Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-13
MAINE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
REPUBLICAN JUBILEE.
City Hall, Portland, the Scene of an
Immense COncOurse.
Senators Hamlin and Blaine and other
Distinguished Men Present.

PORTLAND, September II. The republi-
cans had a jubilee meeting at City Hall to-
night, which was jammed full. On the plat
form were Senators Iiamlin and Blaine, ex-
Cows. Perham, Dingley and other distin-
guished men. Hon. Thos. b. Reed presided
and opened with stirring speech He con-
graduated his hearers on the great victory
Just won. lie introduced Senator lIamlin.
The veteran leader was in excellent spirits
and spoke to the same point for 30 minutes.
He expressed great qualification at meeting
here such an immense Blaine and Hamln
ring. [Grcat laughter. lie closed by say
ing that, as a man who was just about to re-
tire to private life and older than most of
them, he urged them to keep up the organic
alton which had won this victory and go for
ward to victory in 1880, when we intend to
elect my colleague President. Great
cheering.
Ex-Gov. Dingley then spoke briefly, and
was followed by Senator Blaine, who was re-
ccived with reiterated applause. He quoted
Gov. Van Zandts remark that the Dutch
settled New York and the Yankees settled
the Dutch, and said the greenbackers wiped
out the democrats and the republicans wiped
out the greenbackers. 1t was very remarka-
bic that the late campaign, following such an
excited Congressional session, should have
ignored every issue raised there and been
fought on issues already settled. He dis
ousso d tho lot 70 nd its action IN the
supervisors bill, and deserted that bill. He
said there is no Southern State which has
many United States troops in it as there are
in Maine. He asked his audience to imagine
two soldiers marching against the counties of
York and Cumberland to intimidate voters.
lie spoke of his own action on that bill and
said there was proof on the Senate table Of
eighteen political murders in Louisiana last
falls election. He discussed the different
views of the two parties as exemplitied in the
New York democratic platform, and said
strongly that if a state does not protect its
citizens in every right. the government of the
United States must do it. Government would
now protect every citizen abroad, but he
not go abroad to get protected.
lie next discussed the charges of corrup-
ton in the state campaign, and said there had
been no campaign for twenty years whose
records he is not ready to lay open. The
State committee this year has expended less
than eight thousand dollars in the whole
campaign, and all for Legitimate campaign
purposes. 1t was not money which whipped
the enemy, but the hope of every votor to
get honest money for his country. The mon
ey expended were honest dollars which came
from men who were able to give it, He charged
that the opposition expended five dollars to
his one We stand at the head of a new era
| of republican rule. No six hundred thousand
! people who ever lived were better governed
than the people of Maine during the last
twenty-five years of the so called republican
misrule Maine has, in that time, increased
in wealth more than in the whole time since
the discovery of the country. In eighteen
wears of national misrule, the exports have
been larger by thirteen hundred millions, than
| from the Declaration of Independence to that
time. and the increase of wealth in the coun-
try since the inauguration of Lincoln is great
er than all the accumulation previous to that
event. Under republican rule, the United
States has achieved the grandest results OF
| its history. The financial question is set
| tied, and the people intend to show that re-
| bellion worth putting down is worth keeping
down, and they don't intend that this repub-
! lie shall be handed over to the people who
tried to destroy it, What do 70 suppose they
TIL ought of the late Maine election Which
side was JEFF. Davis on Which side was
Robert Toombs on Like an old lady who
kept boarders, he wants TO find out what the
rebels don't like, and give them plenty of it.
The meeting closed with three cheers for
the republican party and three more for the
speakers, while the baud struck up ''Hail to
the Chief