The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-17

ducts in preferment to the Importation of
foreign goods; to the splendid reciprocity
policy OF James G. Blaine; to vigorous
foreign policy That will maintain the
Monroe doctrine every day in the year
and maintain the honor and dignity Of
the great American nation, policy that
will not allow it's foreign ambassadors to
insult the intelligence of this great people
and policy that will restore the business
prosperity of the nation
My friends, in the great BATTLE that is
| 10 come, In the great victory that IL TO
result, let the grand old State of Maine
lead the way.
HON. L. POWERS'S SPEECH.
Hon. Llewellyn Powers was called for
and addressed the convention, being in
ttodueed as the next governor Of Maine.
lie said the Republican party is march
ing on to victory that shall place 1t in
control OF every branch of the country.
We have had enough of Democratic mis-
rule to last us for so years. He enumerat-
eel instances and particulars of Demo.
cratic mismanagement. He spoke in
glowing terms of MI Beed
Hon. George M. Soldiers, chairman of
the committee on transportation of the
State of Maine Reed Club, called atten-
ton to the necessity of knowing at once
who are going to the national convention.
The convention then proceeded to nomi-
nate delegates and alternates.
| Hon. Am. Spear of Gardiner presented
the name of Hon. john +. Hill of Au-
gusta as nominee for elector at large
and he was nominated by acolamation.
| Hon. +. M. Butter of franklin County,
presented the name Of Joel Wilbur of
Avon, who was nominated as an eloctor
at large by reclamation,
| Edwin Parsons of Kennebunk, was
nominated from the first district; A. r.
Nickerson Of Boothba y Harbor, from the
second district; Fred Atwood, Winter
port, from the third district and Albert
H. Sawyer of Calais from the fourth dis
trlot, were all nominated by acolamation.
The convention then proceeded to nomi-
nate the delegates at large to the ST.
Louis convention.
Col. Burbank Of Saoo, in very COM
plimentary speech named Amos l.. Allen,
of Alfred, who was nominated by accla-
Dlation.
Hon. Charles E. Littlefeld of Rock
land, was also nominated by anclamaticn
the presentation speech being made by
Hon. Mr.. Butler of Belfast.
| Hon. Edwin g. Burleigh was present.
ed in most felioitous speech by Chair
man j. H. Manley and he was nominal
ed by reclamation.
Hon. j. B. Peaks presented the name
of DR.. e. A. Thompson of Dover and he
Was unanimously chosen.
The following gentlemen were chosen
as alternates:
DIR. John I. Sturgis, B. f. Briggs,
Chas. A. Marston, George B. Dunn.
Hon. H. M. Heath was received with
great applause when he came forward to
q report the resolutions. He introduced
| them with speech that fairly lifted h is
| audience off their feet and concluded by
presenting the platform. He said:
= HON. H. NJ. HEATH'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen:
| The Republicans of Maine ask but one
question, where is the pathway of duty
They have had the courage of their CON
sAooioAS lIOtu eu6 ABublIS ubyS OF Arson
! T. Morrill, to thu magnificent ad,ninistra-
ton OF Henry B. Cleaves. The Repnbii-
can party WAS founded on the granite
| hills of Maine to batte-not for Office,
not for gain-but for the principles Of
eternal truth. 1t had it's birth in the dy-
1ng throes OF party gangrened with
compromise. Patriotism was it's father.
Conscience the mother, and Liberty the
offspring of 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 ia the betrayal of a glorious past, to
| forget the teachiusg of the the fathers. to
be silent whom silence would be crime
When before has the Republican party
halted in it's onward march along the
| straight and narrow pathI Was it in the
days of grand old Hannibal Hamlin, the
honored father of an honored son, who
presides over your deliberations? Was it
when Lot M. Morrill,, the Jupiter Tonans
Of American patriots, thundered defiance
to an angry and insolent Democracy ?
| Did we learn cowardice of William Pitt
| Fess enden when he exemplified courage
and sacrificed himself that the Constitu-
| ton might forever live?
Will the Republican party finch in
the fullness of its manhood? 1t was
christoned amid the clanking of the
| chains of human slavery. Never wav-
ering along the line until four million
useless shackles lowered to Heaven above
| the grave Of A braham Lincoln, his mon
ument forever and forever. What think
you would have bsen the story of liberty
had conscience turned her ear to oowar-
dice in the days that tried mems souls?
| In it's lusty youth the Republican par
| ty learned to read the Constitution in
the glare of the bursting shells that flew
DER Sumter's crunlbllng walls. When
timid Capital whined for compromise,
the rattling of million muskets an
swered ''Neverp,' Call the roll of the
illustrious dead that 'sleep on Fame's
eternal camping ground.' What said
they in the hours of whitened cheeks
and trembling lips? What the answer?
Hear ye the guns laundering above the
clouds of Lookout Mountain where
Heaven bent to kiss Old Giory's folds.
Hear ye the songs of victory when fifty
thousand strong we swung with Sher-
man from Atlanta to the sen. Listen to
the cheers from Kearsage's battered
decks when the stars and bars at Ala
bama's peak sank beneath Old Oceans
dreary waste. Read it on the page of
history written with the sword of Apo
mattox under the famoue nppIo t.