The Portland daily press., 1896-06-03

the treasury said it was the greenhacks
and Shades of the Democratic party OF
Maine proposed to retire themD the
party that had first provided for their
redemption 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 end
less chain, they themselves had set Ill
motion, which revolved from an empty
treasury back again through a vacuum
in Democratic craftsmanship, we Of
fered to fill that vacuum with the states
manship 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 not be the glory
should the country be rescued from it,
but as citizens of a common 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 che
credit of the government. now we give
them notice that we shall 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 con-
fidence on which its continuance must
depend, by Republican congress and
Republican president. Who is to be the
chosen chieftain we are not permitted to
know, but we know the mandate from his
party which shall be his to execute, and
to maintain the standard OF our cur
rency as high as the highest in all the
world That will be the declaration of
the Republican platform. and upon f,lat
platform, without equivocation, or the
shadow of equivocation, the candidate
of our party will take his stand
The Republicans of Maine join their
brethren of other states in presenting
candidate whose plato 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 cause of sound finance" written
| in the record of his life, whose nomina-
! ton means election, whose election
means Republican supremacy not for
| four, but for "a years to come; not only
the leader of our party. but one whose
mastery sullen ard defiant Democracy
has been forced to acknowledge, a mas.
| ter of men!
And not only a mnste1 Of m en-, but mas
| ter of HIMSELF
| Master of himself as we have known
| him boy and man among u.s.
| Master of himself as the nation has
known him in the full glare of pu blicity
| and the heat or party strife.
Master of himself as the nation knows
| him today his lips not sealed in silence
| when silence is disnonor, nor opened to
words that are meant to have no mean
| ing; his lofty spirit unswerved from its
| high purpose, no. not for the price of the
| presidency itself!
| need not name him!
| He was named by nature in the in
| tellect with which she crowned his mag
| nificent manhood and made him regnans
among menl
| 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
| highest position in it's gift and at the
| same time the very highest gift in her
| own!
| He was named by the heroic action
which compels events when he taught
| that body that it's first duty to the coun-
try was to learn to govern itself when
| he broke the irons that fettered it and
| shattered precedents which violated the
| principle on which all representative
| government must rest and which other
wise might have destroyed the govern
meut itself!
| Conservative without compromise, I
brave without rashness, undaunted to-
| day as he has been undaunted ever ,
need not name him! He leads in our
hearts, and there has been no vacancy
you turned from the death-bed of Blaine;,
and in the full glory Of his record and the
promise of illimitable achievements yet
to come. you centered your pride of
state ard party fealty in upon Thomas
B. Reed! His namc your chosen dele
gates carry tos ST. Louis, and to guide
their action there they need only the in
structions 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 re
sponse to that great name. And this Is
enough to know! We go to that conven-
ton with no second choice in our hearts
and only that name upon our lips!
At the conclusion of Mr.. Sowall's ro-
marks, Mr.. Joel Wilbur of Phillips moved
that the state committee be the COM
mittee on credentials and it was so
voted.
; For the committee Mr.. Hartman re-
ported stating the results arrived at by
tho committee in the matter of the two
contests. The convention was entitled
to 1911 delegates of whom 114i were in
attendance.
Mr.. George Bliss of Waldoboro moved
that the temporary organization be made
permanent and it was so voted
MIR. E. Dudley Freeman of Yarmouth
, moved that all resolutions be referred
to the committee on resolutions without
t debate and it was so voted. Then on
motion of Mr.. Shepherd of Rockport
recess of ter minutes WAS taken to give
E the county delegations time to select
: their representatives on the committee
on resolutions and the list OF vice pres
l idents W.
e During the recess, Governor Cleaves
, was introduced in response to many calls
= and said: ssst
GOV. CLEAvEs's SPEECH.
= Mr. President and gentlemen of the con-
{ annreeiste your cordial and generous
,, oreerina This magnificent gathering
+ Indicates that next fall the Republicans
. | = nt.;x,o ro ooinp to keen nm their