The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-14
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an equal pride in his strong, sturdy
manhood, in the straightforwardness
and magnificence of his public career.
Cheers.
The Lincoln of the past has crumbled
to ashes; but the real Lincoln is alive
and is an inspiration to this and future
generations-the ideal preserver OF an
American Republic, the man who did
not believe that government like this
was capable of being broken into scat
tered Confederacy. [Applause.] But
the word Lincoln means more than that.
1t means the answering loyalty OF the
American people. 1t takes us away
from the refined, practical politics OF to-
day, and brings us to the great strong
man, who wanted to go before the calm
Judgment of the American people, with
out the intervention of political middle
men. [Applanse.] The example of
Lincoln is condemnation of all politl-
cal equivocation and subterfuge, and
tells us to take to the American people
the main fact, and wait for their judg-
ment. [Applause.
1t hurts a bad man or bad cause to be
defeated; but good man and good
cause comes up all the better, all the
surer, after defeat that Is only tempo
rary. Abraham Lincoln represents that
WHICH Is dUlcSb dIQ U6SI III pciltiOoi iiAO'
Now speak as an every day citizen,
and not as political manipulation. We
demand that our leaders be LiDcolnized.
When you establish set Of political mid
dlemen, and political jugglers, then you
strike the deathblow to the Republican
party.
We sooner we get away from our prac-
teal politicians, and leave our matters to
the people themselves, the sooner will
the American people respond.
AS party we believe in the English
language. We believe in the common
schools [loud applause]. We believe that
citizen should be to the Republic and his
second where he sees fit. We believe
also that the restricted naturalization of
| foreigners should be left to the great
| party of liberty. [Applause.] We well
come honest and industrious citizens;
| but for foreign pauperS and criminals we
have no use. The safety cf the Ameri-
| can nation demands that we protect the
ballot box from ignorance, and in more
careful way than in the past. Loud APP
| plause.
| Ex-Mayor Charlss j. Chapman
| complimented the Lincoln Club on it's
membership and work, and expressed
Interpretation of the privilege of meet
ing with it. He spoke of the example
and work of Lincoln, and Of that other
whose greatness Lincoln had foretold-
! the lamented Blaine. Speaking of the
present situation, Mr.. Chapman said he
wonld proceed in the line of the tele-
gram received from our honored repre-
| sentative, Mr.. Reed, and speak of the
work to be done in the corning city cleo
| ton. Last year, for some unaccounta-
BILE reason, the city of Portland had TAX
en- up with the Democracy. Perhaps it
was because they had promised many
things which they had never carried out.
| The speaker then gave very timely and
loudly applauded talk on the duty of Re
publicans in this city. They should
| nominate a clean, able candidate, whc
would be pledged to the building of
new high school building, and to true re-
forms of the municipal government.
! [Applausel.
/ Clarence Hale, Esq,
! being called upon, spoke of the fact that
/ a generation Of statesmen had passed Off
the stage since the days of the great
| emancipation, and new men had come
/ on to bear the burdens. Men were just
! beginning to appreciate the greatness of
Lincoln, which could not be traced to
| its source any more than ray of sun
| light could be seized and searched. Mr..
| hale then referred to the recollections of
Lincoln which Mr.. Blaine often recalled.
The committee of arrangements under
whose able management this most sue
cessful gathering was gotten up and car
ried out were the following named gen.
tlemen:
! J. W. Printable, Benz Gribben, G M.
/ Trefethen, VIM. Dugan, G. L. Tewks-
bury, Andrew Cummings, Horatio Clark,
e. N. Mute.