Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-26

oiner, and more liquor was sold there N. ,
ever before. If am not mistaken the mavo,
OF gardiner lie a member of the prohibition
party Now if We get all the prohibition
mayors we want. where shall we be? TAD.
Piause.I Yet this same man accepted a
democratic nomination. Oh! (Laughter)
Ano the identical party is in deadly array
agalnst temperance. The Portland Herald
which Gen. Dow is an editor, has poured
1ul more calumny against Mr.. Dingley. Mr..
RYE and the Republican party than against
all the rumsellers combined. IGen. Dew
Is false. Yet these men have stood like .
rock for prohibition.
Mr.. BOWS speech.
At IL 80 Mr.. Dow took the platform. Mr..
LeLacbeur having occupied an hour and a
half 'N
Ihere never was a day. he commenced.
wnen times were SO cheerful as now. Now
my friend has been talking about the repub-
i'can party. am republican to-day but as
iar as this question is concerned, l turn nv
back upon this party.
Mr Dow held that there was not State in
the Union more the slave of the grog shop
than Maine. He acknowledged that prohibi-
lion had done a mighty work in the State.
Inc liquor law had been put down as much
nve years after the enactment of the Law as
now.
Mr. Dow referred to the enforcement of
the law In Portland. The reason why there
were more barrels seized by the republican
administration than by the democratic was
oecarse more rum was admitted into the city.
| Nau0hter.)
The speaker reviewed the career of the re-
publican party and didn't like it because the
rebel brigadiers were in it. The democratic
party, ne said, went for whskey and swore
by it, while the republican party didn't want
whiskey, didn't care for it, but went for it all
the same. daughter
Mr.. Dow paid his respects Gov. ROBBIE in
no very elegant terms
The Cumberland county courts came in for
share of his attention and he didn't have a
very high opinion of their efficiency IN pros
ecuting the liquor sellers.
1t was claimed that because Mr.. Ladd was
not elected Mayor of Gardiner, as a candi
date of the prohibitionists, the third party
men were not responsible for him.
The appointment of special constables was
regarded as farce. The republicans were
responsible for the enforcement of the law,
not the citizens.
At ~ II P. M, the meeting adjourned for
one hour,
Mr.. Dow denied that the Portland Herald
or himself had found fault with Gov. Ding
ley. The record of the republican party and
it's platform where reviewed. He held that
there wasn't city in Maine but Portland
where the law was enforced and there
woald be no enforcement there
were it not for the prohibition people.
Mr.. Dow claimed that the county attorney
of Cumberland county had nulliied the law
| 10 didn't md fa,, tba
but they didn't 60 his way. He thought if Mr..
Blaine should get into the White House the
republican party would be preserved. The
party was all right but the bosses were all
wrong. Mr. Dow had pulled to put these
bosses In Office but had got tired of it. Elk.
ceptions were taken to what MIR. Blaine said
in his Sebago speech. What he called his
Dow's) unsuccessful efforts to obtain leg
islation were referred to.
Several laughable stories were told by the
General.
Mr.. LIE Lacheur
at 2. 10 resumed. He was verv sorry that the
General had rolled over and over like a dog
as he said he had, or that he had been like a
donkey with a man on his buck holding a
cabbage. The only republican bosses he had
been in consultation with were General Dow.
Mr.. Dingley, Rev. Mr.. Randall.
Gen. Dow saws we the temperance men.
What does this imply Talk about bosses
When committee of the legislature would
not give Mr.. Dow all he asked, Mr.. Dow
said we the temperance people have been in
suited. Is Mr.. Dow the temperance people
The temperance plank that went into the re-
publican platform in 1882 was writ
ten by General Dow. The temperance men
sold out so the General says. General Dow
| hos unit oil hu ha IL
can party, as a temperance man. The Gen
eral has always published his articles in the
Argus, showing that all the prohibiionists
want is to beat the republican party. The
General says the republican and democratic
parties want the offices | believe the
third party have nominees for all the offices.
They are after the offices on the dead run.
If l did have something to do with the
amendments, you see, they were Just such as
the General wants. Regarding Dingley, the
third party, in voting for Eustis know they
cannot elect him, and so they hope to get ex.
Gov. Garcelon in Dingley's place. | heard
him make a speech once. He said 1t was 8
bad thing to drink rum-and so it was a bad
| thing to chew gum.
| Rev. ID. h. Randall
said he had always thought he was a temper.
ance man and worker. He was in favor of a
|
prohibition party, and We already have it in
the republican party. The republican party
has done everything that has been done for
the temperance laws, excepting the enact
ment of the first law which was enacted by
the democrats. then repealed by them, and
again enacted by the republican party. II
has always given the amendments asked for
when it has been asked by the temperance
people of Maine, and not always when the
General has appeared before the committees
in his peculiar way. The democrats are in
favor of the third party. Why does General
Dow work through the Argus? Because the
Argus is in favor of him. When LIE Lacheur
was having his battle in Hallowell Mr.. Bod.
we'll, a lifelong temperance man, said to
him, go ahead, and if there are any bills to
pay III pay them" l am not here to defend
the republican party in all its acts, but il
there is any reform to be pushed forward in
this country, it will be done by the republi-
can party. Where do you expect to get your