The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-01
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dler says That Cleveland Stands in he
Way of Free Cuba,
Concord, N, H., March Sl,-The New
Hampshire Republican state conven-
tion to select delegates to the National
convention was held here to-day, Hon.
w. Z. Chandler of Concord was elected
chairman. Senator Chandler, on being
introduced as president of the conven-
ton, was enthusiastically received.
Senator Chandler spoke in part as
follows: president Harrison in four
years reduced the national debt $685.
527 ,666; President Cleveland in three
years has increased the interest bear
ing debt 1852, 602, PAS. Therefore the sec
ond reaction has set in against the men
and the party that have done these
things. In 1894 there was a republican
uprising which gave greater majorities
against the democracy than ever had
been known since the organization of
the republican party, and to-day there
is settled determination in the minds
of the American people to restore, in
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party to more complete power in state
and nation than it ever yet possessed
all this, we hope and trust, to be ac-
complished under the banner of our
energetic, strong, positive and magnifi-
cent New England leader, Thomas b.
Reed.
Gentlemen of the convention, besides
restoring prosperity at home, the COM
ing republican victory will give to the
government a new foreign policy, based
upon sound principles and upon con-
siderations tending to the interest and
honor of the nation. Under President
Cleveland there has been vacillation
from one extreme to another extreme
very remote. Led by Blount of Georgia
the president determined and endeav-
ored to restore the dusky queen of
Hawaii to her lost throne in order that
she might seize her subjects-Ameri-
cans who had gone to her island to
make her people intelligent and pros
perous-and put them to death by be-
heading them. On the other hand, I'M
der the lead of Olney of Massachusetts,
the president nobly championed the
cause of little Venezuela, defending her
undisputable right to control the mouth
of the great Orinoco river. Back again
from this spasm of true Americanism
he stands to-day as the obstacle to
Cuban independence.
I'm recent years we have been trying
to get back upon the ocean with our
ships in the foreign trade, to regain
as much as possible commerce with
foreign countries, but we find few mar
kets for our exports in Europe-sending
there but little besides breadstuffs-and
we cannot hope for a great increase of
trade to cross the North Atlantic.
Where are we to look for markets for
our products? Mainly to the nations
of the Western Hemisphere. Who are
trying to keep us away from those
markets and to control them as our
rivals? England, principally, and some
other European nations How then can
we expect to increase and establish and
firmly maintain trade and commerce
with these American nations If we do
not place ourselves Enthusiastically on
their side in case of unjust encroach-
ments upon them by European powers,
and freely and willingly, and as part of
national policy, protect them when
ever they need assistance from all as
saults coming from the colonizitg ma
tons across the ocean. To adopt such
a policy is a part of our duty to our
selves if we are again to become and
are to remain first class power among
the nations of the world
Two present duties are before us in
this relation. For the first time since
we urged the French to evacuate Mexi-
co, and in consequence of our demand
our sister republic was enabled to de-
stroy the Macmillan monarchy an OPP
portunity has come to give indispen-
sable aid to an American republic from
European aggression. Venezuela is in a
contest with England in which we are
bound to befriend the republic. This is
not question of civil engineering,' as
the Rev. Mr., Parkhurst sneeringly calls
it; it is not "a petty boundary dispute,
as the New York chamber of congress
most wrongfully characterizes it; it
is the question of whether or not, with
no decent color of right, the mouth of
the great Orinoco river-the key to all
the commerce of Venezuela, shall be
seized and controlled by the ll-grasp-
ing English speaking nation of the
eastern hemisphere. Here is an oppor-
tunity which may not come again in
half a century.
by a regard for the Monroe doctrine.
which is a traditional principle of the
American government, by a considera-
tion not 50 very remote, of what is due
to our own safety and peace, and above
all by our just and reasonable duty to
Venezuela herself, in whose capital city
of Caracas stand together the statues
of Bolivar and Washington, we are
bound to espouse the proper cause of
the little republic against the over
grown nation which threatens her, and
to bind that republic, and all the other
South American republics, firmly to
ourselves by ties of indissoluble obliga-
ton and gratitude.
Again, as to Cuba, what is our duty :?
We have waited fifty years for our OPP
portunity properly and safely to aid
in establishing Cuban independence
There lies the great island almost with
in sight of our coasts, in the hands of
to the United States. 1t has been for
three-quarterS of a century almost a
universal American sentiment that
whenever the right time came we
should see Cuba released from the cruel
Dominion of Spain. In 1878 Cuban indie
pendence would have been recognized
had it not been for the tendency of