Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-19
JAMES A. GARFIELD
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
OF NEW YORK,
THE MAINE CAMPAIGN.
FOR PRESIDENT,

State convention to be held in this city
next week.
II is safe to say that the convention
will be among the most harmonious,
strongest and most hopeful political gath
erings ever held in the State. Gov. Davis
will be re-nominated without word OF
dissent. enthusiastically, and with the
sincere appreciation of the honest people
of the State. As the champion Of the
peoples RICH: to have an honest vote and
to have that vote honestly counted, Gov.
Davis occupies an exalted position in the
public eye rs he comes up for a second
nomination. His brief administration of
the affairs Of the State has been satisficto-
ry, his personal popularity is greater even
than when he assumed the gubernatorial
Office. We may well congratulate our
selves that we shall have no wrangling or
division over the selection Of a candidate
for Governor. and that the candidate will
be one who combines personal popularity
with superior fitness for the gubernatori-
al Office and fine abilities rs a speaker
and worker in the arduous duties of the
campaign. The State convention
will set in motion the campaign on the
republican side in an unexceptionable
manner, and from that time forward the
contest should be waged in the most Wig
orous manner. Not day should be lost
in perfecting our organization and carry
ing forward measures to insure our COM
plete success at the polls in September.
In regard to the nominations in the Con-
grcssional districts the auguries are very
fiattering. In the first, second and third
districts there is little il any opposition t"
the present representatives in Congress.
All are honest. honorable, able men, re-
spected by their constituents and serving
the State with credit in the positions they
occupy. No change appears to he desired
and either will carry the full strength of
his party at the polls. In the fourth dis
trict there is friendly rivalry for the NOM
ination. but in whatever way the conven-
ton decides. the result. we feel confident.
will be acquicsced in and supported cheer
fully by every republican in the district,
md the old Fourth will be gloriously re-
deemed ut the polls from the acciden-
tai control of the grotesque and
dangerous combination Of which Mr..
Ladd is the figure head in Congress. The
nomination of Hon. Seth l.. Milliken in
the fifth district is the selection of one OF
the ablest men in that district. a splendid
stump speaker and debater. magniicently
equipped at al points for a representative
in Congress. a stalwart republican. a man
who has hosts of friends and keeps them
We predict for Mr.. Milliken an election
by a handsome majority. provided his
friends put their shoulders to the wheel
o. we have no doubt they will. and give
him the warm, hearty. strong support
which he deserves.
While we thus have favorable out
look as concerns our local nominations, il
is equally pleasing to see that the nomina
ton Of Garfield and Arthur is received
with profound and united satisfaction
The sentiment is. If we could not hav,
Blaine we could have made no better So
lection than Garfield. He is now our can
didate and We pledge to him the electora
vote of Maine in November Mr.. Blaine
friends will work for Garfield with the SAM
energy and zeal which they would hav'
exercised for Blaine had he been nominal
ed at Chicago. They will follow the ex
ample of Mr.. Blaine himself. whose voic
will soon be heard ringing over the Ian,
in favor of the nominees of the nationa
convention.
It would be fatal mistake. however
to rest in the belief that the republicans
can carry the State without organization
work, union and good management. Fai
skies and propitious breezes will not Civ
the farmer crop unless he labors to plan
his seed and takes care Of the growing
crop; no more can party win politica
victories over desperate opposition un
less it works with unremitting energy ant
vigilance for success. We can win if We
will, by an old-time majority. but it mus
be by systematic effort aided by a gener
GUS and enthusiastic popular uprising
such as carried the republican party t
victory in the earlier days. What great
or stimulus to action can the people o
Maine have than to administer crushing
rebuke at the polls next September TO thu
villains who attempted to steal the STATE
government last winter and to make ou1
elections humbug and farce?
We are authorized to say that the report
that Mr.. z. L. white, of the New Yorl
Tribune, i to become editor Of the Provi
denes Press h not true. Mr.. White has nev
= thought of such thing, nor il he aware
1T any change in the fellowship Of the Pres,
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