The Portland daily press., 1894-09-10

1T has paid during the past eighteen
months S2'5,t00 on its state indebtedness;
and IN October next it will pay $4,000 more;
and before the first day of January it will
pay S50,uOO on it's bonded Indebtedness, re-
duclng the state debt, during the years 1873
ana 1891, 500, 600. (Applause0 While the
people of our state are showing this excel
lent financial record, there has been created
in the national treasury at Washington
Democratic financial vacuum. .QaughterO
You have done more The state tax, to be
levied upon the cities and towns of the
state for the present year. has been reduced
more than $7S,0U0. This makes a reduction
in the state tax to be paid by the city of
Portland of S10,00o annually. Applause) /
saw by a recent newspaper. report that they
made some Complaint because the present
governor of the state had signed police
commission bill for the city of Biddeford.
l did sign that bill, and l am glad l had the
courage to either sign it or veto it. Great
laughter and applause.) I did not pocket it.
Continued laughter and applause.)
A Democratic Congress has passed a tariff
BILL 1t is Democratic in many particulars.
1t Protects every great trust and combine
and every monopoly throughout the length
and breadth of this whole country. 1t puts
a.tax on many of the necessaries of life. 1t
is Democratic in that respect as well. 1t
became law a week ago last Monday
night, at midnight. Naughter.) 1t is a hill
that strikes atsalmost every industry that
Maine has. 1t strikes at her great agricul-
tural and manufacturing interests, it
strikes at the wages of her laboring people:
and it was very appropriate that it should
become law in the darkness andsglocm of
night. daughter and applause.)s
What have the people of Maine done that
they should receive such treatment from
the present Democratic Congress? Maine
has always been grand and loyal state.
Her people have always declared in favor
of a sound and stable currency. They have
continued to send good Republican dele
cation to the Congress of the United States.
lApplause.l And this First Congressional
district has sent, year after year, as repre-
sentatfye.who has taught them more good,
sound, progressive parliamentary law than
they ever knew before. (Aappuse.) Our
people deserve better treatment.
Under their tariff reform policy, they
strike at the great business industries of
the country. We have, more than once.
seen the Operation of this same tariff re-
form policy. We saw tia few years previous
to 1860, when the merchant and the manu-
facturer failed, when industrial progress
was paralyzed, when the highways of trade
were strewn with the wrecks of business
enterprises, and labor was out of employ
ment. Who was it then that was teaching
the people of this-country that free labor.
protection to American homes and Ameri-
can industries and the eternal principles of
liberty and justice should be the watch
word of the people of the nation? 1t was
Lincoln; Seward, Sumner. Pitt Fessenden
and Hannibal Hamlin. (Applause.) Thirty
years have passed. Human slavery, by the
act of Abraham Lincoln, is dead ZAP
lause.l Four million men have been made
American freemen and American citizens;
men. who, in their darkest hour of degrada-
tion, were loyal to our flag and our country.
(Applause.)
Did say they had been made American
freemen and Americ an citizensa Yet in
some sections of our country today. they
are denied the rights of citizenship, ana the
right of the ballot. And the great work of
your grand old party will never be accom-
plished until every American citizen, white
or black, wherever he maysliye, SO long ais
he lives under the protection of the Ameri-
can flag, shall have the right to cast the
ballot of his choice without fear sand fwitl-
out intimidation from any source. ZAP
plause.
Who it it that is teaching the people CT
Maine that tariff reform, which they admit
means free wool, free umber and free i'm
portation of the.goods that come into COM
petition with the products of Names manu-
factories. wOuld ba beneficial To her neon1a2
Prof. Wilson of West Virginia, Vest of
Missouri, Mcmillan of Tennessee. They are
the pioneers of the Democratic party of the
present Congress. Theirs Is the hand that
is controlling the legislation of this
country; menwho have no conception of the
productive possibilities of great people
like our own. And a patient and suffering
community must wait until. under the
forms of law, they can correct the great
| wrong that has been committed upon their
industrial progress. And in November next
the people of this nation will return a Re-
publican Congress to.take the place of 1.-THE
present Democratic body. that has SO long
trifed with your interests and the interests
of free people. (Applause.) And may
we'll apply the present political condition of
the Democratic party in Congress to the
epitaph that saw in an ancient cemetery
not long since, which reads substantially
as follows: Now that I am SO soon done
for, wonder what l was begun for.''
| daughter and -applau se.)
The Governor then called attention to the
| boasts of the Pension Department at Wash
| ington, that they had saved twenty-five
millions in that department. The Governor
said it was taken from the old soldier, the