The Republican journal., 1896-06-18
it's emblems and the emblems of that age
of glory in which the men of Maine had
more than their share!

it's emblems and the emblems of that age
OF glory in which the men of Maine had
more than their share!
when sailors rights were won.v
yard locked in yard, hot gun-lip kissing
gum"
They attacked this industry, say, as
they always have attacked it, though
never before in our history had that
president, as it was by Mr.. Cleveland
when at the launching of a triumphant
production of an American ship-yard he
sounded what but for a Congress more
death knell of every ship-yard in the land.
And the Democrats of Maine presented
this pitiable spectacle; the Democratic
s5nip.bullders OF the second district went
the Democrats of Maine did the same in
the memorial of the State legislature, to
our Republican representation to save
party associates.
And the Democrats of Bath in scarcely
a less serious crisis have daily cause to
bless the Republican party of Maine that
it had at Washington our senior senator
and the representative from this district
respectively, chairman of the naval com
mittee in the Senate and the House, to
protect the brave builders of the Katah-
DIN from punishment because of an in
superable defect in the plans of her con-
structlon and to save their city from in
duStrial ruin.
stored, it is almost too late to speak of
saving it, and that restoration must come
through the Republican party. We want
to build more vessels of war in Maine,
and for every one of these we want to
build hundred gallant merchantmen,
pledges of peace, and barbingers of re-
turned prosperity to send out under the
reciprocity treaties we shall revive. We
want to build more Defenders" in this
country and man them with Deer Isle
crews, and for every one of these we
want to build a dozen battle ships to
make our navy worthy to be the strong.
right arm of the Republican diplomacy
we mean to have.
All this we want but we want it equally
with prosperity restored to all our people
and with the national credit restored to
this government Of ours.
When first the country sickened we said
to the Democratic party, as did Webster
to the Democratic party of old, restore
the credit you have destroyed. We said
more; we will help you to dc so, and we
did. When they said the trouble was the
sherman law we helped them repeal it,
been repealed.
When their President and secretary of
the treasury said it was the greenbacl1s
and Shades of the Democratic party of
Maine proposed to retire themD the party
that had first provided for their redemp-
ton offered to help restore the system
that had made that redemption possible
and had ever since enabled us to make
good our promise before the world
When their president and secretary of
the treasury whined about an endless
chain, they themselves had set in motion,
which revolved from an empty treasury
back again through a vacuum in Demo-
cratic craftsmanship, We offered to fill
that vacuum with the craftsmanship of
Dingley and to break that chain with the
firm grasp of a hand that has behind it a
replenished treasury. All this we offered.
ours was not the fault that this condition
had come upon the country. Ours could
40 oil eS1n no r.
rescued from it, but as citizens of a com
mon country we tried to do So And they
would have none of our aid.
Then we pleaded with them for the life
of industry. Next November we shall
command them to take off their hands
which throttle it. Then we begged to be
allowed to help restore the credit of the
government, now we give them notice we
Snail do so by our own measures and our
own men! By our own measures and our
own men shall this credit be restored and
the confidence on which its continuance
must depend, by q Republican Congress
ana a Republican President. Who is to
be the chosen chieftain we are not per-
mitted to know, but we know the man
date from his party which shall be his to
execute, and 20 maintain the standard of
our currency as high as the highest in all
the world. That will be the declaration
of the Republican platform and upon that
shadow of equivocation the candidate of
our party will take his stand.
The Republicans of Maine join their
brethren 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 it's devotion to
the record of his life whose nomination
means election, whose election means Re
publican supremacy not for four, but for
tWenty-four years to come; not only the
leader OF our party, but one whose mas
terry Sullen and defiant Democracy has
been forced TO acknowledge. a master of
meni
ter 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 strfe
Master OF himself as the nation knows
him today, his lips not sealed in silence
when silence is dishonor, nor opened to
words that are meant to have no mean
ing: his lofty spirit unswerved from its
presidency itself!
| need not name him,
He was named by nature in the intellect
with which she crowned his magnificent
and made him regnant among
men!
He was named when thrice our party
named him, when twice the country
called him, to preside over the highest
legislative body of the land, the second
nlSleSI position IN It's S11I ana 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 coun- |
try was to learn to govern itself when he |
broke the irons that fettered it and shat |
tered precedents which violated the prin-
ciple on which all representative govern |
nent must rest and which otherwise
might have destroyed the government it |
self
Conservative without compromise, brave
without rashneSs, undaunted today as he |
has been undaunted ever need not name
him. He leads in your hearts and there
has been no vacancy in that leadership
since broken-hearted you turned from the
death-bed OF Blaine: and in the full
glory of his record and the promise of il |
limitable 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 instructions of their hearts.
What fate shall decree we do not know,
but this much we know, we know what
hopes those 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.