, had been
done. Keprosch. clsmor, recrimination,
derisive spi,hets were st high tide on every
shore, and seemed TO be rolling landward
still,
! ven,uret then and 10 that audience to
e1prOss lay uushsken conf Hence that time
wuuld do justice 10 the House of Represen-
| tanves Of the 5is5 Congress. that the ver-
| dict Of history, The only verdict worth re-
cordlnR. would place the mea of that maj
| iy on the list Of those who had done the
| Sste sOme service.
! With all my fslyh ! did not dream that
| The verdict woull be SO swift, 80 sure, go
complete But history IN this aye Of the
World and this land of surprises, does work
| for the living, as in the old days it used TO
| il for the dead.
| Time has not yet justin ID ali we did, but
| the catalogue is slresy large and every day
brings its just additions.
| Since the new House came into being the
DIS iority hiss shown how incapable they are
TO cope with the tariff revision. Unable to
make warp and wOoi Of their own they cor
| fiDed themselves to trying to shoot holes
through the cloth that We made.
| Disabled by prejudice and passion from
adopting IN its entirety, the admirable sys
tenn Of rules left them by their predece'-
sors, they reused cries of shame from their
own party by the ruthless manner in which
they surpassed even their own false de
scrlption Of our acts,
Since yesterday there remains but one
solitary shred Of foundation on which thev
based their outcries and reproaches of twp
years ago, and that remains there in def
snce OF opiuion-the unshim0us opinion
Of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
| Our works do follow Us. Only two yeafs
| hEO intsp WtH CDhhetttu the Hhtub OF WI
liam Mckinley with every derlsive cpithu
ard every term of repfoach
Elected since then the governor OF his
grest state by the greGtest majority of re.
cent times, he has lived to see returning
prosperity Justify his work and crown him
with honors.
The charges Of extravsgsnce and waste
arc in like fashion failing to The ground
| to the ground. All the rest of the country
will soon know it as we'll as you know 1t ip
the District of C0lumbis, where you have
seen that the only attempt to reduce CT
penditures has been on items like that o
she streets whereby the growth Of the M
iionsl capital will be impeded, like that on
school books, whereby are lessened, the
chances OF education Of the children Of the
poor.
Meanwhile the Republican party. emery
ing from temporary disaster, turns . shiI =
ing fsce to the future, now as ever ore Of
hope Of progress of the people Of The Unit
ed States.
After the speech making the floor was
cleared and the evening was passed In
dsi cing.