Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-07

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with slight change from the original
draft. This feature developed con-
siderable discussion and a number of
votes were taken by the committee
on resolutions. gl
THE report OF the committee. made
by Chairman Charles S. Hichborn OF
Augusta, after a four-hour executive
session. was adopted without opposi-
ton as the concluding business of the
convention.
% Many Of Fair Sex
The delegates including a large
proportion OF women who for the
1rst' Il mewere acting in that ca
pacity, listened to the keynote adj
dress by the chairman. Former At
torney General Guy H. Sturgis OF
Portland.
They also heard Senator Frank B.
Willis of Ohio, who nominated Pres
ldent Harding at the national con-
yention, discuss national issues. Miss
Alice Robertson delivered the mes
sage Of a woman in politics to the
Maine voters and related humorous
ly some of her experiences in con-
gress as representative from Okla
homa.
Address Of Chairman stursis
Delegates Of the Republican State
Convention
] am truly and deeply appreciative
Of the honor that Is being rendered
me today in permitting me to even
temporarily preside over your delib-
erations. Many a Republican con-
vention has been held and many will
in years to come assemble. but never
before was there and never again
o will there be. the first Republican
State Convention in which our Re-
publican women participated. This
convention marks. as a milestone,
another step forward in the history
Of the Republican party.
The years OF seeking for and an
ticipation of equal suffrage are past
and gone. The day of their en-
REIMBURSEMENT has come, and equal in
rights andAqual in duties and re-
sponsbilities, the women Of Maine
and OF the land have entered into full
and complete copartnership with men
in party affairs and government of
State and Nation.
In the Republican party, the
women OF Maine found par
fy rich in its history of great
service to our state and coun-
try, and rich in it's roll of honor of
patriotic public servants Of great re-
nown and high esteem, not only with
in our own borders, but throughout
the length and breath of the land.
They found party whose days Of
power abounded with records of ac-
complishment and progress, whose
steps have always been forward and
never backward and whose policies
and principles have ever bespoken the
highest regard and deepest sense of
responsibility for the moral and ma
terial welfare, the prosperity and the
happiness of all the people. In over
whclming majority they made this
the party OF their choice, and join
ing with the men. in September 1920
sent over the wires throughout the
country, the message Maine Repub-
lican by Sixty-five Thousand" and
when in November following, by the
most overwhelming majority ever
cast in the history of elections, the
people OF this country rebuked the
rule of Democracy. the victory was
not simply a mans victory, it was
the victory Of Republicans one and
all-men and women.
! believe I speak the honest and
sincere sentiment of by far the great
majority, il not all, the men of the
Republican party, when I say to you
women OF this convention, that how
ever great may have been the doubts
and the forebodings Of mere man as
he looked forward to yoman's voting,
your cooperation has been so COM
plete and your service so great, that
all doubts have vanished and your
entrance into party councils and your
full participation in party service
and party benefits is welcome, and
your rights of equality in every par
fy activity are fully recognized and
accepted.
You are assembled today in BIZ
ennial convention preparatory to
your participation in the coming
state and congressional campaign
and election. Sons and daughters Of
Maine called together from every
town and city. within her borders,
you have gathered here in conference
and elaboration from which shall
come a declaration of party princi-
pie and party policy-a platform
hope and ! believe. erected upon the
solid foundation OF fact indisputable,
constructed of the all enduring fab
ric OF truth and justice and bearing
the pledges of the Republican party,
OF service to state and nation
pledges conceived in sincerity and
born Of an honest purpose that their
observance shall not only be COM
plete. but that their fulfillment shall
promote and ensure the happiness,
the we'll being and the prosperity of
all our people. This is the instant
and principal service delegated to
you by the people who sent you here
and ] doubt not that the product Of
your labors today will do honor to
yourselves and the party which you
represent
The Republican administration Of
the affairs Of the State Of Maine for
the four years beginning with 1917,
with Its record Of patriotic service,
OF prudence and efficiency in the
business OF the state. Of consistent
provision for the care and better
ment OF its people, including i'm