The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-29
Grand Republican Rally.
CITY HALL CROWDED LAST NIGH

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CITY HALL CROWDED LAST NIGHT.
Eloquent Speeches by the Hon. w. w.
Rice and Congressman Burrows.
City Hall was crowded last evening on the
occasion of the grand Republican rally at
which Congressman Burrows and the Hon.
w. w. Rice had been invited to speak.
William III. Plummer, Esq, called the
meeting to order, and introduced Clarence
Hale, Esq, as presiding officer. Mr. Hale on
taking the chair spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF CLARENCE HALE, ESQ.
If any man thinks that the Republican
party has finished its career, or is approaching
the end let him look for moment into this
hall this evening, and see the multitude OF
earnest faces of men and women who are in
terested in the discussion of Republicans prin-
cipleS. Let him look all through the State
and see the numbers of Republican who last
wear were too little hecdful of their political
duties, but who this year are awake to the
issues of the hour, and are not only interested
in the principles of our party, but are helping
to swell the tide that shall on the Sth of
September carry those principles to victory.
Of the men too who last year were temporarily
alienated from the Republican party by the
alluring picture of new party,a party of puri-
ty and reform, hosts are carefully rejecting on
the ways, and are seeing that they are only
allying themselves with the baser part of the
Democratic party, while the purest and best
part of that party are keeping out of the fight,
and so the honest Greenbacker of last year is
set to thinking. He sees that resumption has
not brought the expected ruin, and has come
hand i'll hand with prosperity. Thoughtful
ness among the people means Republican
victory. The delusion that last year preyed
upon mems minds is this year dying of being
exposed to the air. Thoughtful discussion of
the principles involved in this campaign is to
bring us to right verdict, for they are princi-
pies that involve the honor and perhaps the
life of the Nation.
1 have the pleasure of introducing to you
the Hon. w. w. Rice Of Massachusetts,.
SPEECH OF HON. W. W. RICE.
Mr.. President and Republicans of Potland:-
L congratulate you this magnificent gather
ing. L have been in this state for few days
past, and if the entire state is as / have found
those parts / have been in, the victory predict
ed by you, Mr. Chairman, will be won. ZAP 4
plause.) Maine never weighed so much be-
fore. You are fighting the great fight of 1880,
and other states look at you. There have been
three epochs in our history. The first when
the constitution was adopted. The second in
1882, when South Carolina undertook to nulli-
fly certain acts of Congress, and the last, was
Wnen IN lSUU the southern Cn1e1S went out OF
Congress to to try the. issue of battle. In every
case the battle has been ON the question of
whether the state or the nation should be SUI
preme. And now for the fourth time the at
tempt is made, and the question is, shall the
nation collect its revenues, and protect and
preserve the purity of the ballot box. In 1882
a law was passed, drafted by Daniel Webster,
which gave to the national officers the right of
trial in the courts of the United States, flor
acts connected with the discharge of their Of
tinn and hoe mad CfJn 1,nd
SINCE 1 read now from the report of Com
missioner Raum for the year ending June,
1877: "Whole number illicit stills seized in
the Southern states, 24S5; in other states, 1853;
number of arrests made in the Southern states,
5,2S1 in all other states 141'' and since April,
1877, 10 officers have been killed in the South
ern and 30 wounded, while discharging their
duty as officers of the United States, and it
further appears that the great embarrassment
encountered in collecting the revenue, was the
many suits brought against the officers, and
yet Democratic Congressman moved to re-
peal that law, drafted by Daniel Webster.
