The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-20


| day this government stands the peer II
| any other government on Gods footstool. This
has been brought about by Republican legisla-
| ton. Now what is the matter with the e.
discuss the silver question with you, but the
| trouble little while ago with the Democrats
was that they had too much silver All! well,
| suppose that we never shall be able to satisfy
the Democratic party. Uaughter.)
| Gen. Logan here referred to Gen. Hancock,
good soldier but no statesman, and then re-
viewed at length the history of the Democratic
party from 1864 down. In 1864 they declared
the war was failure and then put the great
est failure of the war on their platform to
demonstrate the correctness of their logic.
In the very first plank. of the platform
adopted at Cincinnati in June, they pledge
themselves anew to the doctrines and ira
ditions OF the Democratic party. What are
| the doctrines and traditions of this partv?
Oneof their fundamental principles was that
the Nation was simply league of States; that
| the central power was mere agent to act for
the States. One of the traditions of the DEM
ocratic party was that slavery was divine in
| stitution, and rested on the constitution kThey
held that the central government had no pow
er to coerce sovereign State when it broke
1 the law OF the country. Their next plank is
| opposed to Capitalization. When the rebellion
broke out our government utilized the CEN
| trallzed power and suppressed it, They aim to
| sweep away our banking system, and to repeal
| the thirteenth, fourteenth and Fifteenth
| amendments.
| Don't misunderstood me Democrats of the
north. don't mean you, for what do you
| amount to anyway? To nothing whatever un-
| der Gods heavens, and don't mean to make
an offensive remark. Laughter.) You don't
| propose a single measure to the party and
never have. (Laughter) You don't oppose
any action of the southern Democrats, and
never have.s You are entirely irresponsible,
and we don't blame you. Uaughter.) You
have as little to do with the management Of
the party as the child not yet born.
Gen. Logan, aftcr discussing National issues
Republican victory. He paid a magnificent
tribute to General Garfield and Senator Blaine
| and concluded his very able address amid cries
of go on" after having spoken over two
| hours
SPEECH OF STANLEY MATTHEW'S.
Hon. Stanley Matthews was introduced and
made clear, logical, and most convincing ar
gument, making in substance the speech de-
Iivered at City Hall, Portland, last week, and
reported at that time by the PRESS.
Mr.. Matthews said that the Greenbackers of
this state have been Counted out" and they
have been placed in the proud position Of
being allowed by their votes to help the De-
mocracy to carry if possible their electoral
ticket. The Southern people, he said, are still
the same. They have been baptised indeed
by fire and blood, but not of the Spirit and of
water. He reminded the Republican party
that the term "solid South" means the obtain
ing by the Southern people of absolute power
over the negro, to the utmost extent that is
consistent with the mere nameof liberty, and
this state of affairs was justified by a Senator
| of the United States from the state of Ohio on
the ground that Intelligence and property are
to rule" and Mr.. Matthews regarded that as
a good doctrine for Gen. Sam Cary and the
Greenbackers. For shimself he denied any
divine right to rule attached to Intelligence
| and property, 'for in this country" said the
speaker s'no one rules but the people," He OBJ
jected to revival of the Lost Cause" He
objected to the placing of Jefferson Davis and
historical platform, as he had once heard done
in the Senate of the United States by Sena-
tor from the state of Mississippi: He read
from Gen. Wade Hampton's speechsat Stanton,
| Va,when he was called upon to try to reconcile
two hostile factions, who are in a bitter quar-
rel over the question of how much of the state
| debt they are to pay, for reputation has come
to te but question of degree. The speaker in
general felt a profound sympathy with the
under dog in the fight, but he proposed in this
! fight to make the Democratic party the under
| dog in the fight to be sympathized with to the
extent of letting it up whenever it is
repentant. AS Wade Hampton has said the
principles of the Democratic party are the
| same principles for which the soldiers of the
| Confederacy fought and the principles of the
Republican party are the same principles of
constitu ional liberty and personal freedom for
| which the soldiers of the Union. Mr.. Mat,
| paign worth fighting for side OF this great
| question of the right of every man in the
| South, even the humblest, to protection.
