The Republican journal., 1896-06-18
of British intrigue and German

promises. Of British intrigue and German
nsolence, and brought out our govern
interests secured, its prestige higher than
ever before throughout the Pacific.
If 1 may be excused for speaking per-
sonally on a subject burnt into My life,
Samoan King for whose betrayal by Bay
ard I felt an undying responsibility, lay
lingering in a German dungeon never
shall l forget with what pride in my state
a month of its Inauguration, the demand
go forth from a Republican adminlstra
ton for his release. And with what
greater joy, when the German govern
Malietoa having apologized to his majesty
the emperor, his imperial majesty was
graciously pleased to release him, with
what greater joy did [ read, at Berlin,
ocean, "Malietoa must be released, not
because he has apologized to his majesty
the emperor, but because in the first in
stance he ought never to have been ar
rested. Signed for the president, James G.
Blaine"
Isut 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 o
point of possible development or expan-
sion, that Democratic diplomacy did not
blight with it's Indifference or blast with
it's alien hate.
1t defeated the canal at Nicaragua:
not only defeated it but proclaimed a
principle that must if maintained forever
defeat it, the principle that that canal
should be trust for our rivals, for our
enemies in war equally with ourselves.
1t encouraged England to act towards
Nicaragua as she had never dared to do
before.
In 1S4S when she landed forces at Grey
town she aroused the protest of Buchan-
an, and an agitation that convulSed the
country and ceased only with the Clay
ton-BulWer treaty, made to prevent repe-
tition of such action.
But it has been reserved for US half a
century later, under the rule of that
strong man who we are. told is so neces-
sary to us, to see her land not only on
the Atlantic side, but to seize and oc-
cupy the nearest port to the Pacific en-
trance to the canal land not only with
department of state, and establish pre-
cedentS worth more to her than all the
acres on the Orinoco she ever coveted.
If this, fellow Republicans, be the
our people exclaim, Oh for an hour of the
weakness of James Buchanan!
And if at last British diplomacy, relying
as it had the right to rely on the compli-
ance that had characterized Democratic
diplomacy, moved that diplomacy to its
first patriotic utterance in two admins
tratiOnS, If that utterance came at a time
when we We're ill prepared to make good
our words; if it came at a time when it
cost US dear, let it be remembered that
but for Democratic blunders and Demo-
cratic crimes, but for Hawaii and Samoa
and Corinto if the Republican instead of
the Democratic party had been in power,
it need never have come at all.
We congratulate our opponents on their
sudden outburst of patriotism. But gen
ADLER lips than mine, lips author
lied to speak for the Republican party,
have declared that we are to make the
fight this year on our own grounds and
will not be deceived by side issues, or
lured on by false lights, that above all
will we not allow patriotism to be put at
issue with the party which has been it's
very embodiment from its birth to this
hour.
We congratulate our opponents, I say,
on their outburst of patriotism. But at
the same time we beg to remind them
found at home, that patriotism begins
with the care of our own people
The Democratic party boasts of its OPP
position to Capitalization. We, too, be-
lieve in state rights, but the rights of the
State OF Maine for which we contend are
the rights of our people to be left alone
by laundering and vindictive
laws to develop her resources and to reap
the reward of their patient labors
We too, can say with the most eloquent
spokesman the South has ever had, we
teach our sons to love the soil they
stand on, the body of our old Mother, the
that are her springing breasts,
The broad acres that hold her substance,
he dimpling valleys in which her beauty
rests, the forests that sing her songs, of
'un with her ripping laughter
But the love we would inculcate, the
owe We bear our Mother State is one
breasts never fail her children, so that
hey need never leave the bosom on
which they are raised. 1t would quarry
Ter mountain sides, make her broad acres
yield up their substance her valleys be
he happy homes of her children, her for
ssts resound with industry and her wat
RS turn it's wheels. This is the heritage
nto which we would have our children
BORN, and this is the heritage of which
hey have been robbed by the Democratic
party!
What I ask of you men from every
,ity and hamlet of Maine, what has be-
State a marvel among her sisters far
more richly endowed by nature than she?
What but gone with the advent to power
# this Democratic party!
Fifty did our faithful senator exclaim
Is he stood in the Senate defending his
State from the onslaughts of the Wilson
ill Maine like Bozarrs lies bleeding at
very VEIN"
Hardly worse could it have been for our
people; far better it had been for some |
since the Democratic tariff, had not an
Ike been laid to the trees OF our forests,
lad devastation laid waste our fields, !
oestilence swept the hills of our flocks. |
IND the floods of the Androscoggin dried |
Ut their springs, such has been the havoc
wrought upon them by the Democratic |
,arty.
Man marks the earth with ruin his
control stops with the Shore Not so
With the ruin the Democratic party would |
work; they attacked the last people in
our State who could withstand that at
ack, the last who deserved it, they at |
acked the toilers and the industries of
he sea, those of our people who have |
stamped the men of Maine as a God-fear-
ng and independent race wherever they
go, those industries without which our
'ock bound coasts would not have been
pressed by the foot of the settler until a
century after they were.
1t was injustice to our fishermen to put
ish on the free list. 1t was scarcely less
han a crime against our State to do SO,
,or If there is a country on earth against
which the interests of our State demand
hat the protective tariff should be used
and without relaxation it is
hat unnatural and unhappy remnant of
British dominion on this continent just
beyond our borders; ours geographically. |
,urs historically, ours by the sacrifices
IF the men of Maine who fell at Louis
ourg and with Wolfe before Quebec!
And by the unbroken teachings Of Repub-