The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-13

IouO IL vas HOt NY loNlO bH6U we ulu uOU
have this opportunity, for I believe SO
thoroughly in the control of the people
that would not permit them to let any
body control more than one year, and not
very much then. Naugb ter.)
Our people are very much disposed to
rejoice over this tremendous victory. !
do not wonder that they are. Think of
it! Ohio, with majority surpassed but
once, and then when the Democrats
nominated Valandingham, who was
adjoining some landscape across the
border (laughter(; Pennsylvania, with
one hundred and forty thousand plurali-
ty, more than when the soldier, Grant,
encountered the Democatic party under
leader whom they had always fouted
and despised; Massachusetts, with a
majority of nearly forty thousand! For
the last two or three years Massachusetts
had been in the habit of electing Demo-
cratic governor, until it had begun to look
as If they might establish q dynasty of
Russells in the old Bay State. daughter
and applause.) Iowa, with a candidate
personally attacked, and with very
serious state question pending;. Iowa
swept; Nebraska and Kansas carried, and
only Kentucky and Virginia remaining
in the fold! What is the cause of
This Tremendous Victory?
Does anybody, know more now than at
the last election previous? No one on the
stump making speeches knows more than
he knew then; but the audience certainly
does. The audience has received a
tremendous lesson, and so great that it
seems to me it can never forget it. And
yet, am not sure. If the people Of the
United States remain of the same mind,
if they continue in the same determine
ton which they expressed at the. election,
nevertheless their work is not over. If
thought it was l would not be here to-
night. The mere question of rejoicing is
small question. Of course we delight
to do it when it comes our way. 1t has
not been coming our way lately, until
now. (Laughter.) Naturally it is very
pleasant to rejoice; but, my. friends, it
is impossible to exaggerate the necessity
for the American people to persist in
well doing, because this country is in a
very bad condition. 1t is in bad con-
condition with regard to its future pros
poets. 1t has not only suffered much,
but it is IN the control of people who are
liable to make it suffer more. From
what is this country suffering? 1t is
suffering from what [ told you only one
year ago, in this very hall, would
paralyze the business of the country. If I
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inquire sarcastically whether Saul was
also among the prophets, would point
you to paragraph which I uttered ssat
that time, and it might seem to you like
a fair picture of present history and not
prophecy. Uncertainty has wrought a
tremendous ruin, the extent of which
this country does not yet realize, does not
are SO braided up each with the other
that it is impossible to touch on interest
without affecting all. Why, Jhe Democratic
orator went around last year saying that
the tariff had nothing to do with wages.
He does not say that today, because the
mere mention of a revision.of the tariff has
shut up enough mills to give many people
no wages at all. They said that wages
remained the same in unprotected in
dustries. Do they say so now? Is not a
railroad an unprotected industry? You
cannot import railroads; you cannot
manage railroads with men still across
the water. They are here, unimported
and unprotected And yet, the threat
that the tariff is to be attacked Ly men
hostile to it has discharged three
thousand men from the New York and
New England railroad alone. That is
only one example. Railroads all over the
country are discharging men. Why? 1t
is because the tariff is threatened. No
Democratic orator dare to go around and
declare that the tariff has nothing to do
with wages. He would get no audiences.
Everybody knows better, every body who
has suffered. There is not one of those
three thousand railroad men who does
not know it by heart this moment My
sincere hope is that he and everybody
else has got the lesson so well that he
and they will not want to go to the school
master again. If they have then the next
thing for them to do is to make it mani
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made it manifest by their vote; it is per-
fectly true that they have spoken in tones
louder than |, for one, ever dared hope
they would. But the men who are at
work reforming the tariff are very deep
down in the ground. cf ~
The Democratic Party,
as a party is Objectionable. Laughter
and applause.) 1t is probably composed
of individuals pretty nearly as good as
we are, Qaughter), nevertheless, as a
party:it is misfortune, and I am going
to tellsyou why. The reason is not one
that any Democrat can fairly object to
hear. 1t is because the party is made up
of people who do not agree among them
selves, and cannot. Now party, in or
der to do anything, has got to agree. 1t
has got to be united; it has got to act
as a whole, ana Wheu IL assumes the
responsibility of government it cannot
split up as it does when it is only critic.
Is not what I have said illustrated by
history so recent that every man and
woman in this audience understands it?
Here was Democratic Senate. What was
its business as a Democratic Senate? It
was to carry out Democratic doctrines;
it was to carry out the idea Of the Dem
ocratic party. Now, what was that idea?
Can you conjecture from anything they
have done Uaughter.) What did the
part want to do on the silver question as
party? Did they wish to do what has
been done? Ii SO, why did not they fur
nsih the majority of the votes that did
it? Why did not they furnish all the
votes that did it? Why did they furnish
only a minority of the votes that accom-
plished what was done? Now d party like
that, as a party, cannot do anything.
Doing badly is one thing. Inability to do
anything at all may be worse. (Laugh-
ter.) Nay, when there is burning
question before it, it is worse. This
country believed four or five months ago,
mistakenly l think that the purchase
of silver was the sole cuse of the disaster
which seemed to be hanging over it. If
that was so, then it was the plain duty of
the Democratic party to repeal the law
providing for its purchase and to repeal
it at once. 1t was plain duty, and the
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