The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-11

[Great applause.
Senator Frye then referred to the Re-
publican platform adopted at the con-
vention in Minneapolis, which he said
| was clear and concise, every word in 1t
meaning precisely what it said. There
was no attempt to cheat in it, and no at.
tempt to straddle on great and important
| questions. He referred to the question
/ of sugar, and pearl buttons which were
formerly imported from Austria and
| which were manufactured by convicts III
| Austrian tails and reformatories and ex-
! ported because Austria had passed the
law prohibiting the sale of prison made
| goods in that country. All the pearl
buttons now used here are manufactured
in this country giving employment TO
| from ten to fifteen thousand men ana
women at wages of from two to tour
dollars day.
Referring to President Harrison's adj
ministration Senator Frye said, II want
to say to YOU that have known quite
intimately quite number of Presidents
of the United States. There never had
been, within my knowledge,
So Able President as General Harrison.
| [Applause,] The Secretary of State
may be sick and confined to his house,
and unable to perform his duties. Presi-
dent Harrison is at once equal to the
emergency and becomes Secretary of
State. [Applause. The Secretary of the
Treasury is ill and unable to perform his
duties, President Harrison is equal to
the emergency and becomes Secretary OF
the Treasury. Let the Attorney General
be stricken down and President Harrison
is even more competent than he to per-
form the duties of that Office. Let the
Secretary of the Interior be removed, and
President Harrison has all the ability and
experience needed to step into his office
and perform his duties. And, weigh my
words when l say that, in my opinion, he
is the ablest man / have ever known i'll
the presidential chair. [Applause.] He
is manly man, too; he is man of cour-
: age. Of course he offends us politicians
once in while; he does not always APP
point the men we recommend for office
Tlaughterl, and be has way every once
! in while of saying that he won't that is
somewhat offensive, but when he says he
! won't we stop. [Laughter.] But the
people Of the United States owe him an
immense debt of gratitude for the
administration he has giuen them.
do not know that ever loved Eng
| l.
! treated us well in the war. Indeed, ]
think that, considering that we were her
daughter, she treated us very badly, and
sympathized with what seemed to her
: to be our downfall; but even in an enemy
think can see what is worthy of admit
ration. The care which England has fol
her citizens, wherever they may be
Z located, is marvellous and admirable. II
| is worth something to be a citizen OF
Great Britain, as much as it was in the
olden days to be a Roman citizen. There
. comes to my mind at this moment and
, you we'll remember it, that wonderful
, little episode in her history where King
Theodore seized a young man by the
name of Campbell, without any justifi-
cation of law, and put him into
: The Fortress of Magdala
about 1000 feet above the level of the
sea. Word was sent to Great Britain
J that he was there without the authority
of law, and Great Britain demanded his
; release. King Theodore refused to re
t | lease him. In thirty days time from
+ that refusal, 10000 English soldiers an6
> Sepoys were on board ships which, with
f their white wings spread, sailed down te
5 the coast. They landed upon that coast
' they marched 800 miles, through swami
and morass, under the burning sun.
, | They marched up the mountain heights
! and gave battle to King Theodore ano
gates and the walls of stone, and reach
4 | ed down into the dungeon and took thai
4 | one British citizen out and carried him
( down the mountain side, across the
4 swamps and morasses and put him or
5 board the white-winged ships and car
, ried him home to England in safety
! [Applause]. 1t cost England twent,
t millions of pounds, and made Genera
5 Napier Lord Napier of Magdala. Was
t not that.a great thing for great coun
a try to do? An eye sharp enough to SEE
i one of its thirty millions of people, ane
S arm strong enough to stretch across thu
s ocean and morasses and pluck him as {
8 brand from the burning and carry hin
s home in safety Who would not die for
! country that can do that? No one ough1
to die for country that will not Whel
/ | few of our poor sailors were stricken
: down in Chill and dragged through thu
n streets and maltreated and murdered be
cause they wore the American blue ane
for no other reason, through Presiden
Harrison. your country had an ey
n bright enough to see those
!: Poor Sailors in Chill
S and an arm strong enough to reacl
i across the seas and compel Chill to apol
ogize for the wrong which she had don
2 to them and to pay an indemnity for tn
8 damages they had suffered. Applause.
r Could D emocratic administration do
! thing of that kind? Think of it for
moment.
+ Senator Frye then contrasted tn
t course of the early part of the Demo
+ cratic administration in reference to its
r action as to the seizure of our fishermen
! with President Harrison's course in tn
' Gillian difficulty, and closed amid heal
ty applause.
4 Cigar Makers Will Parade.
= At the regular monthly meeting of tn