The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-08
Enthusiastic Republican Rallies Held
Last Night.
ONE TIME DEMOCRATIC STRONG
HOLD TAKEN BY STORM.
Biddeford Went wild Over Reed Last
Night and Cheered Him to the Echo
Governor Cleayes Addressed His Old
Neighbors at Bridgton-o Other Meetings
Held,
Especial to the Press. J

Especial to the Press)
| Biddeford, september 7.-Hon. Thomas
| B. Reed, this evening addressed one of the
| biggest and most enthusiastic political
gatherings ever held In the Biddeford Ope-
IA house. 1t was gathering that shows
Mr.. Reeds wonderful popularity even in
| the one time Democratic stronghold of the
| First district now remedied and undoubted-
ly destined to give a good sized majority
for the ex-Speaker next Monday. The hall
was crowded to its utmost capacity and
| hundreds stood up, while hundreds could
not gain admission at all. The stage was
flled with prominent Republicans. includ-
/ ing Hon. Bellemy Storer of Ohio; Hon.
Amos I. Allen. Hon. c. NJ. Moses, Mayor
Charles $. Hamilton, Chairman Hersey of
| the Saco city committee, Agent Mourse
of the York corporation, and Agent McAI-
thur of the Pepperell and Laconia. The
meeting was called to order by Racliff H..
| Ford, ex-consul to Leghorn, who int ro-
duced Stephen F. Shaw as chairman. Mr..
! Shaw made short speech and then intro
dnced Hon. James o. Bradbury, ex-mayor of
| Saco, who WAS received with burst of ap-
| plause.
| Mr.. Bradbury made a ringing speech, in
| which he asked the voters present, which
| they would choose next Monday, contin-
uation of the present times. or a resump-
tion of the prosperity of two years ago. His
| allusion to Biddeford as Republican city,
| called forth enthusiasm. .He:predicted the
| biggest majority since the war for Cover
nor Cleaves. Mr.. Reed. he said would get
| the biggest boost in the shape of a vote
| tha the ever received.
| Hon. Bellamy Storer of Cincinanti, O.,
native of Maine, was next introduo ed.
The First district of Maine, he said ought to
| be proud of T. B. Reed. and ought to make
| his selection unanimous, and if sthey had
! him in Ohio. he believed they would do SO.
| Hessaid the Democr attic party in the last
| Congress, had not done thing to be proud
of. and had done everything that any par
| ty ought to be ashamed of. Thirty years
| followed the war and hadasnot yetstaught the
| South, accustomed to slavery, that labor
| shouldsbe well paid and respected. Yet the
| control of the Democratic party was in the
| South, ,and the Northern Democrats suffered
| from itssas weIlat the Northern Republicans.
! And yet he was afraid that the Northern
| Democrats would sten mp Mondaysand vote
| the Democratic ticket the same usual.
| Mr.. Reed got great ovation. The ap-
| plause was prolonged until the chairman
| was obliged to call for three cheers and
then some one sshouted tiger" and the
] applause was renewed again. 1t was some
| time before he was allowed to Commence
to speak.
| Mr.. Reed said he was greatly pleased
| with his cordial reception. and was especial
! ly delighted because itscame from a Repub-
| lican city and ops that proposed to remain
So (Applause.) This was a hard campaign,
he said, for a Republican. He was ohliged
[ to.proy @ over and over again that two and
| two make four. 1t was enough to bother a
| college professor. He had never been at
a loss before for a way to get at the Demo-
cratic party. There was always some sail
ent point sticking out to get hold of, but
now it,was different. Everything was on a
| level. TheDemoorats were low and melan-
| choly in mind and it was not to be wond-
| cred at.
| Imagine. he said, anything more mournful
| than an old time Democrat, who had been
| waiting for thirty years for.the political
millennium to come, when he finds out that
| instead of the Heavenly Jerusalem having
descended, the other place. had come up
| Cheers and shouts of laughter.) He re-
| fer1ed to Cleveland's denunciation of trusts
| in his inaugural and then outlined the pro-
| lection accorded to these monopolies that
| Cleveland had denounced. What is the
| bill that the Democrats are asked to stand
| up for now? Why, the very bill that was
| denounced by the Democratic convention of
| this county and district.
| He could not find heart, he said, to say
about the Democratic party what they had
| said about themselves, and yet it was not
| surprising that the Democratic party had
! been failure. There was nothing that
Republican could have asked the Democra-
| tic party to do fer its ow injury that it
had not done of its own accord.
The laboring man, hessaid, didn't need
any politician as a friend. The laboring
| mans best friend was himself. All he need
| ed to do was to keep his eyes open and not
be disconce efted by local issues If the
manufacturers were not making money the
| laboring men could not get good wages.
The operatives in Biddeford, he said, hau
been obliged to accept reduction under
the Democratic regime, and they had ac-
cepted it sensibly. If the country was pros
porous the .workingmanswould get better
wages. And Just think, he said, of all these
hard times Just to give Cleveland chance
to tell the Senate what he thought of them,
and the Senate to tell him what it thought
of him. What beautiful time we had be-
fore eleo tion. Insthe West it..was Cleveland
and wheat at $1.25. In New England it was
Cleveland and better wages. Well, we have
got Cleveland, but we have not got the
dollar and a quarter, and it is as much as
ever that We have got any wages. What
fools we were, were we not. We thought
that this country could not lose it's pros
perity. We thought it was part of the
climate. We thought it was because the
country was SO big. We have found out
different. Before this. when / told you
that the Democratic party was not compe-
tentsto govern the country, you said, how
do you know. Now when l tell you the
same thing you all say that's so. You all
know it. If there is any Democrat that
does not think so, let him get up and say
so. And now after they have ruined the
country they say the fight has just began.
No. the Democra ticssssparty cannot run this
country. It is too big for them. And the
Great victory we shall have next Monday
will not be entirely a Republican victory.
II will be victory OF Republican principles,
for which sensible Democrats will vote
~ M Reed closed at 93G oftar having