Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-24

Chairman Cannon presented the fol-
lowing announcements through the
reading clerk:
ION the sixth Of July at Jackson,
Mich, there will be celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary Of the birth of the Re-
publican party (applause) the time
| when and place where it received it's
name Secretary Hay will deliver the
principal address. Senator Fairbanks
and others will address the meeting"
Then followed an announcement that
the recently elected national Republic
can committee would meet in the
| Colosseum annex Immediately on adj
| iournment of the convention.
+ Chairman Cannon at once ANNOUNCE
ed that the next order Of business
would be a roll call of the states for
! the nomination of the President of the
United States.
The clerk called Alabama" and inn
mcdiately Oscar III. Hundley Of that
state mounted a chair and announced
! that Alabama requested the honor and
privilege Of yielding it's place on the
roll to the state of New York.
Instantly the convention was in an
upIodI Ht view 1OIh UcleSdClO0 was
on it's feet like one man, waving their
flags and shouting wildly. Ex-GOv.
Frank S. Black of New York, who was
to deliver the nominating speech on
behalf Of President Roosevelt immedi-
ately started for the platform amid
the widest enthusiasm on the part of
delegates.
AS Gov. Rlack reached the desk of
Chairman Cannon he was warmly
greeted by that gentleman and escort
ed down to the front of the platform
Here Chairman Cannon, standing by
the side of Mr.. Black, i'm a few words
! introduced him to the convention a
succession of shouts from the conven-
| ton. a chorus of shrieks from the New
York delegation, a paroxysm of toss
ing flags, then silence and Mr.. Black
commenced his speech in behalf Of
President Roosevelt.
AS he confronted the convention Gov.
Black presented a striking figure. He
| is tall and quaint. His hair originally
a dark brown, is literally sprinkled
with grey. his dark eyes look out sharp
| ly from behind spectacles and from be-
meath closely Overhanging eyebrows.
Gov. BlackS voice though not heavy
| carried an increase in volume as he
got fairly under way. His epigrams
provoked laughter and the sharply
turned sentences for which he is noted,
never failed to raise ripple of ap-
preciative applause.
On the left lapel Of his coat Mr..
Black wore a pink carnation and dur
ing the first few minutes of his adj
dress he clutched lightly in his left
hand a handkerchief, which he allowed
to hang loosely. Occasionally he chang
ed the handkerchief from his left to
the right hand. always when he did
so holding his right hand behind his
back. He made few gestures and these
mainly by the left arm. which he
| raised from time to time when he de-
sired to emphasize a point.
Gov. Black said
Nominating Speech Of Governor Black.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: We are here to inaugurate
a campaign which seems already to be
| nearly closed. So wisely have the
people sowed and watched and tended,
| there seems little now to do but
| to measure up the grain. They are
for harvest. In one column reaching
| from the Maine woods to the Puget
Sound are those people and those states
which have stood SO long together, that
when great emergencies arise the ma
ton turns instinctively to them. In this
column, vast and solid, is Majority so
overwhelming that the scattered squads
| in opposition can hardly raise another
| army. The enemy has neither guns nor
| ammunition. and if they had they
would use them on each other. Desti-
| tute of the weapons of effective war
| fare. the only evidence of approaching
| battle is in the tone and number of
their bulletins. There is discord among
the generals: discord among the SOL
diers. Each would fight in his own way,
but before assaulting his Republican
adversaries he would first destroy his
own comrades in the adjoining tents.
| Each believes the weapons chosen by
the other are not only wicked but fatal
to the holder. That is true. This is the
| only war of modern times where the
boomerang has been substituted for the
| gun. Whatever fatalities may occur.
| however, among the discordant hosts
now moving on St. Louis, no harm will
come this fall to the American people.
There will be no opposition sufficient to
raise conflict. There will be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
Democratic plans for the conduct of the
fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly
conferred in discussion as to what
| Thomas Jefferson would do if he We're
living. He is not living, and but few of
his descendants are among the Demo-
cratic remnants of today. Whatever
| of patriotism or wisdom emanated from
that distinguished man is now repre-
scented in this convention.
1t is a sad day for any party when its
only means of solving living issues is
by guessing at the possible attitude of
a statesman who is dead. This condition
leaves that party always beginner and
makes every question new. The Demo-
cratic party has seldom tried a problem
on its own account, and when it has its
blunders have been it's only monuments,
it's courage is remembered only in
regert. AS long as these things are re-
called that party may serve as ballast,
but it will never steer the ship.
When all the people have forgotten