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GREAT SPEECHES; r -. ."-. ' l ..'.4 they Were Made In Republican .ppflveations of the Past. WOiinj that are feow IIISTOMC GrowtJt of lh Nomination AdJreM Cn , known to tho Fsthent, Ik Is Mow m llega Imr Amtrina Institution There Were Nono In Early iteaabUcau Conventions. A Do sen Short Addresses in 1808, the 8m )n, l$TTha Groat Oration! of 1870. 1880 and 1884. A national convention without a nom inating j speech would strike the young politician of today as tho play of "Ilam let" with the . character of the Prince of Denmark omitted. Yet that was the rule before 1870. - Indeed, until CoL Robert tngersoll set the, fashion at Cincinnati in 1870. nothing more was expected than a mere announcement of the name and a sort of porfunctory pledge that tho state. of tho nominator would give his candidate its vote, a pledge which could hardly be called deceitful since it never deceived anybody. But after In gersoll'a glorious effort at Cincinnati a condldate would not consider himself thoroughly nominated unless started with an eloquent address; so each state looks about early in the season for its most elo quent speaker, and the result has been to give us some brilliant pieces of oratory, the best of which we herewith present for the stady of young America. We also presort some of the short and pithy addresses made in casting state votes at other conventions. In the first Re publican national convention, hold at t. luiuutupuii i una n unu 10, ioou, mere were some good speeches made on the general Issue, but the candidate was not tkvtrn fnrmnllv rmt In nnmlnotlnn rA nearly the same is true of the conventions of 1800 and 1804. In 1808 Gen. Grant was really nominated in advance by spon taneous enthusiasm, yet he was not for mally presented in tho convention. So easily do we grow accustomed to that which la that this omission would now be thought an unpardonable slight; yet it is worth noting that the nomination in 1880 went to a man who had not been presented, and who had most eloquently ' presented the name of Senator Sherman. Although thero were no nominating speeches in 1803 and 1872, yet the chair men of several state delegations embraced tho opportunity of casting tho voto to give a few "pithy remarks," the "pith lest" of which we present. Tho general rule was, however, for each state to sim ply announce its voto, and tho first do parturea therefrom, wero rather looked upon as-, impertinonces. But now tho nominating address is tho great feature of a convention's opening work, and we all liko it. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. Ills Speech In the National Republican Convention of Cincinnati, June, 1876, Nominating James O. nialno for the Presidency. Massachusetts may bo. satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin ft. Bristow so am I; but if any man nominated by thin convention cannot carry tho stato of Massachusetts I am not satisfied with the loyalty of that state. If the nominee of this convention cannot carry the grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts by 75,000 majority I would advise them to sell' out Faneull hall as a Democratic headquarters. I would advise them to take from Bunker Ilill that old monu ment of glory. The Republicans of the United States demand as their leader in tho great con- test of 1876 a man of intelligence, a man of integrity, a man of well known and ap proved political opinions. They demand a reformer after as well as before the elec tion. They demand a politician in the highest, broadest and best sense a man of superb moral courage They demand a man acquainted with public affairs, with the wants . of tho peoplo, with not only the requirements of the hour, but with the demands :. of the future. They demand a man broad enough to comprehend the relations of this govern ment to the other nations of the earth. They demand a man well versed in the powers, duties and prerogatives of each and every department of this government. They demand a man who will sacredly preserve tho financial honor of the United States; one who knows enough to know that tho national debt must bo paid through the prosperity of this peoplo; one who knows enough to know that all the financial theories of the world cannot re deem a single dollar; one who knows enough to know that all the money must be niado, not by law, but by labor; one who knows enough to know that tho peo ple of the United States have the industry to make the money and the honor to pay it over just as fast as they make it. The Republicans of tho United States demand a man who knows that prosperity and resumption, when they come, must nnmA f rtrrpthPT" that. ' when thfiV COme. they will come hand In hand through tho golden harvest fields; hand in hand by the whirling spindles and the .turning wheels; hand In hand past tho open fur nace doors; hand in hand by tho flaming