Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-02
Assembling of the State Convention
at Bangor.
HAROLD M. SEWELL IN THE CHAIR
Highly EuIogistic References to
Mr.. Reed.
KNOWS NO SECOND CHOICE

BANGOR, de, June 2-The Maine re-
publican convention met in this city today.
In calling the delegates to Cl der Joseph H.
Manley, chairman of the state committee,
named for temporary chairman Harold NJ.
Sewen, whom President Cleveland In his
first term appointed as United States con-
sui to Samoa, but who subsequently be-
came identified with the republican party.
In the course of long address, on taking
up the gavel, Mr.. Sewel said:
'Tle republicans of Maine join their
brethren of other states in presenting a
candidate whose platform is already writ
ten-written when he declared that the
proudest part of the proud record of the
republican party Is it's devotion to sound
finance; written in the record of his life,
whose nomina tiCn means election, whose
election means republican supremacy, not
for four, but fer twentyfour years to
come: not Cnly the leader of our party, but
one whose mastery sullen and defiant
democracy has been forced to acknowledge
"a me- ster of men.
And not only master of men, but
master of himself. Master of himself as
we have known him, boy and man. among
us. Master of himself as the nation has
known him, in the full glare of publicity
and the heat of party strife. Master of
himself IS the nduOn KNOWS MIN lOudy ,
his lips not sealed in silence when silence
is d:shonor, nor opened to words that are
meant to have no meaning; his lofty spirit
unswerved from its nigh purpose-no, not
for the price of the presidency itself.
'I need not name him. He vas named
by nature IN the intellect with which she
crowned his magnificent manhood and
made MIN regnSnt among men he was
named when thrice our party named him.
when twice he country called him to pre-
side over the highest legislative body of
the land, the second highest position in its
gift, and at the time the very highest gift
in our own. He was named by the heroic
action which cOmpelS events when he
taught that body that it's first duty to the
country was to learn TO govern itself; he
broke the irons that fetteIed and shattered
precedents which violated TIE principle on
which all representative government must
rest and which otherwise might have de-
stroyed tire government itself.
Conservative without compromise, brave
without rashness, urdGunted today as he
has been undaunted ever, I need not name
him. He leads in your hearts, and there
has been no vacancy in that leadership
since, broken-h hearted, you turned from the
deathbed of Blaine, and in the fun glory
of his record and the promise of illimitable
achievements yet to come, you centered
your pride of state and party fealty upon
Thomas B. Reed. His name your chosen
delegates carry to St. Louis, and to guide
their action there they need only the in
strucTiOn Ct their hearts.
What fate shall decree we do not know,
but this much we know: We know what
hopes these whom We are sent to serve
have huilded on our efforts, and not our
party alone, but 10000 democrats of Maine,
who stand ready to burst the bonds of
party at the ballot box in response to that
great name. And this is CROUCH to know.
We 20 to that convention with no second
choice Ia our hearts and only that name
upon our lips
Speaking further, Mr. Sewall said:
What wonder that democrats run up
and down the land proclaiming that their
party is to give. what 1t has never given
us before, a foreign policy that shall meet
the approval and aspirations of the Ameri-
can people.
God knows we need such a policy-an
American policy commanding respect and
self-respecting; a policy that shall put an
end to the jeers and gibes of Europe, that
rather than be great in history we prefer
to have no history at all; policy COM
power. great in commercial and material
n eatness, but greatest of all in that we
can rise above and beyond this greatness
and count it all for naught in the assertion
and defense of principles the value of
which such greatness cannot measure.
God knows, 1 say, we need such a
policy: but as He Is just and merciful by
the shame and humiliation with which He
has seen fit to chasten this people through
the inStrumentality of the democratic
party, He will never lead us to seek such
q policy through the maintenance in power
of a party whose conduct of our foreign
relations has taught US the need of such a
policy as We have never realized it before
What, ask of you men from every city
and hamlet of Maine-what has become OF
that prosperity which made our state a
marvel among her sisters, far more richly
endowed by nature than she? What bu,
gone with the advent to power of this
democratic party.
Fifty did our faithful Senator exclaim
q def hi
state from the onslaughts of the Wilson
DILL Maine. like Bozarris, lies bleeding al
every veln.'
Hardly worse could II have been for our
people: far better 1t had been for some
since the democI tic tariff, had not an ak
bCen laid to the trees OF our forests had
devastation laid waste our fields pestilerce
swept the hills of our focks and the
hcCds of the Androscoggin dried at their
springs, such has been the havoc wrought
uIon them by the democratic party
Man marks the earth with ruin, his
control stops with the shore Not so with
the ruin the democratic party would work;
trey attacked the last people in our state
who could withstand that attack. the last
no deserved ii; they attacked the toilers
End the Industries of the sea- those of ON
people who have stamped the name OF
Maine as God-fearing and independent
race wherever they go, those industries
without which our rOck-bound coasts would
not have been pressed by the foot of the
settler until century after they We're
1T was injustice to our fishermen to put
hsh on the free list. 1t was scarcely less
than crime against our state to do so
for If there is a country on earth against
which the interests of our state demand
that The protective tariff should be use(
rel5ntlessly and without relaxation 1t is
that unnatural and unhappy remnant OF
British dominion On this continent, lust be-
yond our borders; ours geographically. ours
historically, ours by the sacrifices of the
men of Maine who fell at Louisberg anG
with Wolfe before Quebec
And by the unbroken teachings of re
publican craftsmanship while Canads
chooses to indulge the sentiment that main
tains that line and cuts off from our po
sition as part of a North American con
federation stretching to the eternal SHOWS
she shall be made to know the cost of do
ing so, and shall not indulge that sentimen
and at the same time be allowed to fatter
off our markets."
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