The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-10

Eastman. IlOS0 WHO ndu Seats On Iut
stage were:
J, L. Bracket, Jonathan Eastman,
Kimbali Eastman, j. S. Palmer,
Chas. H. Chase, Chas. Gnptill,
J. H. Bradley, i. n Leighton,
j. E. Cady, VIM N. Howe,
A. s. Libby Vim. M. Ingraham,
ChaS. Gushing, Josiah Chase,
Nathan Clifford, r. d, Woodman,
H. Wheel. Ripley, Major Alden OF Deering
w. III. Stevens, w. r. G.. Estes, Show
E. C, Jordan. hogan,
H. q. Flynn, A. W. Smith,
Geo. McOuillan, d. G.. DrinkWater,
L. W. Tibbetts.
Chambers band gave delightful con-
cert previous to the speaking. The cam
paign companies were given the entire
west section of seats, and contributed
materially to increase and enliven the
audience. After the campaign compa-
MES came in they were followed by a
mob of considerable size.
The meeting was presided over by the
Hon. M. P. Frank, who had chivalrously
forgotten the indecent greed with which
the courtesy of re-nomi nation to Con-
gress had been juggled out of his reach.
Mr.. Frank, as he placed himself at the
head of the blue ballot cohorts, uttered
a loud Democratic slogan. He said that
the old battle was on again, the battle of
the masses against the classes. Eight
years ago the people had elected Grover
Cleveland Ia loud whoop], who had come
out four years ago with his famous mes
sage on the tariff. He had then definite
ly taken the part of the masses against
the classes. Then Mr.. Frank described
how, as he alleged, the monopolists and
plutocrats defeated the peoples cause.
But truth crushed to earth would rise
again, and the next time the people had
a chance to express an opinion they
swept even the mother state of Massa-
chusetts into the Democratic column.
[Applause.] Mr.. Frank referred eulo-
gistically to Mr.. johnson, the candidate
for governor, lamented that the system
of Republican taxation had rendered our
harbor, as he alleged, nearly empty of
commerce, and then proceeded to take a
Whole Box of Pills.
He actually eulogized-and absurdly
eulogized, too-the men who turned him
down so numerically when he wished
the courtesy of a denomination to Con-
gress. Every word must have been bit
ter pill, but Mr.. Frank tipped his head
back, opened his mouth wide and took
the dose. He referred in glowing terms
to Mayor Ingraham's work lin foreign
port,' and said that Mr.. Ingraham, if
elected to Congress, would not work sole
ly to elevate himself, but for the elevation
of his fellow citizens. Mr.. Frank des
cribed how the sugar business of this city
had been destroyed; alleged that never
word was raised in Congress in behalf of
it, and then insinuated that if Mr.. Ingra-
ham had been there it would not have
been so. Mr.. Frank evidently did not
dare to say outright what he wished his
hearers to believe, since he knew too
we'll that the sugar business of Portland
ceased because it was assumed by the
sugar trust, a creation which no Congress
man on earth could head off.
Having told what things Mr.. 1ngraham
would have done had he had chance,
Mr. Frank proceeded to eulogize the re-
nowned centurion of the blue ballot CO.
horts--Marshal SWEET He described
him as lone of our citizens, born and
bred up among you, man with whose
ancestry you are familiar, man who in
public Office is doing his duty quietly, in
spite of personal abuse and SANDER
Mr.. Frank then introduced
Hon. william G. Ewing
O: Illinois as "a friend of Grover Cleve
land" This was the exact way in which
the Hon. Calvin Frost had been intro
duced, and SILVER crept over the au-
dience. Mr.. Ewing began: When I was
invited by the national committee to I'M
dertake work in the campaign half of a
campaign company gets up and goes
out to aid in the election of that great
man who leads our national hosts,
Large crowd of young men in the rear of
the hall move Quit knew well and init
mately the late [Several men and women
move out Judge Cleaves and sincerely
lament with you his untimely death.
Ladies and gentlemen, if I could be
worthy of this magnificent meeting,
Young ladies in the rear gallery get up
and go out] it would be the happiest
moment of my life. Two large tat men
go out All honest Americans are in
Gerested simply in one line Gray headed
man in front of speaker goes
out] and that is to get the best
possible government for our
great people [Stout lady moves out.
Then, as the speaker launched into the
tariff question, the audience began to
stream out in continuous column. Mr..
Ewing is a bright man; and he determin-
ed not to lose his audience. So he began
to tell stories. In this way he kept
them twenty minutes, and then tried
tariff argument again. But at once they
began to go out again. So Mr.. Ewing
made a composite speech, weaving in a
little tariff with many stories and fables.
In this way he managed to keep his au-
dience very well, although it frayed
away considerably on the edges Al
though bright the speech was thorough
ly dishonest from beginning to end.
After enumerating acorns. soap grease,
dragons blood and some other things
that the laboring man does not require
much of, the speaker said that these
things had been put on the tariff free
list by the Republicans, but that every
thing that the laboring man really needed
was taxed. This calm ignoring of sugar,
tea, coffee, ETC., was only sample Of the