The Portland daily press., 1892-03-09
MAKING HISTORY.
In 1t, Republican achievements Re-
ceive Justice.
MIR. REED ON THE PERFORMANCES
OF THE DEMOCRATS.

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tory Reception, Beginning with Speech
es and Ending with a Dance-Speeches
by Hon. j. C. Burrows and Others--In
Reply, Mr.. Reed Tells How the Demo-
Gratis are Justifying the Republicans.
WASHINGTON, March S.-A reception
was given this evening to Hon. Thomas
B. Reed of Maine, at the National Rifles
armory, by the National Republican Aux
iliary Association. Senator Perkins of
Kansas presided, and congratulatory adj
dresses were made by Hon. j. G. Bur
rows of Michigan and others, to which
Mr.. Reed responded. He said: "Only
one year ago last Friday, only one short
year ago, March 4th, 1891, I had occasion
to address an august assembly in the
presence of many spectators. The
Republican party had been subjected in
the election just before to the severest
reverse but one in all its history. All
that partisan malice could do had been
done. Reproach, clamor, recrimination
and derisive epithet were at high tide
landward STILL 1 ventured then and to
that audience to express my unshaken
confidence that time would do justice to
the House of Representatives of the 51st
Congress and that the verdict of history,
the only verdict worth recording, would
place the men of the majority
on the list of those who had
done the state some service.
with all my faith, did not dream
the verdict would be
So Swift, So Sure, So Complete,
but history, in this age of the world and
this land of surprises, does its work for
the living as, in the old days, it used to
do it for the dead. Time has not yet
justified all we did, but the catalogue
is already large and every day brings its
just additions. Since the new House
came into being, the majority have shown
how incapable they are to cope with
tariff revision. Unabld to make warp
and woof of their own, they have confined
themselves to trying to shoot holes
through the cloth we made. Disabled
by prejudice and passion from adopting,
in its entirety, the admirable system Of
rules left them by their predecessors,
they have reused cries of shame from
their own party by the ruthless manner
in which they have surpassed even their
own false description of our acts. Since
yesterday, there remains but one solitary
shred of the foundation on which they
based .-..-....
Their Outcries and Reproaches
of two years ago and that remains there
in defiance of the opinion-the unanimous
opinion-of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Our works do follow us.
''Only two years ago, these men con-
nected the name of William Mckinley
with every derisive epithet and every
term of reproach. Elected since then
governor of his great state by the great
est majority of recent times, he has lived
to see returning prosperity justify his
work and crown him with honors.
Charges of extravaganza and waste, in
like fashion, are falling to the ground.
All the rest of the country will soon
know it as well as you know it in the
District of Colum bia, where you have
seen the only attempt to reduce expendi-
lures has been on items like that on the
streets, whereby the growth of the ma
TONS capital will be impeded, and like
lessened the chances of education of the
children of the poor. ii
Meanwhile the Republican party,
emerging from it's temporary disaster
turns shining face to the future, now
as ever one of hope for the progress of
the people of the United States
After the speech making, the floor was
cleared and the evening passed in
dancing.