The Democrats attempted by placing "riders"
ON the appropriation bills to do away with
supervisors Of election The Democrats say
that there are no national elections; the Re-
publcans say that the members of Congress
are national officers, and their elections ma
tional elections. This question was settled by
the first Congress held under the constitution.
and by the very men who framed it, and
James Madison may be cited as our authority
that to give to the state such an authority is
to destroy the general government, and to an
null the constitution. l have shown, l think,
that the supervisor law is constitutional. Is
it desirable? The State of Mississippi has
little larger population than the State of
Maine. Last fall you threw 10000 votes,
Mississippi $4,000; and Maine has 10000
voters, Mississippi $4,000, but the blacks are
little in the majority, as they have $1,000, to
$4,000 white voters. And you remember the
Chisolm massacre, and who was he? the oppo-
sition candidate to the Democratic bull
and so successful was this system shat in one
congressional district but II, and in another
(the 4th) district but q opposition votes were
cast. Gentlemen, won't Mississippi bear a
little looking after? (Applause.) Yes, and if
it takes not one regiment, but many regiments,
let them be sent. (Applause.)
This black majority must have the right to
vote, and it must be made possible for one man
with black face to be elected to Congress
from Mississippi to represent the $1,000 voters
of his own race. (Applause.)
We are for Cancellation, but not on the Yazoo
plan, (applause) and we do not thank South
Carolina and Mississippi bull-dozers for sending
their packed committees to Boston to look |
after our voters to see that they are not intmi |
dated. History tells us that James Douglass |
did a noble deed when he made of his arm a
bolt and saved his queen, but President Hayes |
did nobler when he resisted the Democratic |
demand, rolled back the rebel tide and saved |
the supervisor law, (applause) and by saving |
tIdG ldW Sdlu tllO uIuoU COilCOuO
to the North an honest election. (Applause.) |
Now word in regard to the financial ques-
ton. The Republican party has distinct |
platform on that question, applause(, and IA |
vors a dollar either coin or redeemable in coin.
Applause.) AS at present constituted a ma
iority of the members of Congress are from the
ex-slave States, and what is the record of the
South financially? Look at the list of South |
ern States that are bankrupt and repudiating
their debts and of Southern cities that shed
fhair p1,o pta oS
shed their SKINS Uaughter.) There is no use |
in shouting ''carpet-bag States" for are Vir- |
ginia and Tennessee carpet-bag States? Green |
hackers demand currency redeemable in |
nothing, nowhere, never, and L regret to say |
that the two great leaders are General Butler !
and Wendell Phillips, both Massachusetts |
men. But some people think that Butler is |
not serious; that he is merely masquerading |
under greenback dress Qaughter), but Mr.. |
Phillips is an example of the fact that great
genius is too often allied to madness. laugh |
ter.) If the money question be left to Congress |
the volume of currency will rise and fall as the |
caprice of Congress Dictates But as the tide
rises and falls, as beats the great heart of the |
the ocean, so the volume of currency should |
rise and fall in response to the beating of the
great heart of business. (Applause) Banks |
and railroads all appliances of modern civil |
lization, are envolved from the necessities of |
business. The government has no authority to |
issue greenbacks in time of peace and make |
them legal tender, as your own honored Sena- |
tor Fessenden Gapplausel held, and there is no
doubt Tut the decision of the Supreme Court |
will be the same. (Applause) AS to this ques-
ton of the depression of business, how comes it |
if the Republican party is responsible for it |
that England and France and Germany have |
suffered at the same time? Did the Republi- |
can party cause it there? Naughter)
Congressman Burrows came in at this point |
and Mr.. Rice closed with an eloquent reference |
to the resumption of specie payments. He |
then introduced Congressman Burrows.
Mr. Burrows came forward and was received |
with applause.
SPEECH OF THE HON. j. c. BURROWS.
After referring to the national character of the |
contest he said that he was glad that the extra |
session of Congress was held while we have |
President who will stand firm as did President |
Hayes for the right. tApplause) am glad |
that the South is solid, it shows where the |
Democrats are. The men of the South claim |
that the great war, the late mighty contest, |
settled but one thing, and that is that they got
licked. The solid South demands the repeal |
of the election laws. What is the duty of the |
supervisors of election? They stand at the !