Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-13

which will make good governor will max
good candidate. What we want IN gov
ernor is not brilliant qualities, not hair-split
ting qualities. We want q man of goo,
common sense, familiar with the wants Of
the people, familiar with the affairs of thi,
State; man who has been tried and found
true to every trust, and if, gentlemen of thu
convention, you will give the people of Maias
this man of the people, this man of the soil
they will roll up for him such majority u
will gladden. the hearts and strengthen tht
arms of every man who battles for the sue
cess of republican pIinciples.<
James Morrison of Phillips, seconding thu
nomination, said:
Gentlemen of this convention Il am Z
republican. east my first vote when = sol
der of the Union army, for Abraham Lin
coin. l do not say this in connection with
any further possible candidacy of myself,
but since have been republican l have
noticed that patriotism, intelligence and the
fitness for high public positions were three
grand characteristics of that old party ard,
gentlemen, these are not confined to a few
localities. You will find them all over this
broad State. You will find them among the
hills of Oxford. you will find them in old
York, you will find them down here by the
sea, you will find them in far off Aroostook.
you will find them where Penebscot's waters
roll. Gentlemen Of the convention, you
cannot get one thousand republicans together
anywhere in this broad commonwealth, but
that you will find some man intelligent
enough and qualiiesi to be governor OF this
grand old State Of Maine. You cannot get
ten thousand republicans together anywhere
on this continent bu: that you will find some
man in that assembly qualified to be presi-
dent of the grandest republic on earth.
This is not only party of intelligence but it
is party of fairness, of honesty, whose cor
ner stone is founded upon the rock Of eternal
justice. All of the candidates mentioned
here to-day are honorable men, but, gentle
men, there are questions which come before
us which are broader, which are higher than
the political aspirations of any living man
As we look across the noble kennebec, we
behold there more than half of the geograph-
ical extent Of the State. We behold that
vast territory peOpled by more than three
hundred thousand Of our citizens. We be-
hold there men rho stood shoulder to shoul.
der with the line of the West all through the
great war of the Rebellion. We behold there
men whU have contributed the bone. the
muscle, the brains to make this
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Maine:
Standing here today among fourteen hun
ired republican representatives. OF the great
frnn ,he n,,x T Taw;.,on %M ns ~eu
IS large majority of the voters of andre.
,coggin county, rise, Mr.. Chairman, TO
lurther second the nomination OF one whose
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, leader. They want a man who has tho
interests of the entire state of Maine close to