The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-09-07
The Republican Anneal.

On Monday next the voters OF Maine are
called upon to decide to which of the rival
political parties they will entrust the control
of the State. For twenty years the nominee
of the Republican party has been seated in
the executive chair by majorities so decisive
as to leave no doubt as to the political senti.
ments of the people of the State. Doubt
less these great majorlties have been owing
in considerable measure to the personal fit
ness for official station of the candidates
whom We have presented for the suffrages of
the people; but the controlling cause of VIC
tory has been the confidence reposed by the
voters of Maine in that political organization
which has shaped the fortunes of the nation
since the attack on Sumter. That confidence
has been we'll deserved. The Republican ad-
ministration in Maine has been characterized
since its accesession to power By wise, care
full and economical management, by solicit
GUS regard for the community whose public
affairs were put under its control, and by
sensitive care for the honor of the common
wealth whose fortunes it assumed to guide.
Prudence, intelligence, wise forethought have
characterized its legislation, the beneficial
laws which its wisdom has enacted have been
executed with vigor and impartiality, and its
by considerations of fitness and ef-
ficiency. 1t has raised the credit of
the state to the highest point, 1t has reduc-
ed the debt to a figure which ensures its
speedy extinction. 1t has enlarged and per-
fected the public school system, bringing the
advantages of an academic education with
in The reach of every boy who has the am
bition to desire it, and making provisions
that an equitable portion of the public reve-
nues shall be devoted to the support OF edu-
cation. 1t has enlarged and improved those
public institutions which are devoted to the
care of the poor and the unfortunate. 1t
has utilized the labor of men
whose time and toll are forfeited
to the state because of their crimes.
and has compelled our penal and reformatory
institutions to become self-supporting, and so
free the community from the tax imposed
upon it by its idle and worthless members.
1t has, by its wise provisions against special
legislation, guarded its legislature against
even the suspicion of jobbery. 1t has made
wise and liberal provision for the wards of the
state. 1t has, by the enactment of salutary
laws, done much to protect the people from
the infiction of those vices which lead di-
rectly to poverty and crime, to the endanger-
ing of personal happiness and the increase of
public burdens. 1t has in short so conducted
the affairs of the state as to make Maine a
synonym for an industrious, well-ordered,
well-governed, virtuous and fourishing COM
munity.
This is the record of the Republican party
in Maine. For the twenty.first time it solc-
its the suffrages of the people with whose
prosperity it has so long been identified and
whose great interests it has made its own. 1t
presents as candidate for the occupancy of
the executive chair gentleman who has
filled that position with distinguished honor,
soldier who spent his blood in defence of
the unity of the nation, citizen who has la
bored for the wisest measures for the public
welfare. Confiding in the justice of its ap-
peal, in the nobleneness of its past services, it
does not fear for the result. A faithful pub
lie servant, it only asks for continuance Of
the trust which 1t has so long and so honora-
bly, held.