The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-07
I onded the nomination, addressing the
! convention 40 fOl10Ws.

onded the nomination, addressing the
convention as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: l find myself in the same
position of a gentleman ! read about,
who nv education was religious, but con.
stitutionally too lazy to live up to the
requirements of his religious life. SO
he had a prayer printed on a card nd
hing it by his bed so that at night just
before retiring he could place himself
in an attitude of devotion and say lord
those are nv sentiments exactly"
/ have listened to the speeches made
by these gentlemen and have somehow
had borne upon me the fact that they
are my sentiments expressed in Ian
puape better than l could possibly use
But | will say this, gentlemen, going
back over the last So years i'll winch
Maine has never, with three exceptions,
sent anyone but Republican to the
National House, we have been partlcu,
| larly fortunate in our congressional
| representatives. If it were possible fol
ms to call back those men who have rep.
resented us and if they were passed IN
review before us, we would be conscious
of the fact that we were looking upon a
company of men the equal of whom has
never been produced in any State IN
this Union. (Applause). realize that
is strong statement, and while L must
admit that other States have produced
Lincoln. Garfield and Roosevelt, no
State has ever produced men the equals
of Blaine, Reed, Seth Milliken, Bou-
telle. and Edwin c. Burlelgh. zap
plause).
Now all through Edwin G. Burielgh'
public service, covering four years as
Governor of the State of Maine, and
about 10 years as our representative IN
J Congress, has he ever been criticized
| bv the opposition party in any way:
The first speaker told of one criticism.
| Our Democratic friends tell US that
never once during those years has he
been capable of standing before the
National House and delivering one OF
those spell binding speeches we read OF
| in the papers as having been made by
| our Democratic representatives OF the
south. | think perhaps that is True
| Gentlemen, it calls to my mlnd story
of gentleman and his wife who llVeo
iii a rural district The man was OF
quiet, retiring disposition and the
woman had flow of language. AND
/ the woman never lost an opportunity
of exercising her talents. One day as
| tile old gentleman was sitting BESIDE
| the kitchen stove she thought 1t gooC
opportunity to give him some good ad
| vice and she forthwith commenced t(
! do it. After she had exhausted every
word she could think of, and seelnt
that it had very little effect upon him
she turned upon him and said, John
YOU are enough to drive woman
crazy. Here have talked to you fol
half an hour and all you do is to sl
there and chew tobacco and not say
word" John said, "Mary, [ will give
half the old farm if you will learn how
to chew" (Applause.)
Gentlemen, / am not advocating the
use of tobacco, for don't believe in it
| but do believe there are times-and il
has been proved to us-When MAI
can accomplish more for the district ht
represents by keeping quiet and digging
right down into the root of things anC
| LAYING the foundation SO that struc
J ture can be built upon it and stand fol
all time.
Two years ago they told us we had q
/ land slide. | dispute it. A little sur
! plus material around the Republican
mountain slid off and made a little bit
: Of a footbil1 il, the valley immpdiataly
No Dennnrrats climbed M and SIM
nnSina themselves IN the monntair
t FOR thew had a wider view of the
,',dPrld than thav h.,d had hafora for 4
v moi.' ' thew said. 1--WE are It :" IAn
;,1a,eoN
, M n1d Pannl,}ican mountain is made
o,+ Of r,atarisl that win nor slide he
oonce Of anv loo GIVEN If nv onr Demo
cr.tic friends
\ remamhera few wears aoo attend
/ od e, LARGE relioions convention in thf
State of Massachusetts. and we had a
splendid attendance. One of the larg
est halls in one of the cities was filled
to Overlooking. Every seat in the gal
lery was occupied. When the speeches
came Oh they were as good as | ever
listened to, but there was hardly thing
done in the way of applause. Late If
the afternoon Il gentleman came IN anc
took seat on the platform. When il
came to his time to speak he said
/ Ladies' and gentlemen, | was told that
Z you had one of the best conventions il
the history of the society. but ! have
/ been sitting here for half an hour lis
! tening to some of the best things have
! ever heard and | have not heard wore
of applause from ANYBODY" | was sur
prised in the early part of the meeting
/ while listening to the great speech OF
Mr.. Nelson that so little applause was
Io,,J Wa ,,aaI nd lot ,,s