The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-07
A Characteristic Speech to a Repab-
liean Audience.
DELEGATIONS FROM BATH AND
LEWISTON WERE PRESENT.
Professor Chapman Presided and Even the
Doorways We're Filled-Mr. Reed Made
an Earnest Appeal to the Party to Show
by Their Votes Their Condemnation of
Democratic Misgovernment.
locratic Misgovernment.
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BRUNSWICK September 6.-That the Repub-
licans of Brunswick and vicinity are wide
awake was evinced by the enthusiasm with
which they opened the campaign here to-
night with ringing and able address from
Hon. Thomas B. Reed. People came from
miles around. There was also goodly
sprinkling of ladies in the large and
cultured audience that reached to the open
doors. From Bath came delegation of one
hundred, headed by Hon. j. W. Wakefield,
John o. Patten, H. E. Stetson. Joseph NJ.
Hayes. John R. Ballou, and others, fresh
from an enthusiastic rally of the night be-
fore.
Chairman Roberts called to the chair Prof.
Henry L. Chapman. who made one of his
characteristic graceful speeches, evoking
frequent applause. He said it was hard to
find collection of men anywhere in Bruns-
wick who were not properly speaking Re-
publican rally, whether they assembled on
the sidewalk, the Topsham bridge or even
the blueberry plains. They had rally re-
Gently in Vermont, in which the Green
Mountains themselves seemed to have been
concerned, and we would have one Monday
that would move everything from the
waters of Casco and Penobscot bays to the
summit of Katahdin, and the depths of the
forests themselves. He spoke very prettily
of Mr.. Reeds brilliant achievements as
Speaker, and as Representative, in enforc-
ing his rules and in presenting lurid
picture in radiant frame of the wonder
fully constructed Wilson bill.
AS Mr.. Reed rose. the whole house broke
into applause. 1t was several minutes be-
fore he could be heard. He spoke for just
one hour and held the close attention of
men, women and children.to the very end
The same men who were not able to stand
more than fifteen minutes of Sheppard and
Deering, although staunch Democrats.
listening to the end.
Mr.. Reed, in his inimitable style. spoke OF
the difficulty of his task when everything
that could be said against the Democrats
had been much better said by the Demo-
Gratis themselves. They had nothing to say
for themselves, and be intended to be their
friends, they had no other. Some things Mr..
Cleveland had said little too harshly. He
wasn't quite kind or even polite. He, Reed.
wouldn't have said such things as that they
We're party of perf1dy and dishonor. Their
President had said it, but he didn't believe
it was true. They couldn't help it. We were
great country, and there were seventy
million of people to be governed, and there
were that number to do the governing. and
it was great task. They couldn't all
govern at once, and there were two more or
less equal parties. One was conservative, a
sort of gigantic sidewalk committee. The
other was progressive, sand for the last
thirty years, as matter of course, had
done the governing. Not always to per-
fection. Not always as well as they were
capable of doing, but SO well that we had
been prosperous and become . great
country, with industries that kept our