Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-13
SATURDAY NIGHT i!
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The Most Successful Rally of
the Campaign.
UNPRECEDENTED ENTHUSIASM,
Granite Hall CtOactled
to SaNOcXtiOn.
4ellGy'S Brilliant Speech.
Senator Blaine Receives a.
Tremendous Ovation.
BRIBERY CHARGES REFVTED
The Day of Jubilee is Come.
4Glley's Brilliant Speech.
Senator Blaine Receives a.
Tremendous Ovation.
BRIBERY CHARGES REFUTED !
The Day Of Jubilee is Come.

No conquering lekions. returning with their
victorious banners from distant battle fields
could feel prouder or happier than the Augusta
republicans on Saturday night 1t has been
hard fight and long fight. The campaign
of 1880 will go down into history Previous
to the meeting in the hall the torchlight COM
panies marched to the residence of Senator
Blaine and escorted the orators of the evening
to Granite Hall. Republican fireworks light
ed up the heavens. What a vast crowd had
assembled to do honor to the Maine Senator,
1t seemed as if every inch of room were oc-
cupied. In the aisles stood scores of men;
in the wings of the stage were over 200 per-
sons, while men even elbowed their way along
and perched on the outer rim of the platform.
hoarse, wild roar of applause welled up
from the living sea of faces, as Senator Blaine
and Hon. A. w. Tenney stepped upon the
platform. All through the evening the ex-
element was kept up. 1t seemed as if the
grey-haired men and matrons were trying to
vie with the younger portion of the audience
in their capacity and power for cheering.
Such meeting in sober, puritanic Augusta
was a surprise all around. George +. Weeks,
Esq, called the meeting to order, and intro
duced Hon. James G. Blaine as the chairman
Of the evening. This was signal for another
hurricane of cheers. When calm
stored Mr.. Blaine pleasantly remarked:
Sir Walter Scott once said that the secret
of presdng well at public meeting or dinner
is to say but little oneself, but to extract as
much conversation and happy repartee from
the guests as possible. l have here gentle
man to present to you who will address you
on the political situation,
HoN. A. w. TENNEY
of New York. [Great applause.1
Mr.. Tenney began by paying a graceful
tribute to the State of Maine and to her great
Senator | come to bring you hearty
God speed" from the State of New York.
We are terribly interested in this campaign
We want not 5000 majority for Davis, but we
want 1000 for him: and if we get it. the con-
test of 1880 ends. Applause.] There is
great difference between individual members
Of the democratic party and the party itself
remember very well that in the morning
time of 1861, when the drum beats sounded
the call to arms, there were legions of demo-
Gratis who were loyal to the flag. / speak of
the party not of the individuals. They say
they want a change. So we do But we want
change from republicanism to republican
ISM from HAYES to Garfield, and not from
Hayes to Hancock. Applause. The
speaker enlarged upon the record of the DEM
ocratic party for the forty years that it was in
power previous to the election of Abraham
Lincoln, contrasting it with the biography of
the republican party Buchanan declared
that the Nation had no right to coerce a SOW
ereign State. Lincoln said, ave have Ma
ton to save; we will save it inside the Con
stitution if we can, but we will save it any
way" Applause. The democratic party
opposed the enlistment of colOred troops
They said that they would disgrace the blue.
Gov. Andrews, that Henry of Navarro of
Massachusetts, politics, telegraphed to Gov
Seymour of New YORK, asking him if it
would be safe to send the 54th Colored Regi-
ment of Massachusetts, through the streets OF
New York, and Gov. Seymour answered
no II was not safe to march colored
regiment through the streets of city that
this year Is to give 10000 ma jOrity for Han
COCK Applause You may applaud, my
democratic friends, but we will bury that ma
lorty by 1000 majority in the rural districts.
Tremendous applause
The financial legislation of the country for
the last twenty years, and the history of the
greenback was then traced The excellent
management of American finances, and the
steady reduction of our national debt, were
compared with the monetary systems of Eng
and, France, Germany, and Russia. NO
european nation, with the exception OF little
Netherlands, for the last Is years. has paId
one dollar Of its debt. In these Is years.
many of them of depression, we have paid
SA9,OO0,000 Applause How much OF
lhis was paid by the South? Only one-tenth.
Inc remaining nine-tenths was paid by the
North. l believe that the men who made the
aeot should pay it. Applause. l think II
mat silent soldier who received Lees sword
az AppOmattox had selected some 500 rebel
leaders and swung them on gibbefs. we
should hear less of the solid South to-day.
Applause. The saving to the Nation IN
interest by the refunding act was vivid'y
brought out, and the advantages of the nation,
banking system. as contrasted with the o,u
and clumsy method of State banking, clearly
shown Let me tell YOU something that every
aemocrat who cheered for Hancock mo
ment ago will think lie when say 1t. me
greenback dollar which you despised in lsoo
The greenback dollar which you said would
not be worth the paper it was printed upon
good to-day: is worth its face TO-DAY IN
every mart and exchange in the civilized
world. 1t is worth as much in Liverpool as
IN New York: as much in Berlin. Vienna ana
oonstantinople as in Boston. Applause
Five years ago the democrats gained con.
trol Of the National House. Their hrst ACT nc,
was to discharge 60 Union soldiers ana MI
eirplaces with ex-confederates. Then tney
attempted to affix riders to the appropriate
olis for the army. They attempted 10 nun, ~.
= law passed in the administration OF Tue
great Washington. 1t was law wn n.
eaelled the whiskey insurrection IN 1884,