The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-10
WHsTBRooK.
Hon. Eugene Hale at Cumberland
Mills.
GRAND OPEN AIR MEETING AND
TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION.

~ AsopuoHcan rally at Cumberland Mills
last evening was one of tho ,,rcas+ and most
enthusiastic no1;+;o,, ,a.. 80. ,so,a :,
xyro,+h,, r'"i meetings ever heio III
eo.Dtook. AT ) O'Clock crowd OF about 700
or ooo people were in and about Browns Hall
It was obvions that NOT NOVA +han a +h;ra ~
the audienoa go, -. ~ 80" ~
'iio -'ouieice could be got into the hall, so the
meeting was called to the band-stand. near the
railway station. and n This nlaca tho oror,a
tool, nm Tic ., o INV"
"i'h' ne"ueo ny inc paho ana
company oil from sixty to eighty torches from
Saccarappa.
Leander y.,o,.;xo H. n.,
l.. - en'lne' Esq'' caileo the meeting
10 ordef John E. Warren, ESQ.,, was made
chairman, and introduced Hon. Eugene Hale
who was received with oroo+ o,,.l,'.;.. -.,
held tho ord;o,,oa =; "sn So en'nus'as"' anu
49, ~ ""uiohce III perfect attention through
out the two hours of his address.
Mr.. Hale began by saving that be sbonld
talk largely of the standing enaco ,nb;ni, tio
Democratic party presents TO the con,'trN III III
should pay little attention to the Graonhaoi1
party as separate ORGANIZATION becanse a,,orn
other States, and has been swallowed mn hv
"fuson,'' which means Democracy in Ma;n ~
II will make no fioure i'm anv State this 80 ~
the North, and the canvass which its Prss;da, az
tial candidate, Gen. Weaver. has inst mada in
Alabama shows that the Democratic nartv
tnor6 nave aDniipd the mathOdc m no
Greenback vote which have almost extirnata,
and that the Greenbac< nartv.
in all the South will never he heard Of ama;,y
Hundreds and thousands of honest men in
Maine who were led away from their old nartu
two years ago in the hope of finding a newer
and purer party, have found this on. and that
is the reason that they are coming hack in
every county and town in the State, They
were taken by their leaders to the omtnosts ~
the Democratic camn and rofmsed - ~ VI
In the Democratic position this veay Is ayarv'
thing to repel an honest voter--nothino ~ =;
vite. Its campaign is sham. it's platform a
cheat and it's candidate decoy. They are the
last resort of a party which has tried every
device known in American notifies. and has
always failed They tried soldier candidate
in 1864, an old line Democratic saint in 1868. a
Republican editor and politician in 1879 the
chief of Democratic strateoists and tactic;sns
in 1876, and now thew have come ont as a
Union and soldiers party and set nm a Union
general as their Presidential candidate. The
honest Democrat is dazed in irving to follow
his leaders in their desperate race for power
and office. The honest Greenbacker IS dis.
gusted at the alliance offered to him bv a Marty
which requires an act of oblivion every four
wears: and the honest Renublican secs in averv
Shift and turn of his old enemy new reasons
for distrust and opposition.
Nosoldier will be caught by Gen. Hancock's
He was algood soldier and fought
as his education and instincts taught him He
was from iova State and had no fnn, It'll -
wards rebellion. But this did NOT Nominate him
Find me an old line Democratic noiitician in
all Cumberland county who is now shonting
for Hancock and talking about GettysburS
who ever uttered a word of praise for him
when he was fighting the battles of his coun-
try and will own that the Democrats have be-
come a soldiers party. l challenge the Argus
or any other fusion newspaper to produce the
man.
Mr.. Hale went on to show that Gen. Han
cock has been o favorite candidate in Southern
Democratic circles ever since his adhesion was
given in to Andrew Johnson's policy in 1867.
He was the only Union general who whan tho
roll was called and Sheridan and Tbomes and s,,
Canhv rafmsod a. no anu toias anu
took The service in Ion;Si.us %S u9 9Toy, luz,
honefni candidate at tho ~ +ha sO,'ti
ever since, - '"o oo"'''
Mr.. Hale described tho scana at C;no;,ro+;
where after the nominat;o bod haa,, ,,,nSn
and the convention waited for soma man 40
come forward and renresent ito raal Sn;rt ~
Northern Democrats gave wav 70 WaS e Han rro
ton. who promised that a solid South should
elect the Candidate. When II doeS th;S sa;J
the sneaker. II will ouide him and cont ol %;m,
and own him as If did pierca and Rnchanan
and as it would have done Win McCieiian Il
it had elected him. Tn ali these things naonja
this wear see the DANCER Of entrnstipU IN
Damocrat;o nortv With Io,,,o, r. s.asaas 'i,o
constant menace to the conntrv II MANAGES a
fair ballot.
The sneaker discussed the nosition of tho
Democratic party ON this Question. it's nndv1
inc hostility 10 a fair ballot at The south ond
referring to Cen. Gar6eld,s late deciora t;on in
favor of nrotectino the coIorod noonIa of 81 .
South in fine eyercise Of thar riobtS sold +hat
he hoped soon to see an administrafion which
would invoke every mower in its hands tn co.
cure such protection and that wearisome and
eybansting &c wera noit;ooI onntaSts 10 $50
ed to see no rest for mems hands or hearts az
feet until in every township. in every STATE
where the fiao tIoats II shall no sofe }or ~ q
hnmblest voteT while or black To vote met aS
he chooses With tho Dor ps s~.. IL; in
power, everybody knows that this is impossi-
BILE.
Besides this, the Democratic party menaces
all our material interests. The speaker dis
cussed quite fully the attitude of the Demo-
cratic party upon the tariff question, and the
evils that would come to Maine from free
ships and tariff for revenue only, He be-
lieved in protection for the American laborer.
and in all the prosperity, peace and happiness
that such protection ensures to the laborer.
Democracy menaces our present condition
financially. and the prosperity that has come
with resumption. 1t is not safe to trust the
bring our currency up to its present state. and
put our national credit at the head of the
worlds list.
This party also, said Mr.. Hale. menaces our
present safe revenue system 1t seeks to re-
duce or to DESTROY the revenue derived from
whiskey and tobacco, and to mt the burdens
where our people would directiv feel them, If
has killed TWENTY-FIVE reyenue officers in the
last year-men who were irving TO enforce
these tax. in the South.
All these things, and many more, are deterr-
ing the honest. patriotic voter from anv
course which will help to nut the Democratic
party i'm power.
Mr. Hale here touched unop the fusion in
this State, and particularly in this CONGRESS
sional District, and said that the only real band
between the Democrats and Greenbackers
was their participation i'm and endorsements Of
the State Steal The old heads OF the Demo,
cratic party hated to swallow this INIT the
Greenback leaders had mt on the screws
and the Argus and other Democratic naners
have now adopted all the frauds perpetrated
by Gov. Garcelon and his Council.
Mr.. Hale proceeded to give history of the
fraud from its inception to the day when it was
detected aud foiled. He recited the LEADING
events at Augusta eulogizing in GLOWING
words the Judges of the Snpreme Court and
described the labors of the Tnvestioatino Com
mittee which was raised on his motion He
said that every step taken in the Hale Com.
mittee was upon full Consultation with its
Democratic and fusion members, and that
the report which the COMMITTEES had made
was assented to, so far as it's statement of facts
went, by the opposition members and
he adiured his hearers to read for themselves
both the committee reports and the so-called
defence of Garcelon and his Councii. IF mon