Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-08

Chairman Of the Island Park Republican
Meeting.
Tide ands eleaGenf speeches Of his bril-
liant career From the Kennebec Jour
af4 Special stenasraph.e repart. the
efenff4 fart Of this splendid Grafton
'f'alnH-s
Mr. Committeeman md Gentlemesl,
tempting thaash mis- is 70 any ole
prat, thereto. - anyone wishing to
iiaiee talk ( shall not take your time
0faf I know YOU are here II listen To
men al prominence IN the party. 1t
world La RIGHT to say that this seems
Ia Fea:f fnAettire Of tremendous import
aHee ia the state and To the Republic
can sarty. ana Of tremendous import
ance 10 the people, because tbs party
II which most OF you men have alwa3 .
paid allegiance, is party that owes
Is origin "a fnndamenta and that
IN us inception WAS wider than this
local issue OF tariffs: deeper and more
abiding than passing question oil
candidates The Republican party owes
ITS inception to the proposition ot ha-
man rights To the proposition Of hNed
and pernanent government under ITS
charter The Republicans stood Ter
that great charter. and, today, at NJ
fine more trenchantly since the civil
War is that charter imperilled. Not by
dpen attack, hut BY insidious. uncef-
tain ard ,leyious ways that may bring
dfsaster. I say that the Republican
marty stands now as n party of con-
sfructittn conservatism believing in
f,,sa government and in representa-
tive free government 81 :
IN s6me PARTS Of this country We had
wIacspread disturbances. the past
wear eliminating az Il result Gf con-
dlnons in an active and Vigorous third
q marty. I'm his State the conditions that
call fer tie elements differs from con-
d,iions in. the West and some of the
Smitlale Western states. and those men
In Marine active Republicans, who
: t.mpnrarilv allied themselves with the
PROGRESSIVE move did so on account OF
= The tariff and reciprocity. 1t was az
accidental difference down here ana II
3 tn,i,.hed nine-tenths Of the meE ae-
= tiyclv. and though as good Repup-
= licans as the most valiant men present
WIN, never split ticket, they are Re
pnbli5ins. tApplause)
I as.v that in juncture like tins IL
g behooyes us not to 20 about with a
chin on cur shoulder but see if there Is
ANY fundamental difference between
yollr neishbor and yourself because
he CHANGED to vote in November last
for MIR Roosevelt.
nv friends, | am opposed to-do MOI
Subscribe to--the Progressive theories
hnt Theodore Roosevelt's greatness was
me ttreatness of Repubiieanism ana
81 is not strange in Republican Maine
sitbat there were hundreds and thou
T Sands of men who followed him to the
: nofls November last. but by doing that
Il say they, have not shaken or lnt II
%aflrt;ance2 the fundamental tene's OF
s the lsepuhlicans party, SAY get them
together and march to victory. Ana
tie only thing that gives us any ldea
Of defeat is q half hearted way OF rae
lag the front.
The Republican party can he eulo-
giacd 1T great length. | said | would
not me- much talk and | have not
made ono half would like. 1t be-
hoo9es me right here to present To you
a man Who can say something for Re-
tublieanism. The nations strength
does not lie in acres master mind is
worth a million men. Here in Maine
we are rich in men and acres. and
when you get to "A party it is not diff
ferent from an individual. The thing
that lasts-tal<e it with man, il is not
his imagination or hs indomitable Will;
j. is none af those but that subtitle
sonnet hing you call for want of bet
!: ter name, character. The Republican