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A Home Rule For Ireland Meeting in Bangor, Maine, in
1886 Sprague's Journal of Maine History Volume 9 July,
August, September, 1921 page 126

A HOME RULE FOR IRELAND MEETING IN BANGOR, MAINE, IN
1886

On the evening of Monday, June 7, 1886, the citizens
of Bangor held a mass meeting in the old Norumbega
hall, to indorse the Gladstone-Parnell bill for home
rule in Ireland, then pending in the British
Parliament.

The report of this meeting in the Whig and Courier
says: "It was one of the grandest demonstrations ever
held within its his-toric walls."

The meeting was called to order by the Mayor, Edward
B. Nealley. Chief justice John A. Peters presided,
with the follow-ing vice-presidents: Hannibal Hamlin,
John Appleton, Samuel H. Blake, Albert G. Wakefield,
Charles Hayward, William 13. Hay-ford, William H.
McCrillis, Lewis Barker, George W. Ladd, Joseph P.
Bass, Samuel F. Humphrey, Eben S. Coe, Rev. George W.
Field, D. D., Rev. Edward McSweeney of the St. John's
Catholic Church, Rev. M. C. O'Brien of the St. Mary's
Catholic Church, Nathan C. Ayer, General George
Varney, Llewellyn J. Morse, John Varney, Charles V.
Lord, Greenleaf J. Clark, Dr. Thomas N. Coe, Dr. Isaac
Strickland and Philo A. Strickland. Its secretaries
were F. H. Getchell and I,. P. Boutelle. Speeches were
made by Franklin A. Wilson, General Charles Hamlin,
Lewis Barker, Daniel F. Davis, W. H. McCrillis,
Patrick H. Gillin, Rev. H. Barnard Carpenter of
Boston, Rev. George W. Field, D. D., Rev. Fathers
McSweeney and O'Brien and Dr. D. A. Robinson.
Resolutions strongly favor-ing home rule for Ireland
were passed. "Joseph P. Pass moved that. a dispatch be
cabled to Mr. Gladstone carrying to him the sentiments
of the meeting," which was "unanimously carried."
Letters were read from John P. Donworth of Houlton,
John B. Redman, Ellsworth, Governor Robie and James G.
Blaine, Augusta, and Congressman Charles A. Boutelle,
who, at the time, was in Washington, D. C.

So far as we know, Philo A. Strickland, E. P. Boutelle
and Patrick H. Gillin are the only ones now living
whose names ap-peared in the report of this meeting.

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