The Portland daily press., 1880-05-22
The Second District.
SOME DETAILS OF FoGG's CONvEN-
TON.
Respectable Greenbackers Generally
Disguised.

1dpuldtor L OgS seems 10 nave met With very
little opposition in the Greenback conv ention
at Auburn, Thursday. 1t was freely charged
by the friends of Swan and Scion Chase's dark
horse that the Auburn statesman had secu red
delegates favorable to him by trickery The
Lewiston caucuses which selected solid dele
CATION for Fogg were called at very short no.
tice and few but Fogg's friends knew about
them. But however he got the delegates he had
them and they did his bidding. The moment
the convention was called to order Col. j. H.
Blood was called to preside by the chairman of
the district committee. Blood had not been
chosen delegate, but one who had had absent
ed himself and Blood had been appointed to fill
the vacancy. Prominent among Fogg's workers
was I. I. Mcintyre who recently lived in
Massachusetts. While the ballot was pending
Mcintyre took the platform and presented his
favorite's name in the following style:
This is one of the most momentous occas-
ions that ever called us together We should
not haste this business. There are several
candidates here. Weigh we'll this matter. See
to 1T that you don't deceive yourselves I
know there are Republicans here working
against certain man. I feel that the men
who have borne the burden, are not to be set
aside at the request of corrupt Republican off
Oidlo- kILOuu dpplduS0.J LII is III YOUR power to
make nomination here today that will win.
The men down in the bowels of the earth in
Pennsylvania are interested in what we do
here today. We are battling for eternal truth.
l realize the gravity of the situation. Con-
spicuous among the gallant band that sur
rounded Gov. Garcelon last winter, hurting
defiance in the face of the insolent mob, carry-
ing the gospel into other states-I refer to
Hon. f. NJ. Fogg." (Applause.)
Swans name was presented by Mr.. York
OF Auburn. who described Swan as the origin
al Greenbacker, saying he made the first
Greenback speech ever made in the state.
Mr.. Lancaster of Dixfeld Centre doomed for
Fogg in this fashion:
81 want man whom I can put nv hands on
when l turn round. Why.this haste? I'm as
hungry as anybody but I'll go without nv
dinner If need be, so that we need not have
any regrets for what we do here. Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars. Where is
the man who has worked in this cause, night
and day? l answer it is f. NJ Fogg. Great
applause) They sent me the Chronicle and
became acquainted with Fogg and was drawn
toward him. That county that knows what
she is about is here today (Oid Oxford.) Three
loud cheers for Old Oxford, led by Sewail Golf
OF Mexico swinging his hat) That mighty
man Fogg has humbled the Republican party
and drawn the best men from the old Republi-
can and Democratic parties. Some mention
OF him down at Augusta on a certain occasion
But what said Brutus when he thrust the dag
ger at Caesar? 1t isn't that love Caesar less.
but Rome more. If we put forward man who
is not in the front ranks, it will be said the
Greenback party has committed suicide. The
hero OF our ThermopylR last winter was F. M.
Fogg. Had had few more votes should
have been in the bogus legislature. Had old
oxford asked Lancaster to join that bogus con-
Germ, should have said Get somebody else to
do your dirty work (Applause.)
In a speech after the convention Fopg conn.
selled harmony and wanted his opponents to
forget the past. Fogg was very magnani-
nous as he could well afford to be, and was
willing to forgive everybody. Whether Swan
and Chase, whom he has been abusing in the
Chronicle. are animated by the same spirit
remains to be seen.
The Lewiston Journal interviewed several
prominent Greenbackers after the convention.
when the following conversation occurred:
How do you like the nomination." asked
a journal reporter of Mr.. VIM. M. Harris, one
Of the pioneer Greenhackers of Auburn, Thurs
day afternoon.
~ don't like it. It's the worst nomination
we could have made" said Mr.. Harris. Cali
is, Fogg will be killed. Hundreds of Green
hackers won't vote for him. There's no chance
for him.
How did he get the nomination.
by working secretly and sending printed
lists of delegates composed of his own men,
to all the country towns See how he worked
in Lewiston! He called a caucus i'm the Chron
icle and no other notice was given. No one
but his friends read the Chronicle, and no one
else knew that the caucus was to be held
He promised to print some bills, but he didn't
do it. The Democrats will never endorse
Fogg
A Minot delegate said:
"Fogg made one split in the Greenback
party last fall, and now has made another
that will never be healed"
- MIR. VIM. Raymond, a well known radical
Greenbacker of Auburn, who supported fusion
last fall. said to the reporter:
II can't stand that anyhow. Those blanked
my old party. the Republican party. It's no
use. wont stand this kind of business any
longer
An over-zealous East Dixfeld delegate said
to the reporter:
"Fogg's the best man we could put up. If
we can't win now with him, we never can
swan and his soreheads are making consider
able loud talk, but it won't amount to any
thing. tell you, Fogg is our most available
man: He's got advantages that no other can
State. He owns newspaper. He can do all
our printing cheap The argument that the
Democrats won't endorse him is too thin.
Didn't he help them down to Augusta? tell
you they will nominate him.
A correspondent of the PRESS, writing after
the smoke of battle had cleared away, INDUCES
in the following reflections:
There is one happy man this morning at
least Frank Fogg, the honorable exCouncil-
Tor, is sailing in realms of bliss, but what
fearful sacrifice. Terrible was the battle, aw-
full the carnage, but the conquering hosts of
Foggism rode to the front and snatched the
laurels OF victory from the very jaws of the
enemy and death.
Looking over the field this morning, after
the smoke has rolled away, disclosing in awful
reality the results inevitable from a warike
meeting of two such valiant elements, it leads
us to serious reflections, and we can but reas-
onably conclude that though Fusion is evident
y dead, anti-Fusion only remains in name.
Viewing the dead bodies of those who fought
so heroically yesterday for Swan and their be-
loved country, we can but explain, so tenn
pord, 0 naoreS." As we buttonhole promi-
nent Greenbackers on the street TODAY with
the inquiry, "How about the nomination.
there comes back such replies as ''D-n tFogg;
d-n the Greenback party; our vote is no long
er in support of such id office seekers and