Morning Republican

First Congressional District.

We lay before our readers a full statement of the proceedings of the 1st District Congressional Convention, held at Augusta, Aug. the 18th.

The Convention was full of earnest working representative men of the Republican party in that District, and the interest manifested in the selection of a standard-bearer, for the coming contest, gives an earnest of what the party will do in Nov.

We like to see such manifestations as was exhibited in this Convention, if concluded as this was, with the utmost harmony and good feeling.

The candidates presented by the Convention, were the Hon. Logan H. Roots, the present representative, Hon A. M. Johnson, representative in the State Legislature, from Mississippi county, and the Rev. Joseph Brooks, of Helena. These are all good and true men, and it is no wonder that the various friends of each, should strive earnestly, and within a regularly constituted convention, for the selection of their man.

It is very creditable indeed to the party and to the defeated gentlemen, that upon the nomination of Mr. Roots, no ill-feeling was exhibited, as is usual upon such occasions, but upon the contrary, these men, counseled harmony, and earnest work upon the part of every one, having the least interest in the success of Republican principles.

The Hon. A. M. Johnson, was particularly felicitous in his remarks, and the spirit he there manifested in his short address, pledging his support, and earnest labors in the campaign for Roots, Grant and Colfax, stamp him as a true Republican, one who can and does rise above individual interests for the public good.

We can say to him and Mr. Brooks, that it is no disparagement that they were not nominated, nor does it rob them of any honors heretofore awarded them by the party, for fidelity to its principles. Col. Roots, was well and favorably known throughout the District, as an earnest, true and faithful Representative, and one who in the short time he had represented his District in Congress, labored zealously to promote the interests of his constituency, and was a host in securing our recognition as a State. With this record, and the hold he has upon the party through his perilous canvass last winter, when it was all a person's life was worth to traverse the District, it would have been strange if he had not been nominated.

We would now say to the Republicans of the first Congressional District, go to work at once for your principles and your noble standard-bearer, and cease not, until the sun goes down upon the day of election.