The Portland daily press., 1896-07-15
NOMINATION RATIFIED.
Massachusetts Republicans Endorse
Mckinley and Hobart.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD in
BOSTON LAST NIGHT.
impassioned Address by Curtis Guild, Jr.
Crisis Greatest Country Has Faced
Since War-Eloquence at Chicago the
Eloquence of Revolution and Anarchy


Since War-EIoquence at Chicago the
EloQuence of Revolution and Anarchy
Boston, July IA vast audience
assem- bled in Music hall this evening to
greet the Massachusetts delegation to the
st. Louis convention, and ratify the
nominations of Mckinley and Hobart
rhe galleries were crowded with ladies
ard theiF escorts. Much enthusiasm
was shown when the names of Republi-
can candidates were mentioned. Hon.
George II. Lyman, chairman of the Massa-
chusetts Republican committee intro,
duced Hon. W. M. Butler as chairman.
Acting Governor Walcott was the first
speaker. He said in part: "We had
fondly hoped al the nominee of the con-
vention this commonwealth might greet
the great, patriotic, loyal Republican of
Maine, (Cheers and applause.) am
going to name Thomas B. Reed. Zap
plause) SO none Of you may labor under
the Misrepresentation (laughter) that I
am referring to that other great son Of
Maine-Arthur Sewall of Bath. (Laagh-
ter.) am willing to express my belief
that for the overwhelming success Of
the ticket, it may perhaps have been wiser
to nominate that great son Of tho west,
VIM. Mckinley. Whers the contest will
be sharpesu will be in the Mississippi
valley, in the west, in the south, and in
the states of the northwest, and there
believe, the nominee of the convention
will show the most unexpected strength. -
The chairman then introduced Hon.
Curtis Guild, Jr., who said:
SPEECH OF CURTIS GUILD.
Mr.. Curtis Guild, JI., said:
The great issue of the campaign is not
Of economics, but of morality. The
United States stands face to face today
with a great crisis, the greatest we have
known since the OWL War. We stood for
a principle then-we stand for principle
now.
The demand has como again that the
name of the country be prostituted, this
timed by repudiation OF half its debts.
public and private. Again there are wild
spirits who talk OF secession If this
degradation it's not made lasting and
legal, again the Democratic party
espousea the cause of seotionalism and
national disgrace, again the Republican n
party espouses the cause Of unity and the
national honor.
The men who oppose us may be sincere.
Most OF the men who followed Jefferson
Davis were perfectly sincere. bat the
issue nevertheless, is as the issue OF '6l,
and the victory shall be as the victory OF
81.
The nation will meet the threat of
Colorado as 1t met the threat of South
Carolina.
The currency of the United States is
YER standard. The nation that stamps its
coins with the motto I'm God We
Trust, shall never pay its debts and
base its finances ON o dollar whose very
titlo would be lie.
The lists are drawn, and the great
masses of Republican voters have pro-
claimed their choice of leader with no
uncertain sound. Not the Republican
party only, but every American who
loves his country and would keep her,
not In the rear but in the front rank Of
the nations of the world, stands today
behind the soldier, the Congressman, the
Governor, the gentleman. the patriot,
whom the great masses of the Rspubli-
oan parGy have lifted up to leadership
upon their shields.
1t is with peTfunotory loyalty, but with
heartfelt devotion, that Massachusetts
does homage to William Mckinley of
Ohio.
The declarations at Chicago of what
Henry George and Johann Most hail as
the foundation of q new party Edo not
stop with free silver. They would dis
band our army and navy..and paralyze our
government by forbidding the issue of
bonds when it is necessary, through the
inaction of Congress, that the country be
tided over deficit.
They would destroy the Civil Service
laws and return to the condition of cor
ruption and spoils that prevailed before
the days of Lincoln.
They would break down what Industries
the Wilson bill has left by carrying out
to finish the destructive principle Of q
pure revenue tariff.
They would leave the law-abiding
citizen at the mercy of his lawless neigh
bor by destroying the legal process by
which the dishonest neighbor is prevented
from removing boundary marks and de-
stroying property he does not own.
They would enforce upon the United
States the policy of non resistance when
local authorities break down and peace
ful communities are threatened with the
torch and the dynamite bomb.
Tney would break down that palladium
of order and liberty, the Supreme Court
of the United States, and give this
country Government not of laws but OF
mobs.
The speeches in whioh this policy was
indol sed were barren of facts or figures.
They were appeals to envy, to prejudice,
to class an sectional hate 1t was elo-
quence, if you will-yes, the eloquencee
that sent bowling mob to the doors OF
Parliament and drenched the city OF
London in the blood of tho Gordon riots.
1t was the same kind Of eloquence that,
hundred years ago, howled down the
worship of Almighty God in France and
set an abandoned woman in His temple.
1t was the eloquence that. when our own
| nation was fighting for it's life, set the
torch to asylums in New York city and
hanged helpless children to the lamp
posts.
Not without reason does every anarchist
in the United States express his pleasure.
1t was by no accident that the nominee
of that convention carried rhetoric to the
verge of blasphemy. 1t was by no mere
coincidence that his chief supporter II
Massachusetts, offered to vote down the
Christian religion if need be- The foe oi
law and order has nothing in common
with the Prince of Peace, who told bis
followers: "Render therefore unto