Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-06-08
COUNTY CONVENTION
Or REPUBLICANS = GREAT IN
rpREsr AND ENTHUSIASM.
prpREsENTATIvE aATHERINo-MiLLs
. vnR SENATOR FOR
REGISTER OF PROBATE.

A,,cans of Hancock county that met
-, rbursday in convention to make
,,,n.t,ons for the county officers who
,o be voted for at the State election on
Sept. H.
The usual night before conferences,
.ortabs and button boiling had been gone
,hroueh with on Wednesday night, and
,nov we're kept up we'll into the early
sonrs Of Thursday morning. So while
,,s work the convention was to 90 was
pretty we'll known among the delegates,
the public was in state OF expectancy,
even to the last nomination.
The convention WAS called to order at
N o'clock by that veteran campaigner,
Dr. r. L. Grindie, chairman OF the
comfy committee. The business OF
the day was to nominate candidates
for two senators, sheriff, register OF pro-
nate. one county commissioner, county
attorney and county treasurer.
Prayer was offered by Rev. George Il.
Kinney, of Mt. Desert. Charles B. Pineo
was appointed tenn orary chairman, and
All. Lyman, of Bar Hsrbor. aud Charles
H. Hooper, OF Castine, temporary secre-
taries.
Mr.. Pineo addressed the meeting. His
speech, in part, follows:
IT'S an honor TO preside at or participate In
republican convention, because some good is TO
be accomplished, the world or some part OF Ii
IL 10 he benefited, hoHcst principles are TO be
supported or able men put In nomination.
.Hft. ha. hsaa sahf
important national question since its birth; 1t
has been Instrumental in freeing four million
slaves it has made Cuba free and iudepend
eat eouuiIys it has taken the Fihppinos from
the lyranuicai hand OF spain.
The reputation OF party IL often made or
mArred by the standard bearers. am proud TO
belonE TO the party OF lincoln, the ablesI. the
most humane Office holder the world has yet
known; the party Of HRmlln. la Office In the
most trying time OF this country's history, and
agalnlt whose ability and honesty friend or zoe
never erliicised the one or doubted tho othsr.
the party OF Grant. Garfield and Mckinley. all
three among the worlds greatest soldior-sSates-
NEE; the party Of tie greatest statesman OF
the nineteenth century the wisest aud beat and
mosi able TO fully see and correctly decide the
great questions of this great nation. Millions
yes unborn will be benefited by his wisdom aud
great intellect. SO long as the United States
exists, so long will the name Of James g.
Blaine be respected.
am proud of Hancock county, and of tie
par, the republican party in It has and Is taking
In Affairs. over y quarter OF century ago In
this ball Hancock county introduced to the
world one who has since had more to do In max
Ing the star and stripes respected and loved at
home, respected abroad. and feared by tyrants
than any other man In the United States. Our
srecess at Santiago and Manila you'd not have
been possible had 1t not been for the foresight
of our own citizen. the Hon. Eugene Hale.
Hancock county. four years ago. furnished
the state senate OF Maine with one of the ablest
ard fairest presidents. We will now make
Ii. V. HamiIn attorney general. Two years
ago we furnished the legislature with one of
the brightest, smartest. and best speakers the
State has ever had In Oscar Fellows. Hancock
county has furnished the State with tive judges,
the able chief justice, Mr. wiswef. and the
learned and scholarly Judge Emery.
The republican party of Maine stiil believes
that prohibition is the best temperance law. IL
does not claim now. and never has, that the pro.
hibltiou law IL perfect law any more than any
other law that has been passed for the govern
meat OF man. All temperance lave, so far
know, have their faults. We claim that pro-
hibition has as few as any. We claim that the
prohibition law has restricted the sale OF inloxi
eating liquors. and there 10 not so much liquor
sold In Maine to-day as was sold before the pas
sage of the law. This Is ali that any temper
ance law can do. This is ali that any law can
do This Is all that any law can do that Is
passed to suppress erine-restrict, and nothing
more.
No law for the government Of man. passed by
the Creator or by man. has ever prohibited
crime. But the democrats say that the Maine
prohibition law does not prohibit. They take
1t unto themselves as great credit for having
discovered that prohibition does not prohibit.
II they knew anything, they would know that
no law, passed by God or man. has ever pro
hihiied.
Personally, / would like to see the prohibition
law rigidly enforced In every town and city 10
Maine. however large, and In every school dis
tTiet and hamlet, however small. and at the same
time. This, Il seems to me. would he fair
test of the law. Rigidly enforcing it In one
county, partially enforcing II IN another. It
seems to me Is not fair test of the law.
AS 10 the enforcement of the prohibition law.
1t Is not a matter of Gnoing men In the repubn.
can party with the disposition to enforce 1t, so
much as It Is a question of finding men with
the ability. The prohibition law does not en-
tifely prohibit the sale OF intoxicating liquors
In Maine The law against murder does not
entirely prohibit murder. We shall resubmit
the question of the prohibition law when 1t is
fully demonstrated TO US that some other tenn
perance law Is better, and personally think
when we establish license for the sale of In.
toxieatina liquors, We should establish license
for murder
We now face national election. 1t Is quite
well settled who the republican standard bearer
Is TO be- The men who thought nfty cents on a
dollar an honorable way to pay a debt, the
men who thought the American iaborer, the
American farmer, the American manufacturer
needed no protection win not vote for him. Mr..
Cleveland and his friends win not vote for him.
Every man who got out of the rebellion or the
war with Spain with health enough left to get TO
the polls or with one leg left to hobble up there
on, or one hand left to drop the ballot into the
ballot box, will be there. Every american who