Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-30

should result in presenting to the
| voters of our own State, leader,
who in a local way, can bring all ele-
ments of the party and sections OF
the State into harmonious action and
successful relations. 1t is unwise to
disguise or ignore the fact that there
exists an element of discomfort, that
there exists an unsatisfied element in
the ranks of the party at this time.
The candidate that we select, through
his personality and his official re-
lations in State affairs, must be a
man who can inspire confidence, not
particularly with the gentlemen of
the State who enjoy it's offices and
it's perquisites, but with that great
mass of intelligent, Republican vot
ers, who, loyal and with no induce
ment but desire to serve their State
and their party, election after cleo
ton, leave their daily toll and roll
up the superb majorities that have
made Maine famous and eagerly
looked for, in national campaigns,
from the day Of Lincoln and Hamlin.
The county of York has constituted
an important factor in every State
convention since the birth of the Re
publican party. 1t has thrown it's
regular and it's heavy vote for the
support of the party and its candi-
dates ]oyally; it stands at the gate
way Of our other New England states,
and unflinchingly, INCREASINGLY, has
returned it's inspiring and over
whelming majorities. 1t has accom-
plished this through its strong party
fealty, and because Republicans be-
iieved it right. 1T has maintained it's
position as a Republican county
without that additional and personal
inccntive-a Republican candidate for
Governor-from it's midst, for more
than sixty years; but, rain or shine,
under depressing or enthusiastic cir
cumstances, the Republicans Of York
from Parsonsfield to Kittery have ever
touched shoulder, and with the steady
tramp of the soldiery of '61, have
marched with unfaltering steps to their
ballot boxes. Among the counties of
the State, we readily rank as third;
our industries, our farms, our homes,
our schools are the equal of those in
any section of the State.
When that great American leader,
the lamented President Mckinley
was before the people of Maine when
AroostOok, that broad, magnificent
domain sent southwark her I'M
e1ualed majority. old York sent
northward in enthusiastic response
ma jority only slightly less.
Our people demand an honest, reg
ular and reasonable enforcement of
all laws, for the benefit of the peo-
pie and for the suppression Of crime.
We earnestly join in the desire that
the present piratical system of fees,
which unduly enrich a few officials,
shall be swept from the statute books,
and that our servants be paid reason
able compensation for their employ
ment by the people. We insist that the
administration of State affairs be con-
Quoted conservatively and economi-
cally, and that our State officials hold
in mind the fact that they are appro-
priating the tax payers money.
We believe that it is the laudable
right of every American citizen, or
every Maine citizen, to aspire to the
obtaining of official position. We are
opposed, distinctly So to the creation
or perpetuation of an Office holding
aristocracy or trust, and firmly assert
that our Republican servants must
not usurp the functions of a dictator.
We insist that our young men be en-
i. couraSed to- participate in public
affairs, not as lieutenants of trust
or combination, but as thinking,
loyal. self reliant Republicans; that
the seventy-five thousand voters, not
our public servants, constitute the
Republican party of Maine.
| In these demands we have the SYM
; pathy and the loyalty of the distin-
guished citizen of Saco. whose name is
in the mind of every delegate and upon
every tongue. AS a matter of party
right and justice, the requests of York
county are entitled to careful cOnsid-
Grafton and to be acceded to. We are
well aware that Notwithstanding the
claims of York to this gubernatorial
nomination, that if any other county
presented Il candidate satisfactory to
the remainder of the State, present.
nent in ability, although from Demo-
cratic county, n man who could unite
all clements of the party, it would be-
come q serious consideration for the
men of York. but such is not the
case. Our state has been unusually
excited for weeks over this matter; Sc
vere even acrimonious criticisms and
personalities have been INDUCED in, by
the friends of other candidates. serious
ly handicapping them in n presenta-
tion to the people. Charges and coun-
ter charges have been made. explana
lions and defcnses offered, and issues
Of fact have been gravely propounded
so much So that serious doubts might
be raised as to the ACCESSIBILITY of al
lowing such a candidate to be present.
ed to the people.
Not so with the man of York. No
contestant has charged him, no con-
testant has even seriously criticised
him; for him there is no occasion to
apologize. no necessity for n defense;
he stands like one of our native pines,
tall and robust in physical and intel
lectual manliness and vigor; the logi-
cal and proper candidate for the peo-
pie to unite upon after such an extra
ordinary preliminary campaign; con-
sentative, painstaking, modest and I'M
assuming in his daily life and in his
official corear replote with legislative