Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-05

Therefore, Mr.. Chairman, 1 move,
and l think voice the sentiment of every
Republican senator and representative il
this caucus assembled, and the sentiment
of every one OF their constituents through
out the entire length and breadth of our
noble State When l move that the Hon.
William p. Frye be nominated by accla-
nation as the Republican candidate for
United States senator for the term of six
years from the fourth day of March next,
and that this nomination be emphasized
and endorsed by rising vote. Cap
plause.)
Hon. Harrison Hume, senator from
Washington county, was the next speak
er as he seconded the nomination in a
splendid manner, saying:
Mr.. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the
Caucus:
The sons of New England wherever they
may be point with pride to her magni-
ficeut natural scenery, her snow capped
hills, her valleys, her rocky coast, her
BAYS and broad armed ports. They point
with pride to her thriving and prosperous
cities, to her beautiful villages on plain,
in valley, and Nesting on the hillside.
They exult in her great history, for with
in the cabin OF the Mayfiower on her coast
was born the first and only democratic
republic in the world They glory in the
fact that within her borders are Lexing-
ton and Concord and Bunker Hill; that
within her borders was shed the first
blood in resistance to British tyranny.
They rejoice in and point with pride to
her gallant sons, living and dead, who
fought and died to establish the republic
and later on to preserve it. They are
proud of the men that she has contributed
science to literature and to the arts. But
above all, gentlemen, their supreme ex-
ultation is in her statesmen. And the
state OF Maine, when she was Il part of
the grand old commonwealth of the Pill
grim and the Puritan, shared in the glory
of the great names of her early history
And since the grand old State of Maine
separated herself, and became one of the
sisterhood of states she has contributed
to the nation statesmen that have been in
the past, and are today, the superiors of
most and the equal of any.
One of those statesmen we have come
here tonight to honor, and in honor
ing him we honor ourselves. As
a man, pure, manly and honest, a de-
voted husband and indulgent and kind
father, his is a typical New England home,
an institution which has been the safety
of the Republic in the past and upon the
maintenance of which will depend its
permanancy in the future. AS citizen
broad minded, loving law and order, as Il
legislator honest, industrious and eminent
ly practical, the commerce of this great
republic has felt his fostering hand. Its
foreign policy has been wisely and safely
guarded so far as his efforts were con-
cerned lk
Receiving from God the great gift of
oratOry, his genius in that direction can
no more be accounted for than the sweet
ness of the rose or the glory of the sunset.
He is an orator powerful, strong, influen-
tial, because he is honest. The words OF
Mirabeau apply to him when he said
"This man will accomplish some
thing for he believes every word
he says" No man can be great orator
unless his words come from an honest
heart, and to be such he must have a
broad and comprehensive mind. Such a
man is this man ~ an orator. As a states
man he had achieved reputation and has
honored his State Why? Because he
believed in justice
As statesman he has been guided by
the words of Cicero, he said that no re-
public can stand unless its pillars rest up
on the foundation stones of eternal justice,
and justice is the everlasting, UNI
changing purpose to give each man
his right. Believing these words he
early was the friend of the slave. and he
had no utilization with the trucking poll
tician or the quasi statesmen; he clearly
realized the fact that in the darkest hour
of the republics life, when we became
convinced that if we would save our own
| freedom we must give it to the slaves we
stretched out our hand to Ethiopia and
200, 600 men donncd the Union blue and
amid the thunders of battle we covenant
ed with those men that if we preserved
our liberties they should share in the glory
of it.
Have we kept the faith ? There is one
man who has kept the faith, and it is the
man we are here to honor tonight. Such
a man, such citizen, such q legislator.
such an orator, such a statesman is
William p Frye, whose nomination, Mr..
| Chairman, l most heartily second. Cap
| plause.)
Representative Plummer of Dexter, fol-
| lowed MI hume. lie SAID:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
| Caucus:
! With states, as with individuals, there
are times when the path of duty is clear,
and this is such an occasion. Maine owes
William p. Frye the distinction of a cor
dial reelection to the Senate. He has
| earned it by long years of faithful, in
dustriouUs and brilliant service. For 25
years in one or the other of the two Houses
of Congress he has represented her patrio
tism and her conscience and carefully
guarded her material interests
A stranger in Washington is struck with
the impression which Maine has made
there, almost every hour of the day. 1t
has been made by the useful, influential
work done there by her able and illustri-
| Gus sons in the arena of legislation and
state craft, the living and the dead: such
men as John Ruggles, John Holmes,
George Evans, William Pitt Fessenden,
Hannibal Hamlin, Lot NJ. Morrill,, James
G. Blaine, Frederick a. Pike, John
Lynch, John A. Peters, William p. Frye,
Eugene Hale, Seth l.. Milliken, Charles
A. Boutelle, Thomas b. Reed, Nelson
Dingley, Jr.-and William p Frye has |
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