Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-06-03
PRAISE FOR REED
The Maine Republican State
Convention in Session at
Bangor.
Temporary Chairman Sewall
Makes a Highly EulOgistic
Speech.
Republicans Appear to Have the
Best of the Election in
Oregon.

BANGOR, Me-, June 3.-The Maine
Republican convention met in this city
In calling the delegates to order, Joseph
H. Manley, chairman of the state com
mittee, named for temporary chairman
Harold M. Sewall, whom President
Cleveland, in his first term appointed as
United States consul at Samoa, but who
subsequently, became identified with
the Republican party. In the course OF
long address, on taking up the gavel,
Mr.. Sewall said:
'The Republicans of Maine join their
brethern of other states in presenting a
candidate whose platform is already
written. written when he declared that
the proudest part of the proud record
of the Republican party is its devotion
to the cause of sound finance Writ
ten in the record of his life whose
nomination means election; whose
election means Republican supremacy,
not for four, but for "a years to come ;
not only the leader of our party, but
one whose mastery the sullen and de-
fiant Democracy has been forced tc
acknowledge,
Master of Men.
''And not only a 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 as the nation
knows him today, his lips not in silence
when silence is dishonor, nor opened to
words that are meant to have no mean
ing; his lofty spirit unswerved from its
high purpose, not for the price Of presi-
dency itself. | need not name him. He
was named by nature in the intellect
with which she crowned his magnificent
manhood and made him regnant among
men. He was named when thrice our
party named him, when twice the coun-
try called him to preside over the high
est legislative body of the land, the sec
ond 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 its first duty to
the country was to learn to govern it.
self; when he broke the irons that fet-
tered it, and shattered precedents which
violated the principle on which all rep
resentative government must rest, and
which otherwise might have destroyed
the government itself.
Conservative without compromise,
brave without rashness, undaunted to-
day as he has been undannted ever, I
need not name him. He leads in your
hearts and there has been no vacancy
in the leadership since. Broken hearted,
you turned from the deathbed of Blaine
and in the full 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
structions of their hearts. What fate
shall decree we do not know, but this
much we know we know what hopes
chose whom we are sent to serve have
builded 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 enough
to know. We go to that convention
with no second choice in our hearts,
and only that name upon our lips"