The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-23
. PORTLAND, june %, 1875.

PORTLAND, June %, 1875.
| As curiosity nothing belonging to ancient
days is really more amusing when exhibited
than Democratic State Convention. 1T some
| Barnum could Rpt up such conclave and
| travel about the country, pitching his tent here
| and there, it would far exceed the Hippodrome
| as a many sided curiosity.
The Convention should have been called to
order at ten o'clock, but as the IL o'clock train
| contained the most of the delegates, it was
lilo when Mr.. Pillsbury, glorifed with that
| perennial smile, ascendcd the platform and
nominated Gen. Anderson for temporary presi-
| dent. The PRESS has so long supported Gen.
Anderson that it won't be natural to pitch into
him just now. The General is a hitter and
when he talked free trade to those Somerset
wool growers of Wing antecedents, some of
them acted just as though the pill wasn't agree
able. Then it was little cruel to talk
about railroad jobs when the tall form of the
head of the Northern Pacific doomed up over
the Convention, and plundering the peoples
treasury was very near thing for the friends
of the late county treasurer of Somerset, Mr..
Steward, and first selectman-andsta state COM
mitteeman Hayden of Madison. Then the
General must have been trying to stampede
Rawson and Chase, whose lowering about the
Convention BODIED no good, when he told those
dreadful blood-curdling stories OF 'bayoneting
men for daring to say what their fathers had
said''
But we give brief abstract of the speech:
Gen. Anderson sald The Democratic party
a minority suhiact n the 6arSion IF
of the majority. They call us Bourbons. Let
them beware. The title of YANKEE was one of
contempt hundred years ago; BOW it is
the proudest title in the world. They may yet
rause the dust-draggled term Bourbon to rise
10 honor. They had little to learn OF the pres
ent majority. The Democratic party had
brought few little states iu Jefferson's time
to be mighty Republic; that party (the Dem
CORA tic) had made this country an asylum for
the oppressed, it has handed down the rights
of states and protected states in their rights.
The first act of the present ruling party was
to invade the rights of the states The Demo-
cratic party never taught man elected to
office that it was his first duty to serve himself
The Democratic party has never elected a
President who consorted with Jim Fisks and
Boss Shepherds, nor Congress which plum
dered the national treasury, nor officers who
were accused Of burglarious entry into public
repositories for the purpose of destroying evil
dence of fraud. We have learned nothing of
Republican misrule and forgotten nothing of
Democratic honesty. We take issue with the
resolutions adopted by our opponents in Port
land. Nay, the resolutions take issue with
each other, In one breath they declare that
taxation must be equal TO be just, and in the
next ask for protective tariff. the most I'M
equal and therefore the most unjust form of
taxation. We take issue with this resolution,
and we take issue with the statement made by
a Maine representative in the same convention,
that the Democratic party proposes to assume
the rebel debt, and pay for the emancipated
slaves The Democratic party is on record on
these points, and the man who ignores that
record either attempts to mislead the people or
is grossly ignorant. The Democratic party
stands by the constitutional amendments and
by the settlement of the questions of the war
as it is, and demands now tariff for revenue
only, and an honest and economical admins
tration of the government.
Turning to the South, he said that since the
wal, those states had been oppressed by the
general government. The Democratic party
sustained the war. Through its aid the war
was success. The people of the South were
Inundated as no people have ever been. They
asked for mercy. Still the administration went
on step by step to crush that people, crushing
out social life. Homes had been desolated, the
people are held in bondage, men were bayoneted
for declaring the principles which their fathers
declared. The South was crushed down aud
broken hearted. The democratic party would
oppose this policy and bring the states to pros
perity.
The latter part of Gen, Auderson's remarks
were very bitter. but the bitterness seemed to
please the Convention, which roundly applaud
ed.
The thing was so nicely arranged that at the
opportune moment gentleman moved that the
Committee on Credentials be composed of the
State Committee, which was carried AS soon
as these gentlemen had retired, there began
calls for speeches. Elk Senator Bradbury was
first called, but with an appreciative smile and
a graceful wave of the hand he passed the
compliment. Next Hon. John G. Talbot was
called, but he was absent. 'Gov." Pillsbury |
came in during the calls to say something |
about credentials, and for moment the smile |
relaxed as he saw one more opportunity to |
speak his little piece gone forever. Now there |
came loud calls for Emery, Emery, followed by
Sweat, Sweat, with few faint voices for
Bradbury" Col. Bradbury, but the Bourbons
(excIse us General) drowned the cry of Brad.
bury with Emery, Talbot, etc. The truth is
Col. Albert W. has said too many funny things
about the old fellows to be a favorite. That
kind of carnal mind which voted the Demo-
cratic ticket A. w. B., while you were in the
war spelling in your smashing way Democratic
success, won't now be called sold stag" "ten
years. old corpse" old blue belly" and worse,
1t was only two years since that you advocated
the idea of the party suspending operations for
one year at least, that it might be purified Of
its sins by the fires of purgatory. President
Anderson advocated that idea two years ago,
(history) The Committee on Credentials came
in and the anxiety about speech making was
over. Mr.. Pillsbury reported as follows:
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