forges; hand In hand by the chimneys filled with eager firo come greeted and grasped by tho countless sons of toil. This money has to bo dug out of tho earth. You cannot mako it by passing resolutions in a political convention. Tho Republicans of tho United States want a man who knows that this govern ment should protect every citizen, at home and abroad; who knows that any govern ment that will not defend its defenders, and protect Its protectors, is a disgrace to -the map of the world. They demand a man who bclioves in the eternal separa tion and divorcement of church and school. They demand a man whose political repu tation is spotless as ' a star; but they do not demand that their candidate shall have a certificate of moral character 1 signed by a Confederate congress. Tho man who has, in full, heaped and rounded measure, all these splendid qualifications,, is the present grand and gallant leader of the Republican party -James J. Blaine, Our country, crowned with the Vast and marvelous achievements of its first' century, asks for a man worthy of her past and prophetic of. her 'future; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius j asks fnr a man who Is the crandest combination of heart, conscience and brain beneath her flag. Such a man is James Q. Blaine, For the Republican host, led 'by this ' Intrepid man, there can be no defeat. i This is a grand year a year filled with the recollections of the revolution; filled wlthtroud and tender memories of; erty; a year In which the sons of freedom will drink from the fountains of enthu siasm, a year in which the. people call for a man who has preserved in congress what our soldiers won upon , the field; a year la 'Which they call! for a man who Las torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander; for the man who has soatcbed the.; mask of .Democracy .from the hideous face of rebellion; for the man who, like, an Intellectual athlete, has stood in the arena of debate and chal lenged all comers, and who is still a total stranger to defeat ' Like an armed soldier, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American congress, and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the de famers of .his country and the maligners of his honor. For the Republican party to desert this gallant leader now is as . though an army should desert their general upon the field of battle. .. James G. Blaine is now and has boen for years tho bearer of the sacred stand ard of tho Republican party. I call it sacred, because no human being can stand beneath its folds without becoming and without remaining free. Gentlemen of the convention, in tho name of the great republic, the only real republic that ever existed upon this earth; in tho name of all her defenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her sol diers Jiving; in the name of all her sol diers dead upon tho field of battlo, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Anderson vllle and Llbby, whose suffering he so vividly remembers. Illinois Illinois nom inates for the next president of this coun try that prince of parliamentarians that leader of leaders James G. Blaine. ROSCOE CONK LING- ' Speech in the National Republican Con vention at Chicago, June, 1880, Nomi nating Ulysses S. Grant for the Presi dency. And when asked what state he halls from, Our sole reply shall be, He hails from Appomattox And tho famous Apple Tree. Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, I rlso in behalf of the state of New York to propose a nomina tion with which the country and tho Re publican party can grandly win. The election before us will bo the Austerlitz of American politics. It will decide whether for years to come the country will bo "Republican or Cossack." The need of tho hour is a candidate who can carry doubtful states, north and south; and believing that he, moro surely than any other, can carry New York against any opponent, and carry not only the north, but Boveral states of tho south, New York is for Ulysses S. Grant. Ho alone of living Republicans has carried New York as a presidential candidate. Once he carried it even according to a Demo cratic count, and twice he carried It by the people's vote, and he is stronger now. Tho Republican party, with its standard in his hand, is stronger now than in 1863 or 1872. Never defeated ei war or in Eeaco, his namo is tho most illustrious orne by any living man; his services at test his greatness, and his country knows them by neart. Ills fame was born not alorfa of things written and said, but of the arduous greatness of things done, and dangers and emergencies will search in vain in the future, as they have searched in vain in the past, for any other on whom the nation leans with such confidence and trust. Standing on the highest eminence of human distinction, and having filled all lands with his re nown, - modest, firm, 1 simple and self poised, he has