Show I 1 s TIM THE FIRST MEMBER L T BOOTHBY OP OF MAINE THE ORIGINAL republican clr pa party was V founded in maine la in 2953 temperance was wa then its main ifrain plank came aft atter warda T BOOTHBY of watertown me Is the first man that was asked to join the reau republican b I 1 I 1 c a n party most people 4 are not aware of the fact that the 11 great political en 1 gine of which ma 11 jor mckinley will be engineer for the started in the next tour four years was first in 1853 1953 that it was old pine tree state the republican party was born at boothby was a citizen of that time mr paris me and one day he was met on the street by a democrat who suggested that it would be a good thing it if were formed w with ith a political party the two temperance as an issue agreed and re enforced by a mutual friend a physician the pair consulted the editor of the oxford democrat he took kindly to the idea and after talking call cal I 1 for matters over published a a con convention vendon the convention was held and it nominated anson P morrill for governor morrill polled votes at t the election the next year he swept the state and was elected by votes the movement spread to other states the party identified itself with abolition and nominated lincoln mr boothby is now a prominent citizen of Wat waterville erville where he has built up lip one of the largest insurance businesses in the state he has attended republican conventions for thirty one years and in all that time his candidate has n never ever failed of nomination various states claim the honor of being the birthplace of the republican party among them may be mentioned michigan ohio kentucky virginia and wisconsin various individuals in various states claim to have been I 1 present at the first meeting ever held joseph medill until quite recently reticently editor I 1 of the chicago tribune has always maintained that the republican party was born bom in cleveland in 1854 medill was then a printer working on the case and organized a meeting of his I 1 fellows to protest against the exist I 1 pa I 1 I 1 aw I 1 I 1 6 I 1 11 r i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 7 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 0 11 I 1 I 1 vl I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 Z I 1 L 1 T BOOTHBY ing order of things the meeting was followed by another and another and anally was merged into the republican party another account of the birth of the le publican party says it was formed I 1 at jackson michigan in the tall fall of 1852 1952 hon james odonnell editor of the jackson citizen has often been mentioned as one of its founders it has also been claimed that the party was formed at lonia ionia mich in 1853 1953 and that farmer williams was the original founder volumes might be b written about the formation of the pirty that is soon to come into power again so many places and so many individuals claim the honor of its formation that even mr Booth bys claim may rest in doubt in the meantime it may not be amiss to ask if any one has a ever the formation of a nv naw party was spontaneous the breath was in the air and the people simply breathed it in reality there was no such thing as organization the party was a conglomerate mass of humanity and as such did its best work the election of lincoln the organization came in later years never was it so formidable as in the late campaign J H DALE |