The Portland daily press., 1896-06-19

county committee. called the county
delegates to order yesterday, about sixty
delegates were in City Hall.
Rev. S. Il. Pearson was called upon to
act as chairman. He called upon Rev.
NJ. K. Mahry OF East North Yarmouth,
| to ask blessing on the labors of the con-
| vention.
MIR. Pearson then thanked the oonvsn-
tion for the honor of presiding over its
| deliberations. He considered it great
ar honor than it would be to preside over
| the gre alter convention at st. Louis. He
| saw before him the rep resentatives OF the
yeomanry of Cumberland county. In
that county there were 90, 600 homes suf-
fering from the evils of intemperanoe.
The duty of this convention was with
this county. Whatever prestige Maine
had won was due to the white banner of
prohibition. (Applause) The license
platform of the Democratic convention
OF wednesday was commented upon. The
saloon was the main object of attack for
Prohibitionists. He would 90 with eth
or Democratic or Republican parties if
they would assail the rum traffic. But
both the Democratic and Republican
parties had failed.
Mr.. Pearson then went on to oritioise
the sheriff of the county. He said he
was glad the Supreme court had ruled in
the case of Plunmer VS.. Evening Elk
press that it was allowable in q news
paper and public platform to attack
public officer in his public capacity,
but not in his priv ate character. There
fore Mr.. Pearson said the convention
would express its opinions. If an officer
could CLOSE the front door of rum shop
he could close the back door as we'll.
cloud applause)
| Not only must the local saloon power
be fou ght, but the money power of the
met.
| A few weeks ago the prohibition party
| at Waterville selected Rev. Ammi S.
| Ladd as it's standard bearer, one of the
most eminent and noble clergymen of
| Maine. 1t seemed that the united
| churches Of Maine ught to secure his
| election.
franklin Skillings. of Portland, was
made permanent secretary,
| The county. committee as committee
| Oh credentials, reported through D. T.
Parker, that A delegates were pr sent.
ID. P. Parker. of Portland, Edward
Knight, of Deering and E. J. Bragdon
OF Westbrcok. We're appointed COM
| mittee on resolutions.
The senatorial ticket was nominated
| without. opposition, as follows: Solomon
N. Gay. of Cascos for tho northern dis
striot; Benjamin Haskell, of Westbrook,
| for the western district; Alya S. Kendall,
of North Yarmouth, for tho eastern dis
| trict; Edward 7. Burrowes, Of Portland,
for the city district.
The harmony in ali these senatorial
| nominations was SO great as to elicit a D.
plause.
| When the nomination for county attor-
ney was in order Mr.. Parker presented
the name OF John S. White of Portland,
and he was unanimously nominated.
| Mr.. Parker was again on his feet when
the nomination for sheriff was in order.
The contest for this office was to beythe
discriminating issue in the county; and
the candidate ought to be selected with
care. Therefore he suggested that the
convention wait until it had nomin ated
the other candidates.
Rev. Mr.. sMabry thought they ought to
proceed with care; and no wanted to
| know by what method they would select
such candidate that, should he be I'M
| fortunate enough to be elected, would
make good officer.
| Mr.. Parker said that no one was seek
| ing the nomination. It had been sug-
gested to one man; but he had informally
| declined.
| e. j. Bragdon of Westbrook, thought
they could proceed at once as well as at
| any time, if they could take recess for
| a few minutes.
So, on motion of Mr.. Parker. it was
decided that the county committee re-
tired to the ante room and beat the bushes
for shriovalty candidate.
Dnring the recess of the convention
Uncle Jos Holden, of Otisfeld, who WAS
present, was invited, on motion of the
| newspaper men, to address the delegates.
ME- Holden responded, and delivered
spirited lecture on his theory that the
earth is fat. Mr.. Holden dwelt at length
| upon his victorious arguments with a
few foolish sea captains who believed the
earth to be round. Three Of them had
once attempted to interrupt bis lecture;
but he had hurled at them such irrefuta-
BILE arguments that "those sea captains
didn't trouble me no more in my lee
| ture." If the earth was round, at night
where would the water in my mill pond
CO.
Thus the time was pleasantly whiled
away until the committee to select the
candidate for sheriff returned. Mr..
Parker said they had not, in his opinion,
given the matter due consideration.
81 call the gentleman to order" said
Mr.. E. L. Burrowes, and others.
Mr.. Bragdon. of W estbrook, urged i'm
nd Sure.S