The Portland daily press., 1892-09-10
DEERING CITY'S TURN.


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generally is somebody running against
him when | have been here. | do not
remember who they have been and
have not the pleasure of knowing any
thing about the gentleman who is run
ming now; but do not believe that dis
trict which has such a representative
will fail to return him by a handsome
majority to the next Congress, to take
up again the great leadership which he
has so worthily filled in the past
But, as 1 have said your votes relate
not only to your representative and to
your state ticket, but they are votes di-
rectly bearing on the presidential cleo
ton. The proposition is on the other
side that a change of administration is
necessary and desirable. | have no wish
to enter into any personalities of any
kind; but [ will ask any candid man
whether the administration that is now
closing its four years has not been a safe,
strong and an honest administration;
whether it has not guarded the finances,
given us good public service, and above
all given dignity and force to our foreign
policyssand lifted it from the low point
to which it had fallen in the previous
four years. Is there anything in the
conduct of the administration, simply
as such, which should lead any one to
desire change? Does not the country,
especially the business interests of the
country-feel safe in the hands of Presi-
dent Harrison? Do they not know that
he stands as a barrier against the free
coinage frenzy of the last House? Are
they not aware that he has been true in
all directions to the great policies which
he WAS chosen to represent? And | will
say also, do they not know that he is a
man OF unquestioned loyalty, and that in
the dark days he was one of those who
spent four years in the defence of the
flag? Applause.
We have two new candidates, one on
either side, for the Vice Presidency,
which always carries with it the momen-
tous possibility of the Presidency. One,
the Republican candidates. famed as the
war correspondent of one of the great
Republican papers of the North which
was defending the Republican cause and
thecause of the Union. He has been
distinguished as journalist; he has been
distinguished in diplomacy: he is loyal
and true and is Republican in every re-
spect. On one side the candidate bears
no military title and on the other his OPP
ponent rejoices in one. believe that he
acquired that title during the last Demo-
cratic ADMINISTRATION, when he filled the
office of First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, that was where he got his title of
General. "a perfectly honorable office,
but one in whichIthe severest battles were
those in which Republican postmasters
fell by the hundred on the floor of the
Post Office Department. | was informed
by a Democratic newspaper in Boston,
although / did not know it before, that
he was Master in Chancery That also
is an bonoro hlo of1iaa b1It NOT y,ariJo11c
e.Such time as he could take from those
duties think he devoted to opposition
to the conduct of the war, and at later
time he was prominent in the greenback
movement.
So much for the different candidates
of the two parties. but candidates in this
country, and under our system, are not
the most important things by any means
in an election. 1t is the policy and the
parties which they represent, for any
candidate who lis elected is certain to
carry out in the main the policies and the
principles of the party which placed him
in power. s84
Now the two controlling issues, the
two issues, which will give force to decide
in the result of this election, are financial
and economic; and on those two issues
the two parties take very opposite
grounds. We have had on the financial
side the free coinage agitation, land you
know how itwas checked in the House
bya combination between a minority of
the Democratic party and nearly solid
Republican vote. There is no question
but the vast majority Of the Democratic
party desire and mean to have the free
coinage Of silver. They have approved
it by their votes, and only today saw an
extract from
A Speech oftSpealxer Crisp
to his constituents in Georgia, in which
he said that the Democratic party was
for free silver and that they were not to
blame as party that the last session did
not provide for free silver.
They were defeated by combination
between minority of Democrats and
large majority of the Republicans. But
that issue was very dangerous one, and
in order to avoid it they put in their
platform proposition that they would
revive the state banks; they would take
off the tax of ten per cent, which was
put on state banks in order to extinguish
them, and would revive them and do
away once for all with the national
banking system. Do you realize what a
ScTlOuS CuduSo blidO ILL PliOo9 Lucy DlIuS
forward this matter of reviving the state
banks for what purpose? So that they
may say to certain states of the Union
where the cry for cheap money is the
loudest: We will give you state banks
and you may have as much paper infa-
ton as you like; we are going to pull
down the national banking system and
go back to the old state bank system.
This is turning back the wheels of civil
cation in the matter of financial manage
ment. To think of defeating such sys-
tenn as that, especially when the end in
view is nothing but an initiation of the
currency. They would give us for one
system of banks, forty-four sets of state
banks, and a theory that you can have
state bank and an inflated currency in
one state, and not affect the other states,
is exactly like the proposition that you
can have part of the body i'll and the rest
of the body not suffer at all. Ii you
have financial disease eating into the vi
tails of one part of the country it is going
to affect the whole country and we shall
go back to the system that a bank note
in Maine might not be good across the
line of New Hampshire, and bank note
of New Hampshire taken only at a dis
count in Massachusetts; and instead of