Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-10-07
PORTLAND CHAT.
Brief and Aggressive Campaign
Planned for First District.
Annexation Of South Portland to Port
land Likely to Soon Take Place.
Portland TO Have a Polo Team and Has Some
Players Already Secured.

Portland, Me, oct. 6.-tSpeciaD.-
Every hing looks bright for good siZ-
ed Republican majority on election day
and we. will elect Hon. Amos l.. Allen
to Congress by handsome vote" said
Chairman Wilford G.. Chapman of the
1st district committee to the Journal
correspondent. today. 'At the present
mite plans regarding public meetings,
but we shall hold "a conference some
| time with the next few days and de-
eide upon these matters. Undoubtedly
| one or more mass meetings viii come
off in Portland. Mr.. Allen il now at
his home in Alfred and his time is
busily occupied in the minor details of
managing the campaign. Mr.. Allen
has made Il most favorable impression
by the very able speech which H. deliv
cred before the convention, last week.
| He is certainly one of the best public
| speakers in our State and you know
| that we have a number"
| Chairman Chapman is a young man
| who has been practicing law in this
city for several years. He has always
! been Il most enthusiastic Republican.
having taken prominent part in poll
| ties ever since he attained his major
! ity. For three years during the admin
| istraton Of Mayor Baxter. which ended
| three years ago, Mr.. Chapman Was city
| solicitor ana while serving III that ca
pacity he showed himself 70 b. one Of
the ablest members Of tn" Cumberland
bar. He is u tircless worker IN politics
ana n better choice could not have been
made when the committee elected its
| chairman.
''Parson' Mckinney intends to DO
his best to unite the factions Of the
| Democratic party in this district. and
he is certain to find this task q diff
| cult one. on the one hand the Gold
Democrats are more than little dis
! trustful Of him as he has stated that
he is willing to stand upon the Chicago
| platform: and on the other hand. the
silver men are not at all enthusiastic
over him for the reason that before the
convention he committed the grieVous
sin Of omission when he took pains To
| compltely ignore the name of their
champion. Bryan. The Democratic
candidate for Congressional honors
came down from his Bridgeton home.
on Thursday, ana had q long confer
ence with Chairman Gage Of the dis
trict committee. He also met a num-
Der of the leaders of the party. Par
SON. Mckinney fairly enjoys public
speaking. and he is ready and willing
to deliver all Of the speeches that may
be mapped out for him by his mana
gers.
Thus far the campaign has been very
quiet, but it is sure to be enliVened be
fore many days have passed. One of
the notable features is the fact that
the Prohibition party has refrained
from holding a convention to place a
candidate in nomination. The cold wa
ter party men are small in numbers in
this part of the State. and they seem |
to grow less every year.
Portland. since its annexation Of the |
little city Of Deering, last spring. is |
becoming more ana more ambitious. |
SO we'll pleased have the people of the |
city been with the addition of the hust- |
ling little suburb that the talk is gen
orally made that before many years |
other parts Of the outlying territories |
will he induced to follow the example |
direction will be towards South Port
land. which is experiencing her first 4,
year as a city. South Portland is con
stantly growing. the electric line from
Portland. which was established four
years ago. having given marked i'm
petus to all of her affairs. Especially
has the real estate value been in
creased
Hon. Edwin G. Reynolds who is one
Of the best known Republicans Of the
State, is the mayor Of South Portland.
That he is Il popular man was attested
at the first election held by the new
municipality. The Republicans We're
the first to hold their cauccses and
unanimously nominated Mr.. Reynolds
as their candidate for mayor Then
the Democrats came together and after
a brief discussion indorsed the candi-
dacy that had been made by their po-
litical opponents. On election day all
Of the votes with the exception of one,
We're cast for Mr.. Reynolds
The chief executive of the city over
the way. has been a resident of South
Portland for nearly all of his life.
When young man he secured q posi-
ton in the patent office at Washington.
There he remained for few years de-
voting all of his spare time to the study
of law. He returned home and was
soon admitted a member of the bar
of this county. He entered into politics
and was elected register Of probate for
the county. He served must accepta-
bly, in that position. In the last two
terms of the Legislature he has been
one of the four senators from this ,
county At the Republican convention. !
last week. he was chosen the chairman
of the committee on resolutions.
Mayor Reynolds is high up in the or !
der of the knights of Pythias, being
one of its leading officers.
A meeting of the new polo league has
been held in Boston, this week. and Port |
land was one Of the cities which was rep !
resented Walter Burnham, who has all
along been arousng the interest in this {
city, reported on the chances for Port
land saying that everything was ready /
for the establishment of team here The {
league then went ahead and made an ap. | l
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