Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-08
1lAnlY KENNEBEC JOURNAL WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 1900

other state.
make common cause Of bringing the old
homes TO the attention of the wanderers
| who have gone away upon quests from
which a great ma jority have not come
back These two ,,s states sades , nave trained
| lines and have given most generously 10
ward the upbulding of newer but now
weather and more powerful common
wealths Each of these two states has
| seen the names of many of its sons en-
rolled upon the scroll which bears the
record of great usefulness and grand
achievement in the service OF the nation.
| New Hampshire sent Salmon p. Chase
to Ohio and saw him chief justice of one
of the greatest judicial bodies on earth,
| the supreme court of the United States;
| Illinois allured from Maine, and the ma
| ton took from Illinois, a most worthy
successor TO the long line. of eminent
ljurists, Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller.
your honored guest. New Hampshire gave
to Michigan that great senator ambas-
Maine furnished Illinois with that noted
| congressman. governor and ambassador,
| Elihu b. Washburne.
| "Zachariah Chandler, n son of New
Hampshire. sat in President Grants cab
met with Lot NJ. Morrill,. a son of Maine.
| I'VE are proud Of the fact that Henry
| Wilson of humble New Hampshire birth
became Vice President of the United
States: Hannibal Hamlin brought honor
to your State in the same high Office.
| (Applause).
| 1T was a son of my state John A. Dix,
who. with the fortitude of a Spartan gem
| eral. gave the order. IF any man at
temptss to haul down the american flag,
worthy of Sir Philip Sidney, your soldier
scholar Gen. Joshua l.. Chamberlain,
commanded his soldiers to present arms
before their vanquished foe at Appomat-
| toX. Great applause).
| Under the secretaryship of William f.
| Chandler. son of New Hampshire, the
| United States navy took on new strength /;
| il won imperishable glory under Secre-
tary John d. Long. a son of Maine. Gap
plause).
our Daniel Webster was the greatest
eXpounder of constitutional law; tn"
greatest expounder of parliamentary law
is your Thomas &. Reed. cApplause).
New Hampshire gave the nation
President. Franklin Pierce. her SON;
Maine offered the nation a peer of all the
Chief Magistrates. her adopted son.
James G. Blaine. (Great applause).
These two states possess in remark
able degree similar attractiveness of sea-
shore and mountain, of field and forest
which draws hither an annually incrcas-
ing throng who find rest and health and
pleasure which no other sections OF our
great and resourceful country afford In
quite such generous measure. | know we
share this monopoly of superlative scenic
attractiveness, and | am quite sure that
we have our common needs as well.
1T is an old story to you all. how near
ly New Hampshire's first Old Home week.
last year met all expectations. but ! am
going to trespass on your time just A
little longer and name some of its re-
suits. In the first place the measure or
invitation with its assurance of hearty
welcome was far-reachinG. 1t was heard
in the miners or cowboys camp of the
far West. the cabin of the sailor. and the
tent of the soldier. as surely as in the
officeof the banker in Wall street, the
of the artist. or the sanctum of the. edi-
tor-and the responses which came back
to loved ones at home. II any remained,
and to some friend or Old Home week
official if all kindred were gone. were
from the heart
1.-The message was not only heard and
answered by words of thankluiness. but
it brought the welcome presence of son or
daughter. of brother or sister, to the old
hearthstone when no other summons had
been needed in years: | nave In mind one
case of peculiar interest where the
brother. who had gone to the shores OF
the Pacific as a Forty miner, came back
for the first time as Ninety-nlner, IN
Old Home week: never TO go away again
from the peaceful fireside on the Allan
tics silvery sands. We say 10000 people
heard our Old Home week call. last yea.
but We make no account in such reckon
ing of the many times 10,e00 of our own
people whose lives were frightened and
whose hearts We're gladdened by the joy
full home-comings of 50 many absent
loved ones.
1T is early yet to count our gain we
know of quick Yankee trading done IN
Old Home week whereby the possession
of homesteads reverted to former occu-
pants and communities were gamers be-
cause the wealth and culture and iniiu
ence of success achieved in distant fields
of effort were thus transferred to places
which sadly needed them. We know of
public improvements mae upon the spur
of Old Home interest and enthusiasm.
We have seen enduring memorials set
upon spots associated with lives or events
in which great pride is taken, because
Old Home week has created a new or
more concentrated interest in local his
tory.
1T certainly has done the state no
harm to round up as the cowboys say
the present day product of her homes ami
compare the record which our boys and
girls are making: today. with that when
Old Man of the Mountain meant Men
made here The Old Home roll call has
shown that New Hampshire's emigrants.
today are leaders in the world as truly
as were ever the great sons whose names
shine so brightly on history's page.
ut has shown that we could summon
a regiment Of regulation size from the
sons of New Hampshire who are. today,
prominent in states and countries other
than that to which they Owe the ailegi-
ance of birth; that we could pick its com
mander from three major generals in the
armies of the republic; chaplain from
some IF the greatest pulpitS or most
noted college chairs of the country; a
surgeon from Il full score whose skill Is
some of the most gifted women of this
generation: and half a hundred men and
women of New Hampshire birth or an
cestry who could furnish the sinews of
war to the tune of as many millions with
out mortgaging their palatial homes in
Brooklne. New York Philadelphia and
Chicago.
"All this and more has been shown by
New Hampshire's first Old Home week.
and | expect the second. which will BE-
celebrated next week throughout tn"
length and breadth of our state, will add
greatly to the score. May Maine be as
abundantiy blessed In her appeal to her
absent ones. lest they forget Gap
plauSe).
Ex.Speake. Reed.
The really great ovation of the City
hall meeting awaited Former Speaker
Thomas B. Reed. When he was in
PRODUCED by the chairman of the meet
ing he received an ovation that exceed
ed in enthusiasm anything that was
ever accorded him in his old district
when he was candidate for Congress.
When the applause finally died away
he spoke as follows:
THE State of Maine is not the gar
den spot of America. That proud title
will some day belong to some spot Nin
the arid West. when touched by water,
of which Maine is the most strenuous