seen not only the titled but the poor and lowly in the utmost ends of the world,jdso and uncover beforo him. He has studied the needs and defects of many systems of government, and he comes back a better American than ever, with a wealth of knowledge' and experi ence added to the hard common sense which so conspicuously distinguished him in all the fierce light that beat upon him throughout tho most eventful, trying and perilous sixteen years of the nation's his tory. Never had a policy to enforce against the will of the people, he never betrayed a cause or a friend, and the people will never betray or desert him. Vilified and reviled, ruthlessly aspersed by number less presses, not in other lands, but in his own, the assaults upon him have strength ened and seasoned his hold upon the pub lic heart. The ammunition of calumny has all been exploded; the powder has aU been burned once, its force Is spent, and Gen, Grant's name will glitter as a bright and imperishable star in the diadem of the Republic when those who have tried to tarnish it will have moldercd in for gotten graves and their memories and epitaphs have vanished utterly. Never elated by success, never de pressed by adversity, he has ever in peace, as in war, shown the very genius of com mon sense. The terms he prescribed for Lee's surrender foreshadowed the wisest principles and prophecies of true recon struction. Victor in the greatest of modern wars, he quickly signalized his aversion to war and his love of peace by an arbitra tion of International disputes which stands as the wisest and most majestic example of its kind in the world's diplo macy. When inflation, at tho height of its popularity and frenzy, had swept both houses of congress, it was tho veto of Grant which, single and alone, overthrew expansion and cleared tho way for specie resumption. Tohim, Immeasurably moro than to any other man, is due the fact that every paper dollar is as good as gold. With him as our leader wo shall have no defensive campaign, no apologies or ex planations to make. Tho shafts and ar rows have all been aimed at him and lie broken and harmless at his feet. Life, liberty and property will find safeguard in him. When he said of tho black man in Florida, 'Wherever I am they may come also,' he meant that, had ho the power to help it, the poor dwellers in the cabins of tho south should not be driven in terror from tho homes of their child hood and the graves of their murdered dead. When he refused to receive Denis Kearney he meant that lawlessness and communism, although they should dic tate laws to a whole dty, would every where meet a foe in him, and, popular or unpopular, ho will hew to the lino of right, let the chips fly where they may. Ills integrity, his common senso, his courage, and his nncqualcd experience are the qualities offered to his country. The only argument against accent-i lng them would amaze Solomon, lie. thought . there could be nothing new under the sun. Having tried Grant twice and found him faithful, we are told we must not, even after an interval of years, trust . him again. What stultification does not such a fallacy involve! The American republic exclude Jefferson Davis from public trust. Why? Because he was the arch traitor and would be the destroyer; 5 kAnd new the same, people arar asked to ostracise Grant and not trust him. Why? Because he was the arch preserver of his country; because, not only in war, but afterward, twice as a dvio magistrate,- he gave his highest, poblest efforts to the republic Is such absurdity an electioneering Jugglery or hypocrisy's masquerade? ' There is no field of human activity, responsibility or reason in which rational beings object to Grant because he has boen 'Weighed in the balance and not found wanting, and because he has had tlnequaled experience, making him excep tionally competent and fit. From the man who shoes your horse to the man who pleads your case, the officers who manage your railway, tho doctor into whose hands you give your life, or the minister who seeks to save your soul, what now do you reject because you have tried him and by his works have known him? What makes the presidential office an exception to all things else in the com mon sense to be applied to selecting its Incumbent? Who dares to put fetters on the free choice and judgment which is tho birthright of the American people? Can It be said that Grant has used official power to perpetuate his plan? He has no place. No official power has been used for him. Without patronage or power, without telegraph wires run ning from his house to the convention, without electioneering contrivances, with out effort on his part, his name is on his country's lips, and ho is struck at by the whole Democratic party becauso his nom ination will be tho deathblow to Demo cratic success. Ilo is struck at by others who find offenso and disqualification In tho very service he