The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-15

assisted by such counsellors at Washing
ton as Seward, Stanton, Chase and Han
nibal Hamlin, and with Thomas, Sheri-
dan, Sherman and Grant in the field,
our Union was preserved, and the curse OF
human slavery forever blotted fromthe face
of this continent. The great and per-
picking problems resulting from the war
were all solved, and our nation In fact
took on "a new birth of freedom" with
the rise of the Republican party, that
declaration, which those earlier patriots
held to be self-evident, that ''all men are
created equal" was expanded into that
broader and nobler conception, that all
men are created free and equal and the
Republican party took no step backward
until that grand, divinely inspired sem
timent had emerged from the stage OF a
meaningless platitude and had become
living truth.
1t took up the financial burdens left us
by the war, and under the leadership OF
John Sherman of Ohio, we resumed
specie payment and placed our nation on
a financial standing the peer of any In
the world.
American Industries and American la
Dor have always received the most So
licitous consideration from our party in
its adjustments of the tariff.
Our course in providing for the needy
and dependent defenders of the Union by
the enactment of beneflcent pension laws
mas Dttn llDefal, nuiiidHt anu phtliobiOs
and Civil Service Reform received Its
first recognition in the form of practical
legislation at the hands of Republican
Congress.
We have met the money question and
placed our nation on a standard that Is
recognized as stable the world over, and
have insisted that the dollar of the work.
ingman should be kept equal in pur-
chasing power to that of the capitalist.
And during the past two years, under
the wise and conservative guidance OF our
present leader and Chief Executive, that
sympathetic friend of the people, to
whom they ara already turning as his
own most worthy successor, William Nc
Kinley, foreign war has been fought to
a successful issue, brought on by the ut.
ter disregard on the part OF Spain OF all
semblance OF humane and civilized meth
DDS OF governing her adjacent islands,
until our countrymen could no longer en-
dure the spectacle, and demanded war.
Brief as it was, the result has been to
place our nation in the front rank and
make 1t power in international affairs.
New and weighty responsibilities have
been forced upon us, which 1t would be
cowardly and un-American for us to at
tempt to avoid. The people are turning
to the Republican party which for forty
years has shaped the policy OF our nation
and made its history In some respects the
most glorious of its existence, and has
produced such leaders as Lincoln, Sher-
man, Conkling, Garfield, Harrison,
Blaine, Mckinley and Reed, to meet
the responsibilities, and they await with
confidence the results. And it is natural
they sho I'D. During oil that time, the
Democratic party has placed but one law
upon the statute books of the United
States, and that law, while it publicly
| bore good name, was, before II recei we'd
| its final passage, disowned by all kinds
&c nd hsaaa ssaa a Ia nnIU hy
sufferance, President Cleveland refusing
| to honor it with his endorsement. We
were living under its benign influence
from '93 to'97. You well recall the re-
suits. 1t is a lasting monument to DEM
ocratic wisdom and Democratic states
| long time before the public VIII give
them permission to erect another.
| The problems confronting the American
| people today are more important and per-
picking than any that have arisen since
the sixties. Money, tariff, the problems
of capital and labor, and the government
| of our new possessions Will require the
most careful consideration and broad
minded and conservative craftsmanship to
| solve them in the interests of the Ameri-
can people and the advancement OF civil
| ziati0n.
|. On the money question the Republican
party has taken Its stand. Ii believes In
a dollar which will exchange for an equa
value Of any other commodity the world
over, and not In one that will requir'
one hundred and fifty cents worth OF thu
laborers' time to earnj one, the value o.
which, is stable and not fuctuating FOL
capitalists and money lenders to specu
late on to the disadvantage q the debtol
GLASS. The financial history Of the worls
points to gold as possessing more o
these attributes OF perfect medium o