The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-06-25

STATE COMMITTEE.
Androscoggn, Dana Gof
Aroostook, j. c. Madigan.
Cumberland, u H. Ingrahan
Franklin, L. B. Pillsbury
Hancock, a. a. Bartlett.
kenne3ec, T. +. Pillsbury
Knox, j. H. Martin.
Lincoln, r. f. Runlett.
oxford, A. 5. kimball.
Piscataquis, Henry Hudson.
Penobscot. Wyatt Weed
~agadahOc Samuel NJ DunneI
somerset, W. D. HAYDEN
Waldo, /. IL Murch,
Washington, W. 5. Peavv.
orh, John :. Bennett.
The mountainous were confirmed.
The committee on resolutions here re-
'red 10 the ante-room to make up their
report
IN. Garcei0n, the chairman then came
forward and made a few remarks. He
and that he had had no expectation of
heing chairman of the meeting until he
entered the hall. The duty of the conven-
ion Is very plain; the principles of De
mocracy are rs clear as the noon day sun.
Equal rights to all sound currency free
trade no sacrifice of the rights Of many
i1I the advancement of a few, and local
L.
These are the principles as he understood
them and to which he had always
Jlherad, He himself had stood apart
from the 50 called Democratic party when
the question OF slavery was at issue, be-
"ause beng real Democrat, he demanded
Faua. rights for all. He was prepared
now I'd stand bF his individual judgment,
'7 Democrat. in opposition to the pro-
t3liorE law, which he denounced as an
unjust, unrghteous, fraudulent and i'm
l0tal enactment. 1t had taught men to
alInn eecretly instead OF openly. 1t had
driven sound and comparatively harmless
4lora ont 01 the market and brought in
p9lsens and destructive compounds He
n"-yed more men ii this State are now
going down t. the drunkards grave
4ao thirty Years ago, In Portland a CON
en,1a had met avowedly to consider
In alarming increase Of intemperance
j. Lewiston, the law is rigidlv enforced
there Is not on open bar in the city, but If
Iot uncommon TO see drunken men on
i4e streets and our excellent Governor
about To have four or five more deputies
appointed TO hunt forum in Androscoggin
county And the worst of it is, that the
peCP-G 0hO advocate this legislation in the
name Of temperance, care nothing about
rraCtlca. temperance Corrupt officers use
fle law as an engine of oppression for pri-
oale gain The State agency adroitly
changes raw whisley by the addition of
sugar and other ingredients into choice old
WA.skey, which the town agencies are
compelled to buy at enormous prices. The
hotel at Augusta, where our Governors
and public men are to be found. runs an
open bar without interference. DR.. Gar
nelon would have this system OF cheating
epea.cd in the name of temperance, NOR
litv and religion, and substitute iudic-
Gus license law. He wanted no new party.
fifty thousand Democrats are ready to
march under the old banner and he pre-
ierred 70 90 with them for equal laws, free
trade and hard currency.
When he had closed, there were cries of
"PillshWy," and Hon. +. F. Pillsbury of
Augusta, came forward. He spoke felicit-
1uslI for several minutes. lie discussed
tie currency question as brought up at the
Republican State Convention. lie re-
viewed the history of the Republican
party One Of the speakers at the Augusta
convention had said that the Republican
party had the choice of positions, and
could drive the Democrats into opposition
hard money The Democratic party
chose its position before that gentleman
was born. Ii was Republican Congress
mat SET the ship of State adrift from its
Democratic moorings, and launched it
apon This sea OF bubbles. The Republican
party had violated every democratic prin-
iple Il had been meddling with local
government in Louisiana, Arkansas and
south Carolina 1t has increased the
lumber Of office-holders, even since the
war, and has now an army of seventy
thousand mon employed to control the
people in their determination of local
questions The Republican opponents of
senator Hamlin, complain Of his use of
the detachment OF this army in Maine, but
il mas been used against the Democratic
party year after year, without troubling
them The republican organs claim at
east, the merit of unheard-of exposures
of corruption in their own ranks. But the
democrats never had such corruption to
expose, The party is in a minority, per-
maps hopeless minority in this State. but
We can at any rate, stand by our principles,
and II harm comes to the country, we at
least snail be free from responsibility for
it, tie concluded amid great applause.
Mr. Pillsbury then in few words said
that rs il was the wish Of the convention
10 have but one session, and instead of
waiting for the committee on resolutions
10 report, he would suggest the propriety
of making n nomination now. We know
our candidate of last year, Mr. TITCoMB
He is a modest man, has never crowded
himself before the party, and is conse
quently not so widely known But he is
a gentleman. against whom nothing cal
he said in truth Attentive to his business