The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-30

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nave lost masts and sails and even been
Fudderless for hours, but if he has every
Glnae come safe to shore better have him
than all the landsmen who are forever
shouting what they can do and never
care TO tell OF what they have done.
Boasters are worth nothing Deeds are
| Iaots and are forever and ever. Talk
dies on the empty air. Better a pound
OF performance than a ship load of Ian
guage.
But is 1t wise or just to class all Demo-
Gratis together and to declare them all
wrong, then announce they must be beat
en- because they are Democrats. That
senseless altogether. 1t would fout all
history and especially our own. Parties
are one thing, their individual mem bers
may be another. Parties seldom follow
their best men. They follow seheir aver
age sense. In real action there nau never
be but two parties, the creating party
and the retarding party. The progress
progTeos and the retarding
ing party may ba unwise in it's conserva-
tisln, but both serve good purpose and
between them both the world slowly and
safely moves ahead. Dreadfully slowly
sometimes. but it does always move
| ahead.
| Perhaps some one will say here we have
a creati ve party which:has sprung up in a
night like q Mushroom and created new
system Of finance. My friends you will
| find that that mushroom is not good to
eat and that that progress will land you
| in the ditch. Now ali progress avoids
| bitches.
have said that it sswould be unwiss,
unjust and sssenesless to confound the
| Democratic organization with individual
| Democrats. / have said also that that
! would be louting part of our own his
| tory, andsa glorious part of our history too
why, it is within the memory of third
| and perhaps half Of this very audience
which listens to me, that when the terri
be war Of the rebellion burst forth, tens
of thousands of Democrats, politicians,
| strong party men, Sprang to their feet,
representing hundreds of thousands,
ayel millions and thenceforth and al
ways were part and parcel of the bone
and sinew Of the victorious republic.
| What matter IL the party had gone wrong
They were right One man among them,
one man alone, by single sentence gave
aid and suceor to this government which
outweighed o whole army corps OF veter-
ans, musket on shoulder.
| When Stephen A. Douglas declared,
after Sumter was fired on, that "thsnoe-
forth there could be but two parties,
| apeot even Of foes and an imperishable
| place in history.
We shall certainly welcome all such men
today, not that they ars to be Republicans
| for they will not be, but because they are
patriots, for that theysmust be.
Two months ago, as l have already
said, every body conceded the election Of
the Republican ticket. What has hap
pened sinceithen? Have the four years Of
| history been blotted out? Not one scrap
of them, Is our condition any better?
Rather worse. Has the sparty changed
any which caused the most of our unbap-
piness? Yes, there has. beensa change but
are leaving it. IfEthis nation has thrice
at the polls condemned this party when
| it was better, are we now going to place
| it in powerswhen it has got worse. If
they blundered on business with their
| best men present, are thoy going to be a
success on finance with their best men
absentS
| But we are all in bad way and some
| thing must be done. Yes, we are in q
bad way and something must be done,
but dom make the mistake of thinking
| that any something will do A sick man
in proper cases had better take medicine,
but he had better be careful what medi-
cine heetakes There are some politi cal
orators who think if,they can draw rose
colored picture it ought to convert oon-
| tinent.. What rosy picture we had
painted for us in 1891 What millions
we were to expect We were Ito sell in
the dearest and buy in the cheapest mar
ket. We were to have both ends of the
bargain. We took their word for it and
here we are. And now the least credible
part of these same gentlemen are smear
which they want US to pay another four
years, or perhapsSTten, of this nations
life. Men deceived once are human; men
deceived twice by the same men are fools.
There is another class of political ora
tory which deserves reproba tton, the ora
tory which paints tfe enemy In deep
black. Ifssanybody has curiosity to see
they will find that did not venture any
denunoiation which depicts one-tenth Of
the evil which has happened. When I
told you two years ago what we Republi-
cans would do il chosen, drew no fine
picture, but simply saidEto you that all
weS could do would be to prevent evil.
That we did, and it takes good deal of
sense sometimes to dofno evil. We tried
to do better, and hadsthe Democrats from
the North risen above party for good, as
the six silver Senators sank abelow party
for evil, sthe revenues OF this country
would have been equal to its e1pendi-
lures, and we should have been two years
nearer prosperity. =
Greeting you this time with the same
frankness, am bound to say that the
evil which has come to US By an unwise
revision of the tariff has been greatly
aggravated by one of its onsequenoes-
our loas of revenue glad there been no
deficit then hundred millions borrowed
gold would have carried us through the
crises safe and sound. AS it was. the
constant drain of the deioit continually
oonfounded with the redemption of gold
has so afflicted the Imagination of our
people that confidence cannot commence
to be restored until our revenues equal
our expenses.
Periods of depression are common to the
human race. Doubtless you end think
that if we had the world to make we
would have had human progress arranged
on continuous upgrade, ten feet or
better to the mile. But God knows hu-
man nature more perfectly and knows we
could never stand much monotony and
must go up hill and down dale. But
while depressions arc common they have
their aggrsvaring causes which must be
removed. Then when confidence comes
prosperity follows. How I think that
can be reached will tell you soon.
Meantime, let Us see what Is proposed
by gthoss gentlemen who, within the