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

Hon. James O. Bradbury of SacO,
followed Mr.. Carleton for the purpose
of presenting the name of Col Pres
colt. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention:
In compliance with the notification
of the state committee and in con-
formity to the well established GUS
toms and usages Of the party. We have
been delegated by the members of our
party from our respective municipali-
ties with the honorable and important
duty of selecting and presenting to the
| people of the state, not only guber-
material candidate to be supported at
| the approaching September election.
but the next governor of the state of
Maine.
l. [ say it is not only an honorable but
| extremely important duty devOlving
upon us, and one that requires cool
| Judgment, patriotic and loyal motives
and q desire to serve the state and
party above and beyond personal in
| cpntivCs and affiliations, and it be-
hoovcS each one of us, in the excite
ment and enthusiasm of the hour, in
our personal devotion to either of the
respective gentlemen whose names
have been so prominently mentioned,
| that ut this convention, we maturely
consider and act upon this proposition:
What action will best subserve the in
terests of the people of Maine, the
farmer. the sailor, the laborer and the
mill operative, rather than the adj
vancemcnt of the ambition and gratifi-
cation of any individual.
For more than forty years the Re-
publican party has been dominant,
has been the party upon which the
duties of federal and state admins
| tration has devolved: has been the
party held-and rghtfully Sole
sponsible for its inaugurated policies,
| its line of conduct and the results
| upon the prosperity and welfare of the
citizens of the United States as well as
of Maine. And being thus held by the
country and the civilized world re-
sponsible, it is a matter of serious
moment for this and all Republican
| conventions to select such candidates
as will give us the safest, the most
| conservative, as well as the most sue
ccssful execution of law.
The Republican party has made his
| tory for the United States for nearly
q half century, and still continues to
chronicle it's events broadening and
| extending it's domain, until it has been
recognized as one of the great world
powers. The same party has been en-
craving upon the tablets of its official
record the results of its administration
for a like length of time in this state.
and will so continue.
The party sprang from the necessi-
ties of the labOrer, of the people. and
not as product of aristocracy. Under
Lincoln, it enrooted itself in every
hamlet and town in the country; i:
stood between the oppressOr and the
oppressed; it opened the door to the
young man poor in worldly goods, but
rich in intellectual activity and pur-
poses, and brought the government to
the people and the people to the gov
eminent. To permanently maintain it's
ascendency, it must pursue the same
policy. Men change, circumstances
vary. but the underlying principles of
justice are the eternal as Katahdin and
the rocky shores of Maine.
This sentiment permeates national
as well as state politics. The Chicago
convention has given us an illus
trous leader, and a man of victory
in the national campaign, Roosevelt,
the mention of whose name sends a
tingle of enthusiasm and pride through
the life of every citizen, regardless OF
political associations.
The elaboration of this convention