The Portland daily press., 1900-03-12
Mr.. WILSON'S SPEECH.

municipalities IL makes an exosllent
showing.
Mr.. WILSON'S SPEECH.
AFR. Scott Wilson, the nominee for
resident OF ths common council, was
hAppilv introduced by the Mayor and was
warmly received. He made an exoslient
and at times very eloquent. he bezan
hy saying tf at he wBs one Of the Deerins
contingent and kai learned a great deal
during the past year as member OF the
common oounCil but ne had found to-
ninhs that there vBs still great many
things left for the Deering oontiDsent to
learn.
Out In Deeriaa the character OF politics
Is entirely different from the poiitics OF
Portland. There are few people out there
who know whst . political lie is and few
who Rave ever heard ems. "The first
year tie DesrinR delsgation came IN
wanting . great W any thin as" said Mr..
wilson. "bst N I recall 10 now we got
very little. This yesr We came In want
ing some other things but 30 tar as
osn remember we haTin't obtained many
OF thsm."
Mr.. Wilson then went on TO relate .
dream which he said ward nine council
man had bad. This councilman dreamed
shat Councilman connolly died and went
TO heaven. Sc, Peter asked hi m who be
heard OF you before" So Peter then In
vjted Mr.. Connolly to take q fies bath
otter which be took him On o tour OF IN
spection. Alderman Rufus Lamson had
besn found supsrintendinR the erection
Of q Portland Electric Light pole In the
celestial city. Alderman MAnnix bad
been found laying . curb stone, Council
man mclaughlin was trying formu-
lsts Q milk ordinance. Mr.. Connolly hal
asked SC. Petar whore tbs fire departm mt
was "Oh, we have no tiIs department.
here" said st. Peter, "thst is In the.
the department. Mr.. Connolly had
then been asked to take piece OF chalk
snd make = mark for every political lie
he had told during bis oamuaign In
ward four but he had found that Jack
Merrill fsi wcrn out all tho chalk in do
ing the same thing. Mr.. WjlsnD oon-
| oluded by saying that tire people o, Deer
| ing were now well sAtisti ed with the 70
sition they occupied as part OF Portland
end In eloquent language he drew pio-
| ture OF the delights of the CITY and Its
beauty and closed py quoting from Long
| fellows Lost Youth"
Alderman Dow was the next speaker
and said that be regarded himself ns
| thing Of the past. he had not been both
cred this year by the imuortunities OF
car didates Tor municipal oiiioe. He had
served tive yeErs in the city government
i
known for all that time. He said that
Alderman Lamson had been an aspira
| for office but like his Park street school
house his aspirations had not material
| ized.
Alderman-eleot Walter II. Brown said
that he already felt the burden Of Office
pressing upon him because he had endeav-
ored to keep pace with Mel Mannix at
the table and bad failed TO do so. He
made brief spesch in which hs praised
the out yoiug city government for what
| they had accomplished.
In introducing the next speaker the
Mayer said that In his brisf experience he
had found with but few exceptions
that politics player little part In the city
oounon and that the most of the members
worked hard for the good OF tn Q city. .nas
| a whole. He said that 1t gave him pleas
f, ure to thus publicly testify to the respect
| which he held for Alderman j. n. A.
Merrill who had labored for the benefit Of
| the city as whole and whom he delight
ed to say he regarded as q firm friend
| The reception which Mr.. Merrill received
was indeed hattsring one
MR.. MERRILL REMARKS.
Mr.. Merrill said that he WAS nretited
to learn from Mr.. Wilson's rem arks that
90 many Democrats had reached Heaven
He thought they might find their level
thers but they couldn't In Portland. The
| story of Mr.. Wilson reminded him OF
one of MIR. Dooley's remarks: "The Dam
| Ccrats are always right but the Republl-
rams get all the Offices" He said that
| finoo the beginning every city govern
ment had been termed the worst that ever
was seen. He assured the newly elected
u embers that this was bound to be said
of them and warned them not TO be dis
| oourHged. Mr.. Merrill said some nice
things about the majority members of
| the city council and said in closing "He
| who does the most to advance the inter-
esss OF his city is he who works for the
whole city and not for any faction or for
any one section OF it.
The Mayor then introduced Councilman
Burke, another member Of the minority,
of Whom he said 1t delighted him to have
an opportunity to say that he had shown
himself to be an able. cool headed and
conscientious worker tor the best inter-
ests OF the city, whom be was glad to
call friend and TO whom he wished
much success and prosperity.
WITTY MR.. BURKE
Mr.. Burke made one of the wittlsst
| speeches of the evening. He said that the
majority party had a monopoly on ev-
erytbing but not on dreams. He had
friend who bad been dreaming too This
friend dreamed that he went TO Heaven
and was refused admission by st. Peter
because he was a politician. Tho gates
swung open a little and the frIsnd saw
the D6 ering delegation within. He called
st. Peters attention to this and st. Pc
Ter said: "Oh they are from Deering.
They ere no politicians. (Great applsuIe Q
and laughter.)
Mr.. burke went on TO say that ga good
old Roman named Julius Caesar had
| once cut quite figure In politics In
Rome until he pus himself into tina hands
OF his friends, as few of Us have dons,
and then he got cut. This happened to
come OF US, too. In Caesars case 1t oo-
ouRred about the Ides Of March and that
Ia about the time 1t happened to u.s."
Mr, Burke said that the minority party
didn't object to the Republicans believing
In annexation and expansion but they
did object to their carrying these prinoi-
pl5s into municipal politics. They had
tried to annex ward four which was
wrong. Ward four Is about the only ward
that is left to the minority and they
should lie allowed to keep It, The Re-
publicans had also taught the toaters in
ward four some Of the principles Of the
Mckinley tariff bill and the rates had
gone up. This, too, was hard on the
minority,