The Portland daily press., 1880-09-02
WEAVER.
The Greenback Presidential Can
didate at City Hall.
HE EGIvEs THE DEMOCRATS HOT SHOT.
Breaks His Tongue-Tie and. Tell About
Alabama

Breaks His Tongue-Tie and Tell About
Alabama.
City Hall was well filed with very large
audience last night, including many ladies'.
who were anxious to hear General Weaver,
the Greenback candidate for President. Mr..
A. Fl, Waite was chairman of the meeting and
Chandler's Band furnished excellent music.
Besides the we'll known Greenbackers there
were many of the principal Democrats on the
platform. All went lovely with them until
Gen. Weaver pitched into the Democrats and
then they took their hats and left
The first speaker of the evening was Gen.
Plaisted. His speech was devoted to the old
financial Greenback talk, that the Republi-
an party was pledged to class legislation; was
N favor of the money power; in the interest of
the few against the many. He said the
Southerners were an agricultural people, and
always to be relied on, and that the time
would come when the agricultural people of
the South will preserve the country in opposi-
tlon to the moneyed power of the North
General Weaver was next introduced by
Mr.. Waite. The general is capital speaker
and he woke up his audience up. He told
them ''you want to hear the truth tonight,
the plain unvanished truth, and am going to
tell it to you" And he did talk in way
that made the Democrats look sick. The
Republicans of course expected to be pitched
into, and the Democrats expected to enjoy
hearing it, but they had no idea that the goad
would be prodded into them and so deep.
The first part of his speech was financial,
holding both parties responsible for the legisla-
ton, and was the same as the general has de-
l1vered elsewhere. After referring to the
similarity of the Republican and Democratic
platform on the financial issue he said, this is
Greenback meeting and God helping me,
am going to give good honest Greenback adj
vice. If you want to put your foot on this So
called honest money business in Maine YOU
should vote for General Plaisted and do it be-
cause he is straightforward, honest Green
hacker, and nothing else The Warner bill
sleeps in Bayard's pocket (very faint applause)
and II you want silver, currency that is cur
rent. and has been from Abraham to Grant
you must trust in the Greenback party (GIeat
applause)
The stock in trade of both the old parties is
the ensanguined garment. All you have got
to do at the South to make man odious is to
say that man is radical and all you have
to do at the North to make a man odious is to
say that man was rebel sympathizer. The
war is over and the issues will be buried when
you put party in power whose motto is not
the bloody shirt.
Perhaps you think it strange but you could
not expect me to make anything but Green
back speech tonight and so am going to tell
you something about the South and it is going
to be the plain honest truth. In the first
place, l was never treated with more respect
in my life than in Alabama, all reports to the
contrary notwithstanding. Mr.. Randall, my
friend, understand was not, and if Randall
said he was not, it is so, for Randall is true as
a bishop. You find among the gentlemen
there that the best men are those who wore
the gray during the war, and the hardest men
to get along with are the young men who
were not old enough to go to the war when it
broke out, and the old men.
Now word in regard to labor at the South.
And here let me say the condition of labor in
this country is awful. In Vermont the opera
tlveS receive requests from the employers to
vote the Republican ticket. There are three
kinds OF force to apply to a man. One is by
the ballot, where, as at the South, in some
places voters put their ballots over window,
behind which is a man they don't see, who
tears up the ballot received if it don't suit,
and puts one in the box that does. Another
is method of telling the negroes and poor
whites they had better vote certain ticket or
not at all. In your mills in Maine and Massa-
chusetts the employers use kind of bulldoz-
ing that is the meanest kind on Gods foot
stool.
In regard to the coudition of labor at the
South the speaker eulogized the beautiful
country in Alabama, the climate and CROPS
The question however there was who gets the
benefit OF the contraction policy. The land is
owned by planters who rent it to the poor
whites and negro es and they give the foreign
merchants. mostly Jews. a lienson their crops,
and these fellows swindle them for their sup
plies. The consequence is that at the end of
the year the poor people are in debt There
are no schoolhouses in that country. They
rob the people of their education. (Applause)
They are doing it here. They have got the
British system of finance here, that is putting
Ill the land in the hands of few nabobs.
, Now aH to tho ballot at the South - This is
'he great cancer eating in their midst. (Here
number sof Democrats left the platform
My Democratic friends, said the speaker, do
near the truth, simple truth you should all
recognize Do you think those men in the
think it wrong to keep negroes from voting by
Iorce? That's the condition there. If the
1reenback party had free ballot and fair
count, we have got 10000 majority in Ala
oama, 100000 in Mississippi. Now how are
We going to remedy this evil. Not by the Re-
publican party. For twenty years that party
las been in power. 1t has had control of every
Southern state since the war, and been driven
,ut of every one of them. Now that party
las failed in this matter. If you elect Gar
ield you can't do any more than you have un-
Ter Hayes and 1 think he is very honest
nan. Now then if the Republicans can't get
| fair count and free ballot in the South let
somebody else cry. I don't agree with nv
riend Butler that the best way is to put the |
Democratic party in power to do it. That par
y at the North is not responsible for the state
,f things. but the Democratic party at the |
South. Therefore it wouldn't do Ito put the |
Democrats into power to try and do it, and |
7ou must come to new party, the Greenback |
'arty. loud applause.y The proper remedy !
or this evil is from within; from the South |
,rn people themselves. The government, the |
republicans say, is powerless. Then the |
tate government, the people of the states, |
must apply the remedy.
Two things are impossible at the South one |
IT which is to get the Democrats into the rad
cal party They sent letter round and said I
was there in Garfield's interest. 1t was a
)ase lie, but the intent was to make me out a |
adical for Republican can't have any stand
ng in the South, either socially or politically |
You can't get the negroes into the Democratic |
,arty. You can't get the old parties mixed up
here for they hate each other with devilish |
hatred. You must therefore look forward to |
uccess through new party. He then enum-
rated the well known men of the South who |
we're on the Greenback side, such as Gen. |
West OF Mississippi, Col. Harrod of Louisiana |
Jol. Lowe Of Alabama, and Gen. Withers of |
Mobile. AS soon as the Bourbons and bull |
lozers of the South find out that they cannot |
lave the power any. longer, then we have |
very chance on our broad platform believing |
hat the war is over and sectarianism should |
,e laid aside. He said at their convention in |
jhicsgo they buried the bloody shirt, the boys |
II gray and blue fired salute over its grave, |
md damned be the man who would open this |
rave. They placed both a Confederate and |
Yankee soldier on their ticket, the only ma |
ional party that has candidate on the stump !
de pitched into the associated press because it |
allied to speak of the great meetings of 10000 |
md 10000 people he addressed, and said in the |
south it was controlled by the bulldozer |
md in the North by the money power
A Mr.. Wright then addressed the meeting, a
nan who is a resident of Canada West, an |
1nglishman whom the Democrats had the |
mpudence TO bring to Maine to instruct Irish |
Americans as to how they should VOTE
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
THE CARY CONCERT