New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-09
REED AND BLACK SPEAh.
AN INTERESTING MASS MEETING IN
LIMERICK. ME.


NETWORKS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOV
ERNoR HEARD IN THE HOME OF HIS
YouTH-MR REEDS REMARKS.
Biddeford, Me-. Sept Sat Limerick pict-
uresque little town which is the business centre
Of northern York County. a Republican mass
meeting occurred to-day. which was addressed
ty Speaker Thomas Il. Reed. Herbert NJ Heath'
Of Augusta. and Frank S Black. Republican
candidate for Governor Of New-York Mr. BLACK
is at Limerick visiting his sisters. MT Heath
gave hours discussion Of the silver question.
lie was followed by Mr.. Reed, whose address was
largely in line with his former utterances during
the present campaign in this State.
He began by saying that if there was any
place in the country where the wicked ceased
from troubling and the righteous were at rest.
IL certainly was not in the politics Of the United
States He then repeated his declaration that
the time spent in discussing the silver question
might have been passed more profitably in this
campaign in consideration Of more vital issues,
but the new Democratic party has brought Sill
YER forward as an issue and 1t must be met and
disposed of. No good shepherd would sit down
TO read a dissertation on the question Of sheep
husbandry when a wolf had broken into
the fold His first aim would be to get rid of the
study Of husbandry.
He said he believed in the general principle OF
maintaining party ties. but the present issue
gave the conscientious Democrat an excuse for
cutting loose from his party. 1t did not follow
that such separation need be eternal. Any Dem
ocrat who came over to the Republican party
this fall could go back after his party recovered
from its Populistic entanglements. but II ne
chose to stay he could at least be assured OF
pleasant company
The speaker said he admitted we had been
having hard times. but he had no sympathy with
the statement that the country was IN such
bad state that its condition could not be
worse The country better off to-day by
billions of dollars Of wealth than it was IN
1878 1t was a great mistake to suppose that
the country could not be worse Off than IL was
NOW He ridiculed the theory that the cause of
the recent business depression dated DacK 10
1873. and declared the real cause 10 DC "eaA
ness Of human nature.
He then referred to the prosperous conditions
four wears ago and compared them with those OF
the present The remedy, he averred was no,
free silver Anything designated by the word
"frec'' had special charm for the American peo-
nIe but they should not be deluded by false doc
trines of silver orators. He believed the men
who went as pioneers to the great west ana ue-
veloped the wonderful natural resources OF tha'
section were deserving Of compensation out theS
had had liberal consideration at the hahus Vi '"e
Government
Uo then passed 10 a consideration or the MS
tory of coinage with special reference 10 the
silver Purchasing act. The fall of the price ol
silver in spite of the demand stimulated py '"a'
legislation was cited indicative OK the result
which is sure to follow in case OF free anu uh-
limited coinage He also argued that the ih'luN
of cheap dollars would drive out better money
The debt-paying argument OF those VINO ia'oi
fftv-cent dollars was next considered ana met
nv the declaration that the people OF sh'aii
means. depositors in savin; IS banks hfe-ihsur-
ance polcy-h holders pensioners and workingneh
in all trades would suffer from deprec'a'eu
currency. ;,
The remedy he offered for the present conui-
tion was restoration of confidence ana d re-
sumption Of home industries which would come
by assuring the people who had money 10 ioaii
for business enterprises that they wouiu get
back every dollar they loaned The Republican
policy was to give every man an opportunity u
work There were just as many possibilities TOT
labor NOW as there ever were. After crl'lciShs
tho acts of the Democratic party In ioWeiins
Tho tariff and commenting on the RepupHcah
'ic.ories that came in the elections following the
massage of the Wilson bill, MI. lteeu sa'u'
Tho Renublican candidate for President Niliiam
Mi; represents The wse policy haV' sPoh.Hn II
Of He and the party behind MIN are Pisuseu, si 80 ~
that nolicy You should not only vote lol iiilii ~
60 nc rcnresentatiye in the Maine caInpalSn, the
pn,nhlic,n candidate for Governor or TINS stay,
W. viii surely win a victory, but want you 70 40
more we want to get the wof entlrely out " NJ NJ
ri and then we may attend 10 the study OF the
PRINCIPLES of sheep husbandry. we want ~ si' q g
ssuch an overwhelming vote as shall serve as d
nntice on the Senate that It's acts are not uo' 'Seo
by the people.
Mr. Reed was followed by Congressman
RIack MIR. Black was introduced as a son or
York County and former pupii OF Iiine' n
Academy He made a half-hour ADDRESS: eN-
pressing pleasure at meeting so many vi ms
fnrmer associates and ferrng TO some or the
National issues that were under discussion tWeh-
~ wears ago when he was fchoolboy AT I'iH-
erck He said he was not here TO make cam
naign speech but simply to testify To the interest
that his State and the whole country had III the
nresent important campaign In Maine:
He eulogZed Speaker Reed. and said II Maine
valued him as much as the rest OF IN" country
did he would he returned to Congress ny "a iai sei
mo ;nritv than ever before. Great principles were
at stake in National affairs. and there WAS heeu
~ tho strongest men at the front The re-
mainder Of his discourse was largely discus
sion Of the duty of stable citizens In the present
comnaign He advised that they follow IT. the
noth Of steadfastness rather than branch out
INFO avenues Of reckless experiment
AyyOryCEMENTS FROM THE GOVERNOR