Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-11

Magistrate William H. Taft, let us
choose them enthusiastically and
when This convention adjourns let il
ise known that il has been good for
as and for our party that we have
met and talked and worked together.
Time forbids any extended review Of
nast achievements by either party. IA
tAe State during the last Is months
public measures have been framed
and public policies have been formu-
Iaied by those who nave claimed the
right To criticize. our management Of
public affairs in former years. We
may nave made mistakes ana we
probably did for we We're human and,
as s,eh, liable to err. But while we
may have incurred soma debts in
erecting necessary public buildings
and supplying the needs of worthy
public Institutions. We have never at
tempted to mortgage the credit Of the
state fer half Il century By proposing
e TIVE million dollar bond issue, nor
incurred the expense Of a special SEES
sion of the Legislature for no purpose
worthy OF mention We have never
ineUhated II mountain and Matched
out mote nil We may have failed
sBmelimea 10 uphold the dignity ef
lax ny IMPARTIAL enforcement hut we
have never openly persisted in saying
that the will Of the people cannot be
enforced, or in telling a.majority Of
the voters That the minority was
right, ana that no question was corr
reetl0 settled until the decision was
in harmony with the views of Il min
Gritty. Some town clerks may have
made errors in counting ballots or in
compiling returns, but we have new
CT put forth the moustrous proposition
tiat Il candidate for county or 1egis-
lative Office in Fort Kent or Kezar
Falls. in case of a disputed election,
may have access 10 the ballots only
by travelling all the way to Augusta;
ner have We remembering the days
of 1854. believed it 10 be wise TO place
the ballots themselves in the hands
oc those whose privilege il is 10 adj
julieate upon returns.
IN National affairs. on the whole
and IN the long run, our record is
praiseworthy. our relations with for
ei5u nations have been strengthened
by new treaties with England.
France, Japan, Honduras and Nieara-
qua; by diplomacy and tact we have
avoided threatened troubles with
Russia and Mexico by timely sug
positions we have maintained peace in
Cuba. and we have induced China to
open To us new trade relations. In
economic fields good seed has been
sewn By tariff bill which turned Il
$5S 100000 deficit into n $30o00,000 sur
plus, the post office department has
been placed upon a sustaining
basis, new and better policy has
been adopted with regard to river End
harbor appropriations a corporation
tax law has been enacted which yields
revenue of more than $30,0Q00 600 an
nually, and many reforms have been
brought about ia the administrative
branch of government
But YOU shall be no longer detained
Let Us proceed 70 the business Of the
convention .taj whoever ana what
eyer may clain our attention let us
never forget that men, however great
or however loyalty they may be sup
ported are but ships that pass in the
night white the great principles
Which underly the foundations of good
government like the thousand eyes of
night though sometimes dimmed by
clouds and fog, will illuminate the
world until the bells of heaven ring
the vesper hour of the last day Of
Gods eternity.