The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-10
THE POLITICAL FIELD.
What Attorney General Baker Told a
New York Reporter.

New YORK, July 9.-Attorney General
o. ID. Baker of Maine, who has been in New
York for day or two, said yesterday;
"The nomination of General Harrison has
proven satisfactory to the Republicans of
Maine, and will receive their hearty support
OF course. we wanted Mr.. Blaine. That
goes without saying But as it could not be
Mr.. Blaine, the selection seems to have been
the best that could have been made. Our
State election takes place on the second
Monday of September. We shall carry the
State by such majority as to show the
country where Maine stands on protection
and Harrison and Morton"
cIeveIand's Uncle for harrison.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 9.-Ex-Assembly-
man Lewis +. Allen, uncle of President
Cleveland, presided tonight at the meeting
OF the Harrison Tippecanoe Club, composed
OF veterans Of the 1910 campaign. Mr.. Allen
was made permanent president, and ex-COn-
gresham L. g. Spaulding, the father of the
greenback, twas elected vice president.
Ihere are now ninety-six members, all prom
lnent citizens, who voted for Harrison in
1910.
Malone Refuses TO Harmonize.
RICHMOND. Va, July 9-The first issue of
The State Republican, of Harrisburg, since
the nomination of Harrison. whose editor
was Malone delegate to Chicago, puts up
the regular electoral ticket chosen at Peters
burg, and discards the Wise electoral ticket.
is the first intimation the public has had as
to how General Malone would treat the
Wise faction and its electoral ticket.
Sherman Is Confident.
PITTsBURG. Pa, July 9.-Senator Sher-
man. in an interview here last night, spoke
confidently of Republican success. He
things Harrison and Morton will carry New
York. He will take the stump for the ticket,
with which he is much pleased.
Callers from Michigan.
INDIANAPoLIs,I Ind. July "a delegation
from Benton Harbor, Mich, called on Gen.
Harrison last evening. He made them
speech.
A Word from Mrs. Foster.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster writes as follows con-
corning the temperance resolution adopted
by the Chicago Convention:
CLINTON, Iowa, July 2, 1888.
My Dear Frlend-lt is cause of congratu-
latlon among temperance people that the late
National Republican Convention at Chicago
put the party on record on the side of tenn
perance and the home, by declaring that
The first concern of all good government is the
virtue and s0briety OF the people and the purity
of the. home. The Republican party Cordially
sympathizes with all wise and well directed eli
forts for the promotion OF temperance and moral
1t was introduced by Congressman C. A.
Boutelle Of Maine, who moved a suspension
OF the rules, and that the resolution be
adopted and added to the platform.
This was bold proposition; only a cour-
ageous man would have attempted it, one
less familiar with parliamentary usage in
popular deliberative assemblies, might well
have avoided the task. Mr.. BoutelIe, with
convictions, and courage, and knowledge,
and oratorical power. threw down the gage
OF battle In this open field
Grandly State after State bore their ban
ners to his standard, and the resolution was
adopted amid great enthusiasm; only one
solitary delegate voting against 1t. The
dominant sentiment Of the Republican party
was thus more strongly emphasized than il
the same expression had come at first from
the makers of the platform.
am informed that a large majority of the
committee on resolutions favored temper
ance plank, but timid conservatism won, and
report was silent In the great convention,
the rising tide of popular conviction bore
everything before it. l will here quote a
few lines in letter just received from Rev.
DR.. Magoun Of Iowa College. The opinion
of so distinguished a champion of politico-
moral questions, is Of great weight:
Iowa COLLEGE, GRINNELL, June II.
My Dear Mrs. Foster-Mr Boutelle's resolution
struck me just as it did you, only more calmly
begging pardon of your Methodist fervor, because
L was in a quiet room at home and not in seeth-
ing and surging convention
was glad too, that it was not in the platform
with common resolutions, and certain therefore
to be deemed mere platitude. 1t Is bigger
"plank" for being visible, distinct from the spat
FORM" The unanimous vote was more unanl-
nous. begging pardon now of the English Ian
guage, for being taken by itself. Many things
get perfuuctory unanimity from being pooled
with other things people are really unanimous
about. This got a unanimity on Its own merit,
which was not perfunctory or obtained by pool
ing issues" Yours trnly,
GEO. II. MAGoUN.