Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-01-11

From the day OF MeIlen ana Sprague
and evans and Williams and Bradbury
den and Morrill, and Blaine [applsusel
| Names representatives in the United
! States Senate have never been afraid to
speak their minds aud to have opinions.
! do not mean, tonight, to enter into
| discussion or to make long or elaborate
speech upon any OF the great questions
that are before the country. The repub-
| lican party has its record The President
| OF this great republic has his record. TIE
| republican party has gone through the
| storm Of controversy and sometimes of
| defeat, upon great quest ions that affect
The every day welfare of the people not
only OF Name but OF the United States.
| 1t has established not To go back, sir, in
the last years of its lie, upon certain
| things that are elemental and at the
foundation OF human prosperity, OF thrift,
OF good business, of the success OF the
lndel Evidence ana dignity of labor.
| 1t has settled the great question OF pro.
| lection; ii has determined that the
| legislation of the country shall be i'll III
| t,rests of our own labor in competition
| with foreign labor. 1t has settled, aud
| settled, | hope, forever, the great ques-
ton of the currency OF the people, aud
| il has I'D that through every storm and
| every tempest tina beats upon ii it is de-
| voted to the proposition that the cur
| rency shalt be rs good as any that shines
| III Orig 1T RllileTlnE polu Wherever ulen
| do business and work and trade. Ii has
settled that; and il attacks are made upon
| those great questions 1t viii be ready to
meet them again.
/ Ii has Il President, n leader OF the
| party, to-day, who has secured the COLI
| hdeuCe of the country, who has not
! been rash, who has not been forward,
! who has not preclpltated issues, who has
! III his administration carried the country
| successfully and with marked, Wonderfut,
! un prrvt deuted success, through war,
and has been able to show and will show
| that, notWit hStHndlng the attacks that
t have been made upon The administration
and upon its q ffcrent branches IN the
conduct of the war, the wonderful thing
is that i'll the state of unpreparedness,
and viii the great force hat VAS called
out, there has been so little friction and
so little loss; and the cry that arose six
months ago OF complaint against the
President and his administration in the
investigations that have taken place, has
ceased, and that storm has ceased TO beat
upon the administration.
Upon the question which perhaps to-
day Is occupying mems minds more
than any other, the question OF what
is called expansion, OF taking out
lying territory, there are, perhaps rs
some of you may have imagined,
two sides. | do not fancy that you
are all agreed upon that. 1t is my duty
: X
isiative body has trusted me rs this has,
that | should be entirely frank. am not
an eXpansionist. / dread the annexation
of territory thousands OF miles away OF
foreign people with no habits and no LIE
like ours. | dread the result of it have
given some careful study to i'll dread
the effect. | an honest in that. My
friend Who is here beside me, and any
other friend who takes the Other side, Is
equally honest. The President is patrl
Otto and hoaest IN thI-.
do not propose to discuss that ques-
ton. cannot, with my views, vote for
any measure or law or whatever ii may be
/ that involves u- ia thHt. But IT | AN
uverruled aud oNerhorue by the maIug-
ltS, II Is ny cuisines, aud my duty to sub
mt rs Il party man aud to make the best
OF it, and do not suppose there is one
nan Ia the State Of Maine, " ho is Il mem
her of the republican party, that VIII
think the worse of me tor following my
convictions and for telling you plainly
hit They ate. Applause.
We cuuHfDt tell, my trlenus-l am not 50
much of II prophet as was twenty years
ago; / nope II Is necHu-e | know more
4 ugtOI} Ctt ten Wnnt Is IN store, but the
repu b lem par'y cHH te trusted. II 1t has
got to leHrn, 1t Hlll learn; If 1t las got to
go forW ard, II wlil GO 70 ward unltedIy.
III 1t haa gut to take any back steps, 1t is
not ms hatned to take them. And no nan
stances, with he great subjects that are
coming before US, what viii be best.
That we have got to settle in the future.
And so II uch for that.
There are other things that are of the
greatest Inportauce. There Is a commA
sion, my friends, made up of our own
people and Eugilshmen and Canadians,
that are sitting IN judgment and SCRUTINY
over ali The Legislation that has been es-
tahllshed by the republican party for the
benefit OF Maine in the tariff bill. Now |
realize the force OF what is said, and " hat
we all feel, OF common blood and common
ancestry with England.
Her past and her traditions are ours as
they are hers. Her national life, her
literature, her splendid developments,
are ali ours rs much as hers.
But, my friends, 1t Is entirely true that
when England is engaged in any negotia-
ton that affects her material interests,
blood counts for very little with an
English commission. 1t is the business
of an English commission, Canadian
commission, to get the benefit of that;
and the Canadian commission that has
been sitting for months has at last come
to The point where the demand of
the Canadian and the Eugtish side
is the practical destruction OF the
tariff which Governor Bngley in
his bill put upon Maine products and
especially on lumber. The State VIII
never know, sir, the debt she owes To
Governor Dingley in holding that com
mission, i'll refusing to yield, and keep
ing up the back bone Of members OF the
committee who are weaker than he on he
subject; and whatever happens to hat
great man-may the Lord rest 1re him to
health and usefulness hatever happens
to him, Maine VII learn, il she does not
know now, what he has been, and is do
ing for her.
And in That, Mr. President and friends,
Il tf.
man has been backing the governor up,
UNFOLDING his hands, rAak ing him strong,
and making 1t seem to the Canadian COM
missioners that he has the support, not
only of the Maine delegation, but of
Congress. | hope the issue will go right
| know it Will 20 right If the governor
Is spared. l hope 1t will go right il he is
taken from us.
Gentlemen, it has not been my habit in
addressing an assembly like his, when |