The Portland daily press., 1896-06-03

poiicy through the maintenance in pow
er of that party whose whole admins
tration of our foreign relations has been
linked with one virtue and thousand
Crimes and that virtue assumed when
it's president put on the Republican uni
form and proclaimed a Republican doc
trine, a doctrine enforced by the first
Republican secretary of state in the
greatest crisis that ever called for its en-
forcement since it's PRONUNCIATION, and
by every other since, doctrine endorsed
explicitly and by name in the last Re
publican national platform and ignored
by that party which would now rebap-
tie it and stand as it's sponsor! Why,
gentlemen one would think that Demo-
cratic responsibility in our foreign rela-
tions began with the Venezuelan in
cident. Democratic diplomacy is older
than that, and If you would understand
it as conducted today, go back to it's
beginnings. Go back to the time when
Democratic emissaries sent out to sea
from the ports of England their cruisers
to prey upon our commerce and paid
the price in a free trade tariff on British
goods. Go back to the time when Thomas
F. Bayard made his speech for secession,
when his word and those of men like him
misled the British nation into the belief
that because the north was divided, dis
union was inevitable. Go back to the
time when in response to these words
there echoed back from the British par
lament the eXultant response of Lionel
Cecil that England never could be the
friend of the north for we were her enc
my, her rivals politically and CONNER
clally, her rivals at every port and
every COURT
These were the beginnings of Demo-
cratic diplomacy and quarter of a CEN
fury later we, We're to reap it's full frui-
ton when Thomas T. Bayard, Democrat
ic secretary of state, was for four years
to direct that diplomacy, and for an
other four to occupy the highest office in
it's service, to be ambassador at the
court of which Lionel Cecil Lord Sails
bury, was to be prime minister. Then
it was, L say, we were to reap its full
fruition when bound to that court by
common disappointment that we live
as a nation today, bound to it by COM
mon antagonism to that protective poll
cy which has made us a nation feared
and hated by England, her rivals indeed
politically and commercially, her rivals
at every port and every court this
libeller of loyalty whose traitorous ut
terances only ceased when the doors of
Fort Lafayette opened before him, who
had denounced the followers of Lincoln
and the men who saved the Union, as
"coWardly editors" greedy contrac-
tors and public leeches stimulating
on an ignorant mob,'' when this man was
to subject us to the unprecedented out
rage of public and premeditated villifi-
cation at the hands of one who bore the
commission of our confidence and trust!
And if the present Republican house
had done nothing else it would have won
the eternal gratitude of the American
people because it replied to this unpre-
cedented outrage with an unprecedented
rebuke.
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
Quigley, and those negotiations begun
in surrender and ended in failure, thanks
to Republican senate, as they deserved
to.end. And in that vaster field of Demo-
cratic laundering, the Pacific it was a
citizen of our state. an honored leader
in our 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 in
fanny from the memory of which honest
Democrats now recoil but which only
two years ago was endorsed by the last
| Democratic convention of this state.
And in that other infanly of the islands
farther south, it was senator from
Maine a lingo. as we are all jingoeSw!lo
sympatize with the oppressed against
the oppressor, who would keep our
plighted faith with the weak not less
than with the strong, and maintain the
honor of our f1ag wherever it floats and
| dare to do SO against the sneers of a
| Tory and Mugwump press, it was SEN
ator from Maine / say, who when he
heard the story of this infamy first
sounded that cry of indignation which
| swept the continent and reached the
| palace of the kaiser himself. And it was
| our great secretary of state, the idol of
| Maine and the Republican party, who
made it his first duty to unravel that en-
| tanglement Of our broken promises, of
| and brought out our government trium-
| plant, it's pledges kept, it's interests Sc
cured, its prestige higher than ever be-
fore throughout the Pacific.
| If I may be excused for speaking per
sonally on subjest burnt into my life,
| never shall [ forget when this wretched
Samoan king, for whose betrayal by
Bayard I felt an undying responsibility
| lay lingering in a German dungeon,
never shall I forget with what pride in
my state and American citizenship I
| heard within a month of it's Inaugural
ton, the demand go forth from Repub-
| lican administration for his release
And with what greater joy when the
| German government to cover it's retreat
4 replied that Malietoa, having apologized
to his majesty, the emperor, his imperial
majesty was graciously pleased to re-
lease him, with what greater joy did J.
read, at Berlin, the words as they flashed
! under the ocean. "Malietoa must be re-
| leased, not because he has apologiZed to
his majesty, the emperor, but because,
in the first instance, he ought never to
| have been arrested. signed for the presi-
| dent, James G. Blaine
| But the curse of Democratic diplomacy
| did not rest alone upon our interests in
| these islands of the sea- There was not
| a point where these interests could be af
fected by our foreign relations, not &
point of possible development or expan-
sion. that Democratic diplomacy did moi
blight with it's Indifference or blast with
its alien hate.
1t defeated the canal at Nicaragua
not only defeated it but proclaimed {
principle that must if maintained for
ever defeat it, the principle that tha
| canal should be a trust for our rivals, fol
our enemies in war equally with our
selves. 1t encouraged England to &C
| toward Nicaragua as she had neyel
| dared to do before.
In 184s when she landed forces at Grey
town she aroused the protest of Buchan
on and an a oita tiof1 that conv1Ilsed tlaf