Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-09-25
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER rs, 1912.
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.
NATIONAL ELECTION, NOV. 5, 1919
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM I'll. TAFT,
OF OHIO.
FOR ICE-PREsIDENT,
JAMES S. SHERMAN,
OF NEW YORK.
An Appeal for Unity.

An Appeal for Unity.
No stronger appeal for harmony in
the national campaign could be made
than that OF Gov. ELECT Haines in his
address in waterville last week to
the thousands who met to do him
honor.
After reviewing in his own pictur-
esque way the political situation in
Maine, the causes leading up to re-
publican victory in the State, he
made a remarkable appeal for har-
mony on the great issues at stake in
the national campaign. We give in
part his own words:
Snow, my fellow-republicans, don't forget
the old saying that whom the Gods seek to
destroy they first make madr Don't forget
that in unity there is strength Don't forget
that the same power and force of getting to-
gether and working in the coming contest, is
Just as important as it has been in our State
campaign, and without ii we may have moth
ing but regrets to show for our activities.
"At no time in the history of the nation has
the need of the great principles OF govern
ment as laid down and maintained by the re-
publican party been SO apparent in our
national administration as at the present
time.
els there any great question before the ma
ton which any two intelligent republicans,
however much they differ TO the person
alities of the republican leaders, differ
upons Do we not all agree on the great
fundamental principles Of the party. and
can not, in some way. be thoroughly
united, in order that these principles may be
given the fullest endorsements
tsThis is my desire-this is my prayer-this
is my injunction TO you. Be moderate; be
sane. Don't be governed by anger or preiu-
dice. Remember that principles greater
than candidates, and that all party success
depends upon unity of action. The candi-
date is but the instrument TO carry principles
into effect.
..Remem5er that all officers, both great and
small. are but the agents of the people who
elect them. Remember we are living under
government of law-that all laws emanate
from the people; that we are governed by the
great concensus of opinion, the result OF con-
tinuous and continual agitation, which
finally becomes shaped and moulded into the
written laws Of the land.
atLAcAADcI knc lHjunChiou ol LlnGoAu tltt
"a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Remember that the republican party is the
party Of progress. Remember that the ma
jority in party must shape the party's poll
cies to yield to the will OF the majority In
no other way can anything be accomplished
in civil government.
II am not willing to admit that any faction
exists amongst us in regard to the great
Issues before the people of the principles
we stand for. We may differ about candi-
dates. / think can say that we were
all disappointed at the work done at the re-
publican Chicago convention. The failure to
harmonic and bring together all the con-
tending influences which were there repre-
scented may result in national disaster.
Pride of opinion OF political bosses and per-
sonal ambition of party leaders are not what
the republican party has stood for in years
past
sThe great work which it has accomplished
for the American people has been carried
into effect through the unanimous party or
ganization, and the American people looked
to the Chicago convention for the declsra-
ton Of the principles which they believed in
and could support at the polls. and not for q
party quarrel, and the fact that the conven-
tion adjourned without a unanimous endorse
meut Oh JOIN principles AAu canuluates- 1s
generally looked upon as the greatest dis
aster that the party has ever met with. 1t is
also looked upon as the great hope of the
democracy.
ssBut il is a great source of satisfaction to
know that we, in the State of Maine, where
the republican party had its birth-though
we differed on the question of candidates as
widely and fercely they differed at
Chicago-had the good sense, the calm judg-
ment, and the cool heads to hold our con-
vention at Bangor, and do our work, yield
ing gracefully to the win of the majority,
and TO separate with the best feelings for
unity and harmony. 1t was at that conven-
sion that we became thoroughly united in
sentiment, with the resolution that we would
redeem the State of Maine from the demo-
cratic despoilers who had possession of it.
and without jar within our ranks, since
that day of adjournment at Bangor, we have
carried forward this work and kept to its
complete fulhllment, which has resulted in
the magnificent victory which we are eele-
brating tonight.
.May not some guiding hand of Providence,
some guardian angel Of peace, guide us for
the next two months along the same lines of
compromise and loyalty to the general cause,
50 that our electoral vote shall not be given
to that candidate who stands for those prin-
ciples which every element in the republican
party Is unable to endorse-the prevention Of
whose success means SO much to our agri-
cultural and manufacturing interests-to the