Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-26
BRACKET NOMINATED
At the Convention Of nassachu.
sets Republicans.
Eloquent and Logical Address Of Chairman
Robinson.
New York Republicans Convens at
Saratoga and Adopt Platform.

chusetts republicans. II vas called to orde
BY Chairman Burdeti of the State com
nittee at IL o'clock. The report Of tn
, committee on permanent organization -
submitted and adopted. and Hon. George ID
Robinson vas announced - permanen
; Chairman.
The address of ex- Governor Robinson wa
= masterpiece Of eloquence and logic. H.
said:
: Governmental afairs In 4 free countY,
: must be controlled BY parties Only in a.
soeiation with others can the individual vote
make his influence and power most effective
; His privileges Of citizenship demand the ex
ercise of his intelligence, He should bs
vigiiaat in his devotion TO the highest ideal
practically attainsble. But if he acts anc
; votes at all, he is virtually on one side oil
the other of the broad line which divides the
two great parties, and he is entitled IL
his share in the praise or the blame
according as he has assisted to sus
tain and continue good government
or helped TO degrade the official service OF
the people. There can be no half way abou,
it. The crisis 10 always too serious for trf-
ling. The hazard is too great and perilous to
justify rash or careless experiments in hoist
ing into power a man or party that is not
honestly considered worthy and safe, just to
see what will happen, or to administer re-
buke and correction because the majority in
= party have not been convinced that it is
expedient to enter upon n course Of leg
islation or administration which the
minority consistently, honestly and ear
nestly support. StTaining At a gnat and
swallowing a camel 10 sure to bring chAgrin
and discomfort in the end, even in politics.
When the country vas in the deepest stress
Of the War of the Rebellion, and opinions
and theories were bitterly at variance as to
the best way TO conquer an honorable and
enduring peace, some may have believed il
would arouse the loyal North to a
grandly united effort if the rebels would
cross the Potomac and plant their flag
above the capitol; but such sentiments
were prudently withheld from utterance, no
one ventured to assist in the accomplish
ment of 4 scheme SO dangerous, and the
grand army moved on, actusted BY COM
mon purpose, despite the grumblers and crit
les, disregarding the antagonistic counsels,
till Grant and Sherman and Sheridan had
crushed forever the giant evils that assailed
the life of the Republic.
| | want to belong to party where can
look all around on every side, and find ito
honor and renown on every page Of the his
tory of my State and my country that covers
the period of my party's action. 1t will
! never be time to stop talking about the Re
pablican party until some other has fairly
earned the right to commentator, and none
has yet the hardihood to claim it,
| And unless the teaching of the past. and
the experience of all right thinking and right
acting men IL 9 delusion, there is q salutary
influence coming from uninterrupted pc
riod, embracing the whole life of a great
political party, wherein the record has chal-
lenged the admiration of the world. Who
ever writes the true history of America for
| the coming generations will furnish full JUS
| tifcstion for all the enthusiastic pride every
true Republican feels.
II these broad statements seem to be only
| the generalities of enthusiastic and intolerant
partisanship, let us run back hastily over the
| record for the whole period during which the
legislative power of the State has been ex-
ercised by the Republican party. We may
DO this fearlessly, indeed, we must do it
honestly, for the people well know what we
may rightfully claim.
| Common schools, open alfe to the children
of the poor and the rich, nurseries of liberty
and equality, the bulwark of our civilization,
have been abundantly sustained and ad-
vanced, and to-day are jealously guarded for
the future glory and greatness of the Com
monwealth.
The brief season of experiment of the
! Democratic party in control of the nation
has passed. The pre'ense of reform. the
promise of purer ways in politics, the as
surance that the dishonesty and wickedness
of former administrations were TO be merci-
le.sIy dragged into the light. proved to be
only monstrous delusion and sham. Failing
4 20 fpI tr.p xc tka
calities they had promised to expose, they
proceeded to make record of their own
which not even the most subservient of their
allied apologists and defenders could excuse,
though it really furnished something fresher
that the war period to be said about the
Democratic party.
| With joyful cordality the people welcomed
Benjsmin Harrison TO the great station of the
Presidency of the United States They have
returned 10 the good old ways that so pros
pered the country under the executive con-
troll of Lincoln Grant, Hayes, Garfield and
| Arthur. And We shall give utterance to the
widespread sentiment Of our Commonwealth
when we assure President Harrison that
| Massachusetts stands close at his side, ap-
proving the calm. dignifed, sensible,
patriotic and efficient character of his admin
istrstion. and pledging her constant support
to his efforts to bring back the government
into harmony with the principle of the party
that triumphed in his election. 1t is expected
and desired in Massachusetts. whatever may
be the prevalent wish elsewhere, that the
administration shall be dis,inctively and
aggressively Republican, not a sort of
hybrid conceived in weak purpose to Of
fend nobody and sure to displease every
body. 1t is evident that the country ne yer
wanted reform more than in 1850 ard in
1888, when it summoned the Republican
party to power and committed to it the set.
tement of most momentnps questions.
Take the que s;ion of the revenue. Stae
lines are not to be thought Of when CoLgress
comes TO discuss and act upon it, II must
be, rather, ave, he people of the United
States, will proceed to enact such laws al
shall bes, serve the interests of the whole. >
There is. and undoubtedly will be. large
surplus of revenue over ard above the actus
and reasonable needs of the government and
this too, after meeting the ordinary expense,
and provi ling fully for the pay ment of pen
sions, the construction and armament oil
q navy, the protection of our seabosrd, ant
for all other extraordinary outlay vhict
may reasonably be expected. To revise
the existing laws so a. TO afec
la proper decrease of the incom,
TO the treasury. is an immediate duty. Th'
demand Is frequent that the war taxes be re
moved. No taxes are so distinctively war ex
actions as the Internal revenue. Repeal th'
whole system. and yon stop the annual intov
of about sl25, 100000 Whist says tn,
Democratic party, that time and again failec
to find words bitter enough to denounce tn,
system, that yearned so ten'erly for the poo
unfortunate who wanted = quiet drink O
smoke after his days labor and could 10
have /. without contributing to the supper
of the government, What take the tax OF
from whisky and tobacco, That will nevel
! do The progress of temperance reform vii
he stopped, forsooth. And yet the mos
} radical temperance and probihitioa advocate
urite for the repeal Of the tar on liquors.
Nov all shis happens not because the Dem
ocrais love tenperaace more. but because tn
| Republican party stanis committed to tn
doctrine Of protection, and the Democrat
, must get into opposition - they alssys hav
! done They see that If the internal rysteu
Is abolished or ifs receipts iarsel, diminished
1 there can be no opportunity to assail tn
stsfif in the interest of free tTade. and ther
is no. free trader Who does TO. agree xlt
! them. The Rspublican party 10 pledged to
revision Of the iaTin. II slsoSId MAKE ever
honest etor: to accomplish l.. But il vi
stand by the protective principle To the END
and sare TO the eouauy. a. il has in the pas
t',ak ;rdEs.ria. .vs,em which has made Arnel
e ica he wonder Of the world.
e 'Tari6 Reform" reads we'll and SQUAD
4 veil. but What il really meant BY it, We .