The Portland daily press., 1882-07-28

mem berS of your committee, and paEdoh me
for delaying this answer TO your kind invita-
Yours truly
On motion of Mr.. Turner of Portland, COL
lection was taken up to defray the expenses OF
the convention.
PHI. Gordon was appointed committee to
wait on Scion Chase at his hotel and request
him to address the convention.
Mr. Chase, on being introduced, was re
ceived with applause. He said:
! SPEECH OF soLoN CHASE.
see men before me who have plowed
around the fusion stump, and the time mas
come to take it out. 1 see the old time fash in
YOUR eye. Casting policy behind us, here we
/ are a few men; but gentlemen, tell you you
| have grand backing in the back lots, and we
are respected by all honest men IN the Old par
ties, and the mass OF the men IN the ela partlss
are honest. We stand ready to go down with
the ship if need be, We stand by principles
| We say mo trades" and when we say mo
| trades" we mean 80.
The mon who have been talking no fusion
| have come out from behind the bushes and
when they talk of .'no understanding we
know what they mean, and they will hno their
| platform as easy to stand upon as to ride
| barbed wire fence.
We have gone back where we commenced.
| then two years ago went cut from this hall to
do what we are doing to-day. 1t is said the
Republicans have hired Uncle Scion. To do
what? To do just what all the world knew
TWO years ago he would do. We are Green
hackers and nothing else. When we got 5Oo
votes they said our figures were bird TRACKS;
this wear it will becrow tracks, and the bear
tracks will come next year. The fusionlsts
are on two platforms, as wide apart as slavery
and freedom.
It is said we are helping the Republican
party, and that tho Democratic party is in the
minority. Yes. and it has been for twenty
years. and why? Because OF its record Be-
cause of its record on the slavery cue stlon and
because of its war record, and because OF ITS
rum record. All over the country it is raising
the rum banner.
The Democratic party is not going to die;
the Republican party will die first There
will be no man not yet born who Will vote that
ticket; but the Democratic party will control
millions of votes after the Republican party is
dead. 1t can make soft money platform In
one State, a hard money platform IN another,
and a go-between in another and there Will DC
no bolt. Why? The Democrats never bolt.
The masses of the Republican party look for
ward their leaders look back; while the DEM
ocrats look to something Democratic every
time; and the Greenbackers who went into
the Democratic party to control 1t will ind
they are but part OF the Democratic party,
while we shall represent abe GreeRback party
of Maine. The good Greer hackers who Vote
for any other than our candidate will lind
themselves recorded either as Democats or he
publleans 1t is the votes for Scion Chase
that will be counted as Greenback votes IN
September.
The Republican party don't want the Demo-
cratic party to die. 1t wants the Greenback-
ers to go over to the Democrats, and then
they'll provide for 'em as they have provided
for the Democratic party of twenty years past.
If Scion Chase gets 10000 votes, the Republi-
cans would look blacker in the face than the
ace of spades. Suppose Scion Chase gets TO-
600 votes, the Democrats 10000 and the Re
publicans 65 ,000-2 small majority over both,
then they won't feel as we'll as though the OPP
position vote was reconed as altogether Demo-
cratic.
The Republicans dos't fight US now; but let
Scion Chase get 10000 votes and two years
from now they'll fight us. Let it but be known
that the Greenback party has come to stay,
that it can't be bought out. sold OUT or BAR
gained for, and nothing under heaven can pre-
vent our sweeping the State two years from
now -
since the State convention, but other conven-
tions have been called and We shall make the
campaign a close one. We snail nave the ald
of men like those present who have left their
work to come here, earnest men. we sla, nan
not make campaign of money. But we snail
do as we have done. | run once as a candi-
date for Congress, and it was the first time the
Republicans were frightened or left III the rear.
had SIS when went into the campalgf and
$13 when come out of. l paid ~ TO have
good Democratic brother take mo from one APP
pointment to another. But in general found
friends to take me along, and we worked IN
that way until we rolled up vote OF 4O0oO.
