Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-06
Enfhnsiasm in the East.

The fourth and fifth districts are the most
enthusiastic portions of the State. Iner
outdoor meetings are immense and their In
door meetings are jams. At great meeting
in Houl,on the other evening, Capt. Boutelie
said:
81 have Just returned from Central Aroos-
took and the watch-fires are burning on every
hillside as they have not done oeloie iof
twenty-five wears The people In this sec
ton are thoroughly aroused ana mean ~ uo
their whole duty. As Maine will lead OH IN
the November election, so Aroostook VIII
lead off in redeeming this district at the COM
ing election"
A despatch to New York paper last week
said:
Monster meetings, outdoor and indoor,
are being held BY the republicans every gay
in Eastern Maine. Rebel utterances ana
threats, rebel banners in Washington ana
the presence of the Fort Pillow outcher'
Chalmers, and Northern traitor. Jonh H.
Fellows. have aroused the people OF Maine
as never before since the days of the reoeiilon.
Gen. Fitzpatrick spoke with Mr.. Blaine at
Ranpor MONDAY night, went by train 100
miles the next day, and spoke in the morning
at Danforth: drove with fast team 10 miles,
and was met at Princeton by troop OF cav
alry and a battery of artillery and grand
concourse of people, and spoke two hours
took a special train and came to CALAIS ana
spoke to over 5000 people. This is sam
Die of one DAYS work. Everywhere he meets
with a grand ovation. Greeley republicans
and old soldiers cheer him to the echo, and
with him are solid now for Garfield. He and
| Ingersoll are to speak at grand mass meet
! ings all next week. Democrats and green
hackers cannot understand the enthusiasm and
/ fire that characterize the meetings, and SIM
ply stand and wonder, powerless to prevent
the stampede of their people to the banner OF
Garfield and Davis. The republican victory
! in Maine will be something to be talked OF for
years to come.
| The Maine correspondent of the New
York Times writing of the eastern districts
SAYS:
| If the contest is harder in these eastern
| districts than in the western part of the
State, it is apparent that the republican
camp-fires burn enough brighter to balance
the frantic efforts of Ladd & Company.
| That was truly monster demonstration
which greeted Senator Blaine in Norombega
Hall last night. and they tell me it is but a
repetition of those which have gone before.
when Senator Logan and others have ap-
peared here. find the organization of the
republicans here much more complete, and
the enthusiasm apparently much greater than
elsewhere. The masses have caught the
spirit of their leaders thoroughly. In this
city there are four or five uniformed com
panies and leagues of republicans, who can
turn out 500 young men. and they do turn
out almost daily for campaign work. Those
companies are composed Of intelligent and
reputable voters, differing in this respect
radically from the riff-raff that goes to swell
democratic rallies and parades. 1t is very
clear. Judging from the public demonstra-
tions, that the respectable men who were flu
sionists last year, are tired of their company
and will vote stealthily, if at all, on that
side, while the republicans are more out.
spoken and determined than ever, because
they feel the humiliation of abiding under
fusion domination, as they have done fol
several years in this section.