Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-26
ENTHUSIASTIC
Convention Of the Third District
Republicans.
Hon. 4. 4. Heath Makes a Ringing
Speech Upon the Principles
Of the Party.
Hon Seth l. Milliken Renominated by
His Constituents to Whom He
Writes an Able Letter
Especial to the Kennetec Journal.

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propria,e speech. Hon. H. NJ. Heath of Au
gusta, was elected temporary chairman. Mr.
Heath addressing the convention said
| We are opening a campaign of great mo
ment to the State Of Maine. In it men ar
nothing, principles everything. The repub
lican party was never SO strong as when fight
ing for great principle. As a party W,
cannot do business with no more capital thai
the glory of past achievements. We mus
face the rising sun. In this year 1883, We
are marching shoulder to shoulder, uniteo
party, following the battle flag of protection
TO American industry. In this fight camp
followers, stragglers and boodlers must &C
to the rear. The flesh-pots of Egypt are Of
no consequence.
| The prosperity of Maine is threatened Al
never before in her history. Never was hel
future so bright if let alone; never so darh
if the Mills bill become law. | believe il
| the greatness of the State of Maine. Year
by year she is leaping into wealth. The ar
teries of her business are swollen with the
rich blood of prosperous activity. No State
in the American Union has today grander
future.
Time WAS when it was said Maine was q
good State to emigrate from; her best crop
was men but they were royal race. The
tide has turned. Foreign capital is flowing
in, building railroads, opening quarries, erect,
ing dams, driving machinery. and touching
with gold even our barren hills. They
come, too. from other states to spend of their
wealth along our rock bound coast, among
our silver lakes and in our grand and noble
forests. immigration is adding to our peo-
pie mainly from the French of Upper Can
ada. They are coming to us by the thous-
ands, and it behOoves us to treat with fair
ness these strangers within our gates. The
republican party should I" member that know
nothingism is one of the sins of the past gen.
Grafton the liberal civilization of the pres
ent will not tolerate appeals to race or re-
ligiOus prejudice.
Maine is a great manufacturing State.
Unless the triumph of free trade paralyzes
her growth, her rivers rushing to the sea,
chained to the wheels of industry will make
her the workshop of America. In
this congressional district our grand water
powers, like slumbering giants, thunder their
protests against free trade, as their wasted
forces rush and roar over falls unoccupied
and waiting for development. There are
ll2 towns in the district; in S5 towns there
are water powers; in all 525 powers with a
total horse power of 100000 capable OF
driving machinery that would support CON-
munities of million people. Can the po-
litical tramps, imported this summer from
Texas and Arkansas to tell us how to vote,
have the audacity to preach free trade in
such communities? The whirring water
wheels will strike them dumb. When these
literati, most of whom cant tell turbine
wheel from an old fashioned overshot, argue
that free trade is the true policy and that
mans first duty is to look out for his neigh
bors family and to forget his own, take
them kindly to this beautiful city of Water
Vile, show them 'riconic Falls and the Col
lege Dam. with IL, 500 horse power, constant
and unfailng, with lands graded by nature,
with unsurpassed railroad facilities, queen
city in the midst of towns famous for their
farms, with prospects of growth and pros
perity unsurpassed in New England; take
them to Madison, where the kernebec falls
eighty en- feet in two and half miles a d
Yields at low run a horse power of l $50
show them this second Lowell in the cent.
of a great wool growing district, and defy
them to take free wool and free woolens.
Ask them to argue free lumber and free pulp
at Fairfield and Somerset Mills, where 1900
horse power would drown their voices.
Take them up the river to Skowhegan where
G, 900 horse power supports an active and en-
terprising community, destined to be city
of thirty thousand souls. If they doubt the
possibilities of this valley, show them Cara
tunk Falls, where the kennebec plunges
twenty feet at q leap and imprisons $500
horse power ready for work They might
discuss free cottons at Augusta, around
whose 5, 900 herse power wealth and popua-
ton are acrumulating with giant strides.
They might discuss free woolens at Vassal-
boro. where with 400 horse power under
control, massive factories lie idle waiting only
for the death of the Mills bill. At Gardiner
they would find on the Cobbosseecontee
eight dams in three-fourths of a mile, to-
tai fall of l27 feet. power of LOO horse,
A diversified industry, a model New England
community its history and evenly distribut-
ed property, a standing rebuke to the doc
trinaries The tumbling, rolling waters OF
the Messalonskee, rushing through Oakland
over the cascade, mad plunge of ~ feet
and falling IL feet in two miles, an unde
veloped force of $500 horse power upon tht
/ Bombazee Rips at Norridgewock, and the
mighty power of the Carrabasset at Norti
/ Anson, falling fifty feet in one-third of 1
mile. all speak volumes for protection.
/ Under the fostering care of protection thu
great valley is destined to be lined with cit
I les from Moosehead to the rolling sea
/ This grand old river in its course o
l12 miles. falls .O23 feet; it is fed by ! ,0s-
streams; it draws 81 lakes and ponds. From
Carratunk to Augusta, its horse power i
lol 900, CAPABLE of driving fifty Lockwood
mills. As well commit suicide as surrender
sucb grand possibilities to the manufacturer
of England
With Maine's revival, Belfast will utiliz
the ten powers on Goose river with its tire
mendous fall of ls5 feet in three-fourths o
a mile. furnishing power of 1000 horse
that will some day build up that city BY tn
ses Iwould like to hear free lumber dis
cussed at Ellsworth, where SO powers, ia
az 100 feet in two and one-fourth miles, a
enormous water storage and grand power
safe from freshets, bespeak a future of grea
promise.
By her rock formation, her climate, he
geographical position. her rainfall, her SUI
face conditions. nature designed this Stat
for the seat of permanent and unfailing pow
ers This resource can never fail so long q
the Gulf stream flows, so long as the ocea
gives up its vapors, so long AS the waters c
our magnificent lakes fall hundreds of fe'
over hundreds of falls in rock channe
and at last through magnificent harbors
: the sea, the great highway of the nation
This resource is power. the creator OF wealth
II is wealth itself under protection.
with these rich gifts of nature, with giai
forces ready to be harnessed, with the mori
inc sun of coming prosperity gliding Il
mountain tops. We are invited to turn OF
hacks upon the system under which we ha'
prospered. And why? CW bono! r
what good? That our friends in Texas ma
sleep under imported blankets, and mu
: wump dudes wear silk under drawers m
from that harrid duty"
II promises to be q cold summer in MaiI
for long g-haired tariff reformers We are
plain people and have but little sympati
with men.nniliiners in politics. Hard fac
have been our diet.
. All of Names interests are singled ont
, .,tack in the Mills bill. Her Lumber, b
cottons, her woolens. her wool, her pulp =