The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-27

some minutes before he could be heard.
Daniel F. Davis, the nominee for Governor,
is thirty-fve years old. He was born in Free
dom, and was educated at Kents Hill. In
1868 he enlisted in the District of Columbia
cavalry and soon after joined the First Maine,
serving there until the end of the war. After
the war he studied law with Lewis Barker
and was elected to the House in 1874 and to
the Senate in 1878. He was a private all
through the war; has made no claims and has
asked for no offices since.
BANGOR, June 26.-The Republican State
Convention assembled in Norambega Hall at
II o'clock this morning.
The convention was called to order by
George c. Wing of the State committee, who
read the call for the convention being
frequently interruptde by loud applause as
several articles of the call were read.
Rev. George W. Field, d. D., offered
prayer.
SPEECH BY HON. F. A. PIKE.
Hon. F. A Pike of Calais was nominated as
temporary chairman, and accepted the position
and returned thanks for the honor in the
following speech:
THE SPEECH OF f. A. PIKE.
This large attendance of the stalwart Re-
publican party of Maine augurs we'll for its
vitality and its future. Undismaye6 by the re-
suit OF last year, you come as though, like the
strong man of old, you have touched the
ground and by the friendly contact been
strengthened and renewed. The future of the
state is yours if you will but seize it with a
strong hand.
On the two great subjects now occupying the
public thought, the Republican party is right
thoroughly right. The question of finance
still continues its prominence; our party is
hospitable party; it is wise enough to tolerate
differences of opinion; it recognizes non-met-
alists as good Republicans, and bi-metalsts as
equally worthy of consideration. We all be-
lieve in the necessity Of paper money in the
ordinary transactions of life. Some think
this should be furnished as now, partly by
banks and partly by the government; some
that the banks should issue the whole, and
others that the government should have the
full benefit of furnishing the entire volume of
paper used in the country-and all equally
good Republicans. In non-essentials, tolera-
ton; but in essentials, unity. And when you
come to the point of having every dollar of
paper money in the country represent dollar
in coin, into which it can be converted on de-
mand, you then come to essentials, and upon
that point there should be unity. Let there
be no nonsense of convertible fiat money in
corporated into our platform.
We do not believe that stamping the word
uOiiai ou d piOCO VI pdpOi iudhOS IL q uOlldT
no matter who signs it, and we ought not to
say any such thing. You might as well take
one of them steers of Scion Chase's and
stamp it a new mich COW and by means of the
stamp expect to get mess of milk. L appre-
bend the milk pail would furnish new in
stance of melancholy "shrinkage."
The other great question lodging in the
public mind is the Southern question. In
some of its various aspects we have had the
Southern question for the better part of q
cantury. wv have had discussion and wa bav
had war. The North thought at one time that
large part of the matter was settled by the
mighty efforts of the great expounder-the
constitution, and now in war we have settled
itagain, by the mightier blows of our patriotic
soldiery, and still it is upon us.
hope l appreciate, and know you do, the
vigorous labors of our Congressman,
among whom we are proud to see men in the
second to those efforts which has been given
by the executive in his telling veto messages.
And yet, fellow Republicans l look with hope,
buoyant hope, of the future to the fact that
that great colored population SO long abused is
helping itself. They used to say that God
helped those who help themselves. The
exodus of the blacks from the Egyptian
bondage of the Mississippi valley is one of the
great facts of the day. l should be delighted
to see the Republicans of this distant State
words of sympathy, backed when called
upon by more substantial aid
God help the poor men spoiled of all the
fruits OF their labor who stand on the banks of
the great river waiting for the friendly aid of
the passing steamer. Nay, gentlemen, if those
in their flight should initiate their Jewish pr O.
totypes and spoil their neighbors, the Egypt
ians, they would have to go to somebody else
besides to find mourner for their loss, and
when the time comes that the Southern white
shall learn from necessity caused by his own
faulty in having driven off the laboring popu-
lation, what it means to labor, then the South
ern question will be well nigh settled, and set
tied forever. Meantime the country needs the
Republican party, and will not dispense with
its services.
The temporary organization was completed
by the appointment of William O. Holmes of
Vinalhaven and Mr., Hayes of Kittery, tenn
porary secretaries.
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
On notion the following committee was APP
pointed on permanent organization:
Androscoggin-W H. Rounds, Minot
Aroostook-B. j. Smith, Hodgdon.
Cumberland-Joseph A. Locke, Portland.
Hancock-Ambrose White, Bucksport.
Kennebec-D. c. Palmer, Gardiner.
Knox-R. T. Young, Union.
Lincoln-Dayid w. Chapman, Damarscotta.
Oxford-George L. Beal, Norway.
Penobscot-John E. Godfrey, Bangor
Piscataquis-Wm. Buck, Foxcroft.
Sagadahoc-James Barron, Topsham.
Somerset-A. n. Greenwood, Fairfield.
Waldo-Orin Learned, Durham
Washington-Wm n. Nash, Cherryfeld.
York-koscoe D. Powers, Saco.
STATE COMMITTEE,
The different county delegations having held
consultation, reported members of the State
Committee as follows:
ndroscoggin-George c. Wing.
Aroostook-Cyrus Powers
Cumberland-F. N. Dow.
Franklin-D. g. Bean.
Hancock-John d. Hopkins.
Kennebec-James G. Blaine.
Knox-Edward Sprague
LincolH-Edwn Fye.
Oxford-George A. Bisbee
Penobscot-C. A. Boutelle.
Piscataqus-S o. Brown.
Sagadahoc-J. W. Wakefield.
Somerset-L G. Lindsay.
Waldo-John G. Brooks
Observation-Disclosures Sargent
York-Benjamfn +. Hamilton,
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The following is the Committee on Resolrr
tons:
Androscoggn-Edmun Russell
Aroostook-Eben Woodbury.
Cumberland-S. j. Young
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