Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-03

1t was Injustice to our fishermen to put
fish on the free list. 1t was scarcely less
which the interests Of our State demand
that the protective tariff should be used
rssientiessiy and without relaxation ~ y ~ "
British dominion on this continent, just
beyond our borders; ours geOgraphically.
our historically ours by the sacri n,,,ss
burg and with Wolfe before Quebec!
And by the unbroken teachings of Repup-
lican craftsmanship while Canada Chooses
to indulge the sentiment that maintains
that line and cuts us off from our posi-
ton as a part of a North American con-
federation stretchingto the eternal snow" =;
doing SO and shall not indulge that senti,
ment and at the same time be allowed
to fatten off our markets.
her that for which she would pay any
price, the object of all her contention, her
insolcncc and harassments given to heI
without reciprocity. or the attempt az
reciprocity. though the most perfectly de-
vised reciprocity treaty that ever was
made would not be worth the price oil
But the Democratic party did not stop
here. They attacked that other industry
upon which its allied trades the census
reports of few years ago declared to be
dependent the prosperity of so of our
towns. and nearly a third of our people
that industry which has done more than
make our State famous throughout the
world. which has carried its name and
the flag of our country into every port
that would float a keel, and furnished to
that flag it's defenders wherever it has
been ass;,iled upon the seas. which in the
last great struggle enabled JUS to double
fish an actual blockade from Hatteras to
the Rio Grande. They attacked the
American ship. they attacked the indus
try of ship-building. ship-owning and ship
sailing, triple as the trident of Neptune
whose Kingdom it invaded. and older than
the ancient province of Maine older than
the sailor and the anchor, its embems
and the emblems of that age of glory in
which the men of Maine had more than
when sailors rights were won.'
Yard locked in yard, hot gun-lip kissing
gun
they always have attacked it. though
never before in our history had that VI
cious attack been led by an American presi-
dent. as it was by Mr.. Cleveland when at
OF an American ship-yard he sounded
what but for a Congress more patriotic
than he, would have been the death
knell of every ship-yard in the land, And
the Democrats of Maine presented this
pitiable spectacle; the Democratic ship
builders of the second district went down
on their knees to Dingley and Frye. the
Democrats of Maine did the same in the
memorial of the State legislature. TO our
Republican representation to save them
from ruin at the hands OF their party
associates.
And the Democrats of Bath in scarcely
less serious crisis have daily cause TO
bless the Republican party of Maine that
it had at Washington our senior senator
ANA the representative from this district
respectively, chairman of the naval COM
mittee in the Senate and the House. to
protect the brave builders of the l<atahdin
from punishment because of an insuper-
able defect in the plans of her construc-
ton and to save their city from indus
trial ruin.
Gentlemen. this industry must be re-
stored it is almost too late TO speak OF
Swing it. and that restora59n must vs. So come
to build more vessels of war in Maine. and
for every one of these we want to build
a hundred gallant merchantmen' pledges
prosperity to send out under the reciproc-
ity treaties we shall revive. We want to
BALD more Defenders IN this country
for every one of these we want to build
dozen battle. ships TO make our navy
worthy to be the strong right arm of the
Republican diplomacy we mean TO have
All this we want but we want it equally
with prosperity restored to al our people
and with the national credit restored to
this government of ours
When first the country sickened we said
to the Democratic party. as did Webster
to the Democratic party of old, restore
the credit you have destroyed. We said
more: we will help you to do so, and we
did. When they said the trouble was the
Sherman law we helped them repeal 1t,
and without ouraid ii could not have been
repealed.
the treasury said it was the Sreenbacks
and (shades of the Democratic party OF
Maine proposed to retire themD the party
that had first provided for their redemp-
ton offered to help restore the system
that had made that redemption possible
and had ever since enabled us TO make
good our promise before the world.
When their president and secretary OF
the treasury whincd about an endless
chain. they themselves had set in motion,
which revolved from an empty treasury
back again through vacuum in Demo
that vacuum with the statesmanship OF
Dingley and to break that chain with the
firm grasp of a hand that has behind IT a
rciilenished treasury AZ TINS we o1erea,
had come upon the country. Ours could
not he the glory should the country be
rescued from it,. but as citizens Of a com
mon country we tried to DO So Ana they
would have none of our aid. -.
Then we pleaded with them for the liin
of industry, Next November We snali
which throttle it. Then we begged 10 be
allowed to help restore the credit OF the
government. now we give them notice we
shall do so by our own measures ana our
own men, BY our own measures ana our
own men shall this credit he restored ana
the confidence on which its continuance
must ttfptihl. ny Il - i'''''ii' -,
nd a Republican president. Who is to he
the chosen chicftain we are not permitted
10 know but we know the mandate from
his party which shall be his to execute,
and to maintain the standard OF our cur
rencv as high as the highest in all the
world. That will he the declaration OF the
Republican platform and upon that plat
form without equivocation. or the shadow
of equiv oca ton the candidateof our party
will take his stand.
The Republicans of Maine join their
bret hren of other states in presenting :,
candidate whose platform is already
written, written when he declared that
the ''proudest part of the proud record of
the Republican partyis its devotion TO ne
cause of sound finance" written in the
record of his life. whose nomination means
election. whose election means Republican
supremacy not for four, but for twenty
| four years 10 come: not only the leader
of our party but one whose mastery a
sullcn and defiant Democracy has been
| forced to acknowledge. Il master of men.
| And not only Il master of men, but mas
ter of himself.
| Master of himself as we have known
| him. boy and man among us.
| Master of himself the nation has
| known him in the full glare of publicity
| and the heat of party strife,
| Master of himself as the nation knows
him today. his lips not sealed in silence
| when silence is dishonor, nor opened tC
words that are meant to have no mcaIt-
ing: his lofty spirit unswerved from its
| high purpose. no not for the price of the
| presidency itself,
! ! need not name him.
| He was named by nature in the intellect
with which she crowned his magnificent