Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-30

State convention, held here two weeks
previous. Governor Fernald's address
is as follows in full:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention:
In obedience to your will I again
accept with profound appreciation
your nomination as a candi late of
the Republicans Of Maine for governor
OF this State. AS | accept this NOM
NATION | say To .,yOu at the begin
ming that We're y conscious of any
obstacle, official On personal of any
intentional act, of mine that within
the light OF my conscience or my duty
to God and man should debar me
from again accepting this service, I
would here and now openly declare
il and forever after hold my peace
No one can be mere keenly con-
scious of his own shortcomings than
he who has for a term sat in the Elk
ecuuVe Chamber at Augusta and
laced the grave responsibilities of its
high Office. |. least of all, am not here
to say otherwise, but LIDO say that to
the limit of my ability and in the full
appreciation of every promise that
We have made. | have labored to be
the governor. not of a party, not of
a clique, not of personal following,
not Of any kind of division Of the
people. bur of the whole people of a
State whose future shall be glorious
in the degree that the people of Maine
continue, as ] know they will con-
tinue, to remain steadfaSt to the prin-
cipleS of those progressive and right
eous policies advocated in this con-
ventiOn and made a part of the proud
record of the State Of Maine by the
unfaltering and unwavering loyalty
OF the Republicans of the State.
Two years ago we met in conven-
ton divided, discordant, belligerent;
tooay we meet united. Two years ago
our leading opponents met united; to-
day they are divided, divided farther
than they know, having by their ac-
ton in their convention and by utter
ances of their leaaers since that time
turned their facesQn the great farm
ing interests of Maine and scotfed at
the states fostering care of agEcul-
tural interests, thereby deliberately
and openly striking at the heart of an
interest that is the very basis and
foundation of the welfare of it's peO-
pie.
AS the outcome of the Republican
convention of 1908 platform was de-
veloped, in the which we as a party
promised certain specific things.
We promised the conservation of eur
natural resources in such form that
while protecting the rights of both
capital and he consumer, neither
trust nor system nor any other bale
natural resources to the detriment OF
the right and equities Of the people
OF Maine. We promised liberal sup
port of the good roads movement; we
promised So hour law TO labor: We
promised an equitable system OF tax
alton in the form OF a new tax law;
we promised a strict and lmpartlal
enforcement of the school law and OF
the child labor law; we promised an
honest and impartial enforcement OF
all laws upon the statute DOCKS
There is not a Sylla BILE of that platform
of 1905 that echoes wrong today
There is not promise in 1t that we
did not fulfil.
We have entered upon what / be-
lieve to be- a wise and conservative
policy of the conservation of our nat
ural resources We passed a new tax
law. which, so far as | can learn, has
met the approval of the people with
out regard to party, and has RUINED
the pledge Of that platform. which
was to eQualize public burdens, To DO
exact justice to all in order that the
State-and | wish to emphasize these.
words-may properly assume great
er care OF those expenditures winch
benctit the state as a whole.
We aiassed the SIS hour law, We have
enforced all the laws OF the state
to as successful a degree as ever was
done il the history of any state IN
the Union. and we have kept scrupu-
lously an the pledges made by this
party i'm it's platform or by it's candi-
lsdates during the campaign that en-
slrxr In the issues that we faced we
have kept, the faith, and ] have yet
tdE.neaf any man who has the DraZen
effrontery to say that since the hour
of the dawn Of this state administra-
ton in a9O3 there has been any stain
upon it9 record, any scandal aSsocla-
ted with the administration of pubic
affairs. any intentional wrong dong
by any servant of the State. If there
has T am not aware Of it, and I say
that if there be any man who has Tor
feited the good name of an honest
and faithful public official within the
circle of the-St Administrations ne
shall have no protection in his Of
flee, and so far as | am concerned
shall find no concealment either III
sanction or in silence.
So far so good. We have no dark
places in our political record of 1909.
There is no shame in the faces of this
audience as | look upon it. The Re-
publicanS of Maine We're never IN pet
ter condition to meet the exigencles or
a campaign, which. by reason OF the
renewed hope OF the Democracy IN the
Nation, centerS about us as the vortex
of the storm. To discover state
issue upon which they can make
stand our leading opponents have
searched the record of our party with
the closest scrutiny. For months the
open books of the State treasury de-
partment have been at their disposal
as they are at their disposal today
and today we face as the chosen issue
of that campaign as raised by the
Democrats-what? No malfeasance in
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