Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-29
OHIO REPUBLICANS
Select Gen. Asa D. Bushnell
for Their Standard Bearer.
Great Enthusiasm at Convention to
Choose Candidate for Governor.
United States Senator John Sherman Makes a
Mastery Speech.

liCah etdtc Col'oHelon lnauSurated DuSl-
ness here, this afternoon, with cheers for
Mckinley and for Foraker and an ova
ton for John Sherman. 1t was one VI
the largest conventions that ever responded
to the call of the party managers Five
thousand people-a thousand too many
for comfort or convenience-packed into
Memorial hall. State Chairman J. C.
Bonner raped for quiet a few minutes
after O'Clock and Rev. Dr. Anderson
prayed that the voice of the convention
might be as the voice of God
The state chairman essayed an introduc-
tory speech but his voice was barely audi
BILE to the front benches and the rest OF
the convention, which. firing of the dumb
show, proceeded to guy the unfortunate
chairman with ironical cheers and shouts
of 'Cut it short" and Leave to print. -
| When, raising his voice above the din,
he made a complimentary allusion to ex-
Governor Foraker, the irony was turned
into enthusiasm and was repetition on
a smaller scale of the Sherman ovation
Mr.. Foraker, who sat in the midst of
the Hamilton county delegation, bowed
and rebowed his Acknowledgements, but
the noise grew louder, and finally he al
lowed himself to be escorted to the plat
form, where he dramatically shook hands
with Senator Sherman and took seat by
his side
Chairman Bonner resumed his address,
but cries for Foraker continued until the
latter made a request for order The
third time the chairman picked up his
notes, but tho babel of irony was recon-
menced and he gave it up in despair
Amidst the bowling he whispered IT.
Senator Sherman's ear, and the latter, as
Stunning the gavel, without the formality OF
an Introduction, reprimanded the conven-
ton and suggested that those before him
were not in fit state of mind to select o
candidate. Then he went on to say:
Gentlemen of the Convention: / thank
you for the honor you have conferred
upon me in selecting me to preside over
this great convention. You have met to
designate the next governor of the state
of Ohio. You have good many candi-
dates before you, each Of whom is worthy
of the highest honor you can confer You
have the assurance that whoever you may
nominate will have the hearty support o,
all the candidates and of each mem Der OF
this convention. You have also to select
several of the chief executive officers OF
the state. I need not impress upon you
the importance of selecting those who viii
honestly and faithfully perform the duties
assigned them. You have n still higher
duty, to announce the principles and
policy of the Republican party in the stat,
of Ohio and in the United States. What
you say here will have an Important in.
hucnce beyond the limits of your state
for the intelligent action of the Repubi
cans of Ohio will, as in times past, in.
dictate the opinions of Republicans in ali
parts of the United States. We have u
common faith and creed. We act together
in great matters on principle, on small
matters for discipline. The primary and
fundamental sentiment of the Republican
party is love for our country, our whole
country. We are for the Union. one and
mdivisible, now and forever. The Repub-
lcans of Ohio are not provincial, but ma
tional.
This is our corner stone, planted in the
first Republican convention in Ohio in
1855. We stood by it in the storms OF
war, when Lincoln was our standard
bearer Our soldiers fought for it under
Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. The
soldiers of Ohio carried our flag in every
great battle of the war for the preserva
ton of the Union. Other patriotic citi-
zens and soldiers were equally deserving
of honor and praise. but they could not
carry their party with them. When Grant
was in the Wilderness and Sherman was
before Atlanta, a great party declared the
WAR failure. Ours made it success
When the war was over we did not treat
our enemies as conquered subjects, but as
erring brethren We invited them back
into the Union with unabridged powers,
prescribing only one condition, that there
should be no slaves in our country. We
now meet them and greet them as friends
and, turning our back on dead issues, we
congratulate them on their prosperity,
which they did not and could not have
in their condition prior to the war
When the war was over the Republican
party developed its civil policy. First of
all it declared its purpose to pay every
debt or obligation contracted during OF
since the war, that the public faith should
be unblemished. This promise has been
performed. In spite of all temptation and
the shrieks of Populists, We have dis
charged every obligation contracted dur
ing the war, and especially the highest
and most sacred debt to the surviving
| soldiers of the war, their widows and
orphans. The pension roll is a roll of
honor, higher In amount than any pen
sion roll ever before provided by any ma
ton. While the Republican party is in
power it will only be diminished by the
death of pensioners, fate that awaits US
alt
| We are In favor of protective tariff
We had such tariff. While it was in
force we had prosperity, good times and
money plenty. We had SO diversified our
domestic industries that American labor
and American capital supplied nearly all
the wants of the American people We
prefer to tax foreign productions rather
than o,1r own We believe that the policy
of protection should he extended to all
productions impartiaily-to labor on the
| farm as we'll as labor in the workshop
We are oppe d to the Democratic policy
Of protecting wooden manufactures and ad-
misting wool free OF duty. We denounce
a scheu of tax alton which annually in
/ creases the public iiebt more than $780,
| 0,O 600. This Is the result of Democrat c
ascendancy. The tariff law of the last