The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-19

milton. He believes in a definition that
defines. He is willing that his definition
should he known of all mon, and his
definition is that until we can have BIZ
metallism by International agreement
the present gold standard should be
maintained He believes that any other
principle means disaster and loss of
the confidence OF the great business in
terests OF the country. He knows that
the government mint ID not an alembio
that can transmute 80 cents, worth of sill
evr metal into coin of the realm of the
value of 81.
Inc republican party was held up
in the United States Senate and COM
manded to stand or deliver q dollar in
coin for fifty cents Of value. They could
bring the party to stand, but under his
leadership they could not make it heliv-
or. entrusted by his party with an office
second only i'll power to that of the Pres
idency, having at his disposal the high
est objects of Congressional ambition,
the control of great interests, he has
scorned to use his power for his own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
"Dignitied, unaelfsh, dispassionate, in
dependent, untrammeled, sincere, con-
scientious, unmindful Of his personal ad-
vancement no has discharged the duties
of his high Office. Amid the exigencies
OF an intense canvass for this great
office, his devotion to the welfare of the
whole party has been pure and steadfast
He is entangled by no alliances, bound
by no combinations.
''He has no friends that he will be
compelled to reward, no enemies that
it will be necessary to punish. He knows
no boss. He was never dominated or
controlled by clique or oabal. He has
never bowed, and never will bow, the
knee to Baal. II nominated by this con-
yention he, and none other, will be the
President of the Republic.
I'VE, therefore, present to you the
great Speaker, the leader of leaders, pre-
eminent in fitness by his eminent public
services and abilities, towering above
his fellows like a son Of Anak, the wis
est, strongest, ablest, noblest of Ameri.
can statesmen, Hon. Thomas y. Reed
Reed, the lion hearted.
eff nominated he will lead this land
permanently back to tbs paths OF pros
perlty and fame. and we shall take back
with US our ancient glory undimmed by
adversity, our ancient honor unsullied
by defeat"
When the state of New York was called
Mr.. Sutherland of Rochester rose and
| said that the name of New York's fav-
orite son would be presented by another
favorite son of that state and all states,
Chauncey nj. Depew. A round of cheers
greeted Mr.. Depew as he made his way
to the platform and proceeded to put in
nomination Gov. Levi P. Morton. He
did so in these words:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentleman of the
Convention:
National Republican conventions have
been epoch makers. They have formulat-
ed the principles, originated the policies,
and suggested the measures which in the
history of the United States form its
most progressive periods. They have
nominated for the Presidency statesmen
| bo ha of
people in their onward march to larger
liberty and broader and better industrial
conditions.
No party. no matter how glorious Its
achievements or how brilliant its success
sss, can rely upon the past. It's former
triumpbs are only Its oerJif1c ates of char
acter, which must be met by continuing
effort as benetioent and wise as anything
of which it boasts. The party which is
to permanently govern a country and is
secure in its past, must not only be equal
to the present, but must forecast and
provide for the future. The Republican
party has held possession Of the govern
ment of the United States for more than
generation because it has triumphant
ly met these conditions. The unequalled
successes of the Republican party, its
hold upon the country, and its masterful
! influence upon affairs have been due to
the fact that in every crisis it's principles
| nave HOlyeu tu6 IrODl61nS Oh Uu6 nOur ana
| its selected leader has been the man for
the occasion. The greatest moral and
patriotic questions which free people
were eyer called upon to meet were slave
ry and secession in the early days of oul
organization. But with "Union and
Liberty as our watchwood and with
Lincoln as our leader we saved the Re.
public and emancipated the slave.
The passionate and critical issues of re.
construction were successfully met and
the hostile sections happily united by 8
policy of Cancellation viii CHI could only
secure the consent OF the victors and the
} assent of the conquered by the influence
} of the soldier President, who had the
confidence of the armies which he had
led in triumph and the enemies whom
| he had paroled with honor. In period
when progress halled because of the dis
trust of commemorative and their citi-
zens of each other the latter and bsttel
Judgment of the country expressed its
acknowledgment to the non-partisan,
ship and judicial fairness of Hayes and
Evarts. The youth who came to manhood
after this Civil War and knew little of Its
agonies or its animosities, found @ glori.
GUS example OF American possibility and
achievement In the canal driver, the col.
lege student, the school principal, the
college President, the Union General,
the illustriOus debater in the House OF
Representatives the brilliant and mag
netic Garfield. In defeat and in victory,
for the policies which stood for the de-
veIopment of American industries, fol
America for Americans, whether native
or naturalized, and for the reciprocity
which bound the North American and
South American continents together. we
had the Plumed Knight of our enthusi
| asms and our love, James g. Blaine. Al
new generation came to the majority
to whom the past WINS legend, the pres
ent the difficult task of development ani
prosperity, and the future theory withou
experience, the Republican party agar
happily practised, in it's control of tn,
, executive and the legislative branches O.
the government, that policy of the pro
teotion of American industries and tina
practice of sound finance which gave tt
the Republic it's era uf greatest prosper
ity and it's period of the largest returns
| for capital, the fullest employment fo1
labor, and the highest wages for work il
] the history of our nation in the CLOSING
year of the administration of that abb
and accomplished statesman, Benjamin
Harrison.
J A few weeks preceding the convention
of four years ago at Minneapolis / hat
an afternoon with Mr.. Blaine. Will