The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-13

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The Chamberlain MeetiDg
The meeting called at the City Hall last
night, of the supporters of Gen. Chamberlain
for the Republican nomination for Senator
was attended by about a thousand persons, and
considerable enthusiasm was manifested The
unfavorabe weather prevented the attendance
of many ladies. The Portland Band dis
coursed some favorite selections before and
during the meeting.
The meeting was called to order promptly. at
o'clock, by Mr.. j. M. Palmer, on whose NOM
nation the following officers were chosen:
President, Hon. J. d. Brown
Vice Presidents, William Senter, w. S. Da-
ma, VIM. G. Howe, T. A. Roberts, Alfred
Woodman, G. G. Tyler, Aug. T. Cox, Charles
M. Thomas, F. G. Patterson, VIM. Themes,
j. r. Thompson. w. G. Twombly, VIM. II.
Ingraham, Henry p. Wood, A O. Shaw, Ea-
Shaw, G. NJ. Chase, Oliver Gerrish, w. E.
Gould; Gilman Daveis, z. P. Mattocks, VIM.
y. Fox, j. F. Lord, Chas. Walker, John III.
True, Il. o. Conant, A. p. Morgan, VIM. IT.
Ayres, e. A. Noyes, f. o. Libby, w. H. Foye,
s. Il. Thnrston, c. A. Gibson, A. B. Stevens
f. Il. Harris, Ell. b. Cleaves, Thomas Lynch,
Philip ii. Brown, John M. Brown, f. A.
Smith, j. e. Donnell, Aug d. Mari. J. r. Co.
rey, d. A. Merrill, j. r. Duran, j. E. Barbour,
James f. Miller, N. j. Miller, James e. Nc
Dowell. Chas. A. Lord, Irving Blake, Charles
Sawyer, Brown Thurston, Thomas SHAY
Franklin Fox, VIM. E. Donnell, John Dennis
John .. Twitchell, John w. Perkins, E. G.
| Hight, j. Il. Cressey, Aurin Dresser, Up.
ssorer. Samuel Warehouse, R. S. Webster,
Geo. f. French, Rensselaer, Greeley, &c.
Shirley, G. f. Libby. A. L. Denuison, w.
Ryan.
Secretaries, Andrew j. Chase, Dudley p.
Bailey, Jr.
MIR. Brown, on taking the chair, spoke brief
ly, expressing his qualification, at being called
to preside at a meeting composed in so large mart
OF the young men of Portland When there
was work to be done he felt like young man.
The signers OF the call which has brought us
together, believed it time for a movement
somewhat aside from the old party methods OF
presenting candidates. In time past the peo-
pie have not had much to say in naming can
didates. This is movement in the other d.
rection. In the years since the close of the
war, we all acknowledge the government has
ASSpSSeS3 l
shonld he. For one thing there has been too
much special legislation. We pay fair sala-
ry to our Representatives, but not upon which
they can support themselves, and accumulate
as some have done during their term of Office,
a large fortune. Enormous land grants have
been made to western railroads., and a large
part of the stock of these roads is owned by
Congressman and their friends. He spoke in
favor of reform in our Tariff, and other laws,
which should relieve the people of a part of
the burden now pressing upon them.
Hon. Geo. w. Woodman was then Introduce
and said the signers of the call for this meeting
invited their fellow Republicans here to ex
press their preference for Joshua L. Chamber
lain for United States Senator. 1t has been
intimated that the tendency Of this movement
would be to break up the Republican party
The reverse is the fact. This is spontaneous
| movement Of the friends of Joshua L. Cham.
| berlain. And who is Joshua l.. Chamberlain?
Let his record answer The speaker briefly al
luded to some of the events in his career, and
said he did not claim for him that he was pol
| itician, but he did claim that he was an honest
man, man Of genius and of progressive ideas
and true Republican. The Republican party
| has always been the party of progressive ideas.
1t resisted the slave power and crushed it,
1t gave the county emancipation and a policy
of reconstruction It has placed the 14th and
18th amendments in the constitution. AS
Fred Douglass said after the bred Scott decis-
lou, there is a power back of the Supreme
Court-the power of the people. We believe
Joshua L. Chamberlain is the proper man to
norfv e OF, nd
the people present him for the place.
Joseph w. Symonds, Esq, City Solicitor,
| was the next speaker He began by calling
attention to the fact that this large audience
were met as Republcans.l We are not met SIM
ply as citizens of Maine or as friends of Gener-
al Chamberlain, but as Republican citizens and
voters of Maine who desire the election of
Joshua L. Chamberlain to the high office of
Senator from Maine. We are not met as dis
affected Republicans to organize an independ-
ent movepent but simply to express a prefer
| ence. We claim that it is always legitimate
party action for its members to meet and ex-
press their choice. We don't understand any
| system of arithmetic by which we can be
counted out. We are here to express our
preference and our determination to work for
General Chamberlain in the Republican eau
| cuses and to be bound by their result. The
nominees of the Republican party are our
nominees, and hence it is that action and vigil
lance are necessa ry that the result of the eau
cuses shall be right. We propose to do all in
our power that our sentiments may there find
expression. We are part and parcel of the
Republican party. We claim our share in its
future as well as in its brilliant past
The names of the signers of the call embrace
those of men who have been Republicans from
| the foundation of the party. They were men,
bers of the party when it first confronted the
slave power entrenched at Washington, when
it fought its lasting fight year by year, when it
| selected Lincoln, carried on the war, pIo-
claimed emancipation, established the doctrine
which Webster maintained in his debate with
| dayne, and framed system OF reconstruction
| NOW there are new issues, questions less exc:t-
ing than those of tho rebellion, but no less i'm
| portant to every citizen, questions of nance,
| OF the development OF our country, and extern
| sion of its industrial interests, of the reduc.
ton of the debt and of taxation of restoring our
| commerce to the ocean. We believe it is only
by springing to heights of patriotism, only by
selecting our ablest men that the party can re-
/
| nor Chamberlain combines in an eminent de-
gree the necessary qualifications. He is a
man of ability, of great force and indepen-
dence of character. of singular versatility o.
genius. Governor Washburn, from this plat
form, pronounced him the greatest military
genius New England gave to the war. At the
close of the war, the people saw the service he
had rendered in opposite departments of labor,
and conceived that his abors would be valua-
BILE to the State. spontaneous movement of
the people made him Governor of Maine, and
this is part of a movement, the meaning of
which is, that he is to be the next United
States Senator from Maine
>. y. Winshp, Esq, followed Mr.. Symonds,
who sat down amid great applause. Mr..
Woodman spoke as representative of the
mercantile interests of the city, Mr.. Symouds
OF the young men, and Mr.. Winship of the
soldier element of the party. He began with
a glowing tribute to the services of the partv
to the country during the war, when the peo.
u pie looked to it for guidance, and the army for