has rendered and in the very experience ho has galnod. Show me a better man. Name ono and I am answered. But do not point, as a dis qualification, to tho very facts which make this roan fit beyond all others. Let not experience disqualify or excellence Impeach him. There Is no third term in the case, and the pretense will die with the political dog days which engen dered it. Nobody is really worried about a third term except those hopelessly long lug for a first term and the dupes they have made. Without bureaus, commit tees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without Intrigue or effort on his part. Grant la the candi date whose supporters have never threat ened to bolt. As they say, ho Is aRepub lican who never wavers. He and his friends stood by tho creed and the candi dates of the Republican party, holding the right of a majority as the very essence of their faith, and meaning to uphold that faith against the common enemy and the charlatans and guerrillas who deploy be tween the lines and forage on one sido or the other. The Democratic party Is a standing protest against progress. Its purposes are spoils. Its hope and very existence Is a Bolid south. Its success Is a menace to prosperity and order. This convention is master of a su preme opportunity, can namo the next president of the United States and make sure of his election and his peaceful Inau- Suration. It can break tho power which ominates and mildews tho south. It can speed the nation in a career of grandeur eclipsing all past achievements. We have only to listen above the din and look bo- Sond the dust of an hour to behold the lepubllcan party advancing to victory, with its greatest marshal at Its head. JAMES A. GARFIELD Speech In the National Republican Con ventlon at Chicago, June, 1880, Nomi nating: John Sherman for the Presidency. I have witnessed the extraordinary scenes of this convention with deep solic itude. No emotion touches my heart moro quickly than a sentiment In honor of a great and noble character. But as I sat on theso seats and witnessed these dem- J onstrations It seemed to me you were a human ocean in a tempest. I have seen tho sea lashed into a fury and tossed into a spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man, But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured. When the storm has passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when sunlight bathes . Its smooth surface, then the astronomer and surveyor takes the level from which he measures all terrestrial heights and depths. Gen tlemen of the convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When our enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find the calm level of public opinion below the storm from which tho thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which their final action will be determined. Not here, in this brilliant circle, where 15,000 men and women are assembled, is the destiny of the republic to be decreed; not here, whero I see the enthusiastic faces of 750 delegates waiting to cast their votes into the urn and determine the choice of their party; but by 4,000,000 Republican firesides, where the thought ful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and love of country, with the history of the past, the hopes of the future, and tho knowledge of tho great men who havo adorned and blessed our nation In days gone by there God pre pares tho verdict which shall determine tho wisdom of our work to-night. Not in Chicago in the heat of June, but in the sober quiet that comes between now and tho melancholy days of November, in tho silence of deliberate judgment will this great question bo settled. Let us aid them to-night. But now, gentlemen of the conven tlon, what do wo want? Bear with me a moment. Hear mo for this cause, and for a moment bo silent, that you may hear. Twenty-five years ago this repub lic was wearing a triple chain of bondage Long familiarity with traffic in the body and souls of men had paralyzed the con science of a majority of our people. The baleful doctrine of stato sovereignty had shocked and weakened tho noblest and most beneficient powers of the national government, and tho grasping power of slavery was seizing the virgin territoriesof tho west and dragging them into the den of eternal bondage. At that crisis the Republican party was born. It drew its first inspiration from that firo of liberty which God has lighted in every man's heart, and which all the powers of Ignor ance and tyranny can never wholly ex tinguish. Tho Republican party came to deliver and save the republic It entered the arena when the beleaguered and as sailed territories were struggling for free' dom, and drew around them the sacred circle of liberty which the demon of slav ery has never dared to cross. It made them free forever. Strengthened by its victory orjj the .frontier, the young party, under the leadership