The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-17

The following were elected provisional dele
gates:
First District-George L. Kimball, of Portland.
second District Lorenzo Robinson, OF Rock
Third District-Rev. c. 3. Peckham, of Halo
Fourth District-Mr. Burgess, of Houlton.
John S. White, of Portland, and Rev. r.
wing Winsor, of Lewiston, were elected al
ternates.
1t was voted that the State committee have
power to fill vacancies in the list of dele
gates.
Mrs. Hannah j. Bailey, of Winthrop, was
elected as delegate at large in Mrs. Stew
ens's place on nomination of Mrs. Stevens.
Col. Eustis then solicited funds for carry
ing on the campaign. These subscriptions
were made:
i. 7. Burrows. $500
n. F. Woodbury. -.....--................... 100
Col Eustls ...-..-.-............-, luO
VIZ. Wheedon, of Bangor. 20
Mrs. Darlington, one month Of her lecture
work.
Mrs. Perkins, SIS towards Mrs. Parting
toms labor in Washington county.
Others subscribed amounts of $40 and less.
Amounts of So were subscribed quite free
ly.
Mr.. Horace c. Mayo, of PeAobscot, want
ed it distinctly understood that this was not
Democratic money
The following were elected for the State
committee:
Androscoggin--N. f. Woodbury..
Aroostook-S K. Baker.
Cumberland-Rev s. +. Pearson
Franklin--M. b. Jacobs.
Kennebec-J. T. Thomas.
Knox-H M. Bean.
LncOln-Rev. j. j. Bullnncn.
Oxford-W. L. Eustis
Penobscot-S. S. Kimball.
Saskatchewan. r. Shaw.
s %alsuMFrei. F :. " Il G Gosan.
York-Aar0n Clark.
The State committee have power to fill va
cancies
The following gentlemen were elected cleo
tors
1st District-Rufus Deering.
I'd District-Rev. A. s. Ladd.
Sd DStrict-NOt fllleQ.
4th District-N0t filled.
Electors at Large-Gen. Neal Dow, Volney h.
Cushing.
The next business was the nomination or
Governor. Rev. Mr.. Shinn presented the
name of Volney B. Cushing. The name was
received with cheers.
Mr.. Kimball presented the name of Aaron
Clark.
Mr. Burrows said that he had understood
that Mr.. Clark refused to be a candidate and
called ON Mr.. Clark to define his position.
| Mr.. Clark said that he did not desire the
nomination, but he had come to no determi-
nation. Mr.. Kimball withdrew his mo
ton.
Mr.. 4. 7. Burrowes moved that Aaron
Clark be nominated Mr.. Kimball seconded
the motion.
Mr.. Pearson said that he would like to
hear from Mr.. Cushing as to whether he
would accept or not. The chair ruled this
out of order.
Mr.. C. Thornton Libby moved to proceed
to written ballot. Carried.
The result was as follows:
Whole number of votes. ......................142
Necessary to choice. ...................::. ~
Volney b. Gushing. ........-...........l1O
Aaron Clark ..-...........--........... 32
and Mr.. Cushing was nominated.
This ballot was received with cheers, and
one hat was thrown in the air.
The nomination was mad Q unanimous by
a rising vote. and three cheers were given
for Mr.. Gushing and Mr.. Clark.
Mr.. Cushing spoke briefly on the prospects
for the coming campaign. He was most
vigorous Prohbitionist, he said, because pro-
hibition is right Ultimately the American
people must meet the liquor evil.
Rev. w. II. Boole, ID. D., of New York,
was introduced and spoke briefly. He said
DR.. Howard Crosby is doing more harm in
New York on the temperance question than
Bob Ingersoll is doing in Christianity. The
speaker said he was unfortunately brought
up in New York. The Indian name for
Manhattan Island meant ''whe-e all the peo-
pie get drunk" so named by them because
the Dutch brought liquor there.
THE EVENING MEETING.
Perhaps three hundred people assembled
in City Hall last evening to listen to Rev.
DIR. Booth of New York. Col. Eustis presid-
ed and called upon Rev. Mr.. Pearson to offer
| prayer.
Col. Eustis complained that the Prohibit
| tionists had been misrepresented by the
| press in that they had underestimated the
number of delegates. He said there were
1856 delegates besides large number of alter
mates. He then read telegram from the
Illinois State convention sending their greet
ing and expressing the belief that the action
of the Republican party in the recent Spring
election would react to the good of the prohi-
and commenced his remarks by speaking in
commentator of the candidate for Cover
nor, Mr. Cushing He said he was sorry
that the audience were so enthusiastic he
would rather have had some of the men pres
ent who had voted against Neal Dow that he
might talk to them.
It was strictly third party speech, but
aimed most directly against the Republicans.
He spoke of the campaign of 1884 and was
glad to be counted among these who had vot-
ed for st. John in New York and had thus
helped to defeat Mr.. Blaine He said the
fault in Portland lay in the officials
DIR. Boole thought prohibition national
cause of far greater Importance than any
other. He believed that Mr. Blaine had
made greater mistake in saying that prohi-
btion was not national issue than Gen.
Hancock in applying similar utterance to
the tariff
He spoke warmly of the efforts of the W0-
mans Christian Temperance Union and de-
clared himself to be in favor OF woman suf-
frage.
At the close of DIR. Bodies remarks a col
lection was taken and Volney b. Gushing,
Ill -. I'D.