The Portland daily press., 1898-02-14

else without the aid or consent OF any
other nation on earth. -
jefferson and Jackson believed in
AN AMERICAN DOLLAR
worth one hundred cents wherever on
earth the eagle on the dollar should
carry it. But these demopopulists would
clip the wings of the old Jacksonian
eagle, SO that it should not fly beyond
the borders of our own land, and even
here be burdened with suspicion and dis
aster. These followers believe in a dollar
that should stand as lie to the promise
of it's origin and be worth only half its
face to buy bread and books and benefits
of civilization for the home of the Ameri-
can toiler.
They do not believe in dollar that can
be used abroad, they desire their money
to stay at home. Yet in the same breath
they loudly clamor for the destruction of
may purchase the products of the pauper
labor of Europe and of Asia.
Jefferson and Jackson believed In the
supremacy of the law, and the nlainten-
ance of national order, andghow the old
hero of New Orleans must writhe when
he contrasts his language to Calhoun and
the Nullifers in 1898 with the declaration
UIlS SllChGU VI Auo apOS-
ties, Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman, in
1898.
The American people have once re-
pudiated the dangerous doctrines and the
declarations of the Chicago platform of
1896. but its advocates and adhereuts
again insist on reterating it's pernicious
principles and forcing the issue of 1886 as
the issue for 1898 and 1900. ! feel certain
when | look into the faces of this assem-
blage that every man here will welcome
that issue, and that none Is apprehensive
of the final outcome. ind wherever Re-
publicans are assembled tonight, and
wherever all friends Of law and order,
honest money, and stability of govern
ment shall assem- bless ssduring the coming
contests, it will be in the name and by
virtue of the constitution of the United
States, to preserve inviolate our national
credit and to maintain at all times our
national honor.
But the demopopulist element do not
stop with jackson. The boldest of them
become almost blasphemous by invoking
the sacred name of Lincoln to cover theil
wild vagaries and their heresies. Thirty
five years ago no language was too bitter
against "Linoeln and his hireling dogs, -
his party and its principles. But today
when their eyes ''have seen the glory OF
the coming of the Lord and they have
partaken of the fruits of his martyrdom
they speak his name to conjure with the
credulous and the ignorant.
But thank heaven, we have no need to
change our views to revere the principles
and memory of Lincoln. He believed in
the maintenance of public and private
honesty and honor, and by that sign we
conquered in the last great national con.
test, and there we proudly stand today.
He believed in o tariff system that
should develop the resources of our
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wages of our own people and enable them
to enjoy the comforts and blessings OF
this nineteenth century civilization.
Believing that today the Republican
party, under the guidance of your mighty
Reed and your far seeing, patriotic Ding
ley, has framed and enacted tariff law
that has opened the doors of our mills, is
filling the homes of American labor with
the comforts that should be the privilege
of the frugal and Industrious; has yielded
to the husbandman a just reward for his
toll and privation ). and has banished from
the office, counting-room and mart, the
gaunt specter of Democratic distrust, de
spair and disaster. 1t was the party oil
Lincoln too, which created the old green
back that was denounced and reviled by
Democratic conventions as Lincoln Z
rags" And when we have made it's dol
lars the equal of any on earth, and they
have about fulfilled their mission, and
are liable to be menace to the national
treasury, and to the stability of the bust.
ess interests of the country; the same
SPIRIT of Democratic Inconsistency which
ever sought to depreciate and dishonor
them; is now borrowing these same green.
backs to extend the
SCANTY SKIRTS OF BRYANISM,
and cover the nakedness of its former
issues. We love Lincoln and the party
of Lincoln and with good reason. 1t was
the spirit and policy of that party which
opened the broad prairies of the boundless
West, dotted them with sweet and happy
homes, and with peaceful, prosperous PEG
pie; and has made the old wilderness OF
Democracy to bloom and blossom into the
garden and granery ofsthe world. 1t snote
the earth, and like magic, all over the
land, there upsprang great and flourish
| ing cities. the vanguard in the beauties,
and amenities Of living and in all the de-
velopments of the highest civilization. II
was the policy and spirit Of that party