Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-10

order to show now big and broad and
generous we can be. But the Presi-
dent says, Il ask this OF you in sup
port of the foreign policy OF the adj
mnistration." What is the foreign
policy of the administration for which
he asks support? l do not know what
it is, and therefore, | do not know
whether | want To support it or not.
If the foreign policy for which the
President asks support is what l sus-
pect 1t to be. | am sure that l Go not
desire to support it.
The President concluded his remark
able four minute address to Congress
by saying, Il shall not know how to
deal with other matters OF greater
delicacy and nearer consequence IL
You do not grant it to me IN ungrudg-
ing measure" What are the matters
with which the President will not be
able TO deal unless our ships engaged
il the coast wise trade are required to
pay toll in passing through the Pana-
ma Canal? " hat are the matters OF
greater delicacy and nearer conse-
quence to which he refers? What
grave crisis are we facing in foreign
affairs which makes IL necessary
for us to reverse a purely do
mestic policy at the instance of
a foreign power, without considering
whether we were right or wrong. Are
our foreign relations in so critical
condition that we are willing TO OK
change our control and sovereignty
over the Panama Canal tor the friend
ship of foreign power?
This is indeed a new chapter in
nd ctr
of harmony with the character and
genius of our people. This is the first
time in the history Of this mighty Re-
public when we have felt it necessary
To buy the friendship OF any nation on
earth. We were unwilling to do 1t
when we were a frontier nation of
three million people. We ought not to
do it now when we have grown to be
the mightiest nation on the earth.
What we need in the White House
and in the State Department today
is the spirit of the peerless Blaine in
stead of the spirit of weak and timld
surrender which characterizes Amer
lean diplomacy under the present ad-
ministration.
To do Justice to Congressman Pat
rick II. Kelley OF Michigan, as a pub
lie speaker one would have to be
Pat" Kelley, and speaking. The
voice. the mannerisms, the logic, the
eloquence. the elocution, to say moth
ing of that infectious smile, are be
yond reproduction by the newspaper
man. even could he capture every word
uttered by the premier orator of Con-
gress. The attempt of a long-hand
pencil artist to follow and set forth
an address by the verbal gatling gun
from sister Michigan. must be very
poor imitation of the real thing, In
handsome presence and magnificent
gift of expression First to be left out
in reporting Governor Kelley is the
applause. sprinkled as freely as pep
per in stew To talk to a Maine
audience for an hour and half Pat
Kelley spent only three-quarters OF an
hour in giving voice to his sentiment
while the other three quarters was
taken up with applause and expJes-
sions of approval and demands to fire
away, old man." .za=-.
With that inimitable smile with
which the brilliant gentleman from
Michigan wins his audiences at the
outset, that gentleman began: 4 am
glad to come to Maine. And | am
more than glad to come to the city OF
Augusta, the city which gave the
world one of the greatest statesmen
from Pericles to Gladstone-James G..
Blaine (Let us pause here for
minute or two, to give the audience
opportunity to get back into its seat
and collect its hats and its newspapers
and to resume normal condition and
position. after its eutbursts of APPROX
al in honor of it's beloved statesmen).
Congressman Kelley declared that the
first political address in his memory, and
it had been burned there indelibly by
the remarkable eloquence and presence
of the orator had been by James G.,
Blaine in the old depot sheds at Detroit
where 1900 people had gathered to listen
and pay tribute of respect and honor TO
that great man. AS a boy the congress-
man said he had been impressed as never
before or since by a quotation by Blame
from that great speech by Edmund
Burke. Blaine had paraphrased the ia
nous utterance of Burke and had said
America is the greatest nation on the
face of the earth. but that nation can
not afford to ignore the rights OF the
humblest Negro on the banks OF the sa-
vannah because it might endanger the
rights of the greatest statesman on the
banks of the Potomac
The congressman declared that the
thing which struck him most foreloly
was that more than 100 men had gath
cred here today, not to nominate ticket
hut to discuss principles and to adopt a
platform He said that parties We're not
founded on men, but on principles that
men may come and men may go. but a
great party lives on forever because 1t Is
the embodiment of great principles. lie
enumerated many of our mighty dead,
and said that while they had passed on,
the party which they served will continue
TO go forward from one triumph to an
other. He referred to the incident In
our country's history at the time OF the
death of President William Mckinley
when as the words "earth to earth were
pronounced by the officiating clergyman
every industry in America ceased; every
mill was hushed; every train on the