Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-06

returned with him. When he came upon
the stage there was general uprising OF
men in the hall and cheer after cheer shook
the building.
Then the Lincoln Club stood upon their
feet and flags, the old stars and stripes,
were waved wildly in the air by each mem.
Der. The roar of the cheers ended up with
a rousing tiger from the Lincoln Club.
Governor Cieaves Said.
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures Of the COnuen-
ton:
For this renewed expire ssion of your con-
fdence, accept my warmest thanks. l as
sure you l am not insensible to the dis
tinquished honor you have bestowed in
again selecting me with so great unanimity,
to carry your standard. In accepting your
nomination l appreciate its responsibilities !;
and 1t will be my purpose to sustain and
uphold with you and the great party you
represent, those principles of legislation
and government that will bear to the people
the best fruitage.
The Republican party of Maine has
never faltered in its adherence to the great
principles of protection to American labor
and American industries. 1t has COM
manded the support of the people of the
State, because it has always advocated an
economic policy that would encourage in
dustrial enterprise and give employment
to labor, and opposed the Democratic
policy of tariff reform, which would retard
and depress and deprive labor of lis bes!
reward.
Well may we euloeize the history of that
great party, for it never swerved in its loyal
ty to the peoples interests; and neither in
peace or war, or under any conditions or
circumstances, did it ever forget that we
were a nation, with one common interest,
one Constitution and one flag. And to the
Improbable honor of that great party, it
has always been loyal to the boys in blue,
the brave men who answered the cOuntry's
call and upheld that Constitution and sue
cessfully bore the old flag in the smoke and
flame of war. More than quarter of
century ago the State of Maine told her
soldiers she would never desert them in the
hour of distress and need, and her patriotic
people have nobly fulfilled her promise, and
they will continue to scrupulously observe
it so long as any of that band OF loyal men
shall survive.
And though a Democratic admiuistra-
ton may drop the disabled and
battle-scarred veteran from the pension
rolls. though they may seek to deprive him
of food and shelter, they can never take
from him the satisfaction he enjoys, in hav-
ing served with Grant and Sherman. with
Sheridan and Logan in that grand old Union
army. They may attempt to reduce him
and his family to want and suffering, but
they cannot dim single star in the crown
of honor he won by his gallant service; nor
can they abate or take from him his patriot
iovn nd af nfp nd xu1, OF
may, they can never make the old Union
soldier regret that he gave some of the best
years of his life, to uphold the homer, in
tegrity and glory of the American Union.
l am proud to belong to party that has
never undertaken to belittle or degrade the
services of the American soldier and the
American sailor. There is satisfaction in
belonging to party that has always main
tanned that. in all of our legislation, we
owed our first duty to the people of our own
republic, and not to those of other coun-
tries; party that never attempted to build
up the manufacturing, and commercial and
agricultural interests of other nations to the
sacrifice of our own; party that never
sought bylreislative action to retard the pros
perity of this country and of it, people, or
to cripple their great industrial enterprises !;
party that never advocated q policy that
would put the competing products of for
eign labor into competition, ia our own
markets, with the products of our own peo-
pie and of our own labor. And in these
hours of oppression, the people turn to that
grand old party of nationality and protection
for relief from the threatened tariff legisla-
ito of the Democratic party, which has al
ready, in its anticipated effects, wrought
ruin and disaster and misery enough.
How different the conditions of your
country on the fourth day of March, 1898,
when the Democratic party assumed con-
troll of its legislation, from what you find
it at the present time. A little more than
year has elapsed, but to the people and its
business interests it has been a dark, long
and depressing year. When you yielded
up the sceptre Of power, your country in
all of its material interests, was ut the
height of property; the lawful reserve Of
gold in the treasury was unbroken, the
nations credit was unimpaired, the rights
of American citizenship protected 1t home
and abroad, and You were pursuing policy
that commanded the respect Of the Ameri-
can people. The Republican party was
not dickeriDg with trusts and combines and
monopolies in establishing its tariff sched.
ules; the Republican party was not attempt
ing to place . tax upon the .necessaries of
life 1t the dictation of great trusts, for the
benefit of centralized wealth and for specu-
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