Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-07-04
SENATOR HALE'S SPEECH.

rentfon:
After the labor and heat OF Washington,
there is no place to come to like the State
oil Maine, and you have made me realize
that there is no welcome like the State Of
Names welcome.
We are again confronted by the demo-
cratic claimant who, rejected again and
again by the people, again appears at each
short interval of four years and asks that
the administration of the government be
instrusted 1t.
In one respect the two parties are en-
tireiy unlike this year. There was no
thought anywhere among the repu blicans
OF but one man who is to lead the battle.
President Mckinley had no competitor.
Neither far nor near was any other name
heard Of. He had all the votes at Phila-
deiphia.
other side? They are in a far different
plight. The democratic party is in agony
to get rid OF two men. The first IL Presi-
dent Mckinley, and we shall take care OF
that the next, so far as the eastern de-
mocrscy goes, is Colonel Bryan, and SO far
as We eau see he is entirely capable OF TAX
ing care OF himself. The eastern demo-
Gratis cannot escape from him, but will be
obliged to take him and the "l6 to I"
Chicago plat form of 1896. SO far, then, as
candidates go, there ought to be no
doubt rs TO the event under these con-
ditions OF the election.
Our broad land, under a republican adj
minirtration, Is prospecting III such II way
that II Is an example and lesson to
he people of ali the earth. do not ex
sgs.fate when | say that there has been
nothing IKE II in tue history OF man.
do not claim that ii is ali owing To the
republican, party. Asa public mnn grows
Older he cugnt 10 tie both more candid
and more courageous In his utteranees he
ought to speak the things winch are In his
mind; lie ought to say the things which
ne be iirves, he ought to stand by the con-
sictio"s hich have been the subject OF
his nig INT thoughts. he should uot exagger-
ate or SGT down eught in malice, and am
not here, for one, 10 say that al the Thrift,
all the prosperity, all the comfort that to-
day sit beside American Households, are
owed 10 the republican party, aud TINT
none II these would have been mere under
"A democratic administration; but We do
have, my friends, right 10 claim hat
Tor the great things aud The great policies
hich republicans have set up aud lived
by, we should be duly accredited by the
people, aud that none of them should be
forgotten in the coming canvass.
IL Is certainly repu biicanisu which has
given us to- day, out OF many battles
against l., n circulation Bmopg The inhab
itants OF all this repuolic Of n thousand
millions OF dollars IN god, and live hun
drcd miiiions IN silver, and > x hundred
millions Ia paper every dollar OF which
is rs good as bright, shining god LEI all the
mart- aud IN all the .xchang, aud all the
places OF traffic, and III all tue households
OF the entire civilized world.
You viii not forget, Mr.. President, the
contest which you aud | have been en-
gagged In, and out of which his popular
currency, better, perhaps, tnan that OF
any other people has been maintained in
the United states. Does any man here
believe that Col. Bryan, win the demo-
cratic party at his back, can break into
this impregnabie fortress OF sound money.
and uphit instead the standard Of the
silver nifty per cent. dollar? This is one
OF the questions which We must help to
answer In November
PROTECTION.
Another thing which republican poll
cies have broug mt to TINS couuJty IL fuli
and overflow Ing treasury. In the mon; h
OF May, 1891, the expenditures OF the
government exceeded the receipts by al
most - 900, 900, while ia May just passed
the receipts .xreeted the Expenditures
almost s. 900 900 For the elrvsu months
end ug May 81, 1876. there Wa n ia tieit OF
~, 900 900, although Il great iona mai
istratiVn, the proceeds of wa "a uad been
turned into the treasury. For the eleven
months ending May 81, 1919 just passed,
tier. has b, Ell surplus Of more thau
s63,OO0 90. Let no man my that tins
gratiiying balance sheet IN owed TO war
taxes, because under the Ding ey tariff
act in May, 1900, our Gu toms receipts
were SlT 600 600, while in NJ y, 1896 under
the " ison tariff bill the corr, .,,ondtng
receipts were but 100000 Every ex-
ample which | give shows til. contrast
between democratic and republican poll
cies.
Nor do trade and comm rec show Il
different lesson ; and while, us | have said,
trade aud commerce are not the result en-
tireiy OF any party's domination, yet iii
their conditions they are largely affected
by party policies. Far be II from me to say
that crops aud trade and commerce de-
pend alone upon party. They certainly
do not. The sun shines in It's round OF
the earth upon all people alike, and the
rain faileth upon the Just aud the unjust.
But / have a pleasure, Mr.. President,
which no democratic speaker has in show
ing the actual facts about our trade as
compared with that OF tue last summer
months OF the democratic administration.
Under the democratic Wilson tariff the
balance of trade in our favor was slU2, 00O,-
Co., and you will remember, sir, the dem
ocratic orators and democratic newspapers
were never tired OF citing that as an in
stance of prosperity under the democratic
party, but in the first nine months OF the
current year, in spite OF thirty per cent.
increase OF imports, the balance OF trade
in favor OF the United States with all the
nations OF the earth was the enormous
sum of sil2 100000. No such balance
sheet, Mr.. President has ever been shown
in the face OF the world.
NEW RESPONSIBILITIES.
might stop here, Mr.. President, and
90 no furt her, because the things which
affect the peoples tiresides and their bus
mess and their everyday life are the
things which are OF the most import
among all men; but the republican
party in the last four years, and since
we met here in convention in 1896, has
taken up other burdens. 1t has received
into its family the people OF that gem OF
the Pacific seas, the sandwich Islands, to
which years ago not few Of the bright
eat spirits of Maine departed in search of