Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-29
Last Nights Republican
Meeting at New York.
Gen. Tracey and Congressman Black
Were Among the Speakers.
Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts Greeted
With Great Applause.

General Benz. F. Tracy, ex-secretary
of the navy, presided. Gen. Tracy or
taking the chair was loudly cheered.
While he was delivering the opening
speech Senator Henry Cabot Lodge OF
Massachusetts came in and was
greeted with prolonged applause.
When Mr.. Tracy had concluded he
introduced Congressman Black, the
Republican candidate for Governor,
who was cheered loudly. Mr.. Black
made an address which was frequently
applauded.
Timoty l.. Woodruff, the candidate
for lieutenant Governor then spoke.
The next speaker was Senator Lodge
who was received with applause. He
spoke as follows:
mo Americans should be elected t.
any office who speakes of any part OF
the United States as h 'enemy's coun-
try There is no state where state
pride and loyalty are stronger than ir
Massachusetts, but we believe Inat
Massachusetts is no more our country
than are California or Florida or Maine.
To speak of any portion of the republic
as the 'enemy's country is to manifest
that evil spirit of sectionalism which
was buried by four years of civil war
The revival of that spirit is abhorren
n the use of the phrase 'enemy's
country odious everywhere, seems mort
odious, more monstrous even, when APP
piled to the city of New York than any.
where else.
This is the great commercial me-
troplis of the United States. Through
the port of New York Gibbs and flows
the great tide of foreign trade. Her
most of u revenue is gathered. her.
are distributed the products of tn
country. What is it tha makes New
York great? on what does her pros
perity rest? New York is our creates
seaport n our greatest manufactur
ing city. Hither come people from al
parts of the union and all parts of tn,
world for business. for pleasure and foi
trade, and yet it is not on her manu-
features nor IN her commerce nor OF
the coming of the stranger within hel
gates that the wealth and the powe
and the prosperity of New York really
depend.
The prosperity of this great cit,
depends on the prosperity of thC
United States, not on the prosperity
of q portion of u great coun
try, but on the welfare of the who'll
country. This is the great nerve centel
of American business. Every ever
that happens, no matter how trifling
no matter in what remote corner it oc
curs,if it effects American business ant
American prosperity, it comes tinglin.
back along the fibers which stretch in
to every state and every country ant
is felt here in the great center, wher.
all the threads meet.
IF drouth or blight or cyclone fal
upon the wheat fields of the West. New
York feels first and most keenly TIL,
misfortune which is threatened .forsucl
disasters mean not only a decline il
the value of property, but also direc
loss TO the people of New York who
ship the wheat.and to the wage Garner;
of New York who manufacture the arti-
cles for which good crops create (
market that a crops TAX away. lie
insect or disease ravage the cotton fielC
and it is here the loss is felt first an(
most keenly. An accident on a rail
road, a fire in a mine, a wreck on oul
lake or ocean coasts, and you may be
sure thai whoever else suffers. some
in this great city has been touched
and the welfare of New York affected
to that degree, be it much or little.
Look at another side for a moment
When the plague walked abroad il
Memphis, when floods swept Johns
to destruction, when an earth |
quake shattered Charlestown, where
did they look for succor but to New |
York and Boston n Philadelphia and
their sister cities of the east? They did
not look in vain. for the succor was on |
its way generously and in ample meas
IRE before the cry of help had even
u ears, and yet a candidate |
for American votes has dared to speak |
If New York as the 'enemy's country |
ITO which New York replies that her |
is the country's welfare, that
her life is the country's life, that no
part of the country can suffer without
her suffering too.a and none rejoice with
out her rejoicing with it.
rs it to be supposed for one moment
hat New York desires the ruin of the
farmers? 1t would be just as
to say that New York would
ike to see the Hudson river dry up and
Ter great harbor BECOME a barren
stretch of sand. The prosperity of the
farmer is the prosperity of
York and of all the east. There
ore it is that we urn to him and say,
or sake and for your own most of
I'll, do not be led away by the specious
of professional friends to Jug
Gle with the currency of the country