Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-09-11

CLOSING RALLY.
The Republicans Conclude the Campaign
Of 1882 \
With Magnificent and Enthusiastic Meeting
in Granite Hall.
Speeches by Hon. J. C. Burrows OF Mich.
iGan and walker Blaine.

One of the briefest and most exciting cam
paigns in the history of Maine politics closed
Saturday evening with magnificent meeting
in Granite Hall, which was packed to its ut
most capacity. To-day the voters record their
verdict at the polls.
| "And morn shall see
| The State sown free
With baleful tares or healthful grain."
BY the earnest, intelligent faces of the men
who crowded the hall, Saturday night, and
hung upon the eloquent sentences of the two
speakers, we cannot doubt that to-day's SOW
ing will result in the welfare of the State and
the success of republican principles. 1t re-
mains for US now to bury under a rousing
majority the unholy and leprous corpse OF
fusionism; to bury it so efectually that it
can never again be galvanized into the
semblance of existence.
After selection by the Band Dr. Geo. T.
Brickett, president of the Robie Club, intro
duced as the first speaker Hon. Julius c.
Burrows of Michigan. Although the audience
had expected to hear Hon Martin l. Town
send of New York they accorded the stalwar
Michigan representative a cordial welcome.
The reason for the change in the programme
was that Mr.. Burrows, who was advertised to
speak in Belfast on the evening in question,
was very desrous of starting for home as soon
as possible, on account of business engage
ments. There being no night train from
Belfast he exchanged with Mr.. Townsend. so
that he could leave Augusta on the | o'clock
Pullman for Boston. While all present W ere
anxious to hear the eloquent New Yorker.
Congressman Burrows soon convinced his
audience that they had not been defrauded by
the exchange. He is a man Of fine presence
large, robust, manipulating, with a mas
sive head. and strong, intellectual face. He
wears full beard, which he keeps freshly
trimmed.
At the outset of his speech the Michigan
Representative said that he should not discuss
State politics; he knew little of them. This
campaign is of national significance. The
result Of the election in Maine on Monday
will be felt throughout the confines of the
republic. 1t will have an influence
upon the Presidential campaign of 1884.
You are to choose four members of the
House of Representatives and a legislature
which is to elect a U. S. Senator. To-day
the Senate of the United States is evenly
poised. reckoning David Davis of Illinois
and Malone of Virginia as Independents, as
likely to vote on one side as the other Now
the vote of next Monday determines whether
VIM. p. Frye shall represent Maine for six
years to come or whether the place shall be
filled by democrat. Let me say right here
that a vote for any other ticket outside the
regular republican is vote against VIM. p.
Frye. If YOU do not elect a legislature which
will send republican Senator, the Senate is
hOpelessly democratic, because a republican
defeat in Maine will animate and encourage
the opposition and have a tremendous effect
in the elections which are to follow. The loss
of four republican members from Maine
makes the House hopelessly democratic, for
the same reason To sum the matter up is
simply this. The XLVIIIth Congress-Sen-
ate and House-is to be chosen this fall. You
in Maine make the first choice. If you in
Maine defeat the republican party, Maine
and Maine alone-is responsible for making
the next national legislature democratic for
two years.
The speaker then proceeded to make his
argument why the republican party should be
continued in power. 1t is not true, he said,
that there is no difference between the re-
publican and democratic parties to-day. They
are as widely separated as the poles upon the
great questions of the hour. The republican
party in the last quarter of a century has
achieved great things for the nation but the
democratic party does not believe in them.
|
er.ignty, the democratic party holding that
this is a confederacy, not a nation. The
liauor traffic in this country is exciting a
| great deal of interest. In Illinois the demo-
| cratic party has declared that any inter-
ference with the right of a person to manu-
facture or sell intoxicating liquors is an
interference with the rights of the individual.
In Congress the two parties are sharply
divided on this question.
Take the questions of polygamv; that's a
national question. During the war and i'm
mediately after, in the press of exciting
events growing out of the great conflict, this
The XLIvth, XLVth and XLVIth Con-
crosses we're under the control Of the demo
cratic party, absolutely. Geo. Q. Cannon.
AN ayowed and confessed polygamist, came
to Washington and demanded admission
to Congress as representative from
Utah. He was given seat, and for
six wears nothing was done towards
suppressing polygamy. When the republican
party assumed control of the reins OF Govern
ment their first act was to attempt to drive
this unblushing monster rom our land
TApplause.l To-day the polygamists of
Utah have framed a constitution and are ask
ing TO be admitted into the Union as State
Should the democratic party assume control.
Utah with all her crimes would be admitted
into the Union, and then the Govern
ment cannot meddle with the insti-
tuition, and the crime would have to be
driven out in blood. Should the democratic
party control the next Congress land whether
they do or not depends upon your vote in
Maine next Monday one of their first acts
will be to bury the gigantic crime in grave
along with that other twin relic of bsrbarism
slavery. [Aprlause
| Congressman Burrows then told how the
efforts of the republicans to reduce taxation.
and thereby lift from the shoulders Of the
people some Of the burdens Of the war, had
been met at every step BY democratic oppto
sit,on. and finally baffled because they would
not consent TO remove the tax on whiskey
and tobacco as well rs on other articles. The
democratic party is committed to the policy
of free trade, or that other twin folly
"taritf for revenue only" The national bank
question is settled for the present. but put
the republican party out of power and no one
knows how long it will so remain. But there
is one question which overtops all others
the right of every American citizen to vote as
| he sees fit. and to have that vote counted as
he voted it. There are two influences ut
work to destroy this government-fraud in
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