The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-05
FRYE'S ELOQUENCE.
Senior Maine Senator Guest Of the
Portland Club.
HE SPEAKS ENTERTAININGLY FOR
OVER AN HOUR.

A Scathing Arraignment of the Foreign
Policy of the Administration - An
Earnest Plea for the Nicaragua Canal
A Speech of EIoquence and Sarcasm.
| Senator William p Frye is guest
whom the Republicans of Portland al
ways delight to honor, and the announce
ment that he had accepted the invitation
of the Portland Club to be it's guest last
evening served to fill the spacious rooms
of the club to overfowing 1t was a
splendid assembly of representative men.
Senator Frye arrived from Boston at
| five O'Clock and was met at tho depot by
Col Fred n Dow, who escorted him
directly to the reception rooms of the
club, where the Senator was introduced
to the members of the club and visitors.
Promptly at half past six the guest Of
the evening was escorted to the dining
room, where Robinson, with an efficient
corps Of assistants, had bountiful repast
in waiting. Senator Frye sat the head
of the table, and upon his left sat Henry
P. Cox, ESQ.,, president of the club; May
or Baxter, Mr.. J. S. Kicker, Clarence
Hale. ESQ.,, and Col. Albert 6. Rollins;
upon his right sat Mr.. W. W. Brown,
Col. Fred N. Dow, Mr.. Fl. A. Clay, John
H. Fogg, Esq, and Levi Turner, Esq.
| At the conclusion of the supper, Presi-
dent Cox introduced Senator Frye, the
guest of the evening. As Senator Frye
rose he was greeted with hearty applause,
and spoke as follows:
| Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Port
land Club:
I am not prepared for any such effort as
that; can only give you a little desul-
| tory talk, my occupation for the last six
months having been that of wOodSman
rather than that OF a stump orator. AL
| low me first to congratulate you upon the
evidence [ see here of the life and vigor
and the energy of this. club, and also al
low Inc to congratulate you upon the fact
that one of your distinguishedsmemb
is quite likely to be nominated by the
| Republicans, as candidate foI the Presi
dency. (Great applause Allow me
| further to congratulate you upon the fact
that. whether Maine shall present the
candidate of our party. or Iowa, or Illi-
nois or New York, or Ohio, you are cer-
victory in the next great political con-
| flict. (Applause.) And, in my opinion,
/ every American citizen of average intel
| ligence, regardless of party utilization,
has deliberately arrived at the conclusion
that the Democratic party is incapable
of governing this republic. And haven t
! they reason to arrive at that conclusion?
/ fri an m
and tie result has been as disastrous as
the mind OF man can conceive. For the
| first time, since the days of James Buoh-
anan we deliberately, as people, gave
the eiDemocratic party full power to exer-
else their will in the republic. We gave
them the Presidency, the Senate and the
House of Representatives, and their op-
portunity was before them. What was
] the result? Every man here who is in
| business knows what the result has been.
| Every Intelligent man in this country,
| whether Democrat or Republican, knows
what the result. has been, and knows that
that result has come from incapacity,
AND INCAPACITY ALONE,
for nobody charges that the Democratic
party desires to ruin this country No
body charges that it is entirely wanting
in patriotism. What we do charge is
that, having been out of the business for
thirty years, they do not today know how
to do the business, and we say they. have
proved that they do not. 1t has not been
shown in legislation alone 1t has been
shown in administration as well.
| Now would not willingly do an injus-
tice to political opponent l think that
! Mr.. Clevelandais ali honest man. I be-
lieve him to be patriotic, and that he
desires. to do that which is for the good OF
| this republic ;but his knowledge OF public
affairs is exceedingly limited. and his
| self-conceit is without any limitation
whatever Iaughter) He never con-
suits any of the leading men of his party
as to any measure which he proposes The
consequence is that the great leaders oi
his party today are his enemies in the
| Senate. He makes the members of his
cabinet nothing but tho men on chess
board, to be moved as he wishes. l am
aware that it is said that Mr.. Olney has
distinct views in relation to the Monroe
doctine, and that Mr.. Olney proposes
| that the Monroe doctrine shall be sus-
| tanned in this republic When Mr. Olney
| was Attorney General, tho President,
| knowing no law. had nothing to do with
him. Mr.. Olney. knowing no politics,
had nothing to do with the President,
and consequently they got along. Yet,
4
Monroe question, or any other great ques-
tion in the State Department, and under
take to carryssthose views out, if the Pres
ident does not agree with hm, Mr.. Clney
goes off and the President has his way
and his will, as he has had it from the
| first time he was elected President down
! to the present time.
| Now in this
MATTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
1t is exceedingly important that great
country like this, of seventy odd millions
of people, as rich as any, with resources
greater than any other country, with a
recognized power amongst the nations
of the earth, as was illustrated in our
great civil war, it is of the utmost i'm
portance that this republic shall have a
foreign policy and adhere to it, and that
| it should be recognized among the ma
tions of the earth Why should we sit by
| in idleness and allow three or four ma
tions of Europe to settle all the great
questions of the world, in which we have
| a, winch intarest as thew? Why should we