The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-19

whelming triumph for the Republican
party in the coming election. No matter
how brilliant the promise, no matter
how serene the outlook, it is the part of
wisdom, with the uncertainties OF poll
los and our recent experience of the trag-
io shifting of issues, to be careful, Dru-
dent and wise in platform and in candi-
date.
The last fow years have been cam
paign of university extension among tine
people of the United States, and while
we may in platform and candidate meet
all the requirements of party obligations
and party expectations, we must remem-
| Der that there is vast constituency
which has little fealJy to parties or to or
CARNATIONS, but votes for the man and
the principles which are in accord with
their views in the administration of the
country. The whole country, North,
South, East and West, without any di-
vision in or lines our out of them. stands,
after what has happened in the last three
years for the protection of American in
dustries. for the principle of reciprocity,
and for America for Americans. But o
compact neighborhood of great common
Wealths, in which are concentrated the
majority of the population, of the manu-
features, and of the industrial energies of
the United States, has found that bust
ness and credit exist only with the stabil-
ity of sound money.
1t has become the fashion of late to de-
cry business as unpatriotic. We hear
much of the ''sordid considerations Of
capital, /" employment, industrial en-
ergies," and prosperous labor" The
United States, differing from the med
iaeval conditions which govern older
countries, differing from the militarism
which is the curse of European nations,
differing from thrones which rest upon
the sword, is pre-eminently and patriot
lcally commercial and a business na-
tion. Thus commerce and business are
synonymous with patriotism.
When the farmer is afield sowing and
reaping the crops which find a market
the laborer and the artisan find work
seeking them and not themselves de-
spairing of work, when the wage of the
toller promises comfort for his family
and hope for his children, when the rail
is burdened with the product of the soil
and of the factory, when the spindles are
humming and the furnaces are in blast,
when the mine is putting out its largest
product and the national and indiyidu-
al wealth are constantly increasing,
when the homes owned unmortgaged by
: the people are more numerous day by
day and month by month, when the
schools are most crowded. the fairs most
versal in the nation. then are the promi-
, SEES fulfilled which make these United
States of America the home of the OPP
, pressed and the land of the free.
1t is to meet these conditions and to
, meet them with candidate who repre-
sents them and about whom there can be
no question, that New York presents to
, you for the Presidency under the unani-
nous instructions OF two successive Re.
, publican State Conventions the name of
her governor. Levi p. Morton.
, New York Is the cosmopolitan State Of
, the Union. She is both barometer and
thermometer of the changes of popular
, been the pivotal commonwealth which
has decided nearly everyone of the ma
tional elections in this generation. She
has more Yankees than any city in New
, England, more Southerners than any
community in the South, and more ma
tive born Westerners than any city in
, the West, and the representatives of the
Pacific coast within her borders have
been men who have done much for tho
development of that glorious region.
These experienced and cosmopolitan oit-
liens, with their fingers upon the pulses
of the finance and trade of the whole
country, feel Instantly the conditions
, that lead to disaster or to prosperity.
Hence they swing tho State sometime to
, the Republican and sometime to the
, Democratic column.
In the tremendous effort to break the
! hold which Democracy had upon our
commonwealth, and which it had
strengthened for ten successive years, we
selected as our standard bearer the gen.
tleman whom | present on behalf of our
State here today, and who carried New
York, and took the legislature with him,
by 1855, 600 majority.
We are building navy, and the White
Squadron is a forerunner of a commerce
which Is to whiten every sea and carry
/ our flag into every port of the world.
Not our wish, perhaps, nor our ambitions
, probably. but our very progress and ex-
, pansiou have made us one of the family
of nations. We can no longer, without
the hazard of unnecessary frictions with
other governments, conduct cur foreign
policy except through the medium of q
skilled diplomacy. For four years as
Minister TO France, when critical ques-
, tiOns OF the import Of our products into
, that country were imminent, Levi p.
Morton learned and practiced successful
/ ly the diplomacy which was best for the
prosperity of his country. None of the
, mistakes which have disoredited our re
lations with foreign nations during the
past four years could occur under his ad
ministration. He is the best type Of
, the American business man-that type
which is the ideal of the school, the acade
/ my, and the college, that type which the
mother presents to her boy in the West
ern cabin and in the Eastern tenemen,
rs she is marking out for him career
by which he shall rise from his poor sur
, rouudings to grasp the prizes which come
through American liberty and American
opportunity.
You see the picture The New England
clergyman on his meagie salary, thu
; large family of boys and girls about him
: the sons going out with their common
school education, the boy becoming til,
clerk in store, then granted an interes
/ in the business, then becoming its con.
, trolling spirit then, claiming the atten
ton of the great house in the city and
called to a partnership, then himself the
master of great affairs Overwhelmed BY
I the inoaloulable conditions of OWL war
} but with undaunted energy and fore
: sight, he grasped again the elements O
; escape out of bankruptcy and Of success
/ and with the return of prosperity he PAID
! to the creditors who had compromised
his Indebtedness every dollar, principa
3 and interest of what he owed them. Th,
D best type of a successful business man
he turns to politics to be a useful mem
D Der of Congress; to diplomacy to be
j successful Minister abroad; to the execu
/ tive and administrative branches of gov
| To, ho tho t..