PLATTSMO OTTI TTEEKLY HEHALP, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1887.
Continual from ttt Pay.
publican press tliat roused th north to
action; the cull to anus was made through
its columns. In cities and towns
tli
press took ui the crv. Even tho lit
ttl
fitv of IM;lltHlll01ltll of that day hul
republican press and Hix hours ufter tl
news of the fall of Sumptcr reached tl
ittr )w ii'ili iAf twiner mil 1 islieil a en
' -Jt I
for volunteer, arid in answer to that call
came the men who formed the Jirst c
gani.ed company in Nebraska that marc
or-
cd to the front, "company A, firm INc
eb-
riixkii ri'inmciit " under command of li
i i 11
- - - - n
who Kits an honored guest at this banqui
. . i . r i rt'l li A -.1
tonight jolill.u. uiaycr. un-ai tuuc
r-
Tim nf llic reiiiililicnii urcHM frn
111
the time when its party entered into pow,
.1. 1 . ..c 41... .. t ... ...,...
it, is ino mi-iury oi tnu i vuimj km iwui-ty-five
years. It has upheld tlie party
and the party representatives in sunshine
und in storm.
. It has published the way, and statehood
and nationality have walked therein.
It has fought the common enemy with
the vigor of manhood, and the common
enemy has snapped and snarled and
prophesied ruin only to finally come trail
ing along twenty years behind the times,
laughter J in the path that the republican
prow blazed through the forests of fruit
fulness. The republican press has a grand
army of representative men, both dead
and living. Following on in a well de
fined progressive policy, it surrounds
itself with progressive men and progres
sive thought, that imprints upon the fu
ture as well as passing events. From the
ranks of the republican press the nation
lias received in public service some of its
brightest and strongest men.
There ar men in evervy walk of life
who stand alone giants of strength, but
it remaimed to republican journalism to
furnish to the world of public life, James
G. IJlaine.trcniendouscheeringthe grand
est man in the grainiest nation God's sun
ever shown upon.
In the wonderful progress of journalism
that has produced the climax of prophecy,
"Behold a Hying scroll," the time has
come when nations shall learn war no
more, when the arts of peace shall be
king and the art preseruative of arts
shall be prime minister. Public opinion
henceforth shall meet armies and depart
without bloodshed; and the press that
moulds and enforces and speaks for pub
lic opinion, is the press that huts ita mis
sion. The republican press is as distinct today
from the press that draws its inspiration
from barbarism, as it has been in the past.
In contradiction to a press that is content
with public affairs as they have existed in
the past, stands the republican press de
fining the actions that shall be of the
future.
The republican press dares today, de
mand in its platform, that foreign inter
ference with the struggling governments
jn the western hemisphere, cannot be
tolerated, applause and the inspiration
that came in the Monroe doctrine has
been waiting a day of fulfillment that
nly a republican party, endorsed by a
republican press, could make possible for
it. There is not a struggling people to
day, who look for light and liberty and
for freedom from serfdom with its shack
les, that make men no better than slaves,
but that has in the republican press, a
power exercised in their behalf, which
shall bring to tliem a hirvest time.
Because the republican press moves in
the highway of progress, with its face to
the front, content not with the glories of
previous achievements, but intense in its
eagerness for the possibilities of the fu
ture, because of this, it has scarcely en
tered upon its mission and the summit of
its power has not yet gleamed in the most
distant horizon. And yet there will be a
time when the republican press, with the
republican party, will walk in the after
noon shadows of an existence; but it will
not be sq long as there is a cry in the
Lrqad earth for fieedom, nor so lqug as
there shall be one serf or one exile home
less aud friendless, In these latter days
bourbonisin of the now, will be past and
forgotten and the children of its wrath
will be gathering wild flowers, innocent,
(hat beneath the sod lies those- who re
'iiaoil tlinm freedom.
The voice of the bourbon press will be
lost, ana tlrewona nave iorgoiienmums
obstructive policies once blocked the
highway.
With Liu height of human government
rnuelip.l there will be a time for recollec
tion. Every mile along the way those
vlir InnV Imrlcwriril will see the posts set
by the republic;'", press and in ene of the
i ; rri.fr sr ni-.i- . of the the iournev there
H v-v - i . -i- -i- --7" r-7- J - 1 .w.
will be a ' jng marble colurnn shining in
, i . . . i .v i . : 1 1 l
me sue gut ami mosu mtu mu m --u
that was erected in the reign of Grover
1. fi.t nml Hrnver the last fGreat
onlaiiselthat it was a monument to the
iirnoTcsa of irood government whose
tlm Youiur Men's Republican
club of Plattsniouth. Continued ap
plause.
