The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-22

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made, with the prospect of probable
denclenoy of seventy-five millions of
dollars during the present fiscal year.
Every industry throughout the land is
stagnant or dead. Labor is unemployed,
capital terror-stricken, business para
lyzed. So omlnous and ill-boding are
the spectacles presented by the industrial
and financial situation that one almost
begins to lose faith in the stability of
American institutions. Unrestrained
flotlng and acts of lawlesspess; great
labor strikes the march of homeless,
houseless, ill-fed men; the wild utter
ances of unprincipled demagogues; and
the frenzied antics of populistic and COM
munistic leaders, are scenes calculated to
make people stop and think. 1t is just
this condition of affairs which makes
the return of the Republican party to
power so exigent and Imperative. This
country is daily growing TO need more
and more that wise, safe, judicious ad-
ministration-tha conservative LIBERAL
ism and liberal conservatism, which has
always characterized it's administrative
action. Present conditions and the
spirit of the times demand vigorous
application of it's methods and policies.
For it is essentially and peculiarly an
iconoclastic age In the realm of
science, philosophy, religion, finance,
political economy and governmental adj
!HlulSUdGlOn, Gne cner1SneQ ~
THEORIES AND DOCTRINES
of former generations are daily displaced
by the products of modern thought.
Ideal after ideal falls shattered by the
Boanergian hammer of the reformer and
the agitator. Politico-economic and in
dustrial questions are attracting unwont-
ed interest. Today the assault is direct
e6 AGAINST Of no oIo
OF our governmental polity; and it is
for US, my fellow citizens, to see to it
that the cause of truth and Justice
suffers no loss, and to make sure that
much of the so-called modern progress
and reform has not negative value.
The pitiable exhibition which the
Democratic party, through it's represen-
tatlves IN Congress, is now making, is
sufficient to con vince all candid minds
OF It's absolute ineapac1ty to deal with
the practical questions of administra-
tlon, or the higher problem of national
life Without unity of sentiment or
hxlty OF purpose, utterly unable 60
articulate it's own forces it is aimlessly
fioundering IN a boundless sea of uncer-
tainty, while the palsied business inter
ests of the country are hoping against
hope, and praying and beseeching it or
some tangible indication of what it's
future action may be. In spite of every
importantly, in spite of the wholesale
sacrifice OF our country IS prosperity, with
callous Indifference it is heedlessIy dilly-
dallying and frittering away it's precious
time, in venting and sating personal or
factional spleen over presidential ap-
polntments. or disgracefully wrangling
over the f1eshpots of party patronage, or
coquettlng and bargaining with, or doc
toring IT'S proposed legislation in favor
of some ring, trust or com bine.
In my judgment the best thing that
could happ en- to the
UNITED STATES SENATE,
betided as it is in the doldrums of SER
vile adherence to precedent and an over
strained respect for effete customs,
would be to transfer, for short period,
from the national House of Represents
tives, to the chair of the presiding officer
of the Senate, that matchless parliament
tartan, that statesman of masculine
and. wide horizoned intellect, that album
dant possessor of Illuminated and sane
titled common sense and the courage to
apply tour own distinguished citizen,
Thomas B. Reed. So strong il the grow
ing appreciation of the broad statesman
ship and practical sagaclty of this man,
that l believe, that when the next Re-
publican National Convention shall as
sembie, there will be universal and
irresisti BILE demand that he shall lead
the Republican hosts in the presidential
campaign.
When the unexpected results of the
last presidential campaign became gen
orally known, our Democratic friends,
the enemy, with gloating exultation,
proclaimed that the sun of the Repub-
lcan party hadset; that it was a decayed
organization in the shadow of the valley
of political death-a veritable dead cock
in the political pit; that the period of its
usefulness had passed, and that it's doom
was sealed and it's mission ended.
Speaking for those higher sentiments
of patriotism which know no party al
legiance; for the spirit of fervid and stall
wart Americanism nurtured by our
people; for the grand and noble impulses
which sustained the Union soldier in
the storm and shock of battle; and for
that pure and loyal
LOVE OF COUNTRY
which places the well being of this
nation before self or party, / am bound
to clare, that, in the very nature of
things, the Republican party still has
great work to perform. Not till an in
violable sanctity shall surround and
guard the American ballot box; not till
an education shall become the common
heritage of every American citizen; not
till the American laborer shall be pro-
tected in thrift and competency at home,
and from degrading pauper1sm abroad
not till our nations flag shall float the
unchalenged symbol of American rights;
not till the name of this Republic shall
become a synonym for the universal in
telligencc, freedom, equality and politi-
cal and social happiness of everyone of
it's citizens, will the mission of the Re-
publican party be ended. 1t stands to-
day where it has stood in the past. No
reference to it's history is necessary. To
it's credit belong all the great construc-
tive measures for more than quarter
of century. Its achievements stand
out like sunlit peaks in the midst of the
most brilliant and eventful epoch of our
national life.
The Republican party in this State is
happily circumstanced for making one of
it's most brilliant, aggressive and sue
cessful campaigns. Our State affairs
were never in p safer or better condition.
Among all the distinguished names
which adorn the list of our chief magis-
trates, none stands out with more states
manlike lustre-few equalling and none
surpa ssing-for careful, impartial, I'M
swerving performance of dutY-than that
OF our present governor, Henry B.
Cleaves. A typical Repu blican, an ideal
citizen, natural leader of men and
consummate master of affairs, he is an
honor IN CIR n, horl cnup+v ord C,,,.,