Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-07-06
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
FOR GOTERNOR,
ALBION K. PARRIS.
The Wing Convention.

and by the help of low fares, one Of the great
est conglomerations Of od-fashloned feds
ramrods, frec-soilers, members of the detunct
wing party, rummies, and all the isms OF the
latter day absurdites, was gotten out that
Maine ever saw. The whole affair was one
Of the most tremendous farces seen for many
n dav. There was Noah Smith, Jr., the i'm
maculate. the invincible-Carter of the Port
land ssfb factory" and Poor Of the Portland
''gas' company-Cowan of the Saco "blun-
derbuss''-the man that exit Daniel Webs
ter, who it is said wanted to speak, and made
a great deal of Northumberland long, lean
and lank editors of neutral papers-besdes
a hest of buried politicians, red noses, and
long drawn, solemncholy visages.
An old 'un of Lincoln County was nominal
ed for Governor, ISAAC REED, Esq, who was
once elected to Congress from that district by
playing possum with the abolitionists, and
wrote report not many years ago as one OF
the Trustees of the Insane Hospital. These
are the imposing circumstances Of his public
life. Noah Smith, Jr., was candidate, but
was finally killed off. The ballot that nomi-
mated Mr. Reed was larger than the whole
number of delegates and 1t was thought if
many of the delegates had not voted twice,
Mr.. Smith would have been nominated. The
way it was done was this: After the votes
had been distributed for a second ballot, mo-
ton was made TO defer the balloting five min
utes in order for better circulation of ballots.
1t was at the moment rather an exciting time );
and after the balloting was recommended,
some of the delegates, mostly Reed men it is
supposed, thought they had t. 90 over the
work again, and so put in, innocently, in the
exuberance of their zeal, TO make the thing
stronger, another ballot in the first box that
came round. The report that some Of. the
delegates circulated when they got home, that
man was seen to put 4 handful of votes in
the box, we place little confidence in.
But Mr. Smith ''knocked under" to the
current, and swore tealty to the nomination,
bitter as it was, by saying he had rather be a
wing candidate for wing governor of Maine,
than successful loco foco candidate for the
presidency OF the United States. Many Of the
delegates came home with sore heads. We
have heard one of them remark that the can
didate was sure of seven thousand votes less
than either of the defeated candidates, if one
of them had been nominated. We know of
one delegate district where nearly all the del
egates declare their intention to bolt.
The great curiosity of the show was the
tenderness with which they treated the Maine
liquor law. Mr.. Cochran, who, it will be
recollected, was the prince of rummies in the
legislature, was the captain general Of the
Reed forces. lie went to Portland plant as
kitten, talked smoothly and comfortably to the
ramrods. and they succumbed for the good Of
the GLORIOUS" wing party. We copy from
the Argus the following observations on this
grand caravan Of tame and wild animals:
+" The leading issue of the occasion was the
liquor law. Early in tie session, Mr. Say
ward, of Bangor, offered the following resolu-
ton:
RcS0lrcd, That the enactment and enforce
ment of the Maine Law have been of pecu-
mary, social, and moral advantage to the peo-
pie of Maine, and earnest support of that law
is demanded by the public welfare and the
public sentiment.
That had the merit Of squareness, but the
Convention wouldn't stand it mo how 1t
was referred to the Committee on Resolutions,
who at once buried it 50 deep that it never
saw daylight again. They, however, felt it
necessary to report something and so, at the
tail Of a long string Of windy and verbose res
olufions, they offered the following it being a
very small bob to a very big kite:
ReSo}Ucd, That we are opposed TO the re-
peal or essential modification of any of the con-
stituti0nai provisions of the Maine Law, and
are in favor of its Judicions enforcement,
throughout the State, until erpcr1ence shall
demonstrate that it as Intellectual and ua,ciSc
The italics are ouls. OF course this reso-
luton passed unanimously and with enthusi-
astic applause in which applause all the well
known wing liberals of this city, who were
present, heartily joined Why should they
notl Even the Cary Convention could have
adopted it without compromising single iota
of their opposition to the Maine Liquor Law
"a ID, so TO use words as to conceal ideas and
we have no doubt the committee on resolutions
chuckled among themselves at the manner in
which they had avoided the perilous question
The Convention stands non-committed on the
liquor ISSUE The candidate of the liberals,
Isaac Reed, beats Noah Smith, who was pre-
scented by the ultras Of the other side. He
was endorsed, however, by the Maine Law
men as sound on that question.
= The course Of this Convention ought 10 sat
isfy the democracy that the wing leaders care
nothing for the success Of the liquor law
They have seized upon il, and are using it, for
merely pariZan purposes aud if, in the course
of future events, they find they can secure
more votes by changing front, then they will
change front accordingly. Just now they stand
equi-posed between rum and water
The other resolutions are about the Missouri
and Nebraska. A remark made
to Us by one Of the delegates about Nebraska,
will be fitting comment on their action lie
said he didn't care q curse about Nebraska -
II was too far off aud the fuss the wings made
over it was all humbug.' But if anybody
wants 10 know more of that party, we refer
them to the files Of the Gazette, now called the
Portland Advertiser, for l820-'2l, where they
VIII hnd the names of those northern members
OIL congress who voted for the Missouri COM
promise arranged in black lines as mark of
contempt, and the compromise most bitterly
denounced
10 the volume Of the same naner FIR 1920
(as quoted in The National in,ellioencer of
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