Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-05
The Republican Candidates for
Nomination for Congress in the
Third District.

From tie Maine Correspondence IF tie Boston
| journal.
Both of these gentlemen have been in public
life, and are highly respected for their worth and
| integrity. Mr.. Lindsey is lawyer of local re-
pute and is possessed of respectable attachments.
| lie has served in both branches of the Legislature
several times, once being President of the Senate.
| lie has also been member of the Governor s
Council, and has filed other public Offices always
! serving with credit. He is naturally Of a modest
and retiring disposition, and would be hardly the
man to stand up and grapple with those vital
| issues IN contest where he would be obliged to
meet powerful and INSCRIPTIONS adversary like
! the Ben Hills and other exConiederate leaders.
His tastes and incnatons are more judicial than
of the forum of the political conroversalist, or of
the school of the practical business man.
! Mr.. Stevens is not only well known in Maine,
but his reputation as political writer aud Jealous
champion of Republican principles is familiar to
| the leading men of the country, the acquaintance
and confidence of whom he enjoys to large
and unusual degree Mr. Stevens received lib
eral academic education. In 1855, when thirty
wears of age, he was associated with James G.
Blaine in the proprietorship and editorial conduct
of the kennebec Journal, the State organ of the
Republican party. For fourteen years Mr.. Stevens
t continued his connection with that paper, having
the chief editorial control for eleven years, after
the retiracy of Mr.. Blaine. He has been mem
Der of both branches of the Legislature, serving
three terms in the House and two in the Senate.
!
was made Chairman of the State Central Commit
and served in that capacity from 1850 to 1860,
when he was succeeded by Mr.. Blaine. In the
latter year he of the delegates at large to
the Republican National Convention at Chicago.
From 1870 to 1878 he was Minister Resident OF
the United States at Uruguay and Paraguay.
In politics Mr. Stevens has always been de-
voted disciple of the principles OF the school of
Henry Clay, who, with Webster and Seward were
his beau ideal of statesmen. His many public adj
~ q n character
and made him distinguished for his penetration
and ripe Judgment. Nor were his effoits with the
pen less able, vigorous and trenchant From his
youth up the development and fostering care of
American manufactures have always found in
him an earnest and effective advocate. His ed-
torials were frequently quoted by the leading
papers in the country. The first platform of prn-
cples of the Republican party in Maine
drafted by him and the late Judge Woodbury.
Davis and no man in the party has ever labored
with greater vigilance and fidelity in indicating
and promoting the success of those principles than
he. more public spirited citizen is not TO be
found. In season and out he has worked untir-
ingly advance the best and noblest interests of
the people, and every measure to that end tending
| to elevate their morality, to overtnrn existing
abuses, to purify and encourage reform, and to
promote their highest prosperity in agricultural
and our varied manufacturing and mechanical
Industries, have always found in him prompt,
seryceable and powerful advocate. He is in favor
of the most liberal legislation for the fostering
care Of our shipbulldlng interests, and Is fully
alive to the Importance of having such measures
adopted as will enable our merchant marine to
compete successfully with other nations in the
carrying trade. No ore doubted Mr..
Stevens honesty of purpose the sincerity of his
convictions, and whatever he takes hold of his
resolution, as all admit, is of such sturdy Char
acter that he knows no such word as fail.
There are but few if any persons in the State Of
greater historical and political knowledge, which
| fact gives him decided advantage over OPP
ponent. His reading has been extensive, and
to day finds him close student as in earlier
times when he was striving for an education.
| The subject of revenue tariff and whatever tends
to elevate and protect American labor from for
| eign monopelies, has always found in him zeal
GUS and fearless advocate With foreign politics,
past and present, he is familiar with those Of
own country.
| The friends of Mr.. Lindsey generously accord
| to Mr.. Stevens those superior intellectual powers
| he possesses, and which place him among the
! foremost men in the State. If brains be any
qualification, then Mr.. Stevens is pre-emnently
fit to succeed Mr.. Blaine. Nor can it be gainsad
that from his deserved reputation for ability, his
experience in public affairs, and from his personal
acquaintance with the leading men OF the coun-
try, that he would find himself perfectly at home
in Congress on all questions of national impor
lance, and ready at any moment to meet any issue
| that may come up in debate.