The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-29

with tin can.
Some man may say that the numerical advantage
of the long petition have been offset by some
| preponderance OF reepectability in the short one
The long petition bore the names of Marshall
| Cram, OF VIM. u barrows, of every professor of
Bowdoin College; Of more than two thirds of the
| business men of the town; and ask YOU where Mr
Reed found the aespectability in Brunswick that
| would overcome the numerical superiority of the
long petition.
Some man may say that Mr.. Reed was not in
formed about these matters. He had the petitions;
| he had letters recommending our candidate from
the Brunswick post Of the Grand Army; from Gen.
rows; from Prof Packard and from many Others.
| Perhaps he thought that Rev. DIR. Packard lied He
| was son OF Bowdoin College, and he knew the au-
| that mother of mighty race adorned with eighty
seven years, and heralded to after times by Voice
that sings TO hope and memory until the heavens
Gentlemen, do not talk about a post Office 1
| do not higgle about thousand dollars a year. 1
charge nothing against his friends at home; have
no need to do either; but say that when repre-
however small violates his plain duty and the Jus.
tice OF the case, he makes business of sufficient
gravity Tor the people that made him, to consider.
/ do not agree with the editor of the Portland
Press that dishonorable conduct is not cupable IL
it relates to post Office. do not regard the dollar
/ value of the subject matter. say that when
man deliberately chooses wrong instead Of right
he shows his untness 20 sit in the Congress of the
United States. What grievance has Thomas B.
Reed against US, and why should he displace any
postmaster and force creature of his upon us?
In each OF the four elections that have sent him in
to Congress-, we have given him our full strength;
| our last Republican vote; q larger percent.
age OF our total vote in every instance than his own
city has given him of hers in any instance Where,
in this doubtful district has Republcanism found
constant refuge, unless In Brunswick? When has
| Brunswick Republication exerted itself, and not
given to Thomas b. Reed the full, round measure
Of Its loyalty?
| We never made quarrel with Mr.. Reed, but
L u.s. and the desire OF his soul shall Be- satisfied
Gentlemen, appeal to you as friends. We are
| may become such We are today in trouble. but
the day may come when the greatness of Thomas
b. Reed-his superioriiyto other men which he
advertises in his newspaper-may need to be
/ illustrated at the expense of your rights and
| your honor. He may yet find occasion to manifest
| his power by showing what shame you will have
| to bear because it is his will that You shall
bear 1t. He now tries experiment in Bruins
Wick that no man ever dared to try before, and if
yousay it ought to be successful and help to make
it so, how will you meet the crisis when it becomes
/ your turn to make the sacrifice? The obligations
the people, upon the voter; neither is allegiance
due wholly to the organization of the party and
not at all to the doctrine. Our fathers laid the
foundations Of this government before Thomas B.
Reed was born, that justice might be done among
| men, and not merely that he might enjoy himself
| in Congress- or that the editor of the Portland
| PRESS might come and worship him there.
Gentlemen, submit to your memories and your
candOr whether or not We have right to rely upon
that old relationship with you which is now so
| strained and endangered. When you needed
eighty lives to lay upon the altar of this country's
treason arose in your state capitol clothed in the
garments of authority and called upon the soldiers
| TO overwhelm the state they heard voice from
Brunswick that they had served on nineteen fields
| Of blood, and they obeyed it.
Thomas B. Reed heard that same voice another
| day; heard it speak for a soldier-a wounded
| soldier; but it was nothing to him. It wouldn't
reach the summit of his greatness.
Our veteran jurist, kinsmsn of William Pitt
Court when the rains descended, and the floods
| came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that
hNrsu4 o,16s fall ITaa ole ~~alnl Al H.
Reed in vain; appealed as he expressed it. in the in
terest of decency; but all for naught. William g.
bs par t was name am OF no account 70 MI Reed
it brings glow to the marble visage of justice.
Gentlemen this business remains with you. You
have your information and your warning. Be
wrong with Mr.. Reed, or right with us. Make us
enemies, or make US friends. give you your cleo
ton
MR.. BowKER's REMARKS.
j. P. Bowksr, of Brunswick, then took the
| floor and said:
Mr. Chairman:
also come from Brunswick, and have little
something tosay to my Republican friends in this
convention. My purpose is simply to show that
there are other men in Brunswick than those who
were at the caucus, who sympsthZe with the views
of these deegatesa large majority of that very large
caucus more than hundred larger than ever as
sembled in Brunswick before. l desire to say in
this connection that there is some reason which
perhaps 1t is proper to state why this district is not
better informed as tn the state of affairs there, if
indeed the rest of the district have interest in
| the matter.
