Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-28


the great prestige of this vast conven-
ton that there is no bar Of justice In
politics at which the deserving can re-
ceive the fair regards of their merits?
Will you deem 1t prudent to announce
such doctrine to the youth Of the party
and the state.
Look at the situation fairly, gentle
men. To what trust, great or small
has Gov Black proved faithless? What
interest of the people of the party has
he neglected? In what respect has his
administration been other than praise
worthy?
THE tax rate has been reduced and
the burden of the people lessened. The
capitol has been competed and lifted
into the honest sunlight. Honest pri-
maries and honest elections have been
insured SO far as good laws can make
them sure. The public bureaus and
departments have been admired p:u-
IDENTIFY and honestly. He has appointed
justices of the supreme court and To-
cal judicial and ministerial officers all
over the state, whose selection has met
with warm professional and poular APP
prevail.
There is no better, cleaner or more
efficient administration than his and
there never has been. The adm.nistra-
ton of Gov Black stands for all the
Republican party represents. Ii that
party is not fit to be trusted with the
government Of the safe, Tbs n he is not.
If it deserves fresh grant of power
from the electors, then ne deserves re-
nomination.
Judge Cady fin shed amid tremend
GUS applause. his finishing remarks
about Gov Blacks faithfulness to the
tickt., no matter what it was, calling
forth great applause.
Chauncey NJ. Depew then took the
platform in behalf CT Theodore Reose-
welt. For some minutes DR.. Depew
could not begin his speeca for the ap-
plause that ensued. When quiet was
restored he said:
Gentlemen: Not since 1865 has the Re-
publican party met in convention when
the conditions of the country were so in
cipation Proclamation of President Lin
coin, giving freedom and citizenship to
four millions of slaves. brought about a
revolution of the internal policy of eur
government which seemed to multitudes
of patriotic men full of the gravest dam
gers to the republic. The effect of the
situation was the sudden and violent sun
dcring of the ties which bound the past
to the present and the future. New
problems We're precipitated upon our
statesmen to solve, which were not to be
found in the text books of the schools.
nor in the manuals or traditions of Con-
gress. The one courageous. construc-
tive party which our politics has known
for half a century solved those problems
SO successfully that the regenerated ana
disenthralled republic has grown and
prospered under this new birth of liberty
beyond all precedent and every predic-
ton.
We gather fresh Inspiration and hope
for our tasks when the assembled repre-
sentatives of this splendid and historic
organization recall the names and ven
crate the memory of the brilliant Repub-
licant statesmen of the war, of recon-
struction and of national DEVELOPMENT.
Lincoln and Grant. Seward and Chase.
Thaddeus Stevens and James G. Blaine.
though dead, yet. speak most eloquentiy
in measures which have made our .coun-
try PROSPEROUS and IN policies which
have given 1t worldwide power. ~
Now, as then. the unexpected has hap
pened. The widest dream ever born of
the imagination of the most optimistic
believer in our destiny could not forcsee
when Mckinley was elected two years
the past three months. We are either to
be submerged by this break in the dykes
erected by Washington about our gov
or We are to find by e Wise
us how to be safer and stronger within
our old boundaries. and to add inca!cul-
ably to American enterprise and oppOr-
tunity by becoming masters of the sea-
and entering with the surplus of our
manufactures the markets Of the world
We. cannot retreat or hide. We must
ride the waves and direct the storm.
war has been fought and won, and
vast possessions. new and far away. have
been acquired. In the short space of on.,
hundred and thirteen days politicians
n to
new questions and to take sides upon
startling issues. The face of the world
has been changed. The maps of yester-
day are obsolete. Columbus, looking for
the Orient and its tabled treasures sailed
four hundred years ago into the land
locked harbor of Santiago. and today his
spirit sees his bones resting under the
flag of Il new and great country when
has found the way and conquered the
outposts. and is knocking at the door OF
the farthest east
The times require constructive states
men. AS in 1l76 and 1861 we need archi-
tects and builders. We have but one
school for their training and education,
and that school is the Republican party.
which a tremendous responsibility rests.
must have a Republican Congress for its
support In the next two years-two years
Of transccndent Importance to our tu-
ture. New York. imperial among her
sister states in all which makes a great
commonwealth. is still the pivotal state
In our national contests. We. the dele
gates here assembled, have very serl-
Gus duty in so acting as to keep our ola
state and her congressional delegation IN
the Republican column. Our thought
and our absorbing anxiety, is with whom
AS standard bearer can we most favor
ably present to the people these new and
vital issues the position of the Republic
can party and the necessity to the cOun-
| try that it should receive the approval OF
| the country. Friends and enemies alike
| Join in the general satisfaction with tho
wisdom. sagacity. and craftsmanship OF
| President Mckinley. Our state has haG
a faithful. able. and worthy representa-
| tive in the greatest legislative body IN
" proud Of our delegation in Congress
| measures of Republican administration
| We possess unusual executive ability anG
courage in Governor Black A protective
| tariff. sound money-the gold standard
| the retirement of the government from
the banking business and state issues ar.
lust as important as ever. Until three
months ago to succeed we would have
had to satisfy the voters of the sound
ness and wisdom of our position on thes,
Republican policy will be the platform
of this canvass and of future ones. Blu
| at this juncturc the people have temper
| arily put everything else aside and ar,
| applying their whole thought to the WA
with Spain and its consequences. We be
| 'ieve that they think and will vote tina
our war with Spain was just and right
| eous We cannot yet say that American
constituencies have settled convictions OF
territorial expansion and the government
)f distant islands and alien races. w
| "A har INF esyIor ,..