Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-30
YORK REPUBLICANS :
NAME CANDIDATES,
Hold Enthusiastic Convention at Alfred
and Select Their Ticket
J. Mower for Sheriff.

Mr.. Fernald strongly Endorsed con-
stitutional prohibition and deprecated
| Democratic agitation in favor of re-
| submission. He devoted some, atten-
ton to the question of the conserva-
ti"n of forests, lakes and public wa
| terWays. expressing himself as in ia :
vor Of the care and preservation of the
natural resources of the State. Mr..
Farnald closed about p. NJ. and was
followed by Hon. Amos L. Allen.
Hon. Amos l.. Allen was enthusiasts
tically received when he arose to
speak. No better Endorsement could be
asked than that contained in the dem
onstration of which he was the recipi-
ent. Mr.. Allen spoke very briefly not
making set speech, but it was full of
good points and We'll received He was
| given loud and prolonged applause and
cheered as the next representative
from the 1st District, in which capacity
he will succeed himself
| John kendrick Banks was awaited
with much interest as he is a new man
in the political field He has a great
reputation as literary man and
speaker and all We're anxious to see
|
teresting vein and his speech is given
in full below:
| When his first batch OF convictions
was delivered by Mr.. William Jennings
| Bryan 10 the Democratic National Con-
Vention at Chicago in 1896 which should
| nave been convicted and sentenced to
a long term of years in some political
| penltentiary for accepting them, he
was hailed from one end of the coun-
! try to the other as the boy Orator"
1T was ar apt designation and yet, as
l stand here this afternoon with the
| agreeable task of addressing this meet
| ing before me | felt that in spite of the
| fact that what few remaining hairs that
| nave arc white | deserve even more
| than he that juvenile title for | have
begun dating my birth not with those
parlous times of 1862 when l first saw
the light Of the sun but with 1906 when
| the glories of Maine became mine by
| adoption and | was born again. which
leaves me nothing more or less than a
promising two year old. l find it good
to be Il citizen of this Pine Tree State
and to belong to class of voters who
are remote enough from those mael-
| storms of nervous efforts that we call
our great cities to have time to set
down and think to analyze the issues
| that conf onts the Nation at this time
and who will cast their votes accord
lnSly. | say this in the profound be-
lief that the men who have had time u
think over these issues backed by that
quality of intelligence which is the i'll
herltanCa of the American people T.;
certainly to vote right and by SO votil!
| is to place the name of William How
ard Taft in that wonderful list of tins
names of men who have presided over
the deStinles of this Republic sine,
Washington crowned the office of Pre-:
ident with imperishable honor.
| have said that it was an agreeat'
task to stand upon this platform TO az
dress You, and l have told the trut
but in SO saying / do not wish you
think that | not duly overcome by Il
perls of the position. l am not in ii
least degree afraid of you as a ma.
of individuals but 1 am afraid of my
self. My sensations are very much IL.
same as they We're two years ago whe
while lecturpg in the West I four
! myself one night in small town in I'll
Southern part of Iowa. AS I walk,
Chairman of the Committee having IL.
in tow | observed some sixty or seventy
teams hitched to a rail fence that SUI.
rounded the Town Hall on the villaGv
square. It was eight o'clock in the
evening and / said to the Chairman,
Your people work late, do they not ?"
"Why do you think that?" said he.
why these teams?" said I.
CO." he replied, "Those teams have
| brought Your audience Mr.. Bangs, they
| have been coming in from forty and
| fifty miles to hear you"
! began to wonder whether I had
anything to say that would be worth Il
| journey of that length to listen to. Now
| this afternoon | have plenty of things
| to say that will be worth your listening
| to even if you have travelled a thous-
and miles to hear them, but ii is a
| question in my mind if l can say them
so strongly, and state them SD clearly
that you will know that they are worth
! listening to.
What | propose to do is to invite your
attention to two careers, to ask your
| consideration of what these careers
signify and to enquire from which OF
The two you would naturally expect to
| gain the greater advantage, if it were
| the career of the man who is to sit in
the W hite House from the fourth day
| of March 1909 to the fourth day OF
| March 1913.
First then let us take up the career
| of William Jennings Bryan. in 1896
| Mr.. Bryan came upon us like a fash or
| lightning from a clear sky. He wa>
about as well and Familiarity known to
the people of this country at that time
| as his running mate Mr.. Kern is today,
| Mr.. Kern makes his debut with a rec
| ord of defeat that clearly demonstrates
| his fitness to act as the tail to the Bry-
an kite. There was sudden flash, a
| low threatening rumble of thunderous
cloquence, a temporary observation of
| The reasoning faculties, and when the
| cloud rolled away William Jennings
| Bryan stood revealed as a man of the
| hour, a man without a past and up to
| that moment man without even a
| present. Now we all know that light
ming is electricity and that electricity
! is force that needs to be controlled