At the close Of the caucus, in which this deega-
ton was elected, and at which series of resOlu-
lions were passed by strikingy large majority,
those resolutions together with the other doings of
the caucus were SENT verified by the officers Of the
| caucus. to the Portland PRESS. Instead of pub
fed, which could not be otherwise than correct the
| resolutions published, with some preamble
1 eS e Re
That Is the first allegation have against the Port
land PRESS for attempting to mis-state the dongs
of the Republicans of Brunswick. Afterwards, or
in the same issue, appeared editorial, which, if
understood by the readers, crticses itself. 1t is
calm in many of its statements and if there are al
legations in 1t it is calm in them, and If any conclu-
sions are drawn it is calm in them.
On the 26th of May, two days ago, gentleman
OF our town. whose name will be sufficient guaran-
ty that what he says is true addressed to the Port
land PRESS letter, commenting briefly upon that
editorial. That letter, SO far as is known to the
readers of the PRESS in this district went into the
waste basket. That letter have in my pocket.
The Endorsement on it at the top propose to read.
Then will give you the author, and then will
read the letter as part of nv remarks:
1.-THE following communication was sent by mail,
May 20. to the PORTLAND DAILY PRESS with the
name OF the writer appended, in conformity with
WILLIAM G. BARRows.
Mr.. Burbank Of Saco-I rise to point of or
der. do not think any correspondence be-
tween citizen of Brunswick and the Port
A1uu hhSS Adb buluS 10 40 WIFI Inc Qu6S-
ton Of the nomination of Mr. Reed.
Mr.. Booker-I desire to say that while the
gentleman has right to make any point of or
der he sees fit, trust the chair will remember
that desire to make the letter part of my re-.
marks.
The chair ruled that Mr.. Booker had q right
to read the letter as part of his remarks, and
the letter was read.
JUDGE BARRows' LETTER.
BRUNSWICK, May 26, 1884.
MR.. EDTToR,-Iu your article in this mornings
PRESS upon the Brunswick caucus, you say that
"over 300 Republicans were absent from the eau
Gus" while only 266 pretty good number for a
Perhaps you will be willing 10 give little space
to one of the absentees to correct mistake into
which we think you have fallen. You err in sup
posing that many Republicans in Brunswick feel
that Mr.. Reed made mistake in recommending one
candidate rather than another for postmaster of
that town, and you generously admit that 'It may
be that his Judgment y y was erroneous"
Now the simple fact is not that he made a mis-
take but that he insolently ignored the preference
expressed and made known to him. for a worthy
soldier and member of the Grand Army, who lost
an eye in the service, who had held the Office but
one term, and given good satisfaction to all the citi-
zens and who upon all principles of civil service re-
form was entitled to reappointment.
the dragoonng style Of leadership which within the
last dozen or fifteen years, has reduced Republican
majority in this State Of &c, OO0 who would come
out almost without being asked, to meagre plural
ty to be drummed up by the aid of equiVocal prac-
tees which we deprecate. Now 1 presume the
resolutions were designed to express. plainly
the sentiment of those who voted for them that the
political servants of the people should pay some re-
gard to their wishes in those matters that person
ally concern them instead of following the politi-
cal wrepulling fashions of the day and looking for
| the perpetuaton of their political existence by
| procuring the appointment of their own personal
favortes and humble servants to office to the excu
sion of others more tit and acceptable. CoDven-
tions of all parties, great and small, National and
Congressional, have abundant warning this year
that in the absence of any clearly marked line of
political differences between the great parties that
divide the country, the characters and conduct of
the candidates they present will undergo q stricter
scrutiny than heretofore; and the Republicans of
Brunswick have merely said by their resolutions
that they recognize civil service reform matter
of Importance, and they propose to adhere to it
Republican principle. 1t is Mr.. Reeds departure
from it that they condemn That there has been no
personal hostility to him here is sufficiently demon
strated by the effective support that he has thus
| far received from the Republicans of Brunswick.
But there are others besides those who voted for
| those resolutions who think his conduct towards
| US cannot be explained consistently with decent
| regard to sound Republican principles will only
add that some of your subscribers here are of the
| opinion that with all the decetful palaver that
disgraces politics and politicians little mixture Of
plain speaking now and then is not reprehensble
| as your article seems to imply. B.