The Portland daily press., 1886-04-08
THE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.
A Series of Sensations Brought Out
at the Augusta MeetIng.I

Il
Gratis in Augusta Tuesday, a correspondent
| of the Lewiston Journal says:
| Col. CTOmwells speech before the State commit
1 tee In the afternoon struck the keynote of the
/ conference. The Colonel said Grover Cleveland
/ is more to be pitied than condemned and he made
4 savage raid on l.. ID. NJ Sweat and K. r. Pierce.
| Thus, the conference, while it passed resolution
/ endorsing the President, abounded in speeches
eondemnihg the element of the party that Crom-
| well attacked and it referred to the State COM
mittee resolve in denuneation of Mr.. Bass, who
charlie Morton and other speakers. Col Crom'
well apparently had special antipathy to Mr. n
| II. Pierce, to whom he allotted a large share OF
his remarks. He said Pierce was utterly unit for
| his position OF appraisers that he did not Know
| Ocrat from way back" shouted the Colonel. I've
i always been true Democrat. l never have been
in any fusion steal .[Sensation.l Pierce never was
/ Democrat" The Colonel said he did not know
who responsible for Pierces appointment,
whether It was Sweat or Bion Bradbury but who
| Col. A. w. Bradbury afterwards called Col.
Cromwell to account for assaulting his father,
| but Cromwell stood his ground and declared he
The afternoon symposium was rather sleepy.
| The fun came in the evening.
The first speaker of the afternoon was William
Fl. Clifford Of Portland, who made rhetorical
address, urging a thorough organization with
| which, he Thought the Democracy can carry the
Ex-Marshal Andrews of Portland followed in
VI Ex Mayor Iyford of Lewiston was the next
| speaker. He had been remarkably quiet during
| the day, keeping aloof from the crowd and medi-
| Mr. Tyford produced the oil bottle. He cOun-
| seled harmony and spoke briefly -,
L. N. Staples, the FIAT footed Bourbon rom
Washington, Me-. made different sort OF q
| speech. He said the Democrats of his county are
fighting mad, and it Is of no use to deny It, They
believe that the Democratic party OF this country
| is bigger than Cleveland and believe In letting
him know 1t.
Democratic speech,.a radically tree,trade
| speech. AS it was spOils, and not the tariff that
| was uppermost in the minds of his hearers, his
remarks did not create much eHthuSlasm.
| Judge Moore OF North Anson said he was an
old man who was willing % DO all he could to help
/ the Democrats carry the State next fall.
VIM. Emery of Alfred made speech of the
tenor of DIR. Gareelon's.
Chairman Brown seized lull in the proceed
| ings to make an attack on Mr.. Bass, using the
| Winslow post Office incident as text Brown
repeated Ben. Bunkers charge that Bass sold the
post Office in opposition to the wishes of the Dem
0crats of WnslOw, to alman who agreed to get sub
| scrbers for the Commercial.
Col Norton reinforced Chairman Brown IN his
raid on the absent Bangor sachem. He said that
recently appointed mail agent demonstrated with
Mr.: Bass for his course in this Wlnslow matter
Gen. s. D. Leavitt of Eastport also gave Mr..
Bass hit "Of course this IS harmonious
not present" [Applause.1
Ex-Mayor Hanson OF Calais was unhappy be-
cause the spoils had not been distributed In his
part of the State and Republican ofice-holders
were assessed to help carry the recent municlpai
election, ,-,,.,-,.-
of Biddesord made speeches of no special signin-
cance. ,, -,
per- and met again at g..
Ex Gov PaiSted made a speech which was
heard with a good deal of interest. There had
been rumors Of forthcoming declaration of war
in the New age, and eX-Gov. Plaisted was expect
ed to pitch into Cleveland, but ne dld Hot. hls
remarks were conservative. He said he had gr1ey-
ances, but he thought the best way was TO forget
them and go to work with sleeves rolled up for
the Democratic party. The Presldents course
had been a great disappointment, he said, but ne
The speeches of the evening were becoming
rather dun and uninteresting when Col. Cromwell
made another sensation by introducing resolu-
tion endorsing the administration Of Grover
Cleveland. This was a surprise. The under
standing had been that all resolutions should De
lodged Col. Cromwell knew he had them; that
they didn't dare to refuse passage TO MS resoi-
ton ,..,.
marked that the resolution was untimely, put as
it had been put in, there was nothing 10 40 Dut 70
pass it. -,
State committee was not present. Col. Cromwell
evaded this point by moving to adopt the resOlu-
tion as a committee of the whole and not as
t. M stables moved to lay the resolution on the
table until the State convention met.
The matter was discussed and the preyalllng
pass the resolution. Accordingly IT was gwen
unanimous passage-purely as matter Of policy.
L. NJ Staples presented areSolutlon against Mr.
Bass in which he moved that the conference de-
clare its opinion tnat Mr.. Bass's conduct had been
such that it be reported to the heads OF all Ine oe-
partments in Washington.
After discussion, on motion Of Col. Cromwell,
this resolution was referred to the state commit
tee That is Mr.. Bass was intrusted to the ten
der hands of Chairman BrOwn-a hne, II uneon-
scious piece of irony
Gen Is. ID. Leavitt moved resolution, endors-
ing Chairman Brown and the other members OF
the committee and declaring the sense OF the
meeting that the State committee, and not outstd-
ers, should be recognized at Washington in decid-
ing appointments
This resolution was unanimously and enthusiaS-
liz. ode Rfld In fa
unity that several members of the committee
voted to endorse themselves-thoughtlessly pre-
sumo, but they did it.
The speeches of the evening expressed the idea
that Cleveland was not so much to blame as the
fellows who had lied to him.
Gen Leavitt said that certain Maine Democrats
were more responsible than Hale and Frye for
Col Adams O. the Portland Argus was present
at the evening session, but was dumb Capt.
Chase also refrained from speech-maklng:
George Greey told me that If Mr.. Bass mad been
there he would have been given fits