Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-16
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Augusta, Monday Morn'g, June 10, 1879
The Republican state Convention.

Inc NepuDllcan St8Ue SOutchio"'
The republican State Convention will
he held at Bangor on the 26th inst, one
week from next Thursday.
II is of the utmost importance that the
attendance be large-that every city, town
and plantation be represented by the full
quota of delegates, so that every locality
and every interest shall have voice il
the proceedings of the convention.
1t is the year before the Presidential
election. the season at which parties ar,
forming and crystallizing for the grea
contest of the coming year. We are
warned by the proceedings in the extra
session Of Congress, also by the voices
which come up from the South and by po-
litical developments in various ways, that
the issues which were supposed by
northern patriots and statesmen to have
been settled with the close of the rebel
lion, are to be the issues on which the
Presidential campaign of 1880 will be
fought. Shall those who fought to destro,
the government, be intrusted with its man
agement for the next four years or shall
those who fought to save it be kept il
command of the ship of State ? In the set
Element of this question all our people ART
interested. and this year at their State con
vention, the republicans of Maine will
make preparation in some degree for the
work of 1880.
Next in Importance to the question
whether we are nation. and to be ruled
by men who have proved their devotion
TO the government or by men who would
have been hung as traitors and rebels by
any other government on the face of the
earth, is the question of the preservation
of the National Credit. Shall we stand
for the honest payment of the national OBJ
legations, for sound currency, tor honest
money. for paying the laborer in
the same money that the bond
holder receives or shall we re-
pudiate our debts, establish a worthless
currency, bring in another reign of infla-
ton and wild speculation, cover the nation
with shame and disgrace, and re-enact the
depression of business, the failures and
bankruptcies and hard times of the last
few years, and from which by the resump-
ton Of specie payments We are now be-
ginning toUget free These questions
come home to every person in the State.
The republican party stands on the good
old honest principle of paying the honest
debts we owe in honest money, the money
of the constitution, that upon which our
financial system now rests as upon rock,
and from which we trust il will not be re-
moved by storms arising from ignorance
or fanaticism or the evil designs of corrupt
spectators and reckless demagogues.
Last year the rag money craze swept over
u.s. this year we must redeem the
State, and to this end we invite all, with
out distinction Of party, who think as we
do that the faith of the nation should be
kept inviolate, and sound currency be
maintained, to join with us for that purpose.
As to a candidate for Governor there will
be no lack. Many excellent names are
presented for the nomination. The con-
vention we trust will select that man who
adds to the qualifications requisite for the
Office. name that will strengthen the re-
publican ticket. 1t is for the convention
to decide, and for this reason we want a
full attendance and the best men of the
party.
A few caucuses have already been held,
but this week and next week the work of
selecting delegates will be DONE Let
every town and plantetion be represented
with full delegations at Bangor See that
the caucuses are called in season and del
gates elected who will attend and take an
interest in the convention.
The Greenback Convention and
Platform as Seen by Chase's
Chronicle.
We copy from Chase's Chronicle of this
week, copious extracts from an editorial
four and half columns in length, in rela-
ton to the ring management of the green
back State convention and the platform
adopted. The Chronicle Is the original
greenback paper of the State. From this
greenback authority we are given to I'M
derstand that the greenback State conven-
ton was under the management of an I'M
scrupulous ring, who were bound to run
the party in the interest of fusion ar
rangement with the democratic State COM
mittee, then in session at the city Of Port
land.
II was evident to those who were not
stone blind that the meeting of the demo-
cratic State committee at the same time
and place as the meeting of the greenback
convention meant the wedlock of the two