Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-24
GROSvENOR TALKS
At the Opening Of the Ohio
Republican Convention.
fv,ry Promise Of Republican Party Is
Being ReIlgiously. Kept.
And Day by Day the Signs Of aeturning Pros
perity Are seens.

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publican state convention assembled
here. today. There is no opposition to
tho endorsement Of Senator NJ. a
HANNA for both the long and the short
tern as senator and there is..no oppo-
sition to the denomination OF Governor
| Bushnell and other State officers who
have only one term. THIS contest has
been on the state campaign dommittee
| craftsmanship. Senator ftanna; wanted
| Major Chas. F. w. Dei:, secretary OF
| the national committee Or this place
Governor Bushnell andx other state
| officials wanted Cnairrlap Chas +,
Kurtz. who has managedSshe past TIVE
! campaigns, retained.
| When Mr.. Hanna arrived, this morn
| ing, he held a number ~ conferences
With both factions. but at none of these
could the contestants reach an AMIGA
bic understanding. The contending
factories carried their claims into the
sional districts. this afternoon, and NJ,
| Hanna won more than two 10 one. He
controlled the district meetings and the
| convention more firmly than the st,
! Louis convention Of last Year.
| Major Dick claims the committee
men from Is of the Il congressional
districts with two districts contested
and four districts conceded 70 Kuriz.
The Kurtz men concede their defeat.
While the Governor regrets the defeat
| Of Chairman Kurtz he viii not decline
denomination, tomorrow.
| Cen G. II. Gr0svenor was chosen
temporary chairman. In the course II
| Lis address 10 the convention, he said,
! There is not one Intelligent man In
the United States Of America. who can
read and write. who does not know. aud
who did not know when Mckinley was
elected, that the road 70 prosperity was
la road of sorrow, d road OF persever-
ance. of Industry and Of wisdom, not to
| be suddenly travelled, The curse Of the
Democratic administration has been 50
| Implanted upon US that time viii oe
Ivaquired to extricate US. The brutal
lbI1N If Democracy fen 50 heavily thar
the reaction must come by scientiac
| processes. by wise craftsmanship Ia
| enactment and by faithful persever-
lance In execution. by faith and patience
ara dependence upon the truth ~ our
position and the rectitudc Of our
promises.
But 1T is coming. The prices Of COM
racdities product IN the United States
fFom the top item Of the agricultural
production 10 the lowest item 81 man
ufac,urcd products are higher IN the
lIaatkets Of the world, today, than when
| The Democratic party went out az
power by the blow that was dealt 10 ii
IN November last. Time VIII not PEE
nit nie to read 10 you statement y
the items. but there is 10 farmer in the
state Of Ohio who does not know thar
every item Of production on his farm is
worth more money by the pound, per
capita. or ny the yard, today, than J.,
was last November.
What next9 We told the people of the
Smiled States that we would seek hy In
tsrnaii0nal agreement 20 settle the vexed
an stiOu % the currency. and President
Mckinley had not yet been sworn into
0s8ce by TWO long months, until plans had
been pecf rted which afterward We're ex-
etuted by Republican Congress and a
monetary commission was appointed with
Is view 80 negotiations looking 70 securing
an International agreement " possible 10
ettie this question OF the coinage Of the
Warld. No administration of his govern
III 1at from Mas hlitStuH down to this time
las ever SO fully and religiousiy observed
ihe tencts OF It's platform as has the
present administration of the Republican
party.
zinc President has made extraordinary
Efforts TO carry out he policy of the gov
CrBiaGnt in the matter Of the Cuban pat-
RIOTS. He sent recommendation to Con-
sr,ss and Congress res p0aded with $4,000
30 Coed the starving Americans. \ spec
dial anba ssador WAS dispatched 10 Cuba
10 leara the truth in regard 70 the sltua-
tioA there. and more than one-third Of
ita American citizens who had been Ian
gushing IN Spanish dungeons and vainly
appealing 10 the Democratic administTa-
ton, have been sent at liberty The
American people sympathize with the
struggling masses Of downtrodden people
in Cuba, and no man Of the Republican
party more deeply and sincerely sympa-
inizes with them than does the President
of the United States.
oar Democratic friends are to hold u
convention in ohio shortly. and they VIII
proclaim heir allegiance to the doctrine
of the principles of unlimited coinage of
silver, taking their stand ifrmly on the
foGndat ton Of 5a-cent dollar and the de-
precation and degradation of the coin
age of the country. But what else Will
they do? Dare the Democratic party in
Ohio TO again announce Itself in favor
Of anarchy? Men of Ohio. men of the
/ country. the institutions of your country
are safe ana safely guarded in the hands
Of VIM. Mckinley of Ohio.