Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-03
POLITICAL DAY
AtFryeburg--Addresses byDis-
tinguished Speakers.
Senator Frye Made an Eloquent
Speech for the Republican Party.
solney cushias Spoke for Prohibitionists and
jehn g. Mash for Democrats.

FRyERres., Aug. s.--This was political
day Al Chautaaua. Folney b. Gushing
spoke for the :Prohibitionists, opening his
address by quoting Wendell Phillips, on
the danger of the rum power The New
York Times was quoted as saying that the
rum power of Nes York had more intiu-
enee than the churches, and the Boston
Journal that II was the danger of our time
Rum enirenched in great cities corrupts
not only the cities but national affairs. Its
influence is growing because its business i.
growing. /; nov has more power than any
time before.
He spoke of the increase and dangerous
tendencies of immigration. averaging TOO
isH u year for the past Il years. They
tirong to the cities and are managed by the
iemagognes. and the rum power strikes at
the character and intelligence of our
citizens,
The saioou is supported by political par
ties. II is in politics and our enemy must
be fought where ii is. Grant fought Lee
where he was. The liquor traffic is poIiti-
cal power. Ii the enemy uses powder ami
shot we must use powder and shot, aud if
the Democratic party can crush the liquor
power am II Democrat.
The Republican party is hampered BY its
rum friends. Ii killed slavery, bu, il is not
able or willing to kin the rum power Men
and parties rarely effect more than one
reform Those Who think alike must act
together.
John Is. Nash spoke this afternoon for
the Democrats. He began by referring To
the tariff enacted during the war, and how.
as result, millionaires grew plenty in the
Senate. where before they had been hardly
known. He characterized the tariff as a
robbery. There is hardly an article of use
or ornament said the speaker, but what has
been enhanced four or five hundred per
cent. in price
Eighty five per cent is put on trinklets
and we who live in the cold North and
shiver appreciate the outrage. The con
sumption of shoddy has greatly increased
since the Mckinley bill passed. lie pre-
ferred good English blanket to warm his
flesh to the best English gilt edge Bible.
If the tariff is not tax then the man " no
SAYS 50 must he Il candidate for the insane
ayslum The tariff should be only sufh-
cicnt TO carry Oh the government. The
tariff legislation of the Republican party is
to build up trusts and rob the labor of these
men. The Democratic party is the best
parry of the people.
Democrats and Republicans joined hand
IN hand to cut out the cancer of slavery.
but You cannot call Ms copperhead- if some
of us did not believe in the war, If a low
tariff ruins the country how is it that from
1916 to 1857 the population and wealth
increased more than in any other decade.
Mr.. Nash apologized at the close of his
address, as he was impoIuined TO come here
and ill the gap without preparation.
\ large audience came out in the evening
to hear Senator Frye. He said Il am not
here to proselytc or TO open campaign
bltto show my appreciation of the magnifi-
cent work of the Chautauquans. Our in
s,i,utlons are based upon intelligence.
We received the country in 1861 divided,
and their President said we hal no power to
preserve the country, 1t hai no money,
no credit. and had to pay IL per cent inter
est. DO you remember that Grant said to
England. pay for what your pirates have
done.
We restored to the Democrats the strong
est nation on the face of the earth. Re
ceived it with slavery AMI restored it with
not slave. They had glorious opportu
nifty to continue the country's glory.
What did they do. Remember that the
Canadians seized our vessels. Bayard and
Cleveland made treaty with England and
every claim that they had ma e
We have been paying Wales s29oo0,GGD
every year for tin. Shall We not make %
own tin when there il enough in the earth
to last 10000 years:
We will make S21a 'sn.0oh worth the
first year of this inlu@t y In less than
two wears tell YOU tin will BE- lower than
ever before.
In Austria pearl buttons are made in
prisons and they are not allowed to sell
them there. but they are sent here. Is it
better to buy prison labor or the work of
our own citizens"
Senator Frye gave a picture of foreigners
and their pay in different parts of the world,
showing the difference in the amount re-
ceived by our laboring people to the great
advantage of Americans.