of that great man who, on this spot, twenty years ago, was made its leader, entered the national capital and assumed the high duties of the govern- a ment. - The ugnv wmcn snone irom us banner dispelled the darkness in which slavery had enshrouded the capital and Welted the shackles of every slave, and consumed, In the fire of. liberty, every slave pen within the shadow of the capf. taL Our national industries, by an Im poverishing policy,. were themselves pros, irated, and the streams of revenue flowed in such feeble currents that the treasury Itself was well nigh empty. The .money of . tbo people was the wretched notes of two thousand uncontrolled and ir responsible state banking corporations, which was filling the country with a circulation which poisoned rather than sustained the life of . business. The Re Eublican party changed all this. It abol ihed the babel of confusion, and gave the country a currency as national as its flag, based upon the sacred faith of the people. It threw Its protecting arm around our great industries, and they stood erect as with new life. It filled with the spirit of true nationality all the great functions of the government. It confronted a re bellion of unexampled magnitude, with slavery behind it, and. under Ood, fought the final battle of liberty until victory was won. Then, after the storms of battle, were heard the sweet, calm words of peace uttered by the conquering nation, and saying to the conquered foe that lay pros trate at its feet: 'This is our only revenge, that you loin us in lifting to the serene firmament of the constitution, to shino like stars forever and ever, the immortal principles of truth and justice, that all men, white or black, shall be free and stand equal before tho law.' Then came tho questions of reconstruc tion, the public debt and tho public faith. In the settlement of the questions the Re- fmblican party has completed its twenty ive years of glorious existence, and it has sent us here to prepare It for another lustrum of duty and of victory. How shall we do this great work ? We cannot do It, my friends, by assailing our Repub lican brethren. God forbid that I should say one word to cast a shadow upon any name on the roll of our heroes. This coming fight is our Thermopylae. We are standing upon a narrow isthmus. If our Spartan hosts are united we can with stand all the Persians that the Xerxes of Democracy can bring against us. Let us hold our ground this ono year, for the stars in their course fight for us in the future. The census taken this year will bring ro-enforcemcnts and continued power. But in order to win this victory now we want the vote of every Republican of every Grant Republican and every anti Grant Republican in America, of every Blaine man and every anti-Blalne man. Tho vote of every follower of every candi date is needed to make our success certain; therefore I say, gentlemen and brethren, we are here to take calm coun sel together and Inquire what we shall do. We want a man whose life and opinions embody all the achievements of which I have spoken. We want a man who, standing on a mountain height, sees all the achievements of our past history, and carries in his heart the memory of all its glorious deeds, and who, looking forward, . prepares to meet tho labor and the dangers to come. We want one who will act in no spirit of unkindness toward those we lately met In battle. The Republican party offers to our brethren of the south the olive branch of peace, and wishes them to return to brotherhood on this su preme condition, that it shall be admitted forever and forevermore, that in the war for the Union we were right and they were wrong. On that supreme condition we meet them as brethren, and on no other. We ask them to share with us the blessings and honors of this great re public Now, gentlemen, not to worry you, 1 am about to present a name for your consid eration the name of a man who was the comrade and associate and friend of nearly all those noble dead whose faces look down upon us from these walls to-night; a man who began his career of public ser vice twenty-five years ago, whose first duty was courageously done in the days of peril on. the plains of Kansas, when the first red drops of that bloody shower be gan to fall which finally swelled Into tho deluge of war. He bravely stood by young Kansas then, and, returning to his duty in the national legislature, through all subsequent time, his pathway has been marked by labors performed In every de partment of legislation. You ask for his menuments. I point you to twenty-five years of national statutes. Not one great beneficent statute has been placed In our statute books without his Intelligent and powerful aid. He aided these' men to. formulate the laws that raised our great armies and carriod us through . the war. His hand was . seen in the workmanship of those statutes that created the war