Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-09-22
BY TELE6 RAPn.
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Kennebec Journal
MAssACHUsEJTs REPUBLICAN,
CONVENTION.
The Ticket Of Last Year Renominated
By Acclmmati0n..Speec by Hon.
Thomas B. Reed Of PossIand..A Large
and Harmonious Convention.

WoRcysrER, Mass. Sept. 81. The con-
yen,jop was called 10 order n few minutes
after eleven The President, Hon. W. w.
Crapo made some remarks upon taking the
chair.
On motion Of Geo. Il. Loring, last years
ticket was nomination by aeciamation. The
ticket is a. follows: For Governor, John ID
Long: Lieut.. Gov, l.. Weston; Attorney
General, George Mar.ton; Secretary Of State,
Henry Is. Pierce; Treasurer and Receiver,
Gen. Daniel A. Gleason; Auditor, Cnas. X.
Ladd.
The vote was taken without a dessenting
voice. The committee reported 1923 towns and
nineteen cities represented by one hundred
and thirty eight delegates.
Hon. Thomas Is. Reed Of Portland, made
mighty speech. He was very pleasantly in
troduced by the president Of the convention
and had a warm reception. A he advanced
TO the front Of the platform his fine physique
excited comment; frequent laughter created
by the humorous way in which he put some
of his common sense remarks, while the ac-
ceptability Of hi. views was made apparent
by equally frequent applause.
His opening remarks were largely de-
voted to a sensible view Of the ne
c.s.ity of parties and party organization and
discipline. The latter portion of his speech
II as follows
We have become a great nation. More
than fifty millions Of people live under our
laws. Across thousands Of miles stretch our
limitlcss acres. Our wealth is enormous.
Our enterprises are intricate and wide
spread. To govern such a nation, to so man
age the affairs Of such q people rs not to dis
turb OF hamper their enterprises, requires
sense, cold business sense. And venture to
affirm that the history Of the democratic party
for the last ten years Is conspicuous for an
abundant lack of that Five wears ago they
began their campaign ith a fixed determina-
tion to repeal the resumption act. They de-
clared that not only we must not resume but
we could not resume. Their leader, Samuel
J. Tiiden, by far their ablest man, in that
long mystifcation of non committal rhetoric
with which he accepted their nomination
strove through hundreds OF sentences to
shake the public faith. will you permit me
TO say that through it all, glimmers the
the fact that he knew better every moment
Of the timer He did know better. but in this
country parties rule men. not men parties.
And after they were beaten before the people
they still signalized their devotion to mis-
take and error by trying to repeal the re-
sumption act. Their leader in this attempt
they tried to make Governor OF Ohio. They
attacked the Resumption Act not only by
fair means but by foul. One fact of the IA
nous committee for the investigation of
frauds in the Presidential election of 1876
= committee which satisfied even a democrat
ic national convention, the convention of
1880, that Mr.. Tilden was neither elected
President nor eligible-deserves to be placed
in its true relations with other facts. 1t was
the month of Nav, 1878. while the Secretary
of the Treasury was in the midst of the vast
anxieiies of the preparations for resumption,
when the confidence Of the country most
needed staying. that the democratic House
chose to attack him with a base charge
founded ON nothing bu, the word of a worth
less fellow who had to allcge his own perju-
ry as the very foundation Of his testimony.
When remember what buifetings the Sec
rotary endured from wise editors. from itin-
crate finaneiers and from all the infurated
ignorance of the republic. and how strong
and steadfast he stood. it is a satisfaction to
believe as do that when the passions and
envics of men and of parties have subsidized.
the name of John Sherman for his share in
the great achievement of resumption will
take its place in history. par inter paTes.
with Robert Morris and Albert Gallatin and
Alexander Hamilton.
Even when. in the last Congress they had
to pass a bill to refund part of the debt on
an easy market. made so by our financial
measures. they could not refrain from such
an attack on the very monied institution.
from which and through which they were to
borrow. as might have shaken business to its
centre had Il prevailed. When they had full
power in both branches they spent precious
weeks Of an extra session forced by them
selves in battering at the Commander in
Chiefs command Of the army. when they had
already got il IN snch condition that il is
doubtful il soldiers can guard Guiteau to his
trial without somebody's cavil.
But why multiply details. The best proof
Of the superior sense of the Republican par
" can be stated in sentence. We owe our
success in the last election to the well con-
sidered approval of the business men Of this
country. What a curious popularity that is
of the Democratic party that il always &C.
cupies our last years camps That everv is
sue whivh they opposed while it was alive.
they eagerly embrace when il is dead. They
never opposed the war. In fact they won
most Of the battles. They never believed in
slavery. They never counselled repudiation.
In fact they are the only hard money men,
Resumption was what they were really after,
although they did seem to he going the
other way. What unwilling witnesses they
always become of their last years un-wis
dom. The courage with which they arise
anew although the logic of the hard facts Of
twenty years is against them, would be
wonderful il we did not know that the fight
agsinst error, though never lost, is never
won because error is perennial.
am very much in earnest in calling your
attention to this distinction in the nature Of
parties, for I belive il to be vital. Men
range themselves according to the diferenc-
es in their own natures. One set of men
believe in the past alone. They think wis-
dom resides only with the men who are dead.
They hold fast to what Is already attained,
and desire no change. Others believe that
what we have got is oply stepping stone to
what is to be. that ''down the ringing
grooves of change" lies a new and greater
happiness for all and broader hope. Men
are progressive and conservative and on this
ehey range them-lves. Il il 80 in all free
nations Aitheagh Russell seemed our foe