The Republican journal., 1876-06-29
The Republican State Convention.

| At Iarge-JOSEPH TIICOMR,
CHARLES W. ROBERTS.
The Republican State Convention.
| Our misguided friends Of the Republic
the Republican nominee, and swear be-
cause Blaine isn't, assembled at Bangor
last thursday. The choice tor chairman
o: this assemblage fell on our brother the
editor of the Prog. Age. Physically the
head and front of the Convention filled the
| chair all full and presented an imposing
front when he stood up before the assem-
bled delegates # the party OF great moral
| ideas The nomination of an editor to the
| place was a tribute to the profession that
in either party does a great deal of labor
and gets very little for it-but as usual
there was small substantial benefit to cover
the nahedness of the compliment
OF course the chairman made Il speech.
| The text thereof was mainly the resolu-
| lions CT the national convention which
| tlaunt the bloody shirt. The horrors of
| rebel deeds were vociterated, and the air
was as full of dipping shirts of all sizes,
| shapes and descriptions. az when Lochiels
wizard saw "a field OF the dead rushing
red on the sight" 1t was the usual party
| arraignment Of the bad. wicked Democ-
racy. The Republican party had its word
| OF praise, of course The defeat of Blaine
| was lamented, and All apprehension of the
consequences expressed in the following
| extract
| The republican party stands guard over the
| feeble growth its principles have attained at
the South. The work of the republican party
is aggressive, and the great leader, James G..
Blaine great applause conducted this warfare !;
such is the man and such are the principles that
| republicans would have been glad to see ell
| throned IT the national capital but it was not
| to be.
Ii neither the principles nor their cx-
ponent are to be enthroned, the honest
Republicans, like our neighbor, who seek
only the public good may well despair.
The chairman said nothing about ga con-
| tinuous and steady progress to specie pay
ments," because he has secured his end of
proposes to let it stay there
AS soon as the Chairman had got
through, Rev. DR.. Field offered prayer, as
is usual in desperate emergencies, asking
for Divine guidance and aid
Ex-Gov. Dingley came forward and
made Il neat little speech abiding to the
great disappointment at Cincinnati, but
full Of h. pc that Maine will come up all
right in September.
Then arose Mr. Castle, the Waldo men,
of the State Committee, and offered the
following
Resolved. That in view of probable vacancy
in the United States Senate from Maine, this
convention respectfully recommends the APP
pointment of James G. Blaine to fiji the vacan-
ey and Massachusetts will please take notice.
This was adopted with cheers for Blaine
The family jar does not concern us ex-
cept as a spectator-but it is not made ex-
actly clear what Massachusetts is asked
to take notice of. If that State had some
thing to do with the defeat of Blaine for
the Presidential nomination she will be
likely to regard with complacency the as
signmenL by the party Of his State to "a
probable vacancy" il, q much lower posi-
ton than that to which he aspred She
can stand it if Blaine and his friends can,
doubtless willing that he should have so
much salvage from the wreck, and be able
to save his chest" The floor of the
House has been the field in which Blaine
has won his reputation, and if his health
on his prospects are so much shaken that
he is willing to be shelved in the slow
moving and decorous Senate, Massachu-
sets and all his opponents will scarcely
need an invitation in order to take no.
tice "
1t is proper that we should state that
the mover of the resolution says the words
Massachusetts please take notice. were
not intended to be incorporated therein,
minder to the speaker. They have passed
into history. however, as a part of the
resolve adopted, and are now beyond re-
call SO they vii! have to stand as testi-
mony that the two states are in this mat
ter dlscordant and belligerent
Next there was read a dispatch from
Blaine, as follows
If my health had permitted | would have
been with you to-day. Accept my congratuIa-
tons on the brilliant promise of great nation
al victory for the republican party. Every eff
fort must be made to give Governor Connor a
magnificent Old-fashioned ma jority in Septem-
Der. Maine must lead the way for the trum-
plant election of Hayes and Wheeler.
j. G. BLAINE.
This is brag, and brag is to be the
game in Maine politics this year Blaine
will probably find that the people of the
state have got different notions in their
heads of late. Connor's majority last year
was but 1000, and there is no reason why
he should in 1876 have so many as that
Elder Stevens, of the committee on
reported that the Cincinnati
platform be endorsed, thanked the sup
porters of Blaine for support that ended |
in defeat, reaffirmed liquor prohibition.
and endorsed Conner.
The Convention was almost entirely |
made up of office holders. mainly inter
ested in keeping themselves in place
sleek, we'll fed. well clothed individuals
who felt the Importance of the occasion in
the most sensitive of all channels of sem
sition. the pocket nerve 1t was the feeble
and almost desparing rally of party
whose last hope went with the defeat of
It's leader and head at Cincinnati, and
that it deserves death aud prob
ab.y will die, lives only upon the illusive
shadow of hope.