The Portland daily press., 1892-06-30
Wild WHOOPS.
Continued From First Page.

COnblnue0 FROM F1rSC rage.
what was about to develop into grand attack
OF the country Democrats upon the SWEET lily
phalanx. you know continued Higgins,
ate the politics of Cumberland county as New
York seeks to dominate this Union" TSen-
sation in the Hail. Mr.. Higgins went on to
describe the virtues. OF Mr.. Tolman, whom he
put in nomination.
Mr.. William M. Dow
OF Gray, now came forward. You want, he
said, to nominate man whom you can elect.
lApplause.l You want to steer clear of the
faetional fights in the city of Portland. You
farmers pay the taxes, and you are interested.
Now / want to nominate man who is the
farmers friend George A. Morrill,, for ten
years first Selectman Of his own town of Gray
He will get as many votes in the CITY as any
olnef candidate, and twice as many as anyone
else in the country.
True Merrill of New Gloucester, seconded
MOrrill's nomination.
MI. w. H. Green of Portland seconded the
nomination of Mr. Tolman, who, he believed
would be the strongest candidate Mr.. Toll
man had been sent to the Legislature and the
Senate from his own town, although that town
was Republican. When he came to Portland he
settled in Ward g. then the banner Republican
ward. Now that was Republican, and Mr..
Toiman represented it in the city government.
At this point, young SWEET delegate, James
Z. owen, appears on the scene and asks: 'Are
i.
"N0, | am not"
What right. then, have you here?" [shouts
of applausel
Il am here on a Cape Elizabeth proxy. Is
not that sufficient?" [Laughterl.
plausel.
Order being restored the nominating pro-
ceeded.
e. L. Poor; of Sebago,
declared vehemently that they wanted man
who could whip Leander Cram. "Show the
man." he said, s'who has carried the political
sway in Portland that George Tolman has ?''
[Cheers and hisses].
A good looking young Gorham Democrat
then nominated Robert F. Somers, but didn't
make any speech,
There was a big yell when the Young Lion of
the Democracy,
Hon. William III. Clifford,
stepped forward to nominate SWEET He said
the Republican party of Cumberland county
were alarmed. Victory was within the grasp
of the Democrats if they would stand united.
1t had been charged that the Democrats intend
ed to nullify the laws. On the contrary, they
favored just, judlciouS, fair, impartial execu-
ton of the law. They did not propose more
over. that the sheriff's office should be made a
political machine. All the gentlemen mentioned
were good men; but Mr.. Clifford thought that
sure OF defeating the Republicans, Mr.. George
L. SWEET.
The mention of Mr.; swett's name was re-
celyed with loud and tumultous burst of ap-
plauSe and cheers that seemed to presage i'm
mediate victory for the SWEET party. But
The Charge of the Men from the Country
was yet to come in its full force. The cheer
had no sooner died out than Warren H. Vinton
of Gray, marched up the hall, tall, spare and
nortIor nr,df 1of1 60.
of the SWEET partisans. He showed that by the
ancient traditions Northumberland county politics
the shrievality should belong to country town
Look back into our political history he said,
with his forefnger lifted in warning, ssand see
who have been the men who have been sheriffs
OF this county. Cram of Baldwin, Webb of
Bridgton. True of Pownal, Dresser of Standish,
Sawyer of Standish, Pennell of Harpswell,
Pennell OF Gray, Parker of Scarborough, and
going further back still, Emery of Gorham. For
more tnan 80 years the Office of sheriff has
gone to- the country towns, and rightly,
because there naturally falls to the city more
cation. A rule of such unparalleled procedure as
this, that the sheriff and county commits
sioner should come from the country, should
not be Overidden. What Is this office? It
has lost its old character. The sheriff is not
particularly server of writs. He is the keeper
OF the jail It is boarding house or a hotel;
and 1t should be managed by business man.
Such a man was Morrill, of Gray
Here appeared Mr.. Solomon Schwartzschild
the Malachi of yesterdays scenes, prophesying
that bright-eyed victory would hover over the
Democratic hosts if SWEET could only be nomi-
mated.
Mr.. Moses Cash Of Cape Elizabeth stepped
forward to second the nominati0l of Somers.
Cheers greeted the mention of the name.
so Tar the convention had been comparatively
tame. The real
Scenes of Tumult
began when Alexander Higgins rushed into the
hrao oh to- 49,
ting toward Swett
"There are a great many things to be looked
over in this matter" began Higgins, sand they
must be looked over candidly and squarely.
We have presented to us here men for these
high hon0rs whom we all know; but gentle
men, there is something further to be looked at,
something deeper. We have presented to us
Mr.; George L.Swett, who is said to have car
ried six watds out OF seven Of this city ZAP
planse.l Now, gentlemen, how did he carry
no personal feeling against Mr.. SWEET, OF any
body else but have hungering and a thirst
ing against ring rule. [Cries of good" and
hisses.] Now, gentlemen, I ask you candidly
and squarely to decide, and if / state it wrong,
tell me Of it. What do you think of a candidate
seeking an office that will have
Tickets of Peculiar CoIors
in his own favor Applause and hisses] and, to
back that up, to have men standing behind to
take an account of them?"
AS the Scarboro orator uttered these words a
wild yell broke forth that drowned him out. and
/ 1t only ceased when the tall form of Vinton
arose from the Gray delegation.
Mr.. Vinton of Gray-''I want to suggest to our
friend the great wisdom of emitting that kind of
argument.
Cheers and cries of Question question, %
and another period of tumult, in which the
SWEET partiSanS Strove to drive Higgins to his
seat, followed Vinton's speech. But the hero
OF Scarboro town meetings held his ground,
and continued:
This convention cannot take the floor from
me as long as / am talking to the question. TAp-
plause.] This Is the law, and the law governs
us all. AS long as am talking to the question
before this convention you cannot take;the floor
from me. Applause and confusion | come
here as delegate from my town. come here,
knowing my duty as a law abiding citizen to
assist to nominate the several officers of the
| county and CLAIM it as my right so to do.
am determined before get through to state
the thing as understand it, and, if am wrong,
gentlemen, call me to order, Now, gentlemen,
say emphatically,
George L. SWEET Has No Claim Upon Our
Party,
nasmuch as he has already received all that
| any reasonable man ought to ask. [Applause I
I don't believe that one man is entitled to all
the honors in the gift of the Democratic party l
don't care whether it be Mr.. SWEET or some
aIc l,od