Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
CURES BY INHALATION.
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING
Address Monster Meeting Of Republican I
At New York City.

e. Track, candidate for mayor. Secre-
tary Of the interior, Cornelius N. Bliss
and Governor Frank Black, tonight.
addressed an audience of 1900 persons
at Republican meeting held in the
Lenox lyceum. The speakers and their
speeches were enthusiastically ap-
plauded. Secretary Bliss. after a few
Introductory remarks said:
Situated as l am, separated some
what from the political activities OF the
town, l had an opportunity to look
over the ground from a distance.
have watched with solicitude the steps
taken to bring about the union of the
cities that are to comprise the Grea ter
New York. that is to come. have seen
the Republican party-my party and
your party-with the doors wide open
all the time to make arrangements to
give all who desire good government a
chance to combine for one great sue
cess. I have seen their efforts despised,
until you have risen in your majesty
and made your own nominations. In
my soul and heart I approve what you
have done, and am with you and with
your noble candidate for mayor as
against all the world.
why should this be so? l remember
II months ago. when men came to my
office. with pale faces. They said: rs it
possible that this Bryan business is to
succeed. that disorder. Socialism. Anarch-
ism. are to be the fate of this great coun-
try? People We're pale. they doubted, they
feared. When election came it was all
right but over G. coo. 900 votes We're cast in
support of the Chicago platform That
fight is not over, that fight is continuing
all over this country. and it seems to be
expected by our sometime friends that
we are to submit and let these people go
their way. There are two conditions in
this town, standing on the Chicago plat
form-one squarely. the other not saying
much about it, but standing there just
the same.
The state of Kansas is raising money
fer Georges campaign. A fund to elect
George is being contributed by Kansas;
Populists. L can say that l hear from all
over the country. What is New York go
ing to do? They ask. Are the people of
New York going back on what they did
last year?' That is the question. There
is but one thing for the Republican party
IN TINS state to do. 1t is to get behind
Benz. F. Tracy, elect him mayor of this
great city. and guarantee for four years
honest government in every way, and con-
currence with the country in honest
money and the killing of Anarchism and
everything that goes with the Chicago
platform"
General Tracy then addressed the meet
ing. and was followed by Mr.. Black, who
spoke as follows:
This is no time for honest men to keep
their faces from the light. We are but
just emerging from a period SO critical
that its full significance will not be seen
for many years. We have only passed
the point where disaster seemed almost
certain we are slowly gaining. but are
still within reach of that disaster if
through Indifference or design we invite
1t to return. If this year we relax a sin
gle effort or do but little where we might
DO more. we are no wiser than he who
stricken with fever. yields himself to folly
and imprudence at the first sign of re-
turning health.
Less than yearago the whole country
was engaged in a political contest almost
the gravest in it's history. Men were then
aroused as only war had ever aroused
them before. The menace uttered at Chi
cago in July had before November driven
thousands from the associations of a life
time and had forced them with new alli-
ances to meet the peril then impending
Ihey had heard all their lives of issues
in political campaigns. but those of last
year were not questions of policies or of
men, as they had been mainly heretofore
but issues that involved the permanency
OF government, the safety of society, and
when these things are reached and lost.
the true friends of the republic NAV well
be fearful for it's future.
1.-The heresies that were loud and defiant
last year. have not been converted or SUBJ
dued. They are active, hopeful and deter
mined and assertions from their ranks
are few. Those who are now falling down
or retiring from the fight or Interpreting
visions or their own common enemy from
the tracks of those who then fought for
order and the supremacy of law. 1t is a
strange element in human nature that
cements together those who pursue an
evil object, while the friends of a inst
cause soon grow weak and scatter.
contests renow waging in many states
and cities of this country. The same
army that threatened us last fall is again
abroad under the same commanders. in
the same cause, with the same purpose
but moving in smaller groups. Every
victory they win now in separate COM
panies, every element of strength Won
permit them to acquire in detaehments.
will be used against you in every contest
hereafter when their forces are massed
again in one complete and perchance vic
torious army. The issues now are those
of last year. There has been no attempt
to change them and their reason dis
guised by phaseology. In every spot
where the fight is on it is waged on the
lines of ST. Louis and Chicago, Socialism,
Anarchy and the wild-eyed hybrid that
started through the Chicago platform of