Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-07
GrceEhalge's Acceptance.


GENTLEMEN OF TIE CONVENTIONAL thank
You most heartily for the honor you have just
conferred on met calls for my most profound
gratltuda and my most earnest acknowledg
meut Your nomination, coming 10 me at this
time and under existing circumstances Is in
deed. an honor of triple magnitude and full of
uncommon Significance
! think il NAV be said that your action is not
limited by the lines of nero routine. Perhaps
it is not too much TO say that it represents the
deliberate Judgment OF the Republican party
upon an administration of two years. During
that administration. many vital and moment
GUS questions have arisen. In the onward
movement of great commonwealth like Mas.
sachuSetts there is a necessary friction and
disturbance occasoned by the velocity o.
progress. Upon these questions, involving the
interests of property, the fortunes OF parties
the triumph or defeat OF systems. and the
sacred rights of men, it is not to be wondered
at thai honest and marked differences of olirl-
ion have arisen and a great degree of interest
and zeal aroused. While am uncharitable TO
man who differs from me, while ascyibc to
sincere opposition no unworthy motive, wi lille
l acknowledge my own many errors and short
cominss, must say, as l look back upon the
past and note the many instances where per-
pieXtties arosa--where prompt AMI decided &c.
ton was required-that must still hold fast
to the principles by which / have endeavorad
to guide and regulate my course, and in hum.
bic imitation Of the great reformer, say, $50
help me, God, cannot do otherwise"
] have always believed-I still believe-that
to be good Republican it was and is neces.
sary for a man to be good citizen true and
loyal TO his country, with "A supreme and sir
gle devotion. The principles of the Rcpubli-
can party mean progress and Development
the lifting up of the Northumberland of the
state: those principles favor sober. righteous
int
lamps of
The State, the Nation and the Home,
Education, free air and lofty as heaven.
temperance in thought, word and life; justice,
blind to artificial distinctions of wealth or
station, eagle-eye5 to the distinction of right
and wrong; loyalty to state and nation rising
to a love that 'passeth understanding" these
and every principle that make for good gov.
ernment are written in the hearts of all Re-
puhlicans.
Again the Republican party believes in the
individuality of the country; it desires to
stimulate and develop that growing spirit of
American nationality which is already stir.
ring IN every heart from the Atlantic to tho
Pacific. We think that the ship of state will
meet the stormy seas quite as successfully as
one beautiful integral fabric as in sections or
comparatively loosely jointed together The
unifcation Of state is a noble object. WORTHY
of the highest ambitions and the grandest 81.
forts of statesmanship-the unification Of
people, making all Massachusetts one family.
bound together by ties Of affection and Is.
teen., inspired by the Almighty with the lofti
est ideals of citizenship-is, am sure, a stepin
the direction of that
"Faroff, divine event
10 which the whole creation moves"
Gentlemen, l do not think that our party
has lost anything of power or prestige in the
last few years. In state and nation hare -
home and in the country at large, that power