Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-09
WIDE-AWAKE.
New Hampshire Republicans Give the Ad-
miniStratiOn a Rakins Down.
Proceedings of the State Convention at
Concord on Tuesday

CoNcoRD, May s.
The New Hampshire State republican CON
venton met in this city today. Hon. j. II. .
Gallinger, chairman of the State committee.
called the convention to order. Henry f
Burnham of Manchester, was made chairman
of the convention. Hon. =. c. Cheney Hon.
j. II. Gallinger, Hon. Hiram A. Tuttle and
Hon. \. +. Bachelor were chosen delegates
at large to the Chicago convention. There
were 5S3 delegates present. Hon. o. G.
Moore presented the following resolutions
which were adopted unanimously;
We arragn the present national democratic
and mugwump administration for political
sins of omissions and commission without a
parallel in the history of the country.
1t has professed civil service reform and
yet has prescribed more faithful officials in
three years than were prescribed in the entire
first century of the Republic.
1t has professed gratitude to the brave de-
tenders of the Union, yet has prescribed
more veterans than Washington at any time
commanded, and the President has vetoed
more pension bills than have been vetoed by
all his predecessors.
1t has professed to be the only national
party within the lines of the Union and vet
its only hope of success rests on welding as
a unit the States lately in rebellion, and
keeping alive the prejudices and hatrcds on
which a solid South is grounded
1t has professed to be the champion 10
American Industry and labor and yet mem
ber of the cabinet its speaker of the House
of Representatives and its leaders all over
the country are members of the Golden club
the gIeat British organization, which has
strven for thirty years and expended hun
drees of thousands of dollars to secure the
market of the United States for British pro-
duets and manufactures
Processing to regard the treasury surplus
as an imminent danger and present evil il
proposes remedy 70 destroy the wool in
dustry of the United States which is toda,
struggling under the tariff reduction of 1889
| end in some cases closing its doors under the
| depression of the malgn agitation begun in
| Presidents attack on this industry and con
tinued in the threatened passage of ths
Mills bill which puts wool, lumber and farm
products on the free list and thus open these
industries to the low paid labor of Canada.
! Processing to desire the restoration OF
American commercial marine which wa,
swept from the seas BY the pirate cruisers OF
| the very men now in control of the demo
cratic party, its secretary of the navy has
thwarted an appropriation by Congress which
\ would have helped to restore our foreigr
trade by eonfning the carriage of our oceaT
/ mails to American ships flying the American
| flag.
Processing to stand by the rights of the
| American fishermen it has given its assent to
treaty which surrenders to an imperial ans
! imperious nation the rights which in colonia
as well as later times. has brooked no riva
on the seas, and which secures no advantage
for the rights surrendered except what ari
accorded by the law of nations.
| For these sins of commission and omission
and others too numerous to record here il
full we instruct the delegates this day elected
to Chicago to use every honorable effort L
place in nomination ticket that will com
mand universal confidence. defy every as
sault and be resistless at the polls; ticket
that in its triumph, which we unhesitatingly
predict, shall restore the government to tht
only party that is national in its aims, just il
its purposes, humane in its methods, loyal il
its achievements and progressive and Ameri
can in its principles.