The Portland daily press., 1884-06-23
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SOnlillllt6 tOlupOoSQ VI OlC IIOul
each State and Territory of the country, and
also one from the District of Columbia, now
comes as the accredited organ of that
convention to give you formal notice of your
nomination and to request your acceptance
hereof.
1t is of course known to you, that beside
your own, several other names among the
most honored in the councils of the Republic
can party We're presented by their friends as
candl9ates, for this nomination. Between
your friends and the friends of the gentlemen
SO justly entitled to the respect and conf
dence OF their political associates, the contest
was one OF generous rivalry, free FROM faint
OF bitterness and of jealousy, free from the
rreproach Of injustice. At an early stage of
the proceedings of the convention II beeame
manifest that the Republican States whose
aid must be invoked at last to insure success
to the ticket, earnestly desired your nominal
ton, 1t was equally manifest that the desire
SO earnestly expressed by the delegates from
those States was but q truthful reflection of
an Irresistible popular demand. 1t was not
thought nor pretended that this demand had
It's origin in any ambitious desires of your
own or any organized work of your friends,
put II was recognized to be what it truthfully
Is the spontaneous expression by a free
people OF love and admiration for a chosen
leader.
That the nomination would give satisfac-
ton to every. member of the party, is not to
be expected in country SO extended in area
anu oO ilCu LII lub6I6SlS. NE nOmlnatlOn
OIL Mr.. Lincoln in 1860 disappointed so MANY
hopes and overthrow so many cherished am
billions that for short time dissatisfaction
threatened to ripen into open revolt. In 1872
the dlScontent was so pronounced as to impel
large masses OF the party into an organiza-
ton In opposition to its nominees. For many
weeks after the nomination of General Gar
held IN 1880 defeat seemed almost unayOid-
able. In each case the shock of disappoint-
ment was followed by, sober thoughts, indi-
Yidaal preferences gradually yielded to con
ylctlonS OF public duty, and the prompting
of patriotism finally rose superior to the irri-
tatl0nS and anlmOsitieS of the hour. The
party in every trial has grown stronger in the
face OF threatened danger.
In rendering you this nomination it gives
us pleasure to remember that those great
measures which furnished causes for party
congratulations by the late convention at
Chicago, and which are now crystallized into
the legislation of the country, measures
which have strengthened and dignified the
nation while they have elevated and adj
vanced the people, at all times and on all
proper occasions have received your earnest
and valuable support. 1t was your good for
tune to aid In protecting the nation against
present and helped to unloose the shaclzles of
the slaves, you assisted in placing new guar
antees of freedom in the federal constitution,
your voice was potent in its faith, when false
theories OF finance would have blasted ma
tlOldl dllu plOSp6Ilbg, we klQuIy
remember you as the fast friend of honest
money and commercial integrity, of all that
pertains to the security and repose of CAPT.
tai, the dignity of labor, the elevation of
manhood and freedom of the people, the
right of the oppressed to demand and the
duty of the government to afford protection.
Your public acts have received the unquali-
fed endorsement of popular approval.
But we are not unmindful of the fact that
parties like individuals cannot live entirely
on the past, however splendid their record.
The present is ever charged with its imme-
date cares and the future presses on with its
new duties and its perplexing responsible
ties, Parties like individuals, however, that
are free from the stain of violated faith in
the past, are fairly entitled to the presump-
ton of sincerity in their promises for the
future. Among the promises made by the
party in its late convention at Chicago are
economy and purity of the administration,
protection of citizen native and naturalized
at home and abroad, prompt restoration of
the navy, wise reduction of surplus reve-
nues, relieving the taxpayers without injur-
ing the la6orer, preservation of public lands
for actual settlers; import duties, when
necessary at all, to be levied mot for revenue
only" but for the double purpose of revenue
and protection, regulation of internal COM
merce, settlement of international differ
ences by peaceful arbitration but coupled
with the reasSertion and maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine as Interpreted by the fathers
OF the republic, perseverance in the solid
work of civil service reform to the end that
the danger to free institutions, which lies in
the power of official patronage, may be wise
ly and effectively avoided, honest currency
based on coin of intrinsic value, adding
strength to public credit and giving re-
newed vitality to every branch of American
Industry.
Mr.. Blaine, during the last % years the
Republican party has builded new repub-
lie, republic far more splendid than that
originally designed by our fathers. Its pro-
portions, already grand, may yet be enlarged.
Its foundations may yet be strengthened,
and its columns be adorned with beauty
more Respondent still. To you as its archi-
tect in chief will soon be assigned this CRATE
full work.
MIR. Blaine's Reply.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the National
Committee:
L receive. not without deep sensibility,
your official notice of the action of the
National Convention, already brought to my,
knowledge through the public press. /
press the honor which is implied in the
nomination for the Presidency by the Repub-
Gcan party of the nation speaking through
the authoritative voice OF its duly accredited
delegates. To be selected as candidate
by such an aSsemblage from the list of
eminent statesmen whose names were pre-
sented fills me with embarrassment can
only express my gratitude for. so signal an
honor and my desire to prove worthy of the
great trust rep0sed in me. In accepting the
nomination as now do | am impressed. l
may also say oppressed, with a sense of the
labor and responsibility which attached to
my position. The burden is lightened, how
er, by hosts of earnest men who support my
candidacy, many of whom add as does your
honorable committee, the cheer of personal
friendship to the pledge of political fealty.
more formal acceptance will naturally
be expected and will, in due season, be COM
municated. 1t may, however, not be inappro-
pirate at this time to say that / have already
made careful study of the principles an
nounced by the national convention, and that
in the whole and in detail they have my
heartiest sympathy and meet my unqualified
approval
Apart from your official errand, gentlemen,
am extremely happy to welcome you all to
my house. With many of you / have already
shared the duties of public service and have
enjoyed the most cordial friendship. trust
that your journey from all parts of the great
republic has been agreeable and that during
your stay in Maine, you will feel that you are
not among strangers, but with friends.
Invoking the blessing of God upon the
great cause which we jointly represent let MS
turn to the future without fear and with
manly hearts.
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