Mr. Chase here discussed the currency ques-
ton in his peculiar way. There Is but nine
pound of s'steer" in the gold dollar, and every
kind of dollar is as good IS gold, and We are to
have what is known as prosperous or lnnation
times, and it will keep on until the govern
ment is forced to suspend specie payment Inc
machine won't smash this year, although 1t
rests upon imaginary gold, because our great
crops will hold it up, and no power can pre-
vent the payment of the public deot. Inc gov
erument must issue the currency ana secure IL
not by promise to pay gold, but oy resting est u
upon the credit of the whole peopler there Is
bat $3.50, 600 900 of gold to redeem So0O,Oo0,0OO
in PAPER We have $50, 900 900 of silver certi-
fcates, and behind them is $50 .0OO,OO0 OF silver
or 100 silver cents behind every dollar, while
but Is gold cents are behind the greenbacks.
I do not know whether we shall be the party
of the future, but I do know we have the
questions that must be discussed, and the
problems that must be solved IN the future,
and if we are true we will bring them before
the people, We can sell hogs at profit now.
You can buy pork or cotton or anything else
now, and cell it six months from now and
make money by it, Hogs are rising, because
tt gold dollar as measured by hogs is on the
increase in value. In my pasture the whlte
"NAN
stock never looked so well, but it will be worth
more six months from now. That is its ap-
parent value, but there is time coming when
the game will be the other way. 1t Will De
the game of swapping dollars, and you VIII see
difference between what they call gold and
gold itself.
We have here in Maine some men yet who
don't banker after the flesh pots of Egypt. We
have the issues of the future We have men
devoted to principle, and we have shaken the
f,,e 1r,pt Fpon1 any IL
cious friends don't come around us much. we
stand before the people, and it is not necessary
that we should state what we are. We have
come to kindle the Greenback fires anew. We
have come to lift up the Greenback banner
again and to keep it up until victory perches
on 1t.
when was candidate for eector it was
said "But you don't want anyone to vote Tor
your" 1 said "Yes, lido, but am under no
obligation to any other party, remember that"
It is the same now, and | am running for
Governor on the same platform. Two years
ago there was strong movement to make me
candidate for Governor, but discouraged
the idea didn't want it. In my innocense
l thought wasn't fit for the Office. We didn't
see Governors often at Chase's Mills, and got
in the habit of looking for Governor great
way off, but since that time have mace
the acquaintance of Governors OF different
breed and | think now I'm fit for the
Office Yes, / want votes, but / must have
them as the Greenback candidate and nothing
else. Let us stand up like men, as men tried
by fire and two years from now the Fusion
party will have gone where the "weQdbine
twineth.' But there will be Greenback par
ty Republican party and Democratic par
IT, Two years ago in Il ) hall 1 stood up
against Fusion. 1t was NOT pleasant thing to
do, but had I failed to act should have felt
had not been true to my duty, but the Fusion
leaders to-day were the leaders of two years
ago. II is said the Republicans are friendly to
us. It isn't so. When l was candidate efor
Congress the Lewiston Journal said it would
be great misfortune to have such man as
Scion Chase elected to Congress, and to-day, the
Journal don't like Uncle Scion any better than
it did then. and Uncle Scion don't like the
journal bit better. Two years ago the Ar
gns liked the sound of Uncle Solons COW hide
boots, bet not now. And SO when [ see n.y.
self praised by Republican paper, don't ap-
preciate it, for both parties are working for
themselves But did not come to make
speech, wanted to see you, TO see if You were
ENJOYING religion. and to say to you that new
or felt SO we'll before in my life, and them
steers are drawing in ha, every day, and they
were never were go slick before. Soon, however,
[ shall turn them back into the clover again,
but they won't work alone. We shall go into
every county in the State, and Col. Harper
will go with us. l want all the votes I can get,