Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-08
INTERESTING EPISODES
connscisd Will President Lineoln's inaua.
ural, Related 10 the Journal by Mr. Rogers.

Wednesday Mr.. George E. Rogers Of
Detroit, Mich, who was in the city on bust.
ness, stepped into the JOURNAL office to
learn the latest returns concerning the cleo.
ton. Mr.. Rogers is business man and
has always taken great interest in politics.
Speaking of the political revolution
throughout the country, Mr.. Rogers said
he considered that it meant that the
tariff policy Of the Republican party .ince
1861 would be continued in force. During
his business career Mr.. Rogers said he fire.
| quently had occasion to visit Washington
and well remembers being present and hear
ing Lincoln deliver his first inaugural. ut
was the most impressive scene ever wit
messed. throughout the greater part of the
inaugural you could have heard pin drop.
/ never shall forget how the multitude hung
on these words the laws must and shall be
executed Two southerners were passing
directly behind me, when Lincoln
said those words and one said in a low tone
to the other, Il don't like the way he
shakes his head. He means what he says"
"Afterwards was with the Michigan dele.
cation when it called upon Mr.. Lincoln.
l recall distinctly how the President appear
ed at that time. He seemed very anxious
to learn how his inaugural had been re-
ceived. One member of the delegation
told him that he had just met Humphrey
Marshall, the bitter Kentuckian, and he
said Marshall was condemning the inaugural
and cursing Lincoln and the Republican
party. In the midst of his denunciations a
Republican friend said to him, tut, tut,
Humphrey. If you were to change Mr..
Lincoln's inaugural address, what part of
it would you strike out?' Marshall hest
tated, rubbed his forehead refectively in a
peculiar way he had. then blurred out,
mot id word of it, and walked away.
when Mr.. Lincoln heard this he threw
his head back and laughed heartily. He
seemed much pleased. indeed appeared to
to me like a man relieved of burden. He
said, Send Humphrey to me-
II was in the House last January in the
heat of the tariff discussion and was struck
with the petty fallacies INDUCED in by the
so-called tariff reformers.' 1t was so ap-
parent that they didn't know what
they were talking about that
wished then the business men Of
the country might hear them and feel
as disguised as l knew they must.
Evidently they have since heard enough to
satisfy them. You remember Bourke
Cockran's reply to Walker in which he
said it would be better to receive foreign
goods in payment than gold whenever our
exports exceeded our imports. These men
talking about overproduction under the
Mckinley bill causing stagna'ion VIII lie plan
ming to secure increased importation of
foreign goods under reduced tariff, talk
ing about securing the markets of the world
when their scheme for raising sufficient
revenue under the proposed tariff implied
that we must lose our home markets to a
vast quantity of foreign goods Bah That's
how felt when heard their arguments.
That's the way feel now and it appears
that large majority of the thinking men
of the country feel the same"