Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-23
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Granite Hall Rings to the Flo.
ouence Of Loring Farr. ESQ.,,
and Col. ]. B. Fellows.
VINO IS The HERO OF GETTYSBURG .
The Kennebec journal Advertised
-Blaine's Name Received With
Cheers.

The meeting of the democracy in Granite
Hall on Saturday evening was fair success
;. mint of numbers and enthusiasm. About
.;rb, o'clock the Hancock Veterans, headed
hr Ioring Farr, Esq, and the Augusta Band,
,..,ched proudly up the main aisle. Their
entrance was greeted with cheers. On the
STAGE sat the orator of the evening, Col. j. R.
Fellows. Hon. J. w. Bradbury, Col. Darius
,tden. Col c. b. Morton, DIR. Croker, DIR.
e ". Martin. DR.. III. Fl. Hill, Col. Bion
Wilson, Col. w. A. Warehouse, Cap'n
p,ock Major French, J. f. Robinson, ESQ.,,
IF. Parrot. Esq, Col. Benz. F. Morse,
col J. E. Avery, Col J. l.. Colcord, Hon.
,r,bur Libby, Col. Edmund Doe, Col. Man.
Low Pike, and Col. Thomas Murphy. Col.
r r. Morton called the meeting to order,
and introduced Loring Farr, Esq, who re-
esved quite an ovation. In lengthy speech,
IN which he eulogized the fathers Of the re-
mblcan party, gave an extended history of
tho war and his services under Gen. Hancock
Mr.. Farr stated that he should support the
.bero of Gettysburg" but left painful sense
Of doubt in the minds of many present as to
whether the ''hero of Gettysburg was Gen.
w. S. Hancock or the speaker.
Col. J. r. FELLOWS
IA no stranger to an Augusta audience. His
rounded PERIODS and silver-tongued oratorv
have before delighted republicans and demo-
Gratis in this city The Colonel is a dapper-
looking man. carefully dressed, and sort of
a cross in voice and manner between Stuart
Robson and George Stacy. He began by
giving his audience a little taffy. 1t was
large and intelligent, and beauty hadn't for
gotten to smile upon him. Then the genial
colonel paid his respects to the Journal. He
said that he had noticed a card in that paper
wanting TO know if he was the Col. Fellows
who was JEFF. Davs's private secretary. 1t
gave him great pleasure to dispel the ignO-
rance which fingered around that office. Pm
the first place JEFF. Davis never had a private
secretary named Fellows; in the second
place. he wasn't the man. Col. Fellows next
read extracts from editorials in republican
papers written during the Credit Mobilier
scandal and before it was thoroughly inves-
tgated, charging completely in the fraud up
on Garfield. Then he launched into spread
eagle panegyric of Hancock. An incidental
mention OF Blame name called out APP
plause
The only vital question which the great
mind of Col. Fellows wrestled with, was the
doctrine of State Rights. In this the colonel
demonstrated by his able exposition that the
democratic party is centuries ahead of its
position in 1860. when James Buchanan de-
cared that the nation had no power to cOerce
a sovereign STATE. There is not an honest
republican in the land" frantic applause
from Jim Boynton, the truckman, in the gal
lery said the speaker, ''who, if you talk with
him in private, but will admit that | am TAX
ing the constitutional side of the matter"
The colonel talked until eleven, and closed
with the prophecy that New York city would
give Hancock &C, 600 majority: and that the
State of New York would give him 0,000
majority.
There are some questions which the
colonels audience-aLout half of which was
made up of republicans and greenbackers-
would like to have had the benefit of his
gigantic mind upon. There was the question
of the count-out. What does the colonel
think of that? That's State issue. Can
the colonel whOop-er-up for Plaisted! What
does the colonel think of the tariff and free
ships?" Are the finances of the country all
right! Is there a presidential candidate
named Weaver? Was the colonel confed-
crate officer in the war? The meeting closed
with hearty cheers for Hancock.