The Portland daily press., 1865-09-02
MA1NH Law CONVENTION.

Inc fTleEds OF the Maine Law mel in con.
vention at Gray, Wednesday, AUG 29th, at ii
O'Clock, A. M.
The meeting was called to order by q. A
Stackpele, Esq, of Gofham, and organizes. by
the election of E. H. Starbird, Esq. of Fal.
mouth, as President, and R. P. M. Greeley. O
New Gloucester, Secretary. -
Gen. Neal Dow first took the stand and smoke
at considerable len 9Th comparing. the present
evils arising from intemperance with those
which would result from disruption of the
Union, prefering The latter. 9lGC TQ4
Wehad met to consider whether we would
have the present state Of things continue OF
have change; if a change how is it to be
brought about? he did not believe il could
be accomplished by sustaining for Office men
who were out and out opponents to the Maine
Law. The Republican Party was composed
largely of Maine Law men and ii the leaders
lid not nominate men whom they could con
icienciously sustain they were not bound by
the nomination 1of asf sosl so..s ; 80
J. LaWalton, Esq, was then called, who
read the following resolutien: ss' ~, ,aase
Res6tuea, AThat the temperance fnea of AssiA he.
ieve in the Maine Law faithfully and iparfisIIy IN,
Drced the Rev. lJf.Bac8hJ Of New lFave-a
he contrary Notwithstanding. ant that tbs asa ~
its Remaining so long in allegiance and jno6Srsf;Sf
1ow happily no longer exists ;thefefore We know
no good reason WY shoald not be honestly and eff
sctuay enforced at this time throughout our entire
State. aWiS--ae III
KesotUed That past experience has taught tenn.
erance men the utter Jolly Of trusting the execution
I.Qy 10c NJ
es and associations are and have been o,,l1 with
me open and armed enemies of our caise '7'
Mr.. Walton then stated that he believed il
10 be the duty of the temperance men 10 re-
use to vote for the nominee fof Comfy. At
iorney. He did not dispute but what Mr..
Webb wasa talented man, but'whetel had he
Always been while we had been fighting those
Aard temperance battles ? Always with our
enemies. b. azfIsag .iooR csni bobby
S.BUaflton said he did NOT believe in talk
ing somuch but in acting more, I've had cot
he law and the tory act, and shall we
now let them remain dead? This is what the
parties wish, and none more than the Repa.1-
lean. He believed the Rep. party was now
ruled by those men whom We have been fight
ing in years past.s las to the candidate for
County Attorn8 he Could only speak Of him
in the highest terms as a man anfs personal
friend, but he was now and ever had been an
put and out opponent to the Maine Law, and
nad always been found in the courtroom de-
tending the rtlnseier. q He believed it neces-
sary to nominate new candidate I i.,si
Mr. Staekpole moved that a committee Of
five be appointed by the'chair to draft resoIu-
lions for the afternoon meeting. The chair
made the following nominations which were
accepted: Neal Dow Of Portland, Leach Of
Gorham, Hon. W. II. Yintonao Of Gray, S. L.
Carlton Of Portland, J ohm Wilson of Gumber-
landsa Mr.: Leach declined to serve On the com
mittee and CA. Stackpole was appointed in
his stead. ,E4T3oEq . ataGG
Adjourned to half past one in the after
noon. .sieE 401 aaqaa
fes "a ARIA IA AFTERNOON.
The Convention was called to order at the
appointed hour. ETH. Starbirl in the chair.
The following resolutions were then offered
by @. A. Staclpole in behalf ofthe commit
tee. :. . =, - - ~. ~. =
ResoiUed--That the mon execution of the Maine
Law to large extent, is great obstacle to the pro-
sress of the Temperance REFORM And that it Is our
luty toresume our labors in the cause ami to pro-
ire the speedy suppression of the Drinking Houses
and Tipping Shops now existing in the Stateznl
ResofUed-lhat the Maine Law men of Cumberland
County cannot consistently support for the office OF
county Attorney man who is utterly and ayowedly
opposed to the principle Of Prohibition
The first Resolution was briefly discussed
by General Dow and adopted. .i.esi..i Fl
The second Resolution was then taken up. s
Rev. E. W. jackson Stated that he was OBJ
posed to the resolution because it implied that
he might vote for candidate for any other Of
fee, even though he was opposed to the Milne
Law. He would not vote for a man for any
office who was opposed to the Maine Law.
Mr.. L, G. Andrews of Portland, said he did
not consider Mr.. Webb good republican. He
had been opposed to the soldiers voting he
was opposed to giving the right of suffrage to
those colored persons who had helped fight
our battles-and Swas imfavor of making the
poor pay heavy taxes .saa4s % aaIai aog
Mr.. Vinton said that prohibition had been
LEFT out of the, platform of the Republican Par
BY because it was a disturbing element and
for that same reason they were determined to
keep it out. He could notyote for Mr.. Webb,
because he tWebb) s"5id not beiieoe IN lao as
q reformatOrg agent (gJ' and therefore was
opposed to the Maine Law Mr.. Webb not
only voted against the beer bill in the Le-isla-
lure, but in very long speech against it made
use of the following words viz:t3 1Ehaa =.
There was never time in his recollection when rim
sellers were making 50 much money as they did under
he first Maine Law, when the father of It was the
tae wealthy men Of had laid the foundations
Of their present fortunes by rrmselhng during that
psriod.i JnG gEi18ea fa 5sIgee 9f4 10 GIJFf8Rlg
Mr.. Vinton thought that since his recollec-
Jon there had never been so much liquor sold
IN the county as to-day, and never so much
money made BY it. 1 - ~ ay-.e-
Mr.. Winship thought that the friends Of the
aw were really to blame in the matter because
hey had given no notice to the Portland. Con-
vention that they would not vote for Mr.. Webb
i nominated sSSo9A- Sg9JhS5SsSs !
Further remarks were made by S. L. Carl
on, E. W. Jackson and Q, S. Beale, after which
The resolution was adopted. leon
Mr.. Carlton said he believed that the bus mess
If the meeting was to nominate a candidate
or County Attorney, and he would ike to
make the nomination. He moved that Hon.
". Il. Vinton be nominated for said Office. /
Mr.. Vinton positively, refused to be candi-
late he had never consented . to have his
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