The Portland daily press., 1898-02-14

the rest of the world and take our posltlon
by the side of Mexico and China. Our
distinguished guest can take BACK TO MS
state of the middle West the word that
Maine will be found in the lead with
great victory for an honest collar ana
sound Republican principles, and Maine
will be represented in the next Congress
| by men who can be relied upon to tlphold
| these principles in every case. Our
| Democratic friends will probably come
toward next year. I suppose, with the
same smile of confidence on their faces,
but that smile will disappear after the
votes are counted.
Prosperity is dawning. We have not
attained the same degree of prosperity
under the present tariff laws as we have
under previous Republican admlnlstra-
tions. This is due to the fact that the
four years. Democratic misrule has
so percolated through the affairs of this
country that it will take year or SO to
eradicate it,
| But we are doing well, my friends, and
| in the not far distant future we shall
have gotten back on the old ground once
| more.
This club is great power for good in
| the state of Maine Not because there is
any danger of Maine in gnitied labor,
for the Republican party digniialed LABOR t@a
when it struck the ShackleS from ten
millions of slaves. We believe in rev.
enue which shall pile up wealth in the
national treasury rather than in the pur-
suing of a policy which shall go wrong,
for Maine always is right or nearly al
ways so. Wherever Maine people will be
found will be found people who believe
in honest dealings.
President Libby introduction of May
or Randall was very graceful one and
was received enthusiastically by the
members Of the club. Mr.. Libby spoke OF
the able manner in which Mayor Randall
has conducted the municipal affairs dur
| ing the past year and the economical,
wise and careful nature of his admins
tration Mayor Randall was given such
an enthusiastic reception that it rivalled
the one he received at the banquet of the
Lincoln club year ago. His remarks
were punctuated by applause throughout.
1t was one of the happiest efforts of the
evening and Mayor Randall's illusions
to Blaine, Lincoln and Hamlin, to Reed,
Powers and Cleaves, were each applaud
ed literally. Mayor Randall said in part:
| THE MAYORS REMARKS. d.
4 Mr.. President and members of the Lin,
coin club: / thank you for this cordial
reception and accept it, not as compli
ment to myself, but to the office which
have the honor at present to hold.
\ When one year ago.I was elected to this
office, it was with the hearty and cordial
support of the Lincoln club, and during
the past IL months it has been my earn,
est endeavor 20 so perform the duties OF
the office as to meet the approval Of my
fellow citizens and bring no discredit up
on this honorable club, which was so in
strumental in placing me in this posit.
ion, and if have been successful, and
you, gentlemen, must be the judges, II
will be a source Of great satisfaction te
me, and all the honor that | ask. To be
invited to banquet at the Lincold club is
great pleasure at any time, and to ad
dress the club on that occasion is an hon
or of which any citizen may be proud.
We are assembled here tonight, gentle
men, to do honor to the memory of noble
man, man who has left greater I'm
print on the history of his country thar
any American who has ever lived. Abra
ham Lincoln was typical American
born in poverty he rose by his own I'M
aided efforts to be the leader of forty mil
lions of people, and although 80 years
have elapsed since he was removed from
earth by the hand of an assassin, hi
memory Is a5 lrosu III ti5 Hcthl 70 VI ~
countrymen today as if it were but yes
i terday, and his life, his character and hi
deeds, are worthy the study and emula
ton of every true citizen Of the Repub
lie. The preamble to the Constitution o
the Lincoln club says its object is tt
maintain and promote the principles o
the Republican party, and we are assem-
bled here tonight, surrounded by the in
fluence of that noble name, to renew ou
allegiance to the grand old party, ant
our adherance to it's principles as exem
plitied in the lives of Lincoln and Ham
lin and Blaine, our noble leaders of tn
past, and by Mckinley and Reed ant
Cleaves and Powers, our active aud hon.
ored leaders of today, and hereafter ever,
student of the political history of tn
United States as he looks back will recall
with pride, the record of the Republican
party from Abraham Lincoln to Will
, liam Mckinley.
Let us see that the municipal affairs O
our city remain in Republican hands tn
coming year. Let us pledge to our hon
ored chief magistrate, Gov. Powers, tina
| we will return him to the gubernatorja
} chair in September next by a majorit.