SPEECH OF THOMAS FITCH.
At the close of Mr.. Matthews address there
were loud cries for "Fltch,' and the great
| Western orator came forward and said that
| when the Yankee housewife tries to get up a
dinner she tries to get enough to get all sick.
What is left over is cold victuals. Fellow citi-
IN this 0ccociOp r on, n01d wi Mr.
| Fitch discussed briefly the state steal. He had
| listened the day before to ex-Gov. Dingley,
and that while he was reading from Hale's
| report. he could not but feel that the ex-Gov.
| had made mistake and was reading from the
report of Democratic outrages in Mississippi or
Louisiana, but he found that the Governor
was right. sit SO impressed me that after I
went to bed 1 had dream, and dreams al
ways, you know, 60 by contraries. and I
dreamed that the Fusionists had carried the
State of Maine, and dreamed that was out
on the border where 1 lived for many years
and practiced my profession and that there
| came to me gentleman with ideas in regard
| to property differing in some respects from the
| masses and ideas that led himto commit larceny.
| l succeeded, dreamed, in getting him out by
| some lawyer-like trick, and he came to me to
thank me, and to attend to the more important
matter of paying me. And dreamed that he
| said, Where shall 1 60? What shall do?
| The people here know that l committed
| larceny and they will be down on me. Cant
| you recommend some place where forgery,
larceny and perjury do not injure man in the
| estimation of the people. And dreamed That
replied that there was one such place. Down
| toward sunrise, away off in Maine lived very
peculiar people. Down there after an election
1 is over the Governor and Council put roof
| over an III and make it an A, and tail to G
| to make G of it, and then throw out the
| vote of 5000 people because two votes
| were returned scattering. Now my friend if
| you want 10 60 to place where your views of
the penal code will be help to you, and
where you will be an honored citizen, go to
| Maine, and then dreamed that he sighed and
said that if all that was true it would be of no
| use for him to 60 there as he could not hope
| to compete with such people, and that an
honest thief would stand no show to do him
| self Justice.
Mr.. Fitch then reviewed Wade Hampton's
speech, and called upon all to cherish the
memories of the Union dead "gone to God ON
chariots of fire. edom's fire."
OTHER SPEECHES.
Governor Davis then came forward and re
viewed perfect ovation. He made an effective
and witty speech, reviewing the course of the
Tabulators, and holding to the close of his ad-
dress the close attention of his audience.
The Governor made great point when he
said that when the officers of Gov. Garcelon
went to the thirteen companies OF the militia
| of Maine to learn how they stood on the sub
ject of the State steal that the citizen soldery
| who left Maine for the war in the South and
true to the cause of law and order.
Fred Douglass was then called and made an
| able speech. He did not come to make
| speech, nor did any one come to hear him
| speak. For once in his life he had heard his
cause advocated as he could have wished.
The whole question has been presented, the
whole argument has been made. This is not a
question of men, but of parties. Gen. Han
cock will rule if at all with the Democratic
party. would not accept Gen. Hancock as;
ruler if he came as an angel from Heaven, by
way of the Democratic party. The Democrat
ic party was the bone, muscles, sinews. and
even the heart, if it hads one, of the confed-
eracy. l see the Republican party coming
forth with arms in their hands to save the
country from the rebellion of the Democratic
party, for it was nothing else. The Demo-
cratic party is hungry, more so than was Dr.
Tanner after his forty days fast; more so than
1T was in 1872, when it hoped to steal some
thing protected by the white coat and broad
brimmed hat of Horace Greeley. In this great
contest Maine must stand true.
Mr.. Douglass closed by calling for three
cheers for James A, Garfield and all the sneak.