The Portland daily press., 1890-06-06
THE CONVENTION.
Hon. Thomas 8. Reed RenomInated
by AccIam alton.

by Acclamation.
The Republican convention for the first
district of Maine was ca led to order, at City
Hall, yesterday afternoon at 21O o'clock. by
Mr.. Andrew Hawes- chairman of the district
committee. After reading the call Mr..
Hawes said he was requested by the district
committee to offer the following gentlemen
for officers of the convention: President,
Frank M. Higgins. Limerick vice presidents.
Edwin B. Mallet Freeport, Sylvanus Bart
lett Eliot; secretaries. E. w. Aver. West
brook, F. 81. Cousins, Biddeford.
Those gentlemen were unanimously elect
ed amidst much applause.
Mr.. Higgins ON taking the chair was
greeted with loud applause. and spoke as fol-
lows:
MIR. HIGGINS'S SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Convention:
For the honor of being called upon to pre-
side over this convention, return to you my
thanks.
We meet, as the call has informed you, to
make choice of candidate for Congress
from this district, and while do not wish to
anticipate the action of this convention. /
must say to you that the prominence in the
nation OF our present member OF Congress
Is such that any action that may be taken
here today will be viewed with widespread
interest. Let us then, as we have in the
past. act for the interest Of the Republican
party. party OF glorious record, and we
shall, as In tho past, add victory to victory.
Two years ago we had glorious victory, but
let us act as party united and determined,
and this fall our victory shall be more
splendid and glorious than any that has pre-
ceded it. | call upon you then, as upon men
who have the true interest of the Republican
party at heart, by your proceedings here to-
day to show to all that the Republicans of
the first Maine district are united and de-
termined, that in spite of rumors to the con-
trary there is no disaffection or dissensiOn in
our ranks that we are unit In the support
OF him who will undoubtedly be presented
by this convention as man in all and every
way calculated to represent in the Congress
OF the United States the first district of
Maine.
And now ask your aid in conducting the
business of this convention, and am ready to
receive such motions as may be in order.
Mr.. Edward Hoyt of WATERFORD moved,
and the motion was carried, that the dis
tlict committee be a committee on creden-
tals.
Mr.. S. W. Judkins of York, from the COM
mittee on credentials, reported that of the
2S9 delegates to which the convention was
On motion Mr.. STEVENSON or hittery
the temporary organization was made perm
anent
Hon. M. f. King of Portland moved the
appointment by the chair of committee of
seven ON resolutions. The motion was car
ried and tho chair appviutoti- -aIorouis f.
King, Portland; Usher b. Thompson, New
field William Osgood, N orth Yarmouth E.
s. Marshall, York; E. r. Wingate, Standish;
B. F. Hansen, Sanford; Charlesl Y. Lord,
Naples.
Hon. M. F. Wentworth of Kittery moved
the appointment of committee to nominate
district committee, and by vote of the con-
vention the chair appointed M. F. Went
worth, Kittery; Edward P. Chase, Portland;
Walter S. Dane, Kennebunk; Daniel d.
Chenery, Deering Curtis CARL, WATERFORD;
c. c. Townsend, Brunswick; David P. Chap
lin, Bridgton.
Hon. Wilbur F. Lunt then addressed the
convention as follows:
WILBUR F. LUNT's SPEECH.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen Of the Conren-
ton:
Some men are born great and some achieve
greatness, but when in the life of any man,
as rarely happens, both these circumstances
happily occur. that man indelibly stamps the
mark OF his greatness upon the history OF his
time. In times past 1t has been the happy
privilege of the Republicans of this district
to send as their representative in the Con-
gress OF the nation man whose power of
will, whose natural talents, whose great
genius and whose learning have made him
prominent in the councils of the nation, and
for the service which the Republicans of
this district have rendered the nation they
are entitled to the grateful thanks of all the
people.
The :man swho has served YOU so ably
and so nobly found himself a representative
among many in House where the will of
the minority governed, and the majority,
forsOoth, were held responsible for their do
ings. He was representative in House,
where 1t was supposed, theoretically at least,
that its members had been honestly and
fairly elected as the representatives of the
will of the people, by their choice expressed
at the ballot box; but:through long,. weary
years men have there occupied seats Of honor
bloodshed and through fraud; who held
their places without warrant of law proper
ly expressed, and none could say them nay,
because the power of that House bestowed
upon it to judge of the election of its own
members was neutralized by the. minority
who cared not for law, but only sought
power.
The man who fills the honorable position
Of Speaker today [applause] has shown to
the whole world what moral strength, what
power to do right can dwell within one man.
Today he sits there, the organ OF the House,
and dare say the only man in that House
who could have accomplished the gigantic
undertaking which has been brought to a
successful issue, so that today the House Of
Representatives in the Congress OF the
United States is a proper representative
body of the people of this. country through
whom the will of the majority. can be ex-
pressed [applause]; a body wnlch neietofore
has consumed months in discussing. meas
ures Of national importance, Dut iaiied TO
| enact laws to enforce such measures.
Today, looking back over the past, we
| NAV indeed assume pride In the man who
| has so nobly represented tne people Oh this
| district, and do not think speak anything
| amiss when say that the people OF lntelll-
admire this man of courage, this man who
| has the will and the inclination to do right
| Iapplausel, and who has fought straight
onward in the course that has
wrought this great change In the
in the legislation Of tins naoiOn. a wnlcn nv VIII
| the whole land No more, with such a
| Speaker as he in the chair, will fraud, and
| blOOdshed, and corruption enter tne nails Oh
Congress. [Applausel. The time has come
when the rights of maloIily can na De LASS assert.
undue delav: when the candidates OF minor
| tiles cannot ASSUME the functions OF repre-
sentatives and continue in their places until
the end of their term. defrauding those who
should be the rightful occupants thereof
| [Applausel
sent to the people man whose private NE
has been pure, whose public lie cannot be
assailed from any quarter; man IRON
whose presence slanderers shrink away, and
before whose good name and tame noels
wither aud vanish. [Applausel.
1t is our privilege here today to marshal
the way along which he moves toward the
summit of his greatness, and l move you
Mr. Chairman, that we nominate Dy accla
nation as our candidate for Representative
to Congress, Hon Thomas b. Reed. Loud
applausel.
The mention of Mr.. Reeds name reused
the greatest enthusiasm.
Mr.. w. c. Perkins of Cornish then sec
onded the nomination In short speech, full
of enthusiasm. Mr.. Perkins said;
MIR. PERKINS SPEECH.
In behalf of solid phalanx Of as true and
| loyal Republicans as the sun ever shone up
on, and in behalf of the entire delegation
| from. York county, quorum of which is
hnr Il 1. No..