The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-06
THE TIDE RISES In YORK.
Largest Political Mass Meeting in the
County.
Ten to Twelve Thousand People at Old
Orchard.
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Reed Begin the
Speaking.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Gen. Adam +. King
and Hon. R. /. Frazier Next.
Fifty Tippecanoe Veterans Partiei.
pate.
BiddefOrd Sends an Umbrella Brigade
Both Gay and Solid.
Especial to the Press.l

VeAA VS. ~hu RVAus
Especial TO the Press.l
OLD ORCHARD, Sept, 5.-In the opinion of
those best qualified to judge, the gathering
of people here today has been the largest
ever brought together in York county to a
politica Injecting of this kind. There may
have been political demonstrations where
larger crowds have been called together in
this county. but the distinctive popularity of
this meeting has been the tremendous crowd
that assembled simply for the purpose Of
h caring the issues of the day discussed by
Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Reed and the other brilliant
orators who were here with them. Hon.
Amos Allen, York county member of the
State Committee, had arranged for and ex-
pected a very large meeting; but even he
had no idea that there would be present so
many as flled the great campground here to-
day. Those who have been with Mr.. Blaine
on his tour through Maine say that this has
been by far the largest audience he has ad-
dressed, unless there be an exception made
of the meeting he addressed in Portland
City Hall, in the midst of the people of
great city. Mr.. Blaine, himself, is not in
ciined to make this exception, and thinks the
meeting the largest in Maine for dozen
years certainly. 1t was certainly remarka-
BILE. Here, under the pine trees of Old Or
chard caDpground, there assembled from
different and distant parts of York county
an audience of from ten to twelve thousand
people. They filled every seat in the great
campground, besieged the speakers stand,
and then packed themselves in on the out
skirts of the crowd at far-away distance,
where even the stentorian tones of Frazier
of Michigan, one of the most vigorous, as
well as one of the wittiest orators on the
North American continent, failed to be dis
tinct.
On the speakers stand, as striking re-
minder of the permanence and popularity of
the industrial system that was advocated
here today. sat half a hundred old line
Wings, who voted for VIM. Henry Harrison
and protection half century ago, and who,
thirty years or more ago, came to the Re-
publican party with their principles as part
of the old Whig heritage. These men are all
natives of Maine most of them still live in
York or Cumberland counties. and the
names of some of them may be Of interest
before proceeding to the events of the meet
ing. At their head as president, was the
venerable Eben Emerson, of Biddeford, now
that Increase Kimball is gone the sole Survi-
vor of those fathers of the Republican party
of York county who met and established it
at the convention at Oxford. Next to him
was w. p. Sturgis, now 20 years old, a ma
tive and long resident of Gorham, but now
a resident of Oregon. Il have come" he
said to the correspondent of the PRESS, ''to
see Blaine. | saw him make one of his first
speeches, thirty years ago, and want to see
him again. | can tell you what he said as
his opening words. He said: 1T is about as
out of a pump broke; but we got the speech
all the same" Another western Tippecanoe
veteran who had come to see Blaine, was p.
II. Howe. aged So, of Idaho Territory.
He voted for VIM. Henry Harri-
son when living in Oxford county in
the town of Hanover. Daniel Durrell
was the most enthusiastic man on the
grounds, in spite of his rs years. with
these hands, he said, 81 helped build the
gun carriages that helped sink Old Semmes's
Alabama, and would do it again. Three
of us built all the gun carriages on the
Kearsarge. | voted for old William Henry
Harrison and have voted Whig and Repub-
lican for fifty years. l am going to vote
that way this, year, and be on the winning
side too" The other veterans were j. Y.
Bergen, aged Y, of 487 La Sale avenue,
Chicago, formerly of Eastport; Erastus
Plummer, II, of Scarboro; Nathaniel Hill,
", OF Kennebunkport; Stephen w. Hill, 72,
O. Aennebpnkport Wm Littlefeld. e, OF
Tibbetts, Is, Of Biddeford, d. M. c. Dunn,
70, of Portland; Oliver Benson, 73, of Ken
nebunkport; Z; Fl. G. Bradbury, 65, of Saco;
Shas. Naas NJ NJ. Pillssbury, z, Of searboro Major
Make Gsme O s. Of od Orchard stePhen
73; Prentiss NJ. Hill, 70; j. R. Anderson, of
Saccarappa, Y; James Pennell, 20, and j. p.
Libby, ~, OF Westbrook; E. G. Tarbox. II,
of Buxton; 5. w. Larrabee, 70, Of Portland;
Dr; ). l.. Allen, Of Saco; T. A. Boothby, 20,
port, o: I. Guptill, rs, of Biddeford; Beniah
Titcomb, n, Of Haverhill, Mass; Richard,
Stimpson, 70, of Lyman; Albert Perkins, 72
Of Kennebunkport; Dav i'd f. Lombard, 72
Blddeford c. Il. Weston, Yarmouth, &C.;
bury, Buxton. II !; VIM. FL. Meserse, Buxton,
q; A. /, Keen, Cambridge, Mass, Il; l..
Hurd, Gorham, 66; Samuel N. Harmon, Saco,
20; James Andrews, Biddeford. 70; Horace
Smith; Kennebgnkport, So; E. Emerson, Bid
Frederick X. Hill, Lyman, 6S; James N.
Roberts, Lyman, II; VIM. Ross, Old Orchard,
%; Nj. l.. III. Owen, Buxton, 50; John f.
Fiske, Covington, KY, 70; Demeritt Place,
Centre Strafford, a; J. B. Palmer, Bidde-
s. Littlefield, Wells, 70; Rev. S. F. Wether-
bee, West Kennebunk, 70; VIM. Andrews,
Biddeford 70; n Tarbox, Saco, rs; John l..
Perkins, Kennebunkport, y; w. f. Higgins,
Thorndike, 80; G. w. Randall, Biddeford, IS
While these veteran protectionists from
the old Whig school were filing onto the
stage, three hundred protectionist working
men and citizens of Biddeford were moving
onto the grounds with a band at their head
and red white and blue umbrellas over their
heads. While the audience were waiting an
enterprising small boy climbed a tall pole in
the centre of the auditorium, and perching
himself at the top. raised one of the tri-
colored umbrellas over his head. Being the
most conspicuous high protectonist in sight
he was loudly cheered.
If the audience was great and interesting
the speakers who came upon the stand at
o'clock were no less so. There was James
G. Blaine, Thomas b. Reed, Henry Cabot
and Hon. r. E. Frazier. Of Michigan, all
furnishing an abundance and variety of
talent rarely seen at one place at one time,
They were loudly cheered as they appeared
Mr.. Allen called the meeting to order as
soon as the speakers arrived, and with brief
able Representative Hsix times elected to
Congress by the votes of the First district
and about to be elected for the seventh
time" Hon. Thomas B. Reed Loud ap-
plause.
Mr.. Reed, addressing the chairman and
the audience, began by saying This may
be York county audience, but must saw
do not recognize it. 1t is too big even Tor
York county. [Applause.] But it is follow
ing this wears fashion. have been over
York county and Cumberland this year, and
many other years: Das aUdeUceS sweve years
this wear. And this audience is no excep-
tion. And the reason is not obscure. be-
lieye that every one recognizes the newness
and Importance of the issue that is to be de-
cded this campaign bdS 9eTs mas hsSe been forced
would be forced upon us. This issue / have
discussed all over the county. do not in
tend to repeat that discussion today. l have
argued it as fully as have beenable, aud to-
day | shall not deal at length with the sub
MIR. Reed spoke of the secrecy of the
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