Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-05
WORDS OF eLoouEscE.
The Nominating Speeches for Hon. VIM. P.
Frye as United States Senator.

fishing the nominating speeches for Hon.
VIM. P. Frye as United States senator
at the legislative caucus, Thursday even
ing, and which We're crowded out of our
yesterdays edition.
Hon. Llewellyn Powers, speaker of the
House, was the first speaker putting Mr..
Frye's name in nomination. He said:
Mr.. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the
Caucus:
| We have assembled here this evening
for the purpose of nominating Republi-
can candidate for senator TO the United
States Senates yet our duty is merely a
perfunctory one. The people of the State
of Maine have already determined that
William P Frye of Lewiston, who has
served us SO ably and so faithfully for
more than two terms, shall be his own
successor (Applause), and we do but carry
out their will and register and give effect
to their decree in making that nomina-
ton. 1t is but natural that We should
feel a just pride and qualification when
contemplating the sterling integrity and
commanding ability and patriotism that
has so generally characterized the public
men of our State
l recall, though it was many years ago,
the first time that l ever visited the city
Of Washington. / went into the galleries
of the Senate of the United States. 1t was
not long after the close of the war of the
rebellion. 1t was when William Pitt
Fessendcn was in the zenith of his power.
listened to a very exciting debate in
which hePparticipated, and heard strang-
or md ri
ablest man in that Senate. Nothing could
have thrilled me more, or been more
gratifying to my feelings of State pride
| And ever since, we have succeeded MIN
there with worthy men.
Maine has ever been fortunate in its
representatives in the national House and
Senate 1t has in the past contributed
many names that shine brightly in the
national galaxy, names, sir, which we
know belong to the few, the immortal
few, that were not born to die and at the
present time it is universally conceded
that no state in this Union is SO ably rep
resented upon the floor of Congress as the
State of Maine. (Applause.)
In the House, towering head and
shoulders above all others, stands Thomas
b. Reed (Applause,) our leader upon the
floor that eminent parliamentarian whom
we trust and believe is to be the next
President of these United States zap
plause), for as sure as tides and sunrise
come the people of this country have de
creed that they will no longer submit to
Democratic misrule (applause) and that,
as soon as the Constitution admits, they
will recall to power that party of those
men who have been true to the country
and the flag.
In the Senate William P. Frye has no
acknowledged superior and few equals.
His convincing eloquence, magnetic, ever
aggressive for the right, the able manner
in which he has debated great constitu
tional questions and economic problems,
long since placed him in the front rank
and gave him a national reputation. He
believes in our own manufactures and
industries, our own farms and laborers,
our own people and country, rather than
in the prosperity of foreign nations and
their workmen.
He believes in American shipyards, in
American built vessels for our coasting
trade and our merchant marine, and in
American sailors and scamen, as did the
founders and the fathers of the republic.
The great agricultural county of ARGOS
took, developing SO fast, having SO recently
obtained railroad connections with other
parts of the State and with our natural
markets through the Bangor & ARGOS
took Railroad, thanks to the promoters
and builders of that road-that great
county owes to William z. Frye a debt
of gratitude that it can never fully repay.
When recently the Democratic Congress,
under the specious pretcnse of tariff re-
duction and reform sought to paralyze the
great potato raising and starch produc-
ing industry OF that county and to trans
fer our prosperity to the British provinces
and the German empire, it was then that
William p Frye by his persuasive elo-
auence and his personal tact and popularity
succeeded in ayerting in part the impcnd-
ing destruction, leaving us some protec-
ton in our own markets (Applause).
This is not an isolated case. He has
ever been true to the best interests of
our State He has ever responded readily
to every call. He has ever conscientious
| " and truly discharged every trust i'm
posed upon him. During his long and
faithful career in the House and the Sen
ate, which forms a large period of the
time of that transition period that has SO
radically changed the Constitution and
government of this country, he has helped
to settle in the interest of humanity and
progress, those great issues that have
made us nation, commanding consid
Grafton at home and respect abroad, and
not merely confederacy.
In short, he has been leader in the Re
publican party (applause), the party of
Lincoln, of Grant, of Blaine and host
of immortal heroes and patriots who have
gone to join the great majority beyond;
the party who struck the shaekles from
four millions of slaves; the party who
crushed the most wicked and gigantic and
causeless rebellion that this world ever
saw; the party that stands for free and
fair ballot and an honest count; that
stands for sound currency and financial
integrity, for nothing so insidiously robs
labor and enriches the speculator and the
gambler, rs deprecated and dishonest
currency; the party under whose bencti
cent leadership we have prospered in a
manner unprecedented in the history of
nations:; the party who is pledged to the
protection of American industries and
American workmcn against foreign pro-
ddction and pauper labor the party under
which we have made vast strides towards
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