Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-12
THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE IN The
SECOND DISTRICT
No Better Man Could Have Been
Selected Than Hon. Harold M.
Sewall-His Career in the
Maine Legislature

Inc Hon. Harold NJ. SeWdll OF bdtl
is the Republican candidate for Con-
gress from the second district. The
people of Bath are pleased at this; the
people Of the whole second district and
of the whole State are pleased. too.
They could not well otherwise be, for
no man better able to lead the Repub
Iicans of that district could be selected
than Mr.. Sewall.
Mr.. Sewall, a member of a Maine
family that has long been identified
with the best interests of the State.
stands pre- eminent among the men of
this section who have an intimate
knowledge of the affairs of the nation
and of the world in general. Always
has he been a Student of politics and
always has he kept closely in touch
with the affairs at Washington. That
is why, during sthe campaign he is
making for election at the present
time he is being so enthusiastically
greeted wherever he speaks. His
clear-cut, concise, convincing speeches
have added hundreds to the army of
friends he has already had. His un-
failing good nature, his great interest
in the affairs of the people in the sec
ond district and his supreme desire to
bring back to Maine the prestige that
was Names have shown that he de-
sires, more than all things else, to
promote the welfare of the people of
his State.
Rarely have the people of Maine had
an opportunity to vote for man
so well qualified to fulfill the high
duties of a congressman as Mr.. Sewall.
That they will vote for him, will be
amply in evidence after the votes are
counted next September His career
is one that has been full of achieve
ment; it has been the career of a man
destined to look after the interests Of
his people in the national Legislature.
There is not a portion of it but what is
interesting to everyone.
When not over Is years of age, the
whole reading by Mr.. Sewall outside
of school was upon political matters.
He was the best Informed, best trained
debater and the best student of nation
al policies that this State ever saw in
a boy of his age. He graduated from
the Bath high school and went to Har-
ward. Here he pursued the same
cations were all serious. He was a
founder of the Harvard union the
great Harvard Debating society which
exists unto this day, and along with
Theodore Roosevelt and Curtis Guild
and more young men who have since
become prominent, he bore leading
part in debates which attracted atten-
ton all over the United States and
which were reported in full in the
leading newspapers. For his prof.
cheney in debates, he was awarded a
class part on commencement day, one
of the eight or ten speakers out of a
class of a thousand or more.
Mr.. Sewall graduated from Harvard
in 1882. In 1885, Harvard conferred up
on him the degree of LII. D. Mr.
Sewall was then a Democrat and in
1885. after having studied law assidu
ously and having devoted his time not
to pleasure but to work, studied and
Travelled, he was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland. vice consul at Liver
pool The measure of mans ability
is in the performance of his duty and
it is to be said that Mr.. Sewall made
good. Upon the conclusion of his SER
tiCc mere, he was IUduS COIlSul GENERA i
at Samoa. 1t was here that Mr.. Sewall
first came to be a national figure. Dis
agreeing with the pusilanimous policy
of Secretary Bayard and President
Cleveland in the Pacific and historic
conflict over the Samoan succession,
and standing as a bulwark against
Germany's purpose to seize the island,
Mr.. Sewall uttered a vigorous protest,
resigned his office, came home to the
United States, and before a Senate
committee, offered his testimony with
such remarkable tact, ability, clarity
and candor, that it aroused the atten-
ton Of the world. Senator Frye made
Mr.. Sewalps patriotic stand for public
rights and conscience, even though
against his party, the strongest pas
sage Of his campaign oratory Of that
year. In addressing great Grand
Army convention In that year, Sena-
tor Frye cited Mr.. Sewall as his ideal
Of the able, copscientious, patriotic
young American man who consecrated
his ability and his life to the service
Of his people
At this time, Mr.. Sewall's diplomatic
career seemed to be at an end. He
had broken with his party upon q