The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-05

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When the ovation had subsidized
| Mr.. Reed
said that it seemed unfortunate that we
were obliged to discuss and re-discuss
the principles which were to govern
cur votes. But it would be found that
while we were year after year face to
face with the same old enemy, vet he
| looked a little different each time.
Laughter and applause.1 This was
natural. The whole human race was
homogeneous and had to move on togo til
en- The vanguard had to wait for the
rear before it could continue it's march
of progress. We knew when it was
time for the Republican party to take
step in advance, because the Democrats
had by that time become reconciled to
| our last step. The Republican party
knew before hand what would be good
| for the country and did it; while the
Democratic party did not recognize the
work as good until it had been done and
approved. Laughter and applause
There is another great difference. The
Republican party is always united in it's
| thoughts, feelings and hopes. For the
Republican party has to do what is done,
| and hence must stand together. But the
| Democratic party takes very different
position. Their business is to eriticise
and find fault, and archangels could not
do better at it.
Two years ago the people for some
reason gave the Democratic party the
| control of the House of Representatives.
But with 1870 majority they did nothing,
as might have been expected, from the
nature of the party. But the best thing
about the Democracy is that it never
| dos what it promises.
Mr.. Reed then continued a discussion
OF tax ttion and expenditures. conclud-
| ing with brilliant argument on the
| tariff in the course of which he referred
| humorously to the recently published
| Peck report. The speech was listened
! to intently and much applauded.
| Gen. Mattocks next introduced
! Ex-congressman f. T. Greenhaleg,
| of Massachusetts, Mr.. Greenhalge, who
formerly represented the Lowell district,
but who has declined nomination this
year, is well known in this region and
was given the reception to which his
great abilities entitle him. Mr.. Green
| halge said that this beautiful September
| afternoon was "a most fitting time for
| such great meeting as this. 1t was a
| fitting time for another reason. The
fifty-second Congress had just adjourned.
There is always feeling OF relief when a
Congress adjourns. 1t was so even after
the Fifty-frst Congress concluded its
| magnificent work.
| remember going through the state of
Maine in 1890, and then Maine set an ex-
ample which Massachusetts would have
done we'll to remember. But the people
repudiated the men of that Congress, be-
cause their mighty work was not yet I'M
derstood And after the work of that
campaign was over | remember going
back to the second session of the 51st
Congress. The great galleries of the
House were crowded with the beauty
and fashion of Democratic Washington,
and as the name of every defeated Repub-
lican member was called it was greeted
with derisive applause. But in spite OF
its crushing defeat, the Republican ma
jority of that house never wavered.
From the moment Reed took up the
gavel the Fifty-tirst House continued to
carry out unfinehingl high COM
mission. Applause.
And when the session was over, and
the Fifty-frst Congress was about to adj
iourn for the last time, the Democrats
put up conspiracy to sing us out with
Il the doxology. But we thwarted it by
i striking up the grand old song, TRAMP,
Tram, Tramp, the boys are marching y
They had begun to march then and they
are still marching on towards great
victory next November. And when the
last Democratic House adjourned, they
sang the doxology.
Mr.. Greenhalge made telling refer
| hut ho 10 OF
House. 1t saved $50 on the soap needed
by the boys in the great military academy
at West Point, refused to send ship to
carry bread to starving Russia, and cut
down the sum for the Worlds Fair one
half Mr.. Greenhalge humorously COM
pared Mr.. Holman to Dickens's Scrooge,
and said that if the 51st Congress was 9
billion one the SD merited the title OF
bilious. Mr.. Greenhalge then went OF
with brilliant argument on the tariff.
He referred to MI. Blaine's part in fran
ing the Mckinley bill, and the reference
was loudly cheered. He paid a high
tribute to Mr.. Reed, and adjured his
hearers to see that he should be re-elect-
!. ed by large majority.
Ex-Congressman F. x. schoonmaker
of New Jersey was next introduced. Mr.
Schoonmaker is one of the best of the
campaign orators in the field this year, as
; is very evident from the fact that he hele
and delighted the audience that had al
ready been on the seats three hours. Hi
said that New Jersey was going Repub
lican this year. Since the last election
% Democratic ballot box suffers have
been sent to the penitentiary and this
alone will mean loss of 2,206 in the
counting strength of the Democracy.
Mr.. Schoonmaker told a very funny
{ story of the campaign which Gen. Jud
son Fitzpatrick made at the head of the
New Jersey Democratic ticket several
years ago. Much against his W i'll the
general was forced to talk ON the tariff
. about which he knew nothing. He mad,
the first speech in the vicinity of his OWL
home, and pictured the tariff as a raven
ing monster. The next morning he me
! a bark-peeler named Sykes on his way tt
work. In addition to the axe and peel
ing axe and iron which he usually had
Sykes was carrying gun this morning
stWhat are you going to do with you
!, gun, Sykes?'' said the general.
ssWeIl, general" said Sykes, II wen
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