Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
The Outcome Of tho National Convention.

tEltsWofti AneTlcdi.l
The Republicans of Maine though they
We're not designated to lead in the CON
test. took hold of Mr. Reeds canvass ir
in the State Went earnestly into Ile fight
'Sea we@s as fsvrsbs trst su shs sns Of tse 1ime'
Ths ssr.t ~ .hs Is speaker Il. wers +.
the ,igpsss af Atpresc,itative. Doll
ried things somxtimes with high hand
il was always with u firm hand and fol
tne g9ed Of the soa,sry & e selected ss hi,
s*tance Of Goyernor Dingley, whom h
had wisely made chairman ii tie cu,i,
mites, mites of ,s ways w. a'ia J., ht,is nj, he a
measures which provided for the relief
OF the treasury and furnished sufficient
revenue with which to run the govern:
ment. He, set his, foot Oh all jobs and
and economical appropriations.
lie refused to give countenance to the
dangerous scheme for railroading more
new small states into the Union II,
kept the body to strict business lecisla-
ton; he was day and night at his post
and depoorted himself as candidate for
the presidency should, do. In, his defeat
neither he nor his followers have cause
to look back with regret or reproach
Bat as the new year came in and ran
it's course. things went all wrong for
Names candidate. There were unac,
which had been reckoned on for "A solid
front. The favorite-son programme
robbed him of support in New York and
took Pennsylvania out of his column.
The southern state conventions where
help had been expected. broke ZIP IN
quarrels and snit into contesting delega-
tions. and above all the Mckinley move
ment. thoroughly organized and equipped
in its management. and having with II
the resistlcss current OF public revolt
agaast the Democratic tariff and Dem
ocratic administration. swept like q great
wave over the land and carried nearly
everything before it, SO that when the
delegates gathered In St. Louis. 1t was
plainly to he seen that Mckinley con-
vention had there assembled, The ma
tional committee WAS borne into the vor-
tex and this settled the contested seats.
leaving the friends Of the Ohio leader
with things pretty mitch their own way,
The Maine delegates did all for. their
candidate that men could do. and fought
to the last yielding with no honor lost.
But they and their allies in the battle
won a signal triumph in saving the con
vention from making n shuffiiinG. doubt
ful. two-faced platform and instead OF
this giving to the party and to the
country a square open. explicit declara-
ton for the maintenance of the present
gold standard in the currency OF the
country-a proposition which, when sue
cessfully fought out at the polls. Will set
| tie the silver agitation. establish our
lcredit and restore prosperity to all the
people.
With this declaration, and its twin sis
ter-protection for American labor and
American industries against underpaid
competition abroad-thc result ought not
to be doubtful.
The Republican candidates are men of
such high character and proved capacity
that they should command the votes and
the labors of every good party man in
the State.
Major Mckinley is we'll known to our
ba. the hanptit of his
admirable speeches in some of our close
campaigns in the past and not man in
Maine will sulk or hold back in his sup
Maine will be glad to give him Il great
majority Of her votes to swell his VIC
tory.