The Portland daily press., 1894-09-04
Enthusiastic Reception to Congress-
man Reed at Bangor.
REPUBLICANS. DEMOCRATS AND
P0PULIsTs DO HIM HONOR.
The New Bangor City Hall was Crowded
to the Doors-At .Rockland Roswell G.
Horr the tom Reed" of the West Ad-
dressed the Large Audience.
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Especial to the PRESS.
Bangor, September 3.-For city
which up to the very last week of state
campaign had been totally oblivious to
politics as far as all tward signs indi-
Gated, Bangor had most emphatic
awakening this evening, when the Re-
publicans, Democrats, Populists and
Prohibitionists alike accorded ex-Speaker
Reed the honor of addressing the largest
il doors campaign meeting ever held in
eastern Maine. There is no doubt about
this fact, for it was the first meeting in
the vast audience room of the new Ban
gor City Hall, the capacity of which far
exceeds that of any similar auditorium
here in the east. Mr.. Reed was ia the
best of spirits. and his voice and general
physical powers are unaffected by his
work on the stump. He reached Ban
gor on the second afternoon express from
the west. and was driven to the Broad
way residence of President Franklin A.
Wilson of the Maine Central, who en-
tertained him during his Bangor visit
The meeting was announced for 8
O'Clock, but fifteen or twenty minutes
before that hour every seat and all the
available standing room were occupied.
and people who had supposed they were
early enough were being turned away.
A few courageous ones made their way
through the hundreds crowding the
rear of the hall, and approaches and
climbed up on the window ledges,
maintaining their precarious positions
during the meeting. A few minutes be-
fore 8, Mr.. Reed, escorted by President
Charles Pearl, of the Republican city
committee, Chief Justice Peters and Mr..
Wilson, walked out on the platform, fol-
lowed by a swarm of Republican lumi-
aries and others, not yet qualified to be
included in that class, but possessing
we'll matured am billions. Then the Re-
pulblicans in the assembled thousands
arose and cheered. The ladies' waved
their handker chiefs and the band played
its most inspiring music. ssThe Democrats
regarded the scene with indulgent inter-
est. Mr.. Reed had hardly seated himself
in the enormous chair which had been
placed for him, a piece of furniture SO
large that even the gigantic frame of
the statesman n looked diminutive in it,
when two ladies who had succeeded in
making their way through the crowd
came down to the very front of the hall
and stood leaning against the platform
to await his speech.
The ex-Speaker could not stand this,
and in moment he had half the Re-
.pu blican officials on the stage skirmish-
ing for chairs as he pointed to the la
dies. The scarce articles were only OBJ
tained when some occupants of the
stage surrendered them, but the ladies
were soon seated and MIR. Reed wore his
sorely troubled expression no longer.
General Charles Hamlin, son of the
late ex-Vice President, was presented as
the chairman of the meeting, and spoke
briefly. General Hamlin; mad apparently
prepared himself to withstand a lusty
outbreak of applause, and it came when
he referred to the qualification of the
citizens of Bangor by being privileged to
ear the" honored son OF Maine, the leader
of leaders in America, the statesman
who is destined for promotion to a high
er position. and one which will be the
gift of the whole nation" This was Mr..
Reeds introduction to the audience,
which again arose and endeavored to
split with cheers the pride of the arch
itect of the building, the steel ceiling of
the hall.
Mr.. Reed bowed calmly in response
to the greeting, and when the equilib-
rum of his strong lunged admirers had
again been restored he launched himself
directly into his speech. He spoke about