Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-05

| NIUE DiuCuiiles tDdt WOuiu nave taxed
the strength of one half century younger
aye-and physical perils as well beset the path
OF dnty, aud 1t is part of history that he
did not quail.
But, my friends, there is virtue beyond
the courage that was behind all this, and
that is that spirit that leads one to suffer
silently personal injustice and contumely
for the sake of great cause, and LOYALTY
to trust. Such rare virtue was his, and
as one who witnessed it l wish here to bear
my testimony.
Suoordinated to novice whose diploma
tic experience had been confined to the
walls OF congressional committee room, he
was not supplaced, but ordered to welcome
and assist the man whose task it was to
columinate him. The advances of friend
illness were rejected as insults, and the Of
fers of aid in the matters declared to be the
object of investigation were at oncs seized
upon as evidence of guilt. The man who
broke bread at his table Honolulu was
blackening his name and plotting his ruin
at Washington.
My friends, not all this brought murmur-
ing or complaint from this faithful public
servant. And when at last it became evil
dent in Hawai- as il had long been at home,
that the decision of the administration was
made up, that partisanship, personal malig-
nifty, misrepresentation, and the insidious
and selfish influence of great cor
poration whose greater triumph was
yet to come, was to prevail what
then: | speak from daily personal in
tercourse-no,hing of reproach, or doubt or
fear, nothing but unabated and unbounded
confidence in his chief, the President of the
United States.
My friends, / am not here to plead his
cause, he needs no defender although he
has been indicted by no less a one than this
same Preside n: of the United Sta'es.A Dem
ocratic Senate has thrown out that indict-
ment as the country had before it. And
am here tonight to congratulate him on
that verdict, and on the birth of the new
Republic of the West to whose fathers he
had the honor and the good fortune to ex-
tend the hand of greeting in their early
struggles
| And now recalling his services as a stu
dent of the great controversy in which he
has had so honorable a share and as a citi-
zen of this State, cannot refrain from Of
fering my tribute of respect in the presence
of his townsmen. Aud repeat to him and
to you the words l heard addressed by the
immortal Longfellow at our grand old col
lege at Brunswick, to the teacher of his
youth: ":
"All honor and reverence and the good repute,
| That follows faithful service as its fruit,
Be unto him whom living, we salute
Governor Cleaves was given a splendid
reception as he arose to speak, and his
speech throughout was literally applauded.
He said - "~
Mr.. President, Republicans Of AHgaSta
| and Kennebec, Ladies and Gentlemen:
am not insensible to the heartiness of
your greeting. l am gratified to be present
and listen with you to the able addresses
that have been made by our distinguished
friends. l stand tonight within the limits
of city progressive and always loyal to
the State and country, which has given to
the country many of her best states
men. | am glad to stand in this grand old
county of Kennebec, where there is as
much sound, pure, thorough, stalwart Re-
publicanism as can be found in any other
spot in this whole American Union. APP
plause. 1885,.
am glad to stand among a people who
believe in protection to American indus
!
in vigorous foreign policy and
that were advocated by one of the best and
most distinguished statesmen the world ever
knew-James G.. Blaine. Applause. /
am glad to stand upon the same platform
with the two distinguished gentlemen, who
so ably represented our government in the
past in foreign countries, and | wish that a
18Th pN,,ll
be infused into the foreign policy OF the
present administration. Applause.
l wish the party in control of the United
States would devote a portion of their
energies to upholding and strengthening
American rights in other countries instead
of attempting to pull down the industries of
our own country. Applause. We were
told two years ago that we were to have
Grover and clover. laughter. We have
got Grover-the clover isn't up yet
! Laughter In their attempts to strike
down the grand protective party of this
country, the Democratic party have already
brought upon the people disaster and misery
and distress. When you yielded up the
sceptre of power our nation was at the
height of prosperity, labor was employed at
good wages, and the rights of American
CltlZpUsulp NSIc pkOtSStCh az hOihS anu
abroad.
You were not dickeriDg with trusts and
combines and monopolies in arranging your
tariff schedules. You were not seeking
to place tax upon sugar and other great
necessaries of life for the benefit of trusts
or for the benefit of centralized wealth, or
for speculative purposes; nor were you
seeking to establish monarchy in any part
Of the world, against the protests of free
people, who were trying to throw off the
woke Of oppression, nor to restore deposed,
disgraced, and dishonored queens to their
thrones. You were pursuing national
policy in the interests of American govern
ment and citizenship.
The Democratic party passed tariff bill.
, 1t went into operation week ago last night,
at II o'clock midnight, an appropriate time
laughter and applause fur that law which
, strikes at the great laboring and industrial
, interests of the State of Maine, to go into
, effect, amid the darkness and gloom of
, night. Mills said there were not thou
sand people in the United States satisfied
with that bill he was correct. The Demo
Gratis were ashamed of it, H..
They were in the condition of the fellow
, who ate two milce pies at the husking.