The Portland daily press., 1894-06-06

WToCheu ny DelnOCraJlC malaQ
ton and the fatuity of those working
people who aided in their own detruct-
ion at the poll in 1899.
From 1860, with the exception of one
Democratic administration, which for
tunately was rendered powerless by a Re
publican Senate, the Republican party
have been responsible for the administra-
tion of our public affairs, and the record
set forth by President Harrison in
1923, i'll his message to Congress, gath
cred i, from the latest and official returns
OF the census of the United States,
shows that from wealth of $16, 80, O0O,-
700, representing the entire wealth of
the country in 1860, Republican misrule
had succeeded in changing those fig
ures in thirty years to national wealth
represented by more than sos, 900, O0O, 600
And when we turn to the direct inter-
ests of the wage-earning class of the
country, we find the figures still move
gratifying and conspicuous. These fig
ures, given by Mr.. Porter, the superinten-
dent OF the census, show how rapidly
our manufacturing interests were built
up. The increase from 1860 in the CAPT.
tai invested was from one million to
more than six million five hundred
thousand of dollars; in the numb Der of
people employed, from /, $40, 900 to more
that 1900, 600 of people, and show an inA
crease in the wage roll of our industrial
avocations of from 1878, S7S, 900 ssin 1860
to So. 1872, 50, 600 in $780, In 1860 the total
number of hands. as I have said, was
2, 1872, 5000, and that increased in 1892 to
All, S32, nearly two millions sof addl-
tional people given employment in a sin
of people furnished not only with daily
labor, but with liberal compensation
two millions of people enabled to build
up comfortable and happy homes on our
own soil, and as direct result of the
Republican policy of protecting our own
people and fostering our own industry.
Now, fellow citizens, that is the pic
ture presented to this country and to
the world until few brief years ago.
ask you to put that picture side by side
with that which we see in the columns
OF every newspaper, with that which
comes home to us whenever we walk our
str cts, with that condition which is no
longer theory in this country. but the
realization of the blank despair that fol-
lows Democratic rule.
In one year from November, 1892, BY
the best estimates that could be made.
the decrease in labor was estimated at
60 ID per cent, more than one-half of
the laboring activities of this country
stricken down in twelve months. The
decrease in wages was greater, because
men were no. only put out of employ
ment, but those who were retained were
compelled to work at reduced rates, and
the decrease in wages was 60 per cent.
The decrease in the volume of business
| was AZ per cent. And that only brought
| us to 1888, and we have. as | said before
no accurate statistics of the extent to
which this disaster has been carried
since.
The Republican party is grand party
the party of Hannibal Hamlin. CHEERS. J
and, (here the speaker paused and
rear walD and Of James g. Blaine.
CHEERS and Hip, Hip, Hooray). The
two great Speakers. the dead lamented
Blaine, and the living Thomas B. Reed.
Iii! Hi from the Portland delegation,
| followed by loud and long continued
cheers from the entire hall.)
Standing here as l do, in the Repub-
| lican city of Lewiston, (applause), / can
not fail to mention another man, ster-
ling champion of Repu blicanism, an elo-
| Quet exponent of the cause of liberty, a
| fearless man, who honors this city by
residing here, the distinguished Senator
| lWlllam L. Frye OF this city OF Lewiston.
| prolonged cheers). Today he is standing
there in tine Senate of the Uniaed States
fighting like a giant In that fight he
is ably assisted by his associate, the
Hon. Eugene Hale. Applause.
| Lewiston has another great and able
son, man without a superior in infiu-
ence and in counsel. Az earnest student.
Thoughtful, sagacious. wise. No man
in the House of Congress commands and
receives a wider respect or carries a
greater degree of influence than Hon.
Nelson Dingley Jr., of Lewiston Gap
plause.)
/ don't need to say anything about
Tom Reed. cloud Applause.) He is a
speaker, and he speaks for himself.
More applause.) No man there fills a
larger place.
must not fail to mention another col
league of mine. Hon. Seth l.. MilIiken.
| (applause,) silver-voiced, indefatigable
in labor, and Republican from the
crown of his had to the sole of his feet.
Maine has no rea on to be ashamed of
her part In the representation of the
state in Congress, and every reason to be
proud thereof.
THE NOMINATION