The Portland daily press., 1894-09-05
UnmahIy JeaIOuBy.
Especial to the PRESS. !


tended Republican rally was held here
tonight. Byron Boyd, of the city COM
mittee, called the meeting to order and
introduced as presiding officer the Hon.
John L.Stevens. Mr.. Stevens, at some
length, denounced President Cleveland's
foreign policy and introduced as the
first speaker Hon. Harold M. Sewall of
Bath. Mr.. Sewall spoke for about half
an hour, as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are here in the heat of political
campaign, but the subject on which
address you ought never to have become
subject of political division.
am here to speak for an American
Foreign Policy consistent and oontin-
uous which shall give to our govern
ment its proper and becoming influence
among the nations of the world. ! am
here to speak for the honor and glory OF
the American flag, for the protection of
American citizens aad American inter-
ests wherever, they are, and for the ex-
tension of the territory of this great Re-
public wherever in this Western Hemis-
phere natural right and national destiny
have decreed that it shall go.
At the outset recognize that foreign
affairs have not been uppermost in your
minds of late. The memory of that
great struggle is u fresh upon you, a
struggle in which yau have been,
through your national representatives,
fighting for the very life of the indus
tries and commerce of this State.
Fighting as they have been assailed all
along he line from the farmers of Aros-
took to the Democratic ship builders of
my own city of Bath, whose shipyards
have been threatened with. destruction
at the hands of their party associates.
Recalling this and the recent domestic
turmoil in the West, such as the country
has never experienced before, I recognize
the fact that to some of you it may
seem far cry to the blunders and
crimes committed by those charged with
the administration of our foreign rela-
tions in the Pacific.
But, my friends, what concerns our
country concerns our State, and in all
her history there has been no blow
struck at these common interests which
Maine has not risen to resent, and no
obstruction placed in the way of the ad-
vancement of the American name
throughout the world which Maine has
not striven to remove. Let our brethren
in sister States submit to the humilia-
of lessons in patriotism from that ad-
monitor to public virtue for whose ele-
vation to the highest honors of that
citizenship he finds SO unworthy, she
has no responsibility Maine has never
sought benefits from national legislation
which she has not sought equally for
every other section of the land, nor in
graver moments has she ever dallied to
count the cost. before taking her stand
on the side of the honor of the country's
flag!
And SO tonight, remotest though she
is of all the States in the Union from
that vast ocean, the scene of the action
of which sp eak, I would in the face
of her history lack respect for your intel
ligence were 1 to seek any special or
peculiar interest Maine has in that ac-
tion as an apology for what l have to
say. What has been done in the Pacific,
what has been attempted there by Mr..
Cleveland has been in the name of the
American people, in your name and in
mine. and we are here
TO REPUDIAE THAT ACTION
for ourselves and to acquit our con-
sciences before the world.
Gloriously for our State and happily
for the nation, Maine has led and led Of
ten in her councils, and if for time she
leads there no longer, she can at least
refuse to follow in the path that has led
only to national humiliation and nation
al shame.
Moreover my friends, we caunot escape
| this discussion if we would. 1t has been
| invited by a remarkable declaration
placed in the forefront of the Democratic
platform adopted by the party of this
| State.
"His course in directing our domestic
affairs has been sound and uncomprom-
Using, a I'd his management of our for
eign relations honorable and patriotic;
and his humane policy toward the people
of the Samoan and Hawaiian Islands.
In both he has manfully adhered to the
rule affirmed and approved by Washing
tom in bis farewell address.
aThst the maxim is no less applicable
TO public than private affairs: that hon
esty is always the best policy.n
The declaration l have read chal-
! Ienoes the veracitys of every renutabIe
l lohSOc