Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-28
gaiiy Eeauehet gonrnal.
THE ELOQUENT ADDRESS
BY Hon. H. M. Heath at the Big Portland
Rally.


morning, but it is one which our read
ers will want to study and we publish
it in full, this morning.
Standing here on the night of February
18th. it was my privilege TO say to my
telloW-R apublicans: Better defeat than
victory with dishonor." Since then we
have made history. Across the banner of
ltepublicaniSm have been written the i'm
mortal words OF James G.. Blaine: Dare
to Infinite WISDOM" At the mighty gath
ering called at st. Louis to determine the
policy OF the great Republican party, We
learned courage under the leadership Of
that Prince of Courage, the great Speaker
of the National House. To him give credit
and in your giving spare not TO his friend
and ours the gifted senator from the grand
Old commonwealth. The same loyalty
that through love We gave to the states
man whose fame makes amous your
beautiful city by the sea We give tonight
to the Soldier-StateSman of the West.
We have no apologies to make for III
PLATFORM. Its timbers are holted with
gold, braced with protection. upright with
the pillars of national honor and honesty
tive man and man. We made the
issue. We invited the combat. We strip
for the conflict with fun confidence in the
honor. the honesty, the Intelligence, the
patriotism of the American people. The
same patriotism that swept from the hills
of New England and the rolling p|rairies
of the West to defend the American nag
SIN lives ~ PIOttNN anu btltllt -AlilSl 4teii
honor.
Because a great political party has for
saken the faith of jefferson and of Jack
son and wandered off to worship strange
gods. the hour has not yet come to deS-
pair of the Republic. once before the same
great party broke upon the rock of con
science; but the ship of State sailed on,
Democrats and Republicans manned the
yards with q Douglass ana a Lincoln at
the helm. Then a divided Democracy
made possible the perpetuity of the Amer
nAn IFtintH AtA - sr,11 Tho -a ri 4 ion
of true Democracy stand With the party.
of Lincoln and of Grant in defence Of
American honor ando of the American home
We are but repeating history. Pardon
me. If | say. | hesitate to assume for Il
moment the role of aninstructor. / recoS-
nize the uudeniable truth that in th4i
grave problem there are too man. UNI
known and unknowable factors to war
rant any man III settling them dogmdtl-
cally by his 'ipse diXit'-savc, of course.
the youthful gentleman from Nebraska.
Said Senator Dumas of France i'll 1875:
Those who approach these questions
for the first time decide them at once.
Those who study them with care hest
tate. Men, who are obliged practically.
to decide. doubt and stop overwhelmed
with the weight of enormous respon-
sibility." Free observation-disclosures tloat-
: theory have gathered in all human KNOW
edge on the subject-lnd a part Of the
! divine. Business men. bankers. teacherS
of political economy and students OF his
! III S1litl dEl4raEl at li4tIAa ~ 4@tA0A-
ance. The questions seem 10 have been
| completely mastered only by briefless
:, lawyers and noisy politicians. Most tit
ing the opening dedication Of Coin $
Financial school: Il thank Thee. O
Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, be
! cause Thou hast hid these things from
the wise and prudent and hast revealed
fl.ern unto babes
!, But the cyclone OF orajory has spare!
some of the monuments of history. The
eternal walls of fact stand uushattertd
nv the nl1skotrv OF dreams ana theories.
Ne do know that no nation has ever
dared to invite Bankruptcy public ana pri-
Iftr bv assuming by legislative fiat to
| override the laws of nature and of ma
ttIre's God. We do know that law has
ite limits and that liberty of human ac-
tiou win break chains of parchment leg
I.lrtion II was written. not on Sinai.
htit on the tablets OF the human heart th@t
Ne Avs nf commerce. give value 10 mon
-, Statnta Inv hut s4rctiOns ii. Width
~ vii We travel. the broad highway OF
history or the trackleSs forest OF idle
tboorvp
Under which flag, I pray you? With the
lReoublican party with both feet upon II %
roni, of experiences. square Shouldercl
riith = silver plated Democracy? Mind
f "tn ,mv friends mis- is NOT "a question Of
80 bi,t Of ef9ndarjs. Lei me uuo9.
..,1i4era j.. "A vast difference ctwer n
a. ri Of ..I1ea and a currency for mon
Sta,a. The Standard must nccessarilv
etaiH -. ,rd cart9fn Tho currency NAV
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