The Portland daily press., 1879-10-30
GovERNoR-ELECT DAVIS.
His Speech at the Faneuil Hall Meeting.

His Speech at the FaneuiI Hall Meeting.
AT the Republican meeting in Faneuil Hall,
Thursday evening, Governor-elect Davis Of
this state was received with great enthusiasm
After being introduced, he spoke as follows:
All eyes are turned upon Massachusetts, this
campaign. 1t is not question of men or party
OF prejudices, but of what is right and best. In
this country there are no privileged classes; no
men have any special claim upon public atten-
ton. Throw men aside, and do what is right
and best. Down in Maine we have been dis
cussing the greenback question. Last year
46, 900 men there voted the greenback ticket
and some of them honestly believed they were
right. For the last year we have been discuss
ing that question, in our fields, IN our shops
and on the sea. Last year, in the hard times,
and under the short discussion, the people de-
feated the Republican party. But, after years
discussion, they this year defeated the demo-
Gratis by $4,000, and the greenbackers by 1000
They have concluded that the financial princi-
pies of the Republican party are true, and best
for the country
You have had many conventions and adopted
many platforms, SO the campaign seems very
complicated. The people of the nation are
looking to the old State of the Puritans to see
that she stands right on national issues. In
this campaign the cobweb of state issues is
swept aside, and the great issue of state sover-
demanding the careful attention Of all the peo-
pie. Taking up next the question of finance,
Mr.. Davis related the origin of the greenback,
the necessity of its use, the dangers of its con-
tinuance, the democratic opposition to its
issuance, the credit-strengthening and resump
ton acts and the success Of resumption. He
then passed to the labor question, speaking as
follows:
The Republican party is the friend of the
laboring man. The Democratic party is made
up three-fourths ofEthe Democrats of the South,
who only a short time ago a'led Northern Ia
borers "mudsills,' who kept four million of
people i'll bondage. The Republican party is
the only party which has given the poor boys
as good chances as the rich mems boys 1t is
the only party which protects the poor against
the pauper labor of Europe, which protects the
iron industry, which keeps i'll motion the thou
sand spindles of Massachusetts,, which has es-
tablished the homestead law and which has
maintained these principles against the Demo-
cratic and Greenback parties. LII the tariff
proposed in the last Democratic Congress
could be carried, it would reduce the wages of
every laboring man in the Union.
One of the United States laws is that United
States soldiery in order to keep peace and to
| repel foreign invaders and to protect citizens,
| should have the right to be present at voting
| places. But they were put under great restric-
| lions and were not allowed to interfere with
| any mans voting. There were also provisions
were made for marshals, deputy marshals and
| supervisors. In 1868 there were 30 900 fraudu-
lent votes cast in the city of Now York. 1t
startled the nation and the world. Our insti-
| buttons were in danger Congress in alarm
passed the supervisor law to have two super
| visors, one of each party,to prevent fraudulent
| voting. Then came in power a party which
| had been out of office for twenty years, which
| saw that unless the super visor law was repeal
| ed the great state of New York would go Re-
| publican in $780, The Democratic party, con-
| trolled by the South said the law must ba re-
| peaed or the government should be starved to
death. The Republican party replied, I'VE
| have had the same proposition from you years
| ago only then you proposed to shoot the gov
eminent to death. Now you propose to starve
it to death, and of the two ways the last is the
| meanest'' The democrats then pass
ed their bills, five of them, and every
| White House vetoed by President Hayes.
| loud applause. You have not started the
! bloody-shirt question. They started it. 1t is
their fault that it is before the country Now
| don't let the national question be overshadowed
| by any little state matters. We thought we
had settled forever the question of state SOW
| ereignty but now the members OF Congress say
| they believe just as they did before the war. A
senator from Georgia says he is only an am
bassador to Congress. In 1882 John Z. Calhoun
| advanced the doctrine of notification, and
! President Andrew Jackson said if he resisted
national authority he would hang him, APP
| plause Nothing more was heard OF state
| rights till 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was
| elected President. Then the South said our
government was but compact, and we fought
It out in the war, and the last year at Appc-
mattox told the world that the question was
| forever decided, that we were nation. APP
| plause The Republican party says that it
| shall remain forever settled. The laboring men
| did more than their share in the war, and some
| of our foreign citizens also fought well for the
| nation Some of the democrats also came out
| from their dead past and fought with u.s. For
that they should be honored. The blacks of
| the South, 100000 of them, came up and helped
| the country The mission of the Republican
party is not done till the blacklist Republican
| has free exercise of all his rights as well as the
| whitest democrat.
| The nation says it cares nothing for the little
| state issues here, but it wants Massachusetts TO
| do its duty in the great national question OF the
| hour The solid South is i'll favor OF the Butler
movement it was in favor OF the greenback
movement in Maine, of the Kearney movement
in California but it was beaten there and IN
| Colorado, Iowa and Ohio Now the democratic
party turns to Massachusetts Tor vote IN favor
| of the solid South, but the internal dogma OF
state rights should be buried so far out OF sight
that in 1880 they cannot find it.
Portland District Preachers Association.
The first Portland District Ministerial Asso-
citation, for the present conference year, met
at South Berwick the 9th, 2Sth and 29th inst.
A large number of preachers with their pre-
siding elders were present and the meeting was
one of unusual interest. Rev. P. Jaques was
chosen chairman and Rev. I. Luce secretary.
Preach ing was made speciality, this meeting
occupying considerable more time than usual
at such gatherings, and the sermons were of
a superior order.
Rev. S. L. Wetherbee preached Monday