currency, and in a still greater work that redeemed the promises of the government, and made the currency equal to gold. And when at last, called from tho halls of legislation into a high executive office, he displayed that experi ence, Intelligence, firmness and poise of character which has carried us through a stormy period of threo years. With one half the public press crying 'Crucify him,' and a hostile congress seeking to prevent success, in all this he remained unmoved until victory crowned him. Tho great fiscal affairs of the nation, and tho great business interests of the country, ho has guarded and preserved, while executing the law of resumption and effecting its object without a jar, and against tho false prophecies of one-half of the press and all. the Democracy of this continent. Ho has shown himself able to meet with calmness the great emergencies of the government for twenty-live years. He has trodden the perilous heights of pub lio duty, and against all the shafts of malico has borno his breast unharmed. He has stood in the blaze of "that fierce light that heats against tho throne," but its fiercest ray has found no flaw in Ids armor, no stain on his shield. - I do not present him as a better Republican or as a better man than thousands of others wo honor, but I present him for your deliber ate consideration. I nominate John Sher man, of Ohio. FRYE NOMINATING BLAINE. Ill Speech In tho National Republican Convention at Chicago In 1880. I once saw a storm at sea in the night time; an old ship battling for its life with the fury of the tempest; darkness every where; the winds raging and howling; the hugo waves beating on the sides of the ship, and making her shiver from stem to stern. The lightning was flashing, the thunders rolling; there was danger every where. I saw at tho helm a bold, coura geous, immovable, commanding man. In the tempest, calm; in the commotion, quiet; in the danger, hopeful I saw him take that old ship and bring her into her harbor, into still waters, into safety. That man was a hero. I saw the good old ship of state, the state of Maine, within the last year, fighting her way through the same waves, against the same dangers. She was freighted with all that Is precious , in the principles of our republic; with the rights of tho Amer ican citizenship, with all that is guar anteed to the American citizen by ouz constitution. The eyes of the .whole na tion were on her. and intense anxiety filled every American heart, lest the grand old ship, the "State of Maine," might go down beneath the wares forever, carrying her preclou freight with ber. . But there was a man at the helm, calm, deliberate, commanding, sagacious; he made even the foolish man wise; courageous, he In spired, the timid with courage; .hopeful, he gave heart to the dismayed; and be brought . that i good old ship safely into harbor, into safety; and she floats today greater, purer, stronger for her baptism of danger. That man. too, was heroic, and his name was James G. Blaine. Maine sent ns to this convention with a memory of her own salvation from pending peril fresh upon her. To you representatives of 50,000.000 of the Amer ican people, who have met here to counsel how the republic can be saved, she says: ? Representatives of the people, take the man. the true man, the stanch man, for Jour leader, who has just saved me, and o will bring you safety and certain victory.'" JUDGE WEST, OF OHIO. Ills Speech In tho National .Republican Convention at Chicago, June, 1884, Nom inating James O. nialn for tho Iral drncy. As a delegate to tho Chicago conven tion of 1860, the proudest service of my life was performed by voting for tho nom (nation of that inspired emancipator, tho first Republican president of the United States. Four and twenty years of the grandest history of recorded times have distinguished the ascendency of the Re publican party. The 6kles have lowered and reverses have threatened, but our flag Is still there, waving above the man sion of the presidency, not a stain on its folds, not a cloud on its glory. Whether It shall maintain that grand as cendency depends upon the action of this council. With bated breath a nation waits the result. . On it are fixed the eyes of 20,000,000 of Republican freemen in the north. On It, or to it, rather, are stretched forth the imploring hands of 10,000,000 of political bondmen of the south, while above, from the portals of light, is looking down tho Immortal spirit of the immortal martyr who first bore it to victory, bidding us hail and God speed. Six times in six campaigns has that banner triumphed that symbol of union, free dom, humanity and progress sometime borne by that silent man of destiny, the Wellington of American arms, last by him at whose untimely taking off a nation swelled the funeral cries and wept above great Garfield's grave. Shall that banner triumph again? Commit it to tho bearing of