The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-08
Enthusiastic Scene At West Buxton
Meeting.
PEOPLE RAISE THE ROOF WITH
SHOUTS FOR MCKINLEY.
| Speaker Reed Swings His Hat and the
Audience Responds-A Band at
Railway Station Serenades the Port
land Man,
lsPEcIAL TO THE PREss.I


man Reed and Hon. j. T. Davidson, York,
who addressed the rally at West Buxton
tonight were given an enthusiastio re-
oeption. On the same train which
brought MI. Reed from Portland were
a party of Odd Fellow excursonists,
bound home to Rochester, N. H. When
Saco River station was reached and Mr..
Reed got of to take carriage for West
Buxton, the band men got off too and
began playing national airs.
The train was held up seven minutes
to allow the serenade to continue. The
village folk thronged tho station and
everybody had happy time. A flag
raising preceded the rally at West Bux-
ton. Lords hall was crowded to the
doors with an audience which became
very attentive after they had given vent
to their enthusiasm. 1t was as hot az
density of the crowd and the abundance
of big hanging lamps. Rivulets of per-
spiration trickled down the cheeks Of
the orators and the oountenances of the
assembled 800 glowed with humidi ty
but everybody staid till the last word
was uttered and the last cheer given
Mr.. Charles Butler, an ex-legislator,
presided. Mr.. Davidson of York, who
eloquently placed Mr.. Reeds name be-
fore the district convent ion In Portland
last month, delivered a stirring address,
filed with facts and good rhetoric.
Mr.. Reed spoke 45 minutes. He
made pleasant reference to his first
speech in the same hall 20 years ago,
and alluded to the chief issue OF that
campaign.
There were people then who argued
against the redemption of bonds held
by those who had loaned money to the
government to carry on the war, but the
principles of common honesty was ap-
piled and the nation WAS rapidly paying q
it's debt, till ttc election Of Democratis
administration In 1892.
He next referred to the greenbaok
craze and declared the belief that the
period of '7S and '79 was a more trying
one than that through which we were
now passing. He then reviewed some
of the misdeeds of the Democratic ad-
ministration and the elements of disor-
der which took possession of the party
and alluded to its latest
falling into the hands of the
hands Of the Populistio element. He
said he never claimed the Republican
party had reached the height of even
approximate perfection, but the country
had prospered under its administration
and the people can safely trust again to
its guidance.
He was tired of hearing the silver
question discussed. 1t has 30 long been
u dead issue it does not deserve decent
burial. which is now being prepared for
it. 1t is not more currency, bus nore
business that this country needs now.
Assure men Of capital that they will
get back every dollar they loan and the
wheels of industry will start again. As
sure every manufacturer that when he
comes forward with his capital that his
product will have full sway and that
he will be allowed to employ American
labor to the full extent of his enterprise,
that.will insure the renewal Of prosperi-
ty.
When the speech was concluded, the
chairman called for three cheers for Mo-
Kinley and Hobart. "Now everybody
up" shouted Mr.. Heed, and every swing
of his hat above his head called forth
a volley of cheers that shook the build
Ing.
Mr.. Reed remain ed at West Buxton to-
night. He will drive across the country
to Limerick tomorrow.