The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30

Oho man VINO represented the policy of
that party, our leader, our candidate
of three years ago. Amid all the abuse
that he bore l ask you for single in
stance where he allowed an exhibition OF
temper to run away from him. How
does the Republican party stand In that
respect2 When / say the Republican par
ty mean the party organization,
want to bring home some of the things
done under the head of IawIessness and
disorder by the Republican party. Last
year there was an election in kentucky.
The election was disputed and finally it
went to the courts 81 law. In spite of
It's findings the Republican candidate for
governor and his associates called down
from the mountains a band Of Iawless
men. One of those murderous hands
was laid on the Democratic candidate for
governor and he fell. We are accustomed
to abide by the findings of grand iuries
as to crime. The grand jury returned a
verdict that the Republican claimant for
governor was an accomplish IN that
murder. He fed to the state of Indiana
and today he rests under the protection
of the governor of Indiana. When the
great Republican party met at Philade
phia the organization selected the Indi-
ana governor as one of those to second
the nomination of Mckinley. When the
Republican party selected Governor
Mount to do this it at once made itself
responsible for lawIessness.'
Mr.. Williams then took up the charges
Of disIoyalty and dishonesty which he
said that Col. Roosevelt had made
against the Democrats. He held up In
his hand a piece of paper which he stated
was page taken from report of the
hnding.of an Investigation of a senatorial
contest IN the State of Ohio. The find
ings of that committee were that in jan
uary. '98, an attempt had been made to
bride one John Otis, to vote for Marcus
A. Hanna, and that Major Rathburn and
Secretary Dick Of the national RepubIi-
can committee were abettors in aiding the
man to give the bribe. Rathhurn is a
name that is familiar to readers of news
papers. A few days ago a Republican
official stated that he was a robber and
thief. RatIfburn was instructed by
the President of the United States with
all OF the moneys received IN Cuban SER
vice. lie had been appointed to his place
after he had been declared an accomplice
of one of those Offering brides IN Ohio.
This comes pretty closely, Mr.. Williams
thought, to making the party one OF dis
honesty.
Mr. Williams next came to his discus
sion on the trust question. "This ap
peals to citizens of both parties. 4" he said.
''This has become great question with
in the last three years. In this time
there have been developed large number
Of law breaking corporations. Men ana
women alike are beginning to.dread
new industrial system to take the place
Of the one which they ave been enjoying
ever since the existence of the country.
Why was 1t that it was after the election
of Mckinley that these things took
placer The Republicans say that it was
an accident. There is no accident about
1t. 1t IS simply because of the new
and highly organized system under
which Republican policies have become
to be managed. Every Industrial inter
est in the campaign OF 90 was called
upon to pay its quota to the Republican
fund. Does anybody suppose that the
national banks were helping the Repub-
lican campaign on account of the love
that they had for the party? Does any
body suppose that the sugar trust did it
for this reason? Sugar is now cents.
where it used to be and cents. On
4 cents the trust went on accommodating
millions of dollars. When the sugar
trust went to Washington the Republi-
can party in return for it's contributions
passed a law compelling higher prices, to
every consumer. Does anybody believe that
the Democratic party is in that line of
business now? No. Eight years ago it
was different. = I know how much the
sugar trust put into the.Democrat1c cam
paign that year. But they can't do it now
and we are poorer today than has been
any political party in the history of this
country.
The speaker commented on the num-
Der of Democrats who had left the party
four years ago. The most of them had
returned and thanks ought to bel given
that party had got rid of the others.
The remark about the Democrats coward
ly shrinking from duty abroad was TAX
en- up. George Fred asked who knew
what our duty abroad was. He thought
that if the Almighty had a destiny it
Will be marked as mankind progresses
against the century rocks. Getting down
to the question OF imperialism he ridi-
culed the efforts OF Senator Fairbanks
and Gen. Grosvenor to explain that this
question was myth. There must be
a mistake somewhere and now is a good
time to find out whether Or not we have
Imperialism.
''You had in Mr.. LiJtleheld a man
who went from the state of Maine who
made for himself great national repu-
tation in opposing the Porto Rico BILL