The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-09-28

more sober merits of duties we'll per-
formed in civic place that the SMOKE OF
battle from that far Cuban hill has SO far
yelled and obscured the noble qualities
of Governor Black that they can be or no
further use to the state.
Are you prepared to admit the SCUM d.
ness and wisdom of all this? Are you
persuaded that such argument is Justi
Are you convinced that such course is
best calculated to enlist the services OF
good and able men in public careers?
Are you ready to say with all the great
prestige of all this vast convention that
there is no bar of justice in poliuics at
which the deserving can receive the fair
regards of their meritss Will you deem
1t prudent t. announce such doctrine to
the youth o. ae party and the state.
Look at the situation fairly, gentlemen.
'sTo what trust, great or small has
Governor Black proved faithless? What
interest of the people or the party has he
neglected? In what respect has his ad-
ministra5ion been other than praise
worthy.
"The tar rate has been reduced and the
burden Of the people lessened. The CAPT
toll has been completed and lifted into the
Honest sunlight. Honest primaries and
honest elections have been insured so far
as good laws can make them sure. The
public bureaus and departments have
been administered prudently and honest
". he has appointed justices of the
Supreme court and local judicial and
ministerial officers all over the state,
whose selection has met with warm pro-
fessional and popular approval. There
is no better, cleaner or more efficient adj
ministration than his in the union and
there never has been. The administra.
tiou of Governor Black stands for all the
Republican party represents. Ii thai
party is not fit to be trusted with the gov,
eminent of the state, then he is not II
it deserves a fresh grant of power from
the electors, then he deserves re-nomina-
tic n.
Judge Cady finished amidst tremen.
dous applause, his finishing remarks
about Gov. Blacks faithfulness to the
ticket, no matter what it was, calling
forth great applause.
Chaunoey NJ Depew then took the
platform in behalf Of Theodore Roose-
velt. For some minutes DIR. Dspew could
not begin his speech from the applause.
When quiet was restored he said:
Gentlemen: Not since 1868 has the Re.
publican D 4rty met in convention when
the conditions of the country were so in
teresting or so critical. Then the Eplan.
cipetion Proclamation of President Lin
coin, giving freedom and citizenship tc
four millions of slaves, brought about a
revolution in the internal policy of our
Government which seemed to multitudes
of patriotic men full of the gravest dan
gers to tine Republic. The effect of the
situation was the sudden and violent sun
dering of the ties which bound the past
to the present and the future. New
problems were 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,
r,o+xs. 11f;
party which our politics has known fol
half a injury solved those problems &c
successfully that the regenerated and dis
enthralled Republic has grown and pros
ne red under this new birth of liberty be.
yond all precedent and every prediction.
We gather fresh inspiration and hops
for our task when the assembled represen
tatives of this splendid and historic or.
ganization recall the names and venerate
the memory of the brilliant Repu blican
statesmen of the war, of recon struction
and of national development. Lincoln
and Grant, Seward and Chase, Thaddeus
Stevens and James q. Blaine, though
dead, yet speak most eloquenlty in meas
ures which have made our country pros
porous and in policies which have given
it world power
Now, as then. the unexpected has hap
psned. The widest dream ever born OF
ths Imagination of the most optimistic
believer in our destiny could not foreset
when Mckinley was elected two years
ago the on.rushing torrent of events OF
the past three months. We are either to
be submerged by the break in the dykes
erected by Washington about our Govern.
ment or we are to find by the wise utiii-
cation of the conditions forced upon lie
how to be safer and stronger within our
old boundaries, and to add incalculably
to American enterprise and opportunity
by becoming masters of the sea, and en-
tering with the surplus of our manufac-
lures the markets OF the world We can
not retreat or hide. We must "ride the
waves and direct the Storm A war has
been fought and won, ard vast possess
ions, new and far away, have been ac-
uuired. In the short space of one hundred
and thirteen days politicians and parties
have been forced to meet new questions
and to take sides upon startling issues.
Ihe face of the world has been changed.
The maps of yesterday are obsolete.
Column bus, looking for the Orient and
its tabled treasures, sailed four hundred
years ago into the lsnd-iocked harbor OF
Santiago, and new and great country
which has found the way and conquered
the outposts, and is knocking at the
door of the farthest East.
The time requires constructive states
men. AS in l77b and 1866, we need archi.
tects and builders. We have but one
school for their training and education, q nc
that school is the Republican party. Ou1
Republican administration, upon which
a tremendous response bility rests, must
have Republican Con gress for it's sup.
port in the Ilext two years-two years Of
transcendent Importance to our future.
New York imperial among her sister
states in all which makes great com
monwealth, is still the pivotal State il
our national contests. We, ths delegates
here assembled, have very serious duty
in go acting as to keep our old State and
her Congressional delegation in the Re-
publican column. Our thought, and our
absorbing anxiety, is with whom as
standard bearer can we most favorably
present to the people these new and Vita
issues the position of the Republican
party and the necessity to the country
that it should receive the approval of the
country. Friends and enemies alike join
in the general satisfaction with the wis
dom, sagacity, and craftsmanship of
President Mckinley Our State mas had
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