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

he come from State where there are
many Democrats but that he believed
there was no Democratic state in the
Union that could furnish a more mag
nificent audience than the one before
him. Il shall go back to my home. =
said he and tell my people that there
are many stalwart Democrats in Maine
who are filed with earnestness and en-
thusiasm: and will tell them that no.
where have l seen more beautiful We
men than in the Capital city of Maine .
(Applause)
Senator Carmack than went on 10
discuss the political questions of the
hour in manner which showed him to
be one of the strong leaders of his
party, but even though he is recognized
as one of its best orators. and present
ed his views clearly and forcefully. the
audience was restless. 1t wanted to
| hear Bryan and he alone. And SO, af-
ter talking about Is minutes, the sena-
tor closed his speech and Mr.. Bryan
was presented.
He was given q very warm welcome
sufficiently warm to convince him that
Augusta is not lacking in hospitality
10 a noted visitor-even though he
comes as the exponent of political views
that are not endorsed by the large
majority of our citizens. When the APP
plause that greeted him had subsidized,
the Nebraska leader spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: 1t gives me great pleasure to
visit the capital of this State. When
l received an invitation to speak in
hoc hot
would speak in Maine at as many
places as they could get me to, today,
but that Augusta must be one of them
(Applause), and l viii tell you why
named Augusta. 1t was not because
had met q great many OF you, it was
not because l expected that there
would be assembled here this magnifi-
cent audience. but because in 1896 / be
came acquainted with Mr.. Plaisted and
| | have known him ever since and / did
| not want to visit Maine without visit
| ing his town and speaking to his peo-
pie, (Applause); for even though
have lived a great many miles away
from you l am fortunately situated ir
| the very center of the country.
1T is just about as far from my
| home to the Atlantic as it is to the
Pacific and l am almost equf-distant
| between the southern and the northern
boundaries. and so | have a chance to
| look out over the country; and wher
/ find anywhere q faithful heart and q
| faithful brain and faithful arm bat
Ting for what l believe to be right,
keep my eye on that man. And L am
glad to come here, too, because III
Maine you are not afraid TO stand W
| for the Kansas City platform and lei
| the world know that you are willing tc
| abide by the principles set forth il
| that platform. | am glad, therefore, t
come when you have a campaign on
and if / can say one word that viii
| bring one vote to your State and con-
gressional tickets shall feel amply re-
paid for coming here, for I would re-
dice and be exceeding glad if when thf
returns come in I should hear in my
| Nebraska home that your chairman
today. Mr.. Could had been elected
| Governor of Maine. and that you hao
told the world that you stood for the
| Declaration OF Independence, no mat
ter what the Republicans stood for
| (Applause).
"And if YOU would send down n few
| Democratic congressman from Maine
Won would do more to drive the Repub-
lican party from imperialism that Mr.
| TittIefield has been able to do with all
| the effort he has put forth. Why,
sometimes think of the Bible story
when / hear the Republicans of Maine
| insisting that they are going to stand
with the Republican party because Mr.
| LittIefield is doing what he can TO save
il from imperialism. Well. Mr.. Little
field has done good deal for one man
He worked there for two years and
when the vote was taken he had one
comfort: he and Mr.. Mccall stood IN
against the rest of the Republican
marty. and if you think that he and
Mr. Mccall can save the Republican
narty | want you to read that Bible
story of that old patriarch who tried
to save Sodom and Gomorrah. 1t was
nromised that if he could find 80 right
eous men the town would be saved, and
when he could not find them he kept
reducing the number. but he could not
and enough, and yet he could find more
righteous men in Sodom and Gomorrah
than YOU can find in the Republican
leadership of today. applause and
iaughterl-
.Mr. Carmack has told you that he
wants you to measure the parties by
the principles for which Abraham Lin
coin stood. A few years ago / was
asked to write platform for county
convention in my state and l wrote
platform beginning with the Declara-
ton of Independence and reaffirming
the four vital propositions set forth in
the beginning. A Republican paper of
my town attacked the platform and
said that was foolish to put the Dec
Iaration of Independence in party
platform 1t said. Whoever heard of
thate" Well. l began to look it up ana
I found that the first platform upon
which Abraham Lincoln ran had the
same part of the Declaration that |
had suggested for a Democratic plat