The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-22

can furnish to this convention a.. aeandi-
date worthy of it's support. Gentlemen,
we have such candidate, and the facts
| have stated entitle him to your SUD-
port. a large and representative caucus
of Brunswick Republicans, departing
from its usual custom, unanimously in
structed its delegates to support the can
didate of their choice for Sheriff of this
county. think you are tolerably famiI-
lar already with his record, and I shall
not weary you with it. In 1864, at the
age of Is years, he entered the army of
the United States and served honora bly,
during the remainder of the war. From
that time until now, he has been an ar
dent, uncompromising and an effective
worker for the Republican party. He
became chairman OF our town committee
in 1854, at critical period, as some
gentlemen will recollect, in our local
party history, when the plurality of
Tom Reed from Brunswick was only 80.
He left the chairman ship in 1890, with
all factions united and with majority
for our great leader at the high-water
mark of 240. He is the present efficient
chairman of the county committee. He
has served twelve years as deputy sher-
if. During that period he has familiar
lied himself with every detail of the
duties of that office and. L hazard moth
ing in saying that during that period of
time he has had no superior on the
force. He has twice before been a can
dldate for promotion. Being denied it,
he has gone back and taken off his coat
and worked with vigor and success for
THE GOOD OF THE PARTY,
and it was due to him more than to any
one else that two years ago the majority
for Mr.. Cram exceeded by 35 that of any
other candidate in Brunswick. Two
years ago, as I remember. his claim for
promotion at the hands of the county
convention was conceded to be just by
several gentlemen, on whom the obliga-
tion of pledge now seems to rest but
lightly.
Gentlemen, if the man l name is nom
mated here, and elected, he will prove
one of the ablest, most efficient and
most satisfactory sheriffs that Cumher-
land cunty has ever had. He is espec-
tally pledged to stop that leak in the
rants. (Applause). INDUCING in no crit
lclsm, gentlemen, of any candidate be-
fore the convention. / would make no
lnv1dlous comparisons; but | suggest to
you that, in service to the Republican
party, in experience in the sheriff's office
and in fitness and capacity for that
office, the man I name is at least the
convention. (Applause). Mr.! Chairman
and gentle men, in behalf of the unani-
nous delegation from Brunswick, / pre-
sent as a candidate for Sheriff Mr.. Grin
T.Despeaux of Brunswick (Applause).
Following Mr.. Potter, Mr.. Elliott C.
Mitchell of Portland arose, and in a
spirited speech seconded Mr.. Plummer's
nomination on behalf of the Republicans
of Ward and the young men of the par
ty. If Samuel D. Plummer should be
nominated he would be at the head of
the sheriff's Office. There would be no
power behind the throne, and no dicta-
tor except his own conscience. Gap
plause).
Mr.. I'D. Rogers of Yarmouth and Mr..
John Barrett of Deering seconded the
nomination of Mr.. Despeaux.
Mr.. Levi Jordan of Raymond here
asked leave to say word, speaking as
follows:
MR.. LEVI JORDAN'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman If you will allow me
just one word more. AS long ago as
can remember, the Eastern Argus,
printed down here, was called the Scar
boro Bible" Now if a man can live in
a town where the Democratic party has
not had any Bible except the Argus and
can get elected supervisor and collector,
l say he is worthy of the suffrages Of the
voters of Cumberland county. Great
laughter and applause)
The following committee were appoint
ed to receive, sort and count votes:
Walter H. Dresser of Bridgton, Charles
j. Chapman of Portland and Charles E.
Townshend of Brunswick.
The vote resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes, 1877
Needed for choice, 70
Samuel D. Plummer had 81
Clark H. Barker, 50
Grin T. Despeaux, = 10
Henry G. Doughty, 6
F. H. Hartford,
The announcement of this result was
greeted with loud applause. The nomi-
nation of Samuel D. Plummer was made
unanimous. ~5
Mr.. Henry P. Cox of Portland then
arose and said that however much differ
nee there may have been on the subject
of Sheriff, there was but one opinion as
to who should be nominated for
CLERK OF COURTS.