that chief, the inspiration of whoso illustrious char acter and great name will fire the hearts of our young men, st ir the blood of our maahood and rekindle the fervor of the veterans, and the closing of the seventh campaign will seo that holy ensign span ning the sky like a bow of promise. Po litical conditions are changed since tho accession of the Republican party to power. The mighty issues of tho freedom and bleeding humanity which convulsed the continent and aroused the republic, rallied, united and inspired the forces of patriotism and the forces of humanity in one consolidated phalanx, havo ceased their contentions. The subordi nate issues resulting therefrom are settled and buried away with the dead soldiers of the past. The arms of the solid south are against us. Not an electoral gain can be expected from that section. If triumph come, the Republican states of the north must furnish tho conquering battalions from the farm, the anvil and the loom, from the mines, the workshop and the desk, from tho hut of the trapper on the snowy Sierras, from the hut of the fisher man on the banks of the Hudson. The Republican states must furnish these conquering battalions if triumph come. Does not sound political wisdom dic tate and demand that a leader shall bo given to them whom our people will fol low, not as conscripts advancing by fu nereal marches to certain defeat, but a grand civic hero, whom the souls of the people desire, and whom they will follow with all the enthusiasm of volunteers, as they sweep on and onward to certain vic tory, a representative of American man hood, a representative of that living Re- fmblicanism that demands the amplest ndustrial protection and opportunity whereby labor shall be enabled to earn and eat the bread of independent employ ment, relieved from mendicant competi tion with pauper Europe or pagan China? In this contention of forces, to whose can didate shall be intrusted our battlo flag? Citizens, I am not here to do it, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do abate one tithe from tho lust fame, integrity and public honor of Chester A. Arthur, our president. I abate not one tithe from the lust fame and public integ rity of George F. Edmunds, of Joseph It. Hawley, of John Sherman, of that grand old black eagle of .Illinois. And I am proud to know that these distinguished senators whom I have named have borne liko testimony to tho public life, the pub lic character and the public integrity of him whose confirmation brought him to tho highest office second in dignity only to tho office of president itself tho first" premiership in the administration of James A. Garfield. A man for whom senators and rivals will vote for the sec retaryship oi' stato of the United States is good enough for a plain flesh and blood God's people to voto for for president. Who shall Ikj our candidate? Not the representative of a particular interest or a particular class. Send the great procla mation to the country labeled "Tho Doc tor's Candidate," "Tho Lawyer's Candi date," "The Wr.ll Street Candidate," and the hand of resurrection will not fathom his November grave. .,, Gentlemen, ho must be a representative of that Republicanism that demands tho absolute political as well as the personal emancipation and enfranchisement of mankind a representative of that Repub licanism which recognizes tho stamp of American citizenship as the -passport to every right, privilege and consideration, at home or abroad, whether under tho sky of Bismarck, under the Palmetto, tinder tho Pelican, or on the banks of the Mohawk, that Republicanism that regards with dissatisfaction a despotism which under the "sic semper tyrannis" of the Old Dominion eliminates, by slaughter, popular majorities in the name of Democ racy a Republicanism as embodied and stated in the platform of principles this day adopted by your convention. Gentlemen, such a representative Re publican is James G. Blaine, of Maine. - If nominated to-night his campaign would commence to-morrow and continue until victory is assured. . There would be no powder burned to fire into the backs of his leaders. It would enly be exploded to illuminate the inauguration. The brazen throats of the cannon in yonder square, waiting to herald the result of the con ventlon, would not have time to cool be, fore his name would be caught, up on tea thousand tongues of electsio flame. It would sweep down from the old Pine Tree state. It would go over the hills and ral leys of New England. DON'T SCOLD a man for groaning when he has Rheuniatldin or Neuralgia. The pain ij simply nwful. No torture in the . ' ancient tim.M was moro painful than , these. twin difle&ses. . IJut oughtn't ' a rutin ta Lxi blamed if, havioir liheu mati nt or NVuralgla, he wont nse Atli-l'i-j)h -ri9, when it lm cured tli-HiH inJt who have MinVrcd in the ia;m v,-y? 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