Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-17

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| tive officer of our Commonwealth flled
! the high office of Governor with honor
| to his State and with credit TO nimSelI :
| a gentleman who has. from the 1irst ACT
| of manhood been identilieu WIN me re
| publican party one of its Jealous ana
| earnest defenders, one of its best and
! truest leaders; gentleman who has
| always entertained for tnat great states
| man. whom we know, the nation ough.
to have for it's next President. warn
and nersonal regard, with whom he has
| had the most intimate political relations.
Mr.. Chairman ! move you, sir, that tho
Hon. Edwin c. Burleigh of Augusta. be
nominated by acclamation as a delegate
| at-large to the Republican national CON
vention to be held in st. Louis in June
| next.
He was elected by reclamation.
| Colonel i. Il. peakeS of Dover pre-
scented the name of DR. Il. A. Thomp-
son Of Dover, as delegate at large and
he was elected by reclamation.
The following alternates were elected:
Dr John G. Sturgis, New Gloucester;
| b. +. Briggs. Auburn; Hon. Chas. A.
Marston, Skowhegan; Geo. b. Dunn.
Houlton.
| Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath of Augusta,
| for the committee on resolutions came
| forward to report. He said:
Mf. chairman ana trentieHlpi1.
| The Republicans of Maine ask but one
| qucStion-where is the path of duty
| They have had the courage of their con-
| Victions from the fighting days of Arson
| L. Morrill, to the magnificent administra-
| ton of Henry Il. Cieaves. The Repubii-
| can party was founded on the granite
| hills of Maine to battle. not for office, not
| for i5lin-but for the principles of eternal
| truth. 1t had its birth in the dying
throes of party gangrened with com
| promise. Patriotism was its father. Con-
| science the mother. and Liberty the off
| spring of Il marriage blessed by the
Ruler of the Universe. Whom God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder.
| It's on mems lips that the price of sue
| cess is the betrayal of a glorious past. to
| forget the teachings of the fathers, to be
| silent when silence would be Il crime
| When before has the Republican party
| halted in its onward march along the
straight and narrow path? Was 1t in the
| days of the grand old Hannibal lIamiin.
| the honored father of an honored son.
who presides over your deliberations
Was it when Lot M. Morrill,, the Jupiter
TonanS of American patriots, thundereu
defiance to an angry and insolent De-
mocracy? Did we learn cowardice of
William Pitt Fessenden. when he eXem-
| plitied courage and sacrificed himself
| that the constitution might forever live?
| viii the Republican party finch in the
fullness of its manhood? 1t was christ
human slavery. Never a wavering along
| the line until 100000 useless shackIes
lowered to heaven above the grave of
Abraham Lincoln, his monument forever
| and forever. What think you would
have been the story of liberty had CON
science turned her ear to cowardice in
| the days that tried mems souls?
In its lusty youth the Republican party
| learned to read the constitution In the
glare of the bursting shells that flew DER
| Sumpters crumblng wallis. When tmi6
| capital cried for compromise, the rafting
| of million muskets answered Never
| Call the roll of the iliustrlous dead that
| sleep on Fame's eternal camping
| ground" What said they in the hours of
whitcned cheeks and trembling lips
| What the answer? Hear We the guns
! laundering above the clouds of Lookout
| Mountain where heaven bent to kiss Old
| Glorys folds, Hear We the songs of vic
| tory when with 5000 strong we swung
| with Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea.
Listen TO the cheers from kearsage's
battered decks when the stars and barr
| at Alabarnas peak sank beneath old
| oceans dreary waste. Read it on the
| page of history written with the sword
/ OF Appomattox under the famous apps
tree. Shall the historian write across IN
| story of the ''wondrous deeds our fathers
did OF Old" that the Republican party,
Gods best Gift to the civilization of th'
18th century. sold its birthrisht for
! mess Of pottager
ours has been the sacred duty t.
guard that priceless jewel, the national
| honor We found the national crrdi,
PROSTATE upon the rocks of rebellion
| bleeding at every pore. We Jeff
| it proud in its pre-emincnt strength
| The Democratic party. hardened IN
| a nation staggering under the ray
| ages of war TO repudiato the nation0t
| debt. To man the Republican party
| answered in the noble words Of General
| i4awley. Every bond is as sacred AS a
| soldiers grave" Shall we he loss honest
| in these days of dire distress. sorclE
| tempted AS we reel under the raVages Of
| Democratic rule
When gold AMI silver Acd the country
| in the face of war. we gave our notes
without interest that the nation might
| live. We promised to pay them in money
| good throughout the world We made
| the promise honestly. We kept it hog
| oraby. We trod the thorny path OF re\
sumption with bleeding feet. with "a cour-
a5e born of Il love of honor that has ever
| ruled in the councils of party that 49,
| yet has never broken faith with tn"
American people. No man questioned the
value of an American dollar under Re
publican rule.
We face the same old problem of good
| faith, of honor. of national honesty. We
| stand upon the shores of the Ruhicon-
| upon this side disgrace, upon the other,
| honor. There's threatened mutiny in
| the ranks. The more dangerous because
| led by senators conscientious in their
wrong. Shall we hesitate to declare our
unaltcra bic opposition to the free and I'M
| limited coinage of silver? Upon that issue
there can be no compromise. We stand
where simple truth hath no place for
| fear" Let others offer. if they Will, 10
surrender convictions for success. Maine
will answer. Better defeat than victory
with diShonOr. We are making history.
| "Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide.
| In the strife of Truth with Falsehood
| For the good or evil side"
The people demand a return to the
| prosperous days of protection They re-
| member that the last Republican tariff
owed it's very life to the brains and
| courage and backbone of that man from
Maine who towers above his fellows, like
| a stately pine upon his native hills. BY
| courtesy the bill was graced with
| another hOnored name Let him who has
| deserved it bear the crown away.
The future is fraught with problems
| that call for a master mind. Repudia-
| ton of private and public debt wells a
| dishonest face behind the mask of silver
agitation. Unrestricted immigration
ship with the Bacchanalian orgies of So
cialism. Capital, ever timid. shrinks
| and shivers, naked under Democratic
rule. Labor sits in idleness at the outer
| gate waiting for Republican tariff to
open the door to prosperity and content.
| Commerce yearns to sweep the seas