The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-14


publicans, while good share of it was taken
up by the reporters tables.
At II o'clock precisely, Senator Frye, as
chairman of the committee, called the meeting
to order. The vast assemblage was little diff
fcult to call to order, as all had not taken their
seats, but it was soon quieted by the chairman's
ga7el-an iron eye-bolt
Rev. Dr. w. H. Fem, of High street chulch
offered prayer.
The chairman then said: "This grand as
sembly of delegates has met, pursuant to the
following call, Senator Frye here read the call
for the convention), and to the end that you
may proceed in order with the duties assigned
to you by your people, the State committee has
directed me to report the following temporary
organization:
CHAIRMAN:
Eugene Hale
SECRETARIES:
Frank L. Noble Lewiston, Elliott Wood, Winthrop.
Cbas, o, Furbush, Machas, Edw. Wiggin, Maysville
O. G. Hall, Rockland.
Mr.. Hale's name was received with loud ap-
plause, and the gentleman himself, with round
and round of applause. He spoke as follows
SENATOR HALE's SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Conuention-O One of the
largest conventions ever held in the State, at
tended by the earnest men whom l now see be-
fore me- attests to the strength of spirit, the
diving vigor of the Republican party of Maine
These delegations, representing every neigh
borhood in the State, walked into this room
with the tread of veterans, and well they
might SO walk, for the State of Maine since
1876 has been battleield-the Belgium of
America. And now before me are assembled
the men who have taken upon themselves to
see to it that this campaign shall end the war,
[applausel and that for ten years to come there
shall be no more doubt about the Republican,
ism of the State of Maine than there is about
Vermont or Iowa.
These last six years, my friends, have done
us no real harm. No man, no organization is
worth anything until he or it has been purified
by agony through Universities. Broken and de-
feated as we were in 1873, we yet triumphed
anew in the next year. We drove out from
the State government the spoilers who had in
trenched themselves there, and ever since, as
believe, in the sober thought of the people of
Maine, we have been steadily gaining the
ground that we had lost.
1t will be battle, gentlemen, worth the
winning. The Governor of the State, a large
portion of the county officials, Legls-
lature that shall elect United States Senator
for six years, delegation of four members in
the House of Representatives in the National
Congress- Does any man here fail to appre-
ciate that? Do you want the man whom this
convention shall nominate to-day for Govern
or, or do you want two years more of infiiction
of Gov. Plaisted Do yon want Paisted or
another like him as United States Senator?
No! hundred times, no! But what you do
want, my friends, is, that my able and eloquent
colleague, Mr. Frye, who sits in the high place
to which you have called him, shall sit there
for SIX years more. [Applause
Do you want a delegs ton in the House of
hat l.o hold fl,o hon af
the obstructive and revolutionary Democracy,
or will you have four men there that shall
help the Republican party in the work that
yet remains for it to do? Does any man here
doubt the Importance of that work or believe
that the mission of the Republican party is
ended or that tired of fighting it may move out
of the battle?
Let us glance in the briefest way at the rec
ord now being made in Congress- Certain
things the Republican party is trying to do. La
all OF these things which it seeks to do for the
benefit of the industries and the people of this
country it finds itself confronted by solid or
almost solid Democracy.
It has upon its hands in Congress the great
qestion of the currency of the people, that
question which is SO interlaced with business
and with all enterprises that it is of.frst impor-
lance. 1t has prepared and elaborated meas
ures in the direction of keeping alive the best
currency the sun ever shown upon. and it was
met by the opposition of almost the entire
Democratic party.
To the Republican party is entrusted the
protection of American labor, to see that the
labor of our fellow citizens here is protected
when it is thrown into competition with cheap
labor abroad, and to see that the provisions of
the tariff under which we live, which need
revision and changes that have been made nee
essary by time, in the time shall be readjusted
to present needs, aud upon this issue the Re-
publlcaa party has met the almost solid wall
of the Democratic party, and today the news
comes from Washington that after commits
sion has been appointed by the President, COM
bining all shades of opinion ,wise.men who shall
sit in the meptlfs of the vacation and elaborate
a plan for tariff revision so that it shall bear
equally upon the burdens OF the people, the
word comes that the revolutionary Democracy
have determined in the Senate to prevent the
confirmation of the commission and so prevent
any action upon this question
Take the question that has come mp, not 20.
ltical only, but involving sentiments common
to mankind, the question Of polygamy. The
Democrats filibustered and obstructed bushes:
for hours and days rather than>a bill pass tC
extirpate that foul crime twin sister to slavery
in the Western territories.
Take the great question now looming ii
Congress, the whiskey monopoly, which il
backed by capital of millions of dollars, and
which, under the lead of Senator Beck, will
push for recognition and demand Legislation
IN the way of reduced taxation. And Senate
Beck will be followed and supported by the
Democratic party. =
Take the question of expenditure, and ev
cry man whom we are fighting will be found
in favor of appropriations of millions for thu
Mississippi river and for the improvement O
Southern rivers and harbors-when we hav,
made just and wise bill, distributing mil
lions of dollars in the treasury to the aetna
losers by the Alabama and other Confederate
cruisers; and when the vote was taken in tn,
House of Representatives every vote but two
found against that measure was from the Dem
ocratic party.
Take the greatest question of all,-the sane
tity of the ball0t-that sacred right of FREE
men, which the Republican party for years ha
been engaged in protecting, and when th'
House of Re .resentatives sought to purge tn
floor and to drive out men who we're there witt
nothing but paper credentials, and to seat com
petitors who had thousands and tens of thou
| sands of majority votes, the Democracy served
notice that they would sit day an,
| night obsttuctiyely to prevent it, an,
| it was only at last under tn
lead of the distinguished representative from
| Maine, the representative of the Portland dis
trict Mr.. Reed, that the Republican party tool
this great matter into its own hands and today
! there is a rule in the house of representative
| dominated by Republican influences, passe,
! by Republican votes, under which any Demo
| crat, Republican or Greenbacker who has BEEF
elected to seat in Congress, may be admitte
| 10 MS seat anu Sbduu up DtlOIo VIC Spedkor
in the name of God swear his allegiance to tn
republic, and no man shall hinde him. Az
| plause.]
These things are all seen and known of men
and it is because of these things and the inter
est that the people have in them that this grea
| assmblage comes together here today, an az
semblage bankruptcies and delights our friend
and confounds our enemies
| sAnd, my friends, the omens are good through
out the State of Maine. The people are tire
to begin with, of a governor whose atmospber
I, is strife, and who, if he cannot quarrel wit
his council about a judge of the Suprem
| Court, will quarrel about messenger-an
4lorr dotor,,,i,.-d thnA tharo al, he las