The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-08
Cheers and Applause for
Other Speakers.
Governor Powers and Mayor
Robinson Extend Greetings.

The state meeting Of Old Home week.
nAs 81 the absrsanees Of the occasion.
Has most gratifying success It was an
aeasson IS speeches trimming over with
la5Alsy % she state anu good VIII among /
lfhe sons and daughters. 1t was great
aH leF tbs large audience present, many /
Il whom had come from far-away places 1
UnntN fhe memories Of their youths.
Ex-Spaker Reed. who has Tor SO long
Na national ugures received a great
asaslan. both when he arrived in the nall /
zaa when Be spoke.
Gig hall was resplendent in It's beautl-
al decorations. aud filled with the happy
SPIRIT 81 tie Old Home week. when the
guests Il tie city were ushered onto the
1AIlarm. Mayor Robinson. Governor
Powers. Governor Rollins and Hon.
IAanas 3. Reed. with Hon. Charles +.
Libby led the column, and were received
HH1a great cheer. Mr.. Reed IN partlcu-
81 anne in for an old time ovation
49, bowed his acknowledgements re-
nasedly before taking his seat.
With the Governor OF Maine were his
staff. resplendent in blue and gold.
Judge Putnam accompanied his guest,
Hon. William u. Washburn, while foul
congressman. Afessrs. Allen and Little.
field of Maine, and Hin Of Connecticut
and Fletcher OF Minnesota, came next Ia
order. IN the party were a number OF
hales. There were Mr.. and Mrs. j. b.
Hiss Charlotte Thomas Mrs. G charles J
Chapman, Captain aud Mrs. bennett,
Miss Maud Washburn, Mr.. and Mrs.
seth L. Iarrabee, Collector Moses. with
Mrs. Moses and Miss Moses, Mr.. and Mrs.
sharles 5. Fobes.
Others on the platform were Ex- Mayors
Walker. Deerlng and Randall, Judges
srout and whitehouse. Zenas Thomp-
son, r. Il Little u. &C. O'Donghue,
+. ". Brown. Benjamin Stone, Freeman
Gowan, Charles II. Baker, II. 5. Dyer,
Heg. DR.. Blanchard, Key. DIR. Jenkins,
Rev. J. G. Perkins, f. Z. Boothby and
others.
The Togus band, which has won golden
opinions during this visit, furnished the
music OF the afternoon, and opened the
exercises after the audience and guests
had been seated.
The first speaker was
GovERNOR POWERS,
who was most cordially received as he
arose to extend to the visitors the well
come Of the state.
He congratulated the audience on the
splendid weather and the city of Portland
on the great success of the celebration OF
the day. TO all the visiting and return
Ing sons and daughters he extended a
hearty and cordial greeting, and true
Maine Welcome. IN doing this he voiced
the unanimous sentiment of all the Maine
people. They believed that each and every
visitor had in his heart warm spot for
the kindred and friends still living here.
Some Of the visitors might have found
kinder skies and richer lands, but he be-
lieved that those places had not sup
planted the love of the old home state. In
the success OF the sons and daughters Of
Maine IN other places those in the old
home rejoioed.
Il was the prerogative of Maine to fur
nlsh men OF brains and character to other
states-"not to your state, " said Govern
Or Powers, turning to Governor Rollins,
while the audience appIauded, "for you
have surplus yourself"
Governor Powers then went on TO
speak IN general terms of the statesmen,
1urists poets. soldiers and sailors who
had written their Maine names on the
book Of fame.
1t was true that Maine did not have
within her borders u Plymouth Rock, a
Lexington or a Bunker Hill, but the sons
OF Maine had borne a gallant part in the
early days before it became a state. On
= the soil Of this state England and France
contended for supremacy on the western
continent.
Governor Powers said that 1T was not
alone to those who had attained distin
guished success in life that he would ex
tend welcome. There were those who
unmindful of fame, did each day theil
duty and helped to make this country
grand and great. 10 such, without re
gard to riches or poverty, to scots O