Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-10

form and read it and see if any othel
definition of it can be given.
The citizens of the United State.
have always respected the mandates OF
their courts, the writ of habcas corpus
Just as important is the writ Of in
junction, such as was issued to pre-
vent murder to prevent arson in the
times of those riots.
l say to you my countrymen there is
dark cloud hanging over our country.
| accept the issue; I'm glad it has come
and that Mr. Bryan has flung contempt
for our courts and law, full in the faces
of the American people. The speaker
said he considered Bryan in some re-
and those with him are trying to array
class against class all over the broad
land
A calamity that will divide a nation
geographically is heaven on earth as
~ w III a WV i'i'ii tii.il NOuit
make classes of people the enemies of
their neighbors in every port of the
land. The spirit is the spirit of the
mob against money, thrift. intelligence
and iecercy. That's what Tillman
meant when he spoke yesterday Of war.
| saw that statement also the state
ment Bryan made at Lincoln on his re-
turn / haven't spoken these things be-
fore but | feel it is time to utter the
warning. I'm not talking about the
Democrats now but about the Bryan
ties. ! will close soon SO that this dis
tinSuished gentleman who is to follow
me shah be heard. He was on the
other side from what l was in the con-
test of 81 but like thousands of Con-
federates ana Union veterans who
fought and quit when they were
through, we are now united on this
great issue. lApplausc). l was down
here in IS and again in 80. Then there
was not an idle man who really wanted
to work. | passed a wooden mill today
that in ~ WAS running full time 1t
now is silent, the home of the bat and
the owl and it reminded me of the
Democratic party. Uaughter).
Continuing the speaker dwelt at CON
siderable length on the subject of the
tariff and currency.
Every heather on earth is on silver
basis. Wherever there is an idol and
men are bowling down 10 ii there is a
silver basis and Bryan wants to get
there. Maine occupies a leading posi-
ton in this country. There is no state
in this union, great or small that oc-
cupies so influential a position in poll
tics as does the State Of Maine. today.
(Applause).
Here the speaker paid high tribute to
our delegation in the Senate and
House. Next Monday you will send
out a voice across the great West.
down through The Rocky
Mountains to the people Of the Pacific
slope calling to the people to uphold
the intregity of the nation or faint
and feeble protest against the menace
now threatening the country. We ex-
poet much from the grand old State of
Blaine prolonged applause).
Gen. Grosvenor was followed by Hon
John S. Wise Of New York. who had the
audience convulsed before he had been
speaking five minutes.
He said the Democratic party had
promised to relieve us of all our ills
1t had succeeded in relieving us only
IF the Democratic party Haughter) |
Every Democratic leader of four
years ago is deader than the founders
If the party in their graves. There is
David y. Hill. who won national dis |
inction by saying Il am Democrat" !
licked out of the national convention |
~ man Who said Il am not a Demo- |
rat"
The old line Democrats are just re-
covering from the shock of that con- |
which. while protesting the |
principles of Jefferson, would prevent |
is making such contracts as we please
n the matter of money and condemned |
he government for protecting its prop !
Arty. Gen. Miles had once said to him |
hat he never appreciated the concerted |
Efforts inspiring those riots until he !
vent to Chicago. Who would have be
ieved that a great political party With
IN two years after would be so filed |
With the spirit of revolution as to ex- /
press regret that those riots did not |
succeed?
Year by year the supreme court has |
grown in the affections of the Ameri-
an people until it has almost come to /
De regarded sacred Now they con-
template striking down that chiefest
cmple of our civilization.
Bryan has been likened to almost i
very Individual I find his likeness