The Portland daily press., 1896-07-07
THE POPULlST BRETHREN.
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moved thst committee of three be ap.
pointed to select nominees for Senators;
but J. e. Campion squelched this on the
ground that it wasn't populistic. Nomi-
nations had better be made from the
floor. So nominations were ma dc as fol-
lows:
Senators-Dr. John Swan, of West
brook; n. o. Moulton of Falmouth
W. H. Jewett, of Portland, and W. S.
Blanchard, of Cumberland.
Sheriff-W. J. Frost, of Freeport.
| County Attorney-W. II. Mclaughlin,
of Scarf oro.
Judge of Probate-F. E. Nichols, of
Freeport.
County 1reasurer-W. II. Sargent. of
Portland.
County Commissioner-A. e. Gray, of
Westbrook.
of Freeport.
| County Committee-A. e. Gray, of
Westbrook; W. II. Sargent. of Portlan d,
d. o. Moulton, of Falmou tn; Fred
Nichols, of Freeport; Capt, Isaac Quinn
by, of Westbrook.
There were a few bitches in nominat-
ing this ticket. When Capt. Quimby
was named for County Commissioners
this dialogue took place:
Capt. Quimby-Its no use to nominate
me. I amt fit to do business of any
kind.
The Chairman-Perhaps you wouldn't
have any to do.
Uncle joe Holden (with drawl)-The
| duties of the office are very light.
But Mr.. Quimby persisted and A. E.
Gray. of Westb rock, was chosen.
| 1t was next in order to nominate a
county attorney. The chairman said that
lawyers had all been ruled out of the
| Kingdom of heaven, and there didn't
seem to be many in the populist party.
1t was suggested that no nomination
he made; but Governor BateInan arose
and declared his hope that every place on
the ticket would be filed. A good honest
farmer would make good nominee. He
could take an almanac and in week he
would be better fitted for the office tina
any attorney Cum berland county had
had for years.
Then VII. Mclaughlin, Of Scarboro was
nominated, although he protested that he
hadn't money enough to buy even an al
manao.
| There was enthusiasm when Candidate
for Governor Bateman was introduced.
He began by recalling that when Louis
XVI. sat in his luxurious court of YER
SALES and WAS told that the people were
.hatterina down the Bastile he said:
Why, il is a revolt,
say, sIre,,- was the reply OF Liam
court. ''it is revolution
! A hundred years span the time between
the French Revolution and this day.
be hayonet and tho barricade hayo been
supplanted by the ballot That now is
the Instrument of the oppressed.
Mr. Bateman proceeded to recount
some of the political revolutions wrought
in this county by the ballot from Jack
son to Abraham Lincoln The Republi-
can party was formed by such en- upris-
ing but it had grown corrupt and was
now only an organized appetite
& AL JIG ulC ptbIUlcS BIoW duu
cowardly as they grew older.
Ho then proceeded to compare the vari-
Gus platforms beginning with the Maine
Republican platform, which he criticised
| as dealing in platitudes on subjects not
in issue, except in the case of the gold
plank, which advocated policy that had
made thirty million of Englishmen
paupers.
The Democratic platform was also full
of platitudes, because the party knew
nothing. The Democratic party was like
an army mule, without pride of ancestry
or hope of posterity; like comst, which
was all tail and no head. But there
the gold standards.
| What did this standard plank mean?
1t meant that thousands of Maine Demo
Gratis must take to the woods. Mr.. Bate
man then read from the PRESS the
statement of John r. Mclean that
Maine was Greenbaek State, and de-
clared that it showed the stupidity OF tho
Maine. Democrats in adopting a gold
| plank.
But the Populist party had adopted
square, 16 to plank. The crime of '73
had cut down the value of silver; and the
people knew it. This National Democ-
racy knew it. The Democratic nominee
for Governor was an estimable gontle-
man; but he was in false position. The
| Democrats must this fall vote the Popu-
| list ticket or take to the woods.
The Populist platformawas also against
the issuing of bonds; in favor of govern
ment ownership of the railroads; against
| foreign immigration; etc. 1t was a good
platform, and he proposed to do for its
principles all ne could with voice,
| tongue, pen and purse.
Mr.. Bateman laid special etress upon
the immigration plank. He regarded the
| importation of cheap labor as the great
est menace to American workingmen.
The holding of land by large capitalists
should be discouraged by taxing vacant