The Portland daily press., 1869-06-30

chievous thing for the Temperance party
Thatresolution was contemplated to divide
the Temperance ranks. Yo7 can't whip the
united Temperance party. He was sorry that
resolution passed. He would advise a careful
investigation of that matter of the resolution
during the Convent IN. IT our principles are
right they will ultimately prevail. He had
been prosecuted worse for eighteen years for
his politics than he had for his religion. And
he had rather be prosecuted eighteen years
more that do thing to help the rum party.
He wanted every man to speak honestly and
justly, just what he thought, so they might
take decided action.
John Walton of Portland then made one of
his interesting speeches In favor of the tenn
perance cause, in the course of which he said
General Chamberlain had done the State some
service, but that if he had been the brave man
they said he was, he never would have refused
to preside over a temperance convention at
Augusta.
j. w. Munger of Portland, was next called
upon. He said it had been said that the in
PRODUCTION of the temperance resolution into
the platform at Bangor had taken the wind
completely out of the sails of the convention
here to-day. Who drew up that resolution?
James G. Blaine of Kennebec. What did it
mean? No more than when that resolution
was in the platform of the Democratic party
fifteen years ago. That people would find
that resolution lie, delusien, and snare,
merely put in TO induce the convention here
to-day not to make nomination. Can we do
anything or hope for anything from the Re-
publican party? Have we any assurance that
the Republican party will do anything in the
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with two corners er-stones-Temperancea and Pro-
hibition. We will place ourselves SO that peo-
pie when they vote must vote for rum or no
rum. People here now talk temperance in
their lodge rooms fifty-two nights in the year,
and then go to the ballot box and vote for rum
candidates, because if they don't it will break
up their party-the great Republican party
What makes up State? Honest, temperate
men. Permit drinking rum and you turn
prosperous and smiling harvest fields into o
wilderness. A hundred thousand men and
women, fathers and mothers, throughout the
State are laid in drunkard's grave every
year, as he could prove by the statistics.
Mr. Randall of Lewiston was called upon.
Said he didn't claim to be an apostle Of tenn
perance, or temperance man. He was q del
egate to the Republican Convention from the
great town of Auburn. In the committee on
resolutions, Blake of Bangor was chairman.
That he and Mr.. Blaine changed the prohibi-
tory resolution of the Bangor platform some
what. 1t was said by seme present to-day
WHEN that resolution passed it was lie, il
wasn't meant. That resolution was cheered
by the convention at Bangor. 1t has gone
forth to the State as plank in the platform Of
the Republican party He don't care whether
the men of the Bangor Convention meant
that resolution or not. They endorsed it, and
If they meant nothing by it he should lose his
opinion of men whom he considered among
the most honorable men in the State 1t wont
do for those men to say that resolution didn't
mean anything. He knew the party had de-
waited somewhat; he knew they had refused o
State police last winter. But Ike knew the
great mass of the party was in favor of prohi-
bition. and if the leaders did not act up to IL
turn them out. In conclusion he would say,
he had been temperance man all his life and
he meant to stick by his lifelong principles.
The committee reported the following per-
manent organization: President-Hon. Hen
~ 1dImdu3 tice IEcSiucuto-hot. y. "
Snow of Androscoggin; Isaac Hackett, Aroos-
took; j. W. Munger, Cumberland; Rev. ]. M,
Woodbury., Franklin; Rev. Mr.. Sisson, Han.
cock; John A. Hubbard, Kennebec; Rev.
George Pratt, Knox.
Hon. Henry Tallman thanked the conven-
ton again, ia which speech he said that the
word renew in the prohibitory clause Of the
Bangor platform meant simply that the law
should remain as it had stood the past year;
and when you asked in the Legislature chow
about State police, they would say Sthai
wasn't in the book"
Rev. Mr.. Pratt of Knox, moved that COM
mittee on resolutions be appointed, to be
named from the floor. After considerable diff
fculty the following gentlemen were appoint
ed: Androscoggin, w. B. Merrill; Kennebec,
II. x. Morrill, Knox, Rev. Mr.. Pratt; Cum.
berland, j. w. Munger; Sagadahoc, Arthur
Deering; York, Dr. Sawyer; Waldo, Capt
Isaac Carver; Penobscot, s. Archer; Oxford,
J. J. Perry.
The convention then adjourned till Is
P. M.
HrrrrcU0r SESSION.