The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-07-01

been prepared with view to healing
old wounds and aiding in the effort to
reunite the divided factions of the party.
I'VE meet again." said he, in beginning
his address, "to reatfirm our allegiance to
party principles and to kindle anew the
vestal fires of our devotion to the great
principles of civil and religious liberty,
local self-government, an honest and
economical administration of public
affairs, a just and impartial system of
taxation, low tariffs, natural and I'M
restricted commercial intercourse with
the nations of the world, sound and
stable constitutional currency. These
are the fundamental tenets of a party that
for 100 years has done more to direct and
control the destiny and welfare of the
country than all other parties combined E"
he reviewed the platform adopted by
the Republican state convention, and the
platform of the last Republican national
convention, declaring that the principles
embodied in the latter have never been
lived up to. He lauded the Wilson tariff
bill and regretted that it never had
fair trial. 1.-THE Wilson tariff was
good, sound Democratic measure" said
he, "when it passed the House of Repre-
sentatives, but in its passage through the
Senate it got little too near the Repub-
loan bargain counter and lost some of
its most desirable features. Then a
judge of the Supreme court was unable
to maintain the same mind for six weeks,
and another of ire yooct ,,ar; +or;o,,e foot
ures was eliminated.
He said the national deficit was being
gradually reduced, and business conf
dence was closing the gap of annual in
debtedness when the Mckinley Dingley
bill was adopted. He said the manufac-
turing cities of Maine have not yet made
the acquaintance of the advance agent of
prosperity about whom SO much was
heard in the Mckinley campaign. He de.
clared that the Republican party has been
false to every vital issue on which it was
elected.
Mr. Barton attempted to load on to the
shoulders of the Republican party the
responsibility for bringing on the present
war. II believe said he. "that the
war might have been avoided. IT, on
the 10th of last February, when the news
of the Maine disaster, which shocked the
civilized world. was received, this govern
ment had assembled at.once the Ameri.
can navy in Havana harbor, and had said
to Spain, Inside of twelve days you
make reparation for the loss of property
and life, and bring to Justice and pun
lshment the perpetrators Of this crime
against civilization, or, by the Eternal,
we will leave Havana O smouldering
ruin,' there would have been no war
and the island today might be enjoying
stable government, instead of being
devastated by war and famine"
Mr.. Barton lost no time in discussing
the silver question, but alluded to the
80 cent dollar bugaboo' of two years
ago, and said that the present admins
tration is now coming those 5O-cent dol.
lars at the rate Of SIS, 200, 900 a month.
The chairman concluded his address as
follows:
"1n my humble Judgment this ques-
ton of foreign conquest, the Original
sin OF all nations, overshadows all other
1t is the issue which in the past the Dem
ocratic party has always opposed and the
one today on which it's leaders, recent
and present. are united. The spirit of
foreign conquest and annexation is con-
trary to that cardinal tenet of the party.
the Monroe doctrine, and antagonistio
and destructive to the spirit and germ
OF our institutions and system of govern
ment.'
Chairman Barton's reference to the
gallant leadership of Bryan in 1896, set
the silver men wild with enthusiasm.
The state committee, as committee
on credentials, reported 577 delegates
present, out of a total of 1868 entitled to
seats. After the temporary organization
had been made permanent O recess was
then taken to allow the county delega.
tions to present nominations for state
committee, vice-presidents and commit
tee on resolutions. AS result of their
deliberations, these committees were
chosen: -
State Committeeman roscoggin George
a. Pettengill, Lewiston; Aroostook, II.
ellyn Barton, Portland, Hancock, Edward
z. Brady, Ellsworth; Franklin, Edward
". Whitoomb, Pennington; Kennebec, |
Thomas J. Lynch, Augusta; Knox |
Oliver Otis, Rockland: Lincoln, r. r.
Rundlett, Wiscasset Oxford, T. s. Bird, |
Buckfield; Penobscot, Willis Y. Patch,
Bangor; Piscataquis, Henry Hudson
Quilford; Sagadahoc, George 4. Hughes
Bath; Washington, David c. Packard,
Danforth; York. Walter j. Gilpatric,
Saco.
COMMITTEES on Resolutions-Daniel A.
Holmes, Westbrook; George L. Sands,
Biddeford; Fred A. Alden, Union George
B. Stuart, Ellsworth; B. 4. Sanders.
M. W. Levanseller, Wiscas.
set; e. L. Jones, Waterville; a. E. Royal.
Auburn; T. S. Brigham, Buckfield:
James N. Childs, Pennington; John
Scott, Bath; r. V. Jewett, Calais; VIM.
e. Harris, Dixmont.
AND NOMINATION.
After the ammo uncement of the COM
nittees the convention rslapsed into an
)ther tedious wait while the co,onoit |