The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-21
WARD SEVEN.


Over $500 people assembled at the foot Of
Vaughan street last evening to participate i'll
throwing to the breeze Davis campaign flag;
and if we may judge by the enthusiasm mani
tested by one and all, this banner ward of our
city will heap additional honors upon itself at
the coming election.
temporary platform had been erected
upon which was Chambers band, and the
speakers of the evening. After several selec-
tons by the band, W. H. Plnmmer, Esq,
chairman of the Republican city committee,
called upon Mr.. E. r. Morse to preside This
appointment gave satisfaction to many OF the
young men in the audience, as it evinced de-
sire to put some of the work of the campaign
upon the younger portion of the party.
After making an apology for the non-ap-
pearance of the speakers who had been ex-
pected, Mr.. Morse said
l am not speech-maker, but L trust you
will not be impatient if l inf1ict few brief
sentences upon you, however devoid of inter-
est they may prove. They tell us the Republi-
can party having fulfilled its mission, is about
to give up the ghost and that it is time for
those who have shared its triumphs hitherto to
arrange their Grape, and set their house in Or
der. Well, if this is true, / think you will all
agree that the indications all point to an UNI
usually lively funeral, and gathering OF
mourners that will be comforting to the imme-
diate relatives of the deceased Even here in
Ward 7, where q campaign banner has been
unfurled, we are greeted with large and de-
monstrative audience This is not symptom
of approaching dissolution, but of renewed
vigor. When the guns of the rebellion sent
their echoes rolling around the globe, the re-
Spouse awakened in other countries was, Your
doom is sealed! You have no standing army,
no soldiers trained to the art of war, and your
immense resources cannot be directed for lack
of statesmen equal to the emergency" The
War proceeded, however, legions of fighting
men were obtained, and the demand for great
minds found them ready to act. Who does not
remember when President Lincoln repeatedly
issued his calls for three or five hundred thou
sand more defenders of that flag and of this
Nation. how they sprang to the rescue, until
in the harvest fields of the North, the decrepid
old men, and women and children gathered in
the crops, or left them ungathered, to be
buried by the SHOWS of winter. 1t was mys-
terry to the Old World where these men came
from, or how they could be spared by the hun
dreds of thousands from active industry and
not create actual want as a result. They
forgot that we had been schooled for four gen.
erations to trust ourselves, and that every SOL
dier in that grand army was unit in the
fabric of this great government. The Repub-
lican party is, and ever has been, national
ticular: Composed of the steady, trustworthy
elements of the population, it re-
quires great need to develop its strength
When the issue is obscure or unimportant
there is marked absence of the rank and
file from the polls, and for time it appears
that we are suffering depletion. But let a
living issue arise, and the stream swells to
flood, and after the battle is fought and won
our opponents learn the inmate and permanent
strength of the grand old Republican party.
Onr anamiaS mistake abilities did
foreign powers the ability of the nation in the
time of civil war. The unquiet days of war and
waste ended in the restoration OF our national
ity. The question now is, not is the Union
worth fighting for, but having been preserved
at an enormous cost in life, limb and wealth is
the waste of that struggle worth paying for.
And we are face to face on this issue with the
very men whose misdeeds made war possible
ty, and prolonged the contest after it was in
augurated. We shall teach these men that
the people look upon in the same light and
will judge with equal severity the States
rights cOpperheads of 1862. and the States
rights repudiators of 1879. History will record
that this government under the guidance oil
the Republican party keeps its word, and pays
its bonds, despite the rant of labor reformers
who never performed an honest days work;
long-haired spiritualist teachers who seek to
overturn every moral and social virtue or dis
appointed politicians who never have been
able to impress their fellow citizens with their
magnificent abilities. But L am talking too
much This is the banner Republican ward of
Portland, and as goes Ward Seven so goes the
city, the Pine Tree State and ultimately the
Union, for an honest dollar, honestly earned,
and honestly applied to the liquidation of an
honest debt. This is the issue, pure und sim
pie, and in this sign we will conquer.
At the conclusion of his remarks a fine
campaign flag, 2Ox12 feet, bearing the name of
Daniel f. Davis for Governor was thrown to
the breeze amid the cheers of the crowd, dis
charge of rockets and music by the band.
The chairman then introduced Hon. Geo.
w. Woodman, who held the close attention OF
his hearers as he alluded to the issues before
the people. Being commercial man he
spoke from that stand point and presented
telling points in clear and forcible manner.
Then three rousing cheers for Daniel f.
Davis, our next governor, were given, and the
people dispersed.