Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-06-07

sons Of fidelity to the country ,ef stnfdiness
Of purpose and heroic sef-Sacft1lce which
We shall do well to emulate, and which even
in the emergencies Of peace we must prac-
tice to maintsin the integrity OF our coun-
Try and the purity of its institutions.
He who il false to the Union veterans is
false to principles for which they fought
and therefore false to his country.
II viii be m evil day for the Republic
when the people shall adopt the methods Of
the Democratic purity and turn their
backs upon the surviving members of the
brave Union armies who in the pride and
strength Of their young manhood, marched
down to the rebel frontier, and by their
prowess and val,r crushed treason in its
own fostering home. They left not their
task until it was flushed until the last rebel
flag had trailed in the dust, and the unity,
the future greatness and glory of the coun-
try, was assured. We cannot be untrue to
them without being untrue to the country
which they saved.
What is the picture before us today.
Thifty-two years of Republican policy had
made this the most prosperous, progressive
and happy land on the earth. In that time
our wealth had more than tribbled, our rail-
roads had grown to be ITO thousand miles
in length. In manufactures we had out
striped even England who had boasted that
she was the workshop of the world, We had
surpassed every land in agriculture. In
internal and domestic commerce we had no
rival. Our mills were running on full time,
our merchants were thrifty, our mines were
all being operated. Every hand that would
be industrious, was busy, and everyone
looked into the future with confidence.
Democracy takes the reins of government
the first time after it had dropped them 32
years before to engage in war for the
dismemberment of the Union.
Its policy and methods supplant those of
the Republican party. Calhounism comes
to the front. War is at once made upon the
great and flourishing industries which had
grown up under the American policy which
we had adopted and maintained. The fruits
of Northern energy, enterprise and labor
wither before the blasting breath of the
Democracy as ruled and directed by the
dominating South, and the object lesson of
destroyed industries, unemployed labor, de-
preston aid disaster on every hand, cannot
be exaggerated or even portrayed in
language.
Shall this continue or shall we return to
the fostering policy Of the Republican
party? Shall our government be guided by
true American spirit, or shall we continue
to make the welfare of our own people sub
servient to the interests of foreign nations?
If you would restore Republican thrift to
the people. if you would regain the public
credit and public honor, if you would have
return to US our national prestige abroad,
and make this the prosperous, powerful and
proud nation it was two years ago, then
Maine has responsible task to perform, a
responsible place to fill. She is to speak in
September. Her verdict will be the first
one of importance to be heard. Her action
will be watched, and the nation will listen
as it rarely has listened before, to hear with
what voice she shall speak. s.t.
You, gentlemen, will strike the key note
for the November campaign, which shall
give US Republican or Democratic House
Of Congress. and carry it's influence to the
national campaign in 1896. Let Maine
send her greeting to the country with 3O,-
900 majority for an honorable foreign poll
cy, for justice to the veterans of the Union
armies, for protection to our industries and
our labor, to ensure that an American spirit
shall permeate and inspire our national
policy and bring back to us that fullness of
prosperity which so recently filed our land
with plenty, and carried comfort and glad
ness to the homes and hearts of our people.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Milliken's
remarks the convention adjourned sine die.