The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-19
Littlefsld Of Rockland, Me-, in the fol.
lowing speech

LlttleHelo Oh fsochiahu, Me-, in the fol-
lowing speech
"The nominee of this convention will
be the next President of the Rennblio.
That the Republican party is to be VIC
torious in the coming campaign. who
ever its candidate may be. has long since
been settled by the manifold blunders
worse than crimes, that have BEEN com
mitted by the Democratic party. IT has
demonstrated its incapaoity to direct the
affairs of the nation in full measure
heaped up, running over. 1t was intrust-
ed with power by a forgetful and forgiv-
ing people, at time of unexamnled
prosperity. with an OVERLOOKING national
| treasury, an unlimited public crediU.
labor fully and profitably employed
wheels turning, looms moving, furnaces
glowing and machinery humminp the
music that attends profitable, diversified
| industry. These were the Inevitable re-
suits of the intelligent application of
that elemental principle of our system of
government. coeval with the birth agony
OF the republic, protection to American
| labor and industry.
"The Democratic party. after having
denounced the Mckinley tariff as the
eliminating atrocity of class legislation,
| and set forth its declaration OF alleged
principles, asked for change Of admin
| istration ana party In order that there
change of method. We have had a
| change of administration and party, a
change of system and method, and q
complete reversal of results.
''ln 1896 we see the perfect converse Of
| the picture presented in 1892. In that
| great achievement of Democratic states
manship. the confessed misbegotten off
or, tariff for deficiency only. Prof.
Wilson declared that"he had just begun
to shell the protected industries of the
North The opening gun OF his cam
paign was sufficient TO drive timid CAPT
tai to inaccessible retreats, extiDguish the
| fires, silence the loom, paralyze industry,
run honest labor into the street, and
plunge the country into condition of
business depression hitherto unknown
| to this generation Of business men.
EVEN Cleveland has discovered that
we are confronted by condition of bust
ness depression. Then a surplus over
| flowed the treasury. Now deficit drains
its vaults. The stern logic of events has
given the American people an object les
son upon the most stupendous scale.
For the next four years the Republi-
can party will again take charge of the
business of the country. Will it remain
IN power for decades, shaping in harmo-
ny with its high destiny the policy of
the Republic? The action of this CON
vention in selecting nominee will de-
| termine.
of this great party, charged with the re-
sponsibility of deciding wheher the lease
of power which an indignant, exhausted,
eXasperated people stand ready to give
us, shall be for years or decades. We
are called upon to act for the welfare of
the whole party, not to express personal
preferences.
/ Il
| man, our fore most leader. He should
not be the representative Of any special
policy or any single principle of the par
| ty. He must be the representative of all
interests, all elements, all sections. He
must know no North and no South, no
East and no West. He must have pri-
waite life and public record, fawless I'M
furnished by. suspicion, unsullied by
calumny, a life upon which the calcium
| light of a campaign can cast no shadow.
| He must have opinions, and the cour-
age to declare them, and when he has
| once declared them, to "stand' like
| Luther. If need be, forever. He must
have commanding ability, Integrity
above suspicion. He must be unswerv-
| ingly loyal to all the principles of the
party He must have thorough knowl-
mont, an Intelligent apprehension of the
true destiny of the Republic, sincere
| purpose a manly independence, a freedom
from obligations, entanglements and al
| lianoes.
"He must be unselfish in his devotion
to the welfare Of the whole party, infiex-
| ible in determination, indomitable in
courage. He must have en- Amerioanism
broad enough and rugged enough to
maintain the dignity of the Republic and
the rights of its citizens in every land,
| and on every sea; an qAmericanism that,
with due regard to International duties,
can extend the hand of sympathy to
| our fellow men wherever they are strug-
Cling for freedom; an Americanism that
| does not look upon the flag as a piece OF
mere textile fabric, but sees in it the
EN- blem of a great and powerful people
oonsscrated to liberty and freedom by the
expenditure of nncounted treasure and
the sacrifice Of innumerable heroic and
| patriotic lives.
| 81 come to you from State that has
| always followed in victory or defeaJ the
standard of the party; that ever since
the party was born of it's aspirations for
| freedom has cast it's vote for its oandi-
dates; that will cast it's vote for the NOM
| inee of this convention whoever be may
be; and I bring to you candidate who
| by his 20 years of battle for the party in
| the House of Representatives has dem
onstrated his possession OF these qualif-
| cations in a pre-eminent degree.
| "He has rendered conspicuous and en-
during service to the party and the ma
| ton, service that was not within the
power or ability of any other to render.
| He trampled under foot immemorial pre-
oedent in order that the party that had
| been Entrusted by the country with the
| transaction of its business mighJ dis
charge it's duties and see that the bust
ness of the country was done. Tho uni
versal practice of the Republican and
Democratic parties had been such as to
| justify the statement of Mills, in speak
| ing for the Democracy, that we propose
to exercise control of the House just as
much as though We were still in the
majority, because we know our minori-
ty is still strong enough to make lis the
virtual rulers resulting in q govern
ment of the minority, and not of the ma.
| jority, a complete subversion of the fun.
damental principle of representative gov
eminent.
with this condition he WAS confronted
at the assembling Of the 51st Congress.
He found the House of Representative,
body Of obstruction. He made it de-
Lucrative, legislative, business body
He found it q Kissing and by-word.
He made it the instrument of the people
will one of the glories of the Republic
A determined minority stood like lion
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