The Portland daily press., 1878-08-01
After some discussion the matter W;

Alter some discussion the matter was
dropped and the convention adjourned.
In the afternoon the convention was called
TO order about Las o'clock. Mr.. M. G. Dow
announced that the city hall had been secured
through the courtesy of an alderman, without
price. The alderman was Mr.. Cushman and
Mr. Todd surmising who was the nan moved
that he be called to the platform. This was
done and Mr.. Cushman advanced modestly
and took his seat upon the platform. Some
one then suggested that Mr. Eli Edgecomb of
Saco, aged 80 years, for rs years Democrat
(having been born in that faith) for the last
two years a Greenbacker, be invited to the
stand and it was the unanimous sense of the
convention. Mr. Edgecomb accordingly sat
upon the platform. Dow of Gray, Hobbs of
Wells and Bradbury of Saccarappa were then
appointed committee to receive, sort and
count votes for Representative to Congress
and then the committee on resolutions reported
as follows through Mr.. Higgins:
I've hail with gadness the awakening of
the masses of our citizens to the danger and
ruin which are forced upon us by unjust
financial legislation.
I'VE endorse as sound. judicious aud Just
Tue platform adopted by our State convention.
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honestly labor for public prosperity, the inn
portance Of our party issues aud distnctness of
our aims make it our duty to avoid nominating
any man for office who is not openly declared
10 ms opposition to the present monetary
system of the country.
The resolutions were adopted without dis
sension.
The nomination of candidates then COM
menced. A. G. Andrews of Cornish wanted
true and faithful man. He thought the
Greenback party had hard fight before them
and they might as well understand it now The
one man tried and found faithful, who was a
Greenbacker when it required courage to be
Greenbacker, wss Elliott King of Portland.
Dr.. Barker of Bddeford nominated Edward
FL. Cove Of Biddeford and said that any
eulogy by him would be utterly faulty of the
merits Of Mr.. Cove. Mr. G. N. Weymouth of
Biddeford seconded the nomination. He said |
land he used the standard of Thomas Jeffer-
son filling it out little to suit more modern |
times) that Mr.. Cove vas capable, was honest |
and never drank. He was capable because he |
wrote an article in the Washington Gazette |
four years ago predicting the present Green |
back movement. He was honest because all |
men, women and children who had dealings |
with him trusted him. As to his told abstinence |
the speaker himself knew that from the time
he was an infant up to the present he had |
drank nothing, is nothing Intoxicating.
Mr. M. G. Dow began to second Mr..
Andrews idea of King, but he soon digressed
and assaulted the ROthschilds and their ilk,
winding up with an outburst of rhetoric as
follows: "The banker is a man who has /
'usty gold dollar in the back of his head and
whose eyes are like toad's in the night"
This sentiment called forth loud applause.
Mr.. d. w. Proctor then announced the name
# Charles E. Clifford, and he fondly thought
f he was nomin ated he would be elected.
A motion to take an Informal ballot was
lgreed to and the convention proceeded to vote
with the following result: