The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-09-12
TIE Republican RntIx.

Good speaking, good mus c, and an enthusi-
asst, audience which filed the CITY Hall, all
contributed to make the Republican Rally
Saturday evening great success. Mr.. w. H
Smith, of the CITY Committee, called the meet
ing TO order, aud Joseph w. Symonds Esq
was called to the chair. Mr.. Symunds made
few earnest and eloquent remarks, accepting
the honor and reminding his hearers of the
duties of to-day and then introduced as the
first speaker Hon. George T. Edmuuds, U. S.
Senator from Vermont.
Mr.. Edmunds. who appeared for the fist
time we believe, before Portland audience,
made an exceedingly favorable impression.
DE said he came as one member of the party
winch has always stood on the side of labor
ana progress, TO take counsel with them and
see whether they could be justified in voting
the Democratic ticket Monday. A stranger
who should first land, on coming to this coun-
try, in the Democratic city of New York would
find there the largest number of persons who
cannot read and write, the largest number who
have been convicted of crime, and the most plen
tiful supply of grog shops and vile and loath-
some places. If he turns to some interior town
devoted to manufacturing or agriculture, he
would ind school house on every street,
church on every hill, and there too he will find
the fewest grog shops, the largest proportion of
people who can read and write, aud the largeA
Republican majorities This is easily account
e. for by the fact that for Is years the Demo.
cratic party has been an aristocracy and its
rulers have been strangers to democracy. Ii
has held labor in disrespect and it has STYLED
us mudsills; bat we proved to be the mudslls
of the grist-mils which ground up the Demo
cratic party and its allies. The record of the
Republican party is its best defence. Grant
has been in the White House eighteen months
and you see some of the results of an honest
and economical administration in decrease OF
$170000,0 600 in the debt during that time, and
IN the marked reduction of taxation and at the
same time an increased revenue through faith
full collection. He then ehowed the position OF
the Democracy on reputation, and their OBJ
jective policy in Congress where they oppose
everything looking to the lessening of taxation
the funding of the debt, the relief of shipbuild-
ing, the protection of our coast and the i'm
proyement Of rivers and harbors. The Demo-
cratic party is still waiting to see what will
turn up, and hoping for an alliance with its
hiOhuo Nuo Vail iCu VI TGuSi1iOs. MT. LII.
munds was frequently and heartily applauded
After music Hon. Walter Hartman, ex-
Governor of New Hampshire, was introduced
He begun by comparing the Republican party,
the party of progress, with the Democratic
which had been left behind while the world
moved on. Last July over $50 900 COO of taxa
ton were stricken off the statute book: only
eight OF the Democrats in the House voted for
the measure, and forty-thiee against it. Ooly
three voted for the bill making binding the 14th
and 18th amendments They are still unwil-
Ing to acknowledge that the world moves We
have not yet forgotten the rebellion brought
President and Democratic Cabinet, nor the
desolate hearts, the freshly made graves, She
burden of debt and taxation winch ft flowed it.
Toe Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading organ OF
the Western Democracy, says they are divided
only as to whether any part of the debt shall
be paid, large portion Of them favoring open
and undisgused reputation. Tits falsehood |
that the Ioor pay an unequal portion of the |
taxes. A. I. Stewart paid $4,000 more in |
come tax than the whole State of New Hamp
shire, aud $4,000 more than Maine What the |
country needs is stability The South has an
dea that Democratic success signifies reaction
here by which the colored man shall be strip
ped of his political rights and reduced to serf-
iom. The speaker proceeded with his accus-
tomed wit and eloquence, to defend the Repub
can party from the charges made against it,
showed how successful had been the recon
struction policy in spite of the howls of Dem
,cratc Rome, and closed with earnest appeal
which met with hearty response from the
arge audience, whose close attention he held
till the end. The meeting closed with ringing
cheers for Perham, Lynch and the ladies'