Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26

form. (Applause). If you will look
back at the proceedings of that conven-
ton you will find that one of the lead
crs of the Republican party introduced
it as an amendment and it was de-
clared out of order, and then he intro
duced it again and insisted that he
would not sit in convention that re-
Independence, and finally they put it
in: but you can't go, today, into a Re
publican convention in any state in
this Union and secure a plank adopt
ing the Declaration of Independence.
THAT is the change that has taken
place. If you will read the Republican
platform of 1856 you will find that it
appealed to all the people who wanted
to carry the government back to the
principles of Washington and Jefferson.
Listen to your Republican speak
ers of today. Do they praise
the mama Of Jefferson? No. They
praise the name of Alexander
Hamilton, but when the@ Republican
party was young it appealed to the
principles of Thomas Jefferson and in
yoked those principals. In 1889 the Re-
publicans of Boston were celebrating
Jeffersors birthday. Republicans. how
long since you have celebrated Jeffer-
sons birthday? And yet in '59 the Re-
publicans, of Boston had a banquet in
which they celebrated Jefferson's birth
day and they invited Abraham Lincoln
and he wrote letter expressing his re-
greet that he could not come and liz tina t
latter he praises Jefferson with as much
of eulogy as I ever did, and / regard
Jefferson as the greatest constructive
statesman the world has ever known
(applause). And Mr.. Lincoln in that
letter said that the Republican party
believed in the man and the dollar but
that in case of conflict it believed in the
| man before the dollar. He gave ex-
preston to that sentiment and yet
when | quoted it a year ago one Of the
New York papers jumped on to me and
criticised me for trying to draw q dis
| tinction between a man and a dollar
| NaughteF). 1t was Lincoln who drew
| the distinction and il was Lincoln who
declared that in case of conflict the Re
! publican party put the man before the
| dollar
9, haven't much time to talk this af-
| ternoon. wish / had more. and yet |
| am perfectly content with Il little time
| because wanted you to hear from this
senator from Tennessee and | only re-
| greet that we are both trying to speak
| in the same time, because he could have
| delighted you and instructed you. and
| / was anxious for him to come because
| he more of curiosity than | am
| Iaughter). You Democrats up here
| have often had a chance to hear men
| who have been licked. / wanted you
| to hear one who had been successful
and had got into the United States
Senate daughter and applause>.
| 'But in the time that / am going to
F, talk to you l am going to try to show
You that the Republican party, today
| is not as it was when Lincoln spoke Of
it. 1t is not putting the man first and
| the dollar afterwards. l assert, and
want you Republicans to think about
| it after / leave you. I assert that on
every question with which the Repub-
| ioan party deals, today, it puts the dol
| lar first and the man afterwards, if at
| all And / will convince yon oe =. :
will show you that your party. today,
stands as the representative of organi-
zed wealth. It stands as the enemy of
tHe Struggling liidSStS Vi IHc Aiiericdil
people.
Il will point to the fact that while IL
| has had control of the government
wealth has been amassed in the hands
of the few with more rapidity than it
ever was before in all the history of the
| human race. will show you that your
| legislation has been in the interest of
the few. secured by the few, and the
| Republican party, today, neither takes
| The country into its confidence. nor
even the members of its own party:
when if decides upon a policy.
Il assert that with the exception of
The tariff question the Republican
party has not submitted to the Ameri-
can people or to the members of that
party a single vital question upon
which the country has had to pass. 1
say with the exception Of the tariff
question, and on the tariff question the
last speech made by Mr.. Mckinley was
confession that the day Of high tar
if had passed. He said that we
could no longer expect to sell to every
body and buy of nobody: that we must
reach out and gather in the trade of
the world. and that it must be a re-
ciprocal trade So that on that one
question Mr.. McKinley's last speech
was a retraction of the position that
the Republican party had taken. We
had insisted for years that this nation
could not expect to extend its foreign
markets and sell everywhere If it re-
fused to buy of their people, and so,
on that one question AIr. Mckinley 5
last speech was a confession that you
had to change your high tariff policy
and lower your tariff. for how are you
going to sell in the open markets of the
world If you cannot sell in this coun-
try without a high tariff wall around
YOU? The moment you talk of foreign
markets you confess that your need of
o high tariff is passed.
Bat let me take the other questions
that hace come up and are before the
country. In &c we had division on