Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-23

all and | notice some ghosts of unburied
bodies "to and fro fitting burialless
save in the vulturcs craw" have even
reached Boston and are still audible.
hoarscly murmuring about free raw
materials" and foreign markets and
such like topics Of the underworld.
And how richly they have deserved
their fate these statesmen of the proud
boast and the paltry fuliilmcnt. Did it
ever occur to Won that IL the brightest
man among you had had placed before
him on March /. 1Sg3 Il sheet of white
paper and had been told to write down all
the foolish things he would have liked to
have the enemy do in order to com
pass their own destruction he would
have left out 30 per cent of the things they
actually did.
Is there any one of you that would have
dreamed of what your Massachusetts
Democratic Convention called the firm
and vigorous foreign policy of the admin
istrationg Could any one Of you have
thought of that letter to Wilson and its
railing accusations? Did any one of you
ever picture the chairman of ways ana
means with his knees under British ma
huCany receiving the plaudits of ctr
business rivals for good service already
rendered. and better service expected
Did You ever think of David 3. Hill as
candidate for governor of New York and,
as n necessary consequences, an unregis-
tered and homeless President? Had you
anywhere hung in the chambers of fancy
the picture of a head without Il party and
party without Il head?
Could you have imagined that after all
the warnings which rung out from all
the industrial states mt the elections
which you celebrated n year ago these men
would have gone on to cruelty American
industry for another wear?
Well, the retribution has certainly been
tremendous. You don't half realize how
Immense il was When in 1910 the
people ROSE in such wrath that 1870 has
been in American politics the symbol OF
an Alpine avalanche the House OF Repre-
scntatives only changed FROM II Democrat
ic to 81 Wing. n change of 40 and even
when you add one haif for increase of siz<
YOU have only aS for a total.
When franklin Pierce swept the country
in 1852 the Wings lost but Is seats. In
the great upheaval of 1874 which exceeded
that of 1890. 90 Repu bliean majority was
changed to Is Democratic majority, and
the South assumed that solidity which has
been the misfortune of this country ever
since. The total change then was l4f.
The change y week ago last Monday
was 93S. If you take off 80 for increase
of the House, you still have change OF
1SS. A change of 23S in ~ body of $50 is
UNPARALLELED in the history of this coun-
try, and so far rs now recall, of any legisla-
tive body in any free government in this
world Ii would mean n change of nearly
500 in the British House of Commons. Ii
$50 members of the House of Commons had
been knocked out at one election. won
der if any British statesman, still III the
air. would have ventured to say. even 3ou
miles from his district, that there were nc
brains behind the "hcels' which sci him
in motion,
Bnt when you have got through With
all these figures you have not fathomcd
this victory When we lost the country
in 1890 and 1892, the Democracy meant
that we should never find it again.
In the years Which followed Eldbridge
1erry must have sorrowed in his grave
as ne Witnessed how the gerrymander of
modern times had outgerried Gerry. Our
victory was in despite of all that and
aiso OF the solid South. solid no longer il
~ mas any SENSE of its own interest.
- Due 10 not desire TO waste your time