Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-03
BY AcclAmA1loN.
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when Thomas +. Bayard, DeMoc. a..C
faur th oacu Sgq 3ns Sygnes Office in It's
service Be g. fse fSar was
"a w he pri ,ue minister. Then it was say.
we were to reap its full fruition when
hound to that couI i've p as a nation today,
ho,ind 70 IL by common antagonism to
thai protective policy which has made us
her rivals indeed POLITICALLY and CONNER
court" this libeller of LOYALTY whose
the doors of Fort Lafayette opened before
him who had denounced the followers OF
Lincoln and the men who saved the
Contractors and public leeches stimu
lating on an ignorant mob, when this
man was TO subject us to the unprece-
dentcd outrage of public and premeditated
villification at the hands OF one who bore
the commission of our confidence and
trust! And if the present Republican
have won the eternal gratitude of the
American people because It replied to this
unprecedented outrage with an unprece-
All. gentlemen, the State of Maine is
the last state of this Union. to be deceived
by Democratic promises OF an American
foreign policy.
Our fishermen have not forgotten Quig-
ley. and those negotiations begun in sur
render and ended in failure, thanks to
end. And in that vaster field of Demo-
cratic laundering. the Pacific. 1t was a
citizen of our State, an honored leader IN
your party, whose venerable figure will
no longer be seen in your councils, whom
the present administration sought to make
the victim of that policy OF infamy from
now recoil. but which only two years ago
was endorsed by the last Democratic con-
vention of this State.
And in that other infamy of the islands
farther south, it was senator from
Maine, a jingo. as we are all JlnSoeS VINO
sympathize with theoppressed against the
oppressor who would keep our plighted
faith with the weak not less than with the
strong. and maintain the honor OF our
against the sneers of IA Tory and Mug
wump press, it was a senator from Name.
l say, who when he heard the story OF
this infamy first sounded that cry of in.
.lignation which swept the continent and
reached the palace of the kaiser himself.
And it was our great secretary of State.
party. who made it his first duty to un-
ravel that enlargement of our broken
promises, of British intrigue and German
insoence and brought out our govern
,nent triumphant. its pledges kept. its in
terests secured. its prestige higher than
ever before throughout the Pacific
If | may be excused for speaking per
sonally on a subject burnt into my life.
never shall l forget when this wretched
Samoan King for whose betrayal. by
Bayard l. felt an undying responsibility.
lay lingering in a German dungeon never
shall / forget with what pride in my
state and American citizenship | heard
within a month of its Inauguration. the
the demand go forth from n Republican
administration for his release. And with
what greater joy, when the German gov
eminent to cover its retreat replied That
Malietoa having apologized to his majesty
the emperor. his imperial majesty was
graciously pleased to release him.; with
the words they flashed under the ocean.
''Malietoa must be released. not because
he has apologized to his majesty the en-
peror. but because in the first instance
he ought never to have been arrested;
signed for the president. James q; Blaine.
But the curse of Democratic diplomaGi !,
these islands of the sea- There was not
a point where these interests could be at
point of possible development or expan-
sion. that Democratic diplomacy did not
blight with its Indifference or blast with
its alien hate.
1t defeated the canal at Nicaragua:
not only defeated it but proclaimed a
principle that must If maintained forever
should be a trust for our rivals. for our
enemies in war equally with ourselves
1t encouraged England to act towards
Nicaragua as she had never dared to 90
before.
In 1S4S when she landed forces at Grey
town she aroused the protest OF Buchan-
country. and ceased only with the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty. made to prevent repetl-
ton of such action.
But it has been reserved for us half
century later, under the rule of that strong
man who are told is so necessary to
us, to see her land not only on the Attain
tic side, but to seize and occupy the near
est port to the Pacific entrance to the
canal, land not only without protest but
with the consent of the department Of
state, and establish precedents worth
more to her than all the acres on the
Orinoco she ever coveted. If this fellow
Republicans, be the strength Of Grover
Il mr. n
oh for an hour of the weakness of James
Buchanan.
And if at last British diplomacy. relying
as it had the right TO rely on the compli-
ance that had characterized Democratic
diplomacy. moved that diplomacy to its
first patriotic utterance in two adminis-
rationS. if that utterancc came at IL time
when We were i'll prepared to make good
our words; if it came at time when it
but for Democratic blmnders and Demo-
cratic crimes but for Hawaii AMI Samoa
and Corinto. If the Republican instead of
the Democratic party had hcen i'll power,
it need never have come at all.
We congratulate our opponents on their
sudden outhurst Of patriotism. But gen
,tlemen. ADLER lips than mine. lips author
lied to speak for the Republican party.
have declared that we are to make the
fight this year on our own grounds and
not on those of our opponents, that we
will not be deceived by side issues. or
lured on by false lights that above all
will we not allow patriotism to be put at
very embodiment from its birth to this
hour.
We congratulate our opponents. I say.
on their outburst of patriotism. But at
the same time we beg to remind them that
the germs of patriotism are to be found
at home. that patriotism begins with the
care of our own people.
The Democratic party boasts of its OPP
position to Capitalization. We too. be-
lieve in state rights. but the rights of the
State of Maine for which we contend are
the rights of our people to he left alone
unmolested by laundering and vindictive
laws to develop her resources and to reap
the reward of their patient labors.
We. too. can say with the most eloquent
spokesman the South has ever had. we
teach our sons to love the soil they stand
on, the body of our old Motherthe noun
tains that are her sprineing breasts, the
broad acres that hold her substance. the
dimpling valleys in which her beauty
rests, the forests that sing her songs OF
lullaby and praise. and the brooks that
run with her ripping laughter"
But the love we would incucate. the
love we bear our Mother State is one
when would make her ever fruitful, hel
breasts never fail her children. so thai
tney need never leave the bosom on which
they are raised. 1t would quarry hei
mountain sides, make her broad acres
yieid up their substance. her valleys bt
the happy homes of her children. her for
ests resound with industry and her water.
turn its wheels. This is the heritage into
winch we would have our children born
and this is the heritage of (which the,
nave been robbed by the Democrat i,