Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-06
A GRAND MEETING.
The Citizens Of HalloVell Turf
Out En- MaSSe
And Listen to Ringing Addresses by Hon.
R. G. HOrr and Hon. c. 3.
Litte1eld.
A Clear and Forcible Presentation OF
the Issues OF the Campaign.


evening BY the voters of Hallowell. who lis
tened to ringing addresses upon the political
issues involved in the present campaign by
Hon. r. G. Horr of Michigan, and Hon. c.
E. Littlefeld of Rockland. 1t was one of
the most enthusiastic meetings ever held in
iIallowelie Hon. c. W Tilien was the
chairman of the meeting and introduced as
the first speaker, Hon. c. E. Littlefield of
Rocklanl.
Mr. Littlefcll was warmly received as he
stepped to the front. He said
MIR. Chairman, Fellow Citizens:
| The man who sent the substitute to fight
for him in the armies of the Republic is 70
ing to go 10 the rear. Seven thousand in
Oregon and twenty eight 10 thirty thousand
in the Green Mountain State. What shall il
he, my republican friends in the Pine Tree
state! On Monday evening next shall it be
| htteen thousand or twenty thousand for Am.
| erican industry and American labor and
| American homes. Ii is my particular favor
| my fellow citizens of Hallowell, To address
you a few IN Dments upon this occasion. |
Am glal To come among the people because
| know this is the home of one of the men
| who has been so largely instrumental in de-
veloping one of the greatest industries that
has brought wealth and prosperity To the
people of Maine, the prince of business men.
| our lamented Governor, Hon. Jos. X. Bod
yell. am glad To come among you, my
| friends in Hallowell, because | see before
| me in this audience many man whose face
is Drowned by the sun that has shown upon
| him in performance of honest toll. Because
| | see in this audience those who earn their
hr..a h,,f fhaa ,f .,,r J.,
| cause in this campaign there are issues in
my Judgment pending before the voters of
| Maine, and upon which we are to pass on
| next Monday, that concern the men that
| labor in Maine. We have had some difficult
~ in times past, my friends, in ascertaining
precisely the questions that have divided the
people of this Republic. Great issues be-
tween the different parties have been sub
nitted to the arbitrament of the popular
will. In 1880 and 1854 we had some diff
Guilty in reaching our friends-the enemy
| This evening and in this campaign we are
| attended with no such difficulty. Some
months since Grover Cleveland sent to the
| American Congress a message, a new gos-
| pei of free trade aud hardly was the ink
| Try upon that document, ere, from across
| the water, upon the wings of lightning came
| the answer that stands for the Republican
| position, from our own fellow citizen, James
&. Blaine (applause) and from the hour
| shen the message of Grover Cleveland was
met by the message of the first citizen of the
| republic, the line of demarkation between
these two great parties was drawn, from that
| hour until the present mo nent men who be-
Lleve in free trade and its blessings, which
they propose to shower upon this country,
| nave been gathered beneath the democratic
| banner, while, on the other hand, men who
| believe in prote, ton to American industry
| and the protection of American labor and
protection to American homes, have been
| gathering beneath the republican standard,
and under that banner, and behind that
chieftain they fight in the campaign. Now
| the issue before the American people and
before us in the State of Maine is the naked
proposition of free trade or protection, an /
| we have, thanks to the kindness of our friend
Grover Cleveland. and his friends, the demo-
cratic party, isspecitic Issue that is be fore the
voters of Maine. 1t is to that issue, it is the
bed rock of the discussion, that | propo-e
for few moments to invite the attention of
the voters of llalowell. What is it? In
their platform of 1888. adopted at st. Louis,
the democracy of this country endorsed the
position of President Cleveland in the line of
the reduction of taxation. What were the
rednction of ,axBtlon and in the revision of
the tariff Ii stands before the American
people to day AS the Mills bill which is the
acme of democratic craftsmanship ask
| your attention to this bill for few moments
| The speaker then ma lie a scathing review
of thus free trade declaration of the dem >
cratic party, showing the d sastruus results
| hat must follow should it be enacted into
law, and pointing out in a most eloquent and
forcihle manner the assault which il male
upon Msine's industries. The speaker was
frequently interrupted by bursts of applause
and his speech ma e an excellent impre
| In closing he SAL: We have this great
| surplus my frirD Is SO nIw what will you do
Sth III The president of this great coun.ry
| ioes not propose To have any of this surplus
used for the purpose sf paying SPECIAL PEN
| sions to the men who ma le a surplus pussi-
BILE, because with III their se vices no coun-
Try woull have existed to create or accuma-
late surplus. Now, | say, so far as 1 am
concerned. that when | stand aud look back
tu the days which can hold in memory and
hear once again ~ 1t we're, the rumbling
echoes of the1 guns from Sumter, when !
see Vicksburg, and Donaldson when | see
Lookout, Mountain, Gettysburg, Anderson
vile and Libby when | remember all these
things would rather exhaust the surplus
than that any man who wore the blue,
AMI received an hJno able dis h ,rgp
should eat a paupers fare or nil n
grave in the potter's field. Applause.
20 further than that and say that before any
mother who wept for her children and re-
fused to be comforted because they were no
more, or any widow, or any daughter OIL
child of the man who lost his life for the
republic, say that before they go "over the
hill to the poor house" wouli exhaust the
surplus and tax this powerful people for
more. Applause.
In ls40 when VIM. Henry Harrison swept
through this country on such tide of popu-
larity and success, there went throughout
this country from Maine slogan that cheer
ed the hearts of his supporters. The slogan
was this
"Oh, say, have you heard from Maine, Maine
Maine,
How she went hell-bent for Governor Kent,
And Tippecanoe and Tyler too,
And with it We will beat little Van.
And with which we will beat little Van
Shall we on Monday next by placing one
hand to this plough and following it up TO q
successful issue and showing that these prin
ciples triumph at the ballot box, give bet
ter slogan for the balance of this campaign
I suggest this slogan:
On, say have you heard from Maine, Maine
Maine,
How she settled it early for Ben and fol
Burleigh,
How she sounded the knell that will seBc
Grover to -, well
Where his veto messages wont come int
play. anyway,
Where his veto messages wont come int,
play.
: lApplause.
The next speaker was Hon. r. G. Horr 0
I Michigan. ami he was greeted with heart
q applause as he came forward. He spoke a
{. follows:
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
come here tonight hoping that shall be abl
to discuss for little while some of the que.
. tions that are agtating the people Of thi
: country at the present time. need not "a
4 to the audience present here tonight that
II came here purposing to discuss these quei
= tions from republican standpoint Youa
" know probably that belong to the republ
can party. Indeed have voted that tick