Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-03
The Young Mans Vote.

/ Hon. G. NJ Depew recently addressed the
Princeton College Republican Campaign
Club We copy the following from his sd-
dress to the Young men:
/ Ali of you cast this time your frat vote.
know Of no occasion more solemn than this
I act when the State recognizes your manhood,
| and in exercising your rights as citizens you
I become both soyereigns and statesmen For
/ 10 the extent Of your influence each deter
mines for himself the government for 50 900
( 900 of people for four years 10 come Upon
/ the ballo,-bOx a. an altar Won are welded 10
I the political principles Of YOUR life. That
/ they will largely govern your whole conduct
+ all experience teaches. If / may follow the
I marriage figure. on the one side, she becxons
y,u, whose face is ever turned t. the past
/ Her Judgment Is guided by the prrjudices Of
I the dark sg,s of the republic. and her mind
I /. clouded BY exploded legends and super-ti-
/ tion. Her wedding robes stained with
thu res, blood Of the country, poured out 10
/ pursue or prevent her foilies or her crimes,
I and in the vain effort To bring her in sym
! patty and accord with his patriotism. his
/ requirement. and his aspirations. the Young
man who espou.e. her will cry out with III =
I apostle, oh, wretched man that am who
shall deliver me from the body Of this death!
! Appliance
/ On the other side in all her radiant reauty
stands the daughter Of Liberty. At her touch
the shsckles have fallen from the slave, by
/ her inspiration Union and Freedom were
| for mankind For her the soldier marched.
/ BY her the hero was pensioned and the rebel
| forgiven. and the republic "a it is. many fold
better. greater, richer and happier than it
ever was, b-ar- tribute to her genius. The
one controlling principle governing all about
her is that forever, tomorrow and to- morrow.
shall be a grand ard beneficent advance from
yesterday Applause.
Beside M. as was speaking last week.
sat venerable man of 50 years. Said he {:
II want TO cast one more vote before God
take. me home, and if there ia any lesson
derived from nv long lite and the eighteen
ballots have cast for presidents of the
United States, the nineteenth and the last
will be gwen for the republican party >"
From this long record, covering the most
important period of our history, turn back to
the present, and first vote IL to be thrown
in this year of startling significance.
The eldest son Of James A. Garfield be-
comes of age on November lat, and
votes on November 4h With him is a
rmory which overshadows that ballot. His
father was the typical American who went
from lnt tOHpdtn 10 lHe from the
plough to the school, from the school to the
academy, from the academy to the college,
from the college to the professors chair, and
thence among the scholars of the land. the
citizen who. when the drum beat to arms,
became the soldier, the colonel, the brigadi-r-
general, the major general. every step made
in battle. the citizen who at the call of civic
futv went from the school board to the Leg
islature. from the l., gislature to Congress,
from Congress TO the chief magistracv of the
nation, from the presidency 10 a MARTYRS
grave. Applause. You and believe that
in the drrai unknown the loved ones who
have gone before hover over and in number
less ways direct those who linger here, and
with that record and the spirit of his great
father behind him. the son of Garfield will
cast his first vote for Blaine and Logan. APP
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