The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-04-18
First District Convention at City
Hall Yesterday.
Address Of Chairman
Levi Turner.
Business of Day Despatched
With Celebrity.

/. The Republican district convention,
called TO elect two delegates and two al
ternates to the Philsdslphia convention.
was held In Reception hall yesterday az.
ternoon. More than two hundred dele
gates were present, from all over the dig
trict, the dsleg atlons being made up OF
prominent citizens from their respective
localities It was an ideal convention in
more ways than one. lThere were no oon-
tests and the chairman kept things on
the move, 90 that NOS . minute was
wastsd, the whole proceedings, including
organization, the ohAirman's speech, the
nominating speeches. and the adoption Of
the resolutions. occupied less than TIRES
quarters IN hour.
The convention was called 10 order at
LEO By Chairman W. q. Chapman Of the
district comUittee. and Levi Turner.
Esq, Of Portland was called to preside.
Mr.. Turner. 10 accepting the chair, thus
addressed the convsntions
Gentlemen Of the Convention;
IL beg TO gratefully acknowledge the
confidence betoksnsd and the honor con-
ferrsd In inviting nae to serve you ~
Chairman OF this convention, and the best
recognition thereof, which ! can make.
ID the pledge of my earnest endeavors
to promptly dispatch our business in q
becoming manner. and weary You but
briefly with opening remarks.
The Republicans Of the First District
have always maintained the oreditabls
distinction Of uniformly sending % their
representatives to Congress and to the
great councils Of the party men OF high
character and conspicuous ability. and
1 am confident that In the selections to
be made today there will DO NO falling
on from the high standard they have set
10 the past, and that the gentlemen
chosen to represent US In the National
ConventiJn at Philadelphia will do credit
to themselves and reflect and maintain
the honor Of the First District and the
fair name Of our good old State Of Maine.
While we have met mere today for Q
simple, definite purpose neoessitated BY
the mechanism Of our party organization
and electoral system, 1t 10 altogether ap.
propriats, natural and becoming thnt we
should call to mind and reflect upon the
great causes which gave birth to the Re-
publican PARTY, recall the illustrious
names thai have adorned Its history. and
again rslight and renew the tapers Of
allegiance and steadfastness to Its grand
principles around the common altar OF
party loyalty and high-minded patriotism.
While 1t 10 altogether too early, for me
at least, to forecast In definite detail what
INT nv
Republican Party will announce for the
coming national campaign, l have no
hesitation in confidently predicting that
our party will stand where 1t has al ways
stood upon the great questions Of human
rights and administrative policy. 1t will
unswervingly stand for the protection OF
American labor and American industries.
for the encouragement OF American ship
ping and the upbuildiDg OF our mercan-
tile marine; IL will stand for sound
money-for a system Of currency that
will give tho iaborer full and honest re-
Quital for his toll, and will not subtract
one iota from the value and purchasing
power Of the msagre pittances which
strenuous labor, frugality and hlial and
martial love have left to our orphans and
widows; 1t will stand for the policy OF
honest and generous dealing with those
who Gacrifcsd health and limb In the
preservation OF this Union; 1t will stand
for the great and fundamental princi-
pies of liberal, universal education for
the masss s. for liberty OF thought and
conscience of speech and press; 10 Will
stand fer the amplest security to the
humblest American citizen and the
guardianship of his rights In every quar-
ter of the globe; IL will stand for the In
teerity OF the ballot and the purity Of
elections; and finally 1t will unfiuch-
Ugly stand for the loyal maintenance and
patriotic support OF the American flag
wherever it shall be raised in the furthe-
rance Of the cause OF humanity and en-
lightensd progress.
TIE duty Of the Philadelphia ConTen-