Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-13

words We're feelingly spoken. He said:
| Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the
| convention:
! No greater honor can come to any
| man in the politics of Maine than
| to represent the old Third District
| in the halls of Congress. For fifteen
| years our representative has hon
| ored us as much as we have honored
him. No man could have been more
faithful. The humblest citizen went to
! him. confident that in his hands the
| smallest matter would receive atten-
| lion. A man of marvellous industry,
he deserved and won the gratitude OF
the people that he served. Acts live;
| speeches die. We remember what he
| did, not what he said.
Upon us rests the responsibility Of
| naming his successor. Have we one
among us who can rival his industry?
Have we one whose life has marked
him as man of action? This is the
hour in the history of America for men
of deeds Business issues demand bust
ness men. Suffering labor demands re-
lief Idle capital prays to be unfet
tered. Issues. not for the themes of
dustry bred in the school of experience.
Not one tariff bill. but many, will be
needed. Do not lull yourselves to sleep
with the delusive hope that the none
tary battle has been Won. You have
carried the outer works. The battle is
yet to come. The silver cause was new
er better organized than today. It's
leaders are men of courage.-and, what
is far more dangerous too many of
them men of conscience.
Few states have more at stake than
the State of Maine. Without the bene-
fits of full and broad protection, her
rivers will run to the sea unvexed by
whirrirs wheel Without development
of her mighty water powers. her rocky
farms will find no market for their
scant returns. We are thrifty. prll-
dent people; and thrift and silver have
no cause in common.
Maine demands of us a representa-
tive able to srapple with the business
issues Of the hour. Such a man | pre-
sent TO you. In the maturity of man
hood. he has learned the lessons of life
in the school of experience. He knows
the needs of the farmers of Maine: h.
learned them not from books but with
blistered hands. He knows the needs
of her lumbermen: he learned them not
from the debates of free trade orators
but listening to the music of his swing
ing axe and the anthem of the falling
rine. He has studied finance in the
halls of business. ard learned that dol !
lar is a hundred cemts. His word is as |
good as his bond. His richest jewel to-
day is his unspotted character.
He is conservative man, a fitting |
type of Maine Repubicanism. Maine
has honored him before. Wherever put. |
he has honored the office. He comes Ia
YOU tried and never found wanting.
In behalf of all of the Republicans Of
Augusta, his neghbors ard his friends.
in behalf of Kennebec county. and in be
half, as | believe. of every Republican
in the old Third District. / move you,
Mr.. Chairman. that we tender this high |
honor by reclamation to the peoples
choice. the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh of
Augusta.
The applause on the announcement |
of the name of Hon. T.. c. Burleigh was
general.
Hon. l.. r. Carleton of Kennebec,
took the platform and in substance he
said. that when the proclamation of
His Excellency, Gov. Powers had gene
forth. it but emphasized the feeling of
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