Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-12

Forrest Goodwin, Esq, of Skowhe-
gan, spoke for the central part of the
State and said:
A Republican convention is an in
spiration always and everywhere; and
this convention of the stalwart Repub-
leans of the State of Maine, assembled
for the purpose of renOminating our
present Governor, united, enthusiastic
and confident, composed of delegates
representing a constituency as intelli-
gent and patriotic as can be found
within the Union, is in every way
worthy of our splendid candidate and
our glorious cause.
Fer 30 years the Republican party of
the State of Maine. has been true to
the people of the State. For 40 years
the people of the State have been true
TO the Republican party. From this
confidence and trust sprung the lusty
child of Repubicanism; and, today,
after Az years of service tried and true,
we find the Republican party, in the
full power of it's vigorous manhood,
buIwarked and entrenched in the hearts
Of the people of our State, as firmly as
Mount Katahdin was planted by the
God of Nature amidst the everlasting
hills of the State of Maine.
OF our Democratic friends individu-
ally We say nothing but good. Collec-
lively, they have no cause for exist
ence. For 40 years they. like the chill
dren of Israel. have been hOpelessly
wandering in the wilderness, seeking
the promised land. But they have had
II Y,i11 r,f fro Il
night nor pillar of cloud by day. True,
during some of the 40 years, when Mr..
Cleveland was President, they received
some of the political mamma, but the
plum trust of the faithful scrambled
so over the remains, that it did them
more harm than good.
In the state the Democratic party,
today, is the worst licked party that l
have ever known. Defeat, with it. has
become chronic. Like the gallant OK
il marches up to the biennial slaughter.
and never knows what strikes it. 1t
has no more life than stagnant pool
of water in a muck hole on a summer
afternoon. with the thermometer at 100
degrees in the shade.
1t is the party of the past; it is the
party of the old and defeated: and if
by chance you should be in Bangor at
it's State convention, you will see con-
vention of old men, and you will hear
them talk about Jackson and jefferson,
free trade and state banks. and you
will feel like saying in the words of the
immortal Webster, Venerable men,
you have come down to us from a for
mer generation"
On the other hand, the Republican
party is the party of the young and the
strong. Is the party of hope and of
progress, of prosperity and plenty, of
courage and victory. The young men
of today hold in their hands the des-
tiny of this republic. The young men
of this republic are joining the Repub-
lican party-for it holds to them the
word of promise and keeps it to the
hope. Tie young men of Maine will
elect a Republican Governor this fall,
and in 1904, the young men of the Unit
ed States. from Maine to California
and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
| will stand in serried ranks in the Re-
publican column, and, with an enthusi-
assn unbounded, with courage I'M
.linching, with number irresistible, will
elect. by their suffrages. President OF
the grandest republic the world has
ever known, that matchless young
leader of today, President Roosevelt.
| 1 said, Mr.. Chairman, that our party
had ever been true to the people of oul
| State. Listening today, we hear the
ground swell from the ranks of labor
a murmur among the people. demand
| ing shorter hours and greater privi-
leges. We are quick to the response
And we say to the laboring men Of
Maine. Our candidate, through his
whole life, in the management of his
private affairs. and in his administra-
ton of public affairs, has ever shown
himself the foremost friend of labor