The Portland daily press., 1896-08-29

teeuth district. This was supposed to
effectually dispose of his gubernatorisl
aspirations for this year. Still, he was
placed In nomination by ex-Marshal
Payn's friend, j. Rider Cady of Hudson,
and eventually became the nominee of
the Convention. His nomination Will
nscessitate the naming of another Re-
publican candidate in the Nineteenth
Congress district.
Mr.. Black Is a man of strong friend
ships and his dislikes are just as marked
in fact he is strong, positive character,
as his administration will prove him to
be should he be elected. Although he en-
tered politics as reformer be has devel-
oped into a most ardent organization
man. He does not hide his partisans hip
nor his belief in party machines and
party leaders. Above all he detests a
| Mugwump. The following extract from
his Carnegie Music Hall speech, very
| little of which was published at the time
will tell how loyal an Organization man
| the Republi cans have placed in nomina-
| ton for the Governorship.
"Anh now, just one word to Republic
cans. Whatever you do, do 1t within the
ranks of your party. If there is any
thing you don't like stay there land cor
reot it. Don't sulk and don't try to I'M
dermine those who are facing the storms
and fighting the battles. A General an
gagged in fierce conflict with danger
GUS enemy will select his weapon not al
ways in accordance with the private no.
tions of the drawing room but if he fights
in good cause with honest purpose. and
wins victory after victory for justice and
good order, stand by him. Do not be
mislad by the cries of those who would
destroy their party for a PERSONAL gain.
Stay by your party and by its organiza-
ton, for without the Republican party
the condition of this country is indeed
gloomy, and without the organization of
the Republican party, that party itself Is
like a ship without rudder.'
'You have lately seen the Importance
of organization, guided by determination
and intelligent purpose. The great fight
made in the st. Louis Convention, the
greatest fight in that memorable body,
was put into the platform of the Repub-
lican party an unequivocal declaration
for sound money and that declaration
Republican organization of tho State of
New York than by any other agency.
And the people Of this city and this
State, and this entire country owe to the
Republican organization of New York,
and to its unmatched and victori 1us
leader, greater debt than it has owed
to any other man within the last twenty
five years.
Effoieney'a and ability at time of
crisis is the test of value. Seeing is a
great danger and dealing with it with in
telligence and determination are the
signs of leader. No odds can over
whel1n, no threats can sterrify one who
has the right convictions and the oour-
age to maintain them. Stand by your
party and its leader; do not be called one
side By the promise of perfume and roses.
Do not be misled by him who in this
year, 1896, tells you that the foot of the
rainbox is just outside the cit y, and
that if you will follow him he will take
you where you can battle in its radiance.
He cannot. Rainbow chasers are receiv-
ing just the same wages this year that
they have always received. This is a
world of sense and business. People do
not give something for nothing. Great
results are won by work, and people who
promise you everything for nothing, and
that the millennium shall visit you If you
follow them, are misleading you to your
own prejudice and their gain. Ard you
know what always has become of the
man who leaves the ranks of the Repub-
loan party because he has become too
good. The serious detriment to the Re-
publican party has always been those
men who have risen SO high that they
have grown dizzy with their own virtues.
They have become better than their party
and have always proved it by joining one
infinitely worse. They are taken with a
desire for reformation only when their
own party has won a victory without
their aid. They may be outraged and
run over year after year.
"Don't follow Mugwump, for his
virtue Is only disappointment and his
honesty is but absensce of opportunity.
Don't follow him unless you are prepared
to follow Democrat, because. just as
certain as the laws of nature hold good
a Mugwump under microscope is moth
ing but a Democrat with wings, and the
longer their wings grow the keener their
eyesight becomes, for they can see in
Grover Cleveland symptoms Of wisdom.
And it is to bis credit that they see
more In him than he ever saw in them.
He is at least more honest than they, for
he does not claim to have reformed; he
only appears to have forgotten. But even
to the Mugwump I sometimes feel chart
table, for to him his creator seems to
have presented that unfortunate alterna-
tive upon being either obnoxious or OBJ
scure, and he has made the mistake of
choosing the former. he is opposed to
bossism; SO is every one, but according
to the Mugwump's idea the diff ference