Mr. Biwhnell's address was followed
by an excellent toast entitled, ? The Gram
Army," by
JL'rxiE U. L. HAYWAUD
of Nebraska City, which was as follows:
'Mii President asd Gentlemen of the
Vnrvd Mk-x-'-a liKPlTRI.lCAX Cl.UB:
To speak of the Grand Army to young
republicans, is a theme ana an occasion
1 . . , . , 1 - . 1 . .1 K
that should open me ups oi iuc uumiu
Tr 5 a (ianl)ie( t that demands hours, iusteai
f moments. I have been thinking to
night how the republican party must look
toyou, who only know it in its strong
manhood, covered with the record of its
glorious past, and of how it looked to us
who were boys, tinny years ago. uuiu
fmUpiI union;? the dough-faced dem
ocracy of the north, that cringed before
the haughty south, taught that slavery
was a diyine "institution, protected by
nnr , orwtitniion. and guarded by the
majesty of the law, we felt a3 we heard
our fathers read, "AU men are uum ncc
and equal," that somewhere there was a
great wrong. We looked at the slave
f,,llnin(f Jiit master through our streets,
and said "no, the flag does not float over
i.m.1 nf the free." Our souls were
filled with a great discontent, but where
,1 v aok lor better tningsr xou
...,:i,f nmiVlin of democratic imbecil
lUUnv - - J "
ity, rottenness and fraud; and yet you
know that in two years juur gmuu uiu
.... party can and will brush aside that em
Itodimentof incompetency that calls itself
the trovornmenr. In our time there was
no party to whom we could turn. The
know-nothings offered nothing and died
The whig party had for ten years been
readv for its funeral. From the prairies
of Illinois we heard the voice of Lincoln
pleadiut; for better days. Iu the Empire
state the eloquent Seward pointed to a
nobler future. From the senato chamber
we heard the solemn warning of Sumner.
As we looked away to the south we saw
old Ossawntamie 15rown. holding Vir
ginia in his right hand and Maryland in
Ins left and shaking them until lrom
both there went up a howl of rage and
fear which we hearel in the Adirondack.!
It was tho first rebel yell! Laughter.J
Into our lives of discontent
camo the lirst piairorm 01 me
republican party. It was to us all
that the star in the east was to the wise
men a hope, a promise of something
purer, higher, nobler!
W hen tins young party sent us lorm to
iirht for the republic, it inscribed upon
our banner but a single line: "No Mokk
Slavic Tekkitouy!" How strange to
vou would souud our orders: "Go put
town tho slaveholder's rebellion, but
rotect slavery; whip but do no injury to
1
the south
To take from a Virginia
fence a rail with which to cook his sup
per or to keep the frost lrom his nmo-',
neaut to the soldier a night in me guara
house. When the master came to our
camps liuntinz his slaves, we were order
ed out to help him find and tie them, and
saw them taken back to bondage. In
Rummer heat and winter rain, we paced
our beat fuardin'' the property of
i:
iu"htv rebels, until it was no wonder
the very slaves learned to despise us and
said the world was afraid of their mas
ters. Again we were filled with discon
tent. We could not know that God had
written tipon our banner, with invissible
nk, a grand amendment! As we poic
thai banner up the Peninsula with Mc
Lellan, into the fire of the guns of Seven
Mnes and Malvern Hill, as we lollowed
I'.anks through the carnage at Cedar
Mountain and held the banner in the
storm of death at Kcconu r.uu nun,
brought out by the tierce heat of the con
flict, the writing became visible, and the
world read in great letters of living light,
God's amendment, "No Moitn Slavery,
No More SurAiiATios. Bi t a Union Con
solidated. Just and I' rem. Mr. Lin
coln copied from that banner, the immor
tal paper that set four millions free. Up
to that time we had achieved no great
victory; from that hour we sustained no
rushing defeat. Flanked ap cnanceiors-
ville, the army rallied and a tew days
atcr at Gettysburg eieait its enemy a
death-blow. Rosecraus was outgeneraled
at Chicamaugua, but stalwart Thomas
held the Army of Tennessee together, un
til Grant and Sherman led it to victorj'.
When that banner floated over our Army,
no threat of foreign powers could intim
idate, no rebel army could cheek its
march; ,;the gates of hell could not pre
vail against it," for the Soulier Knew that
by his side marched and fought the God
of battles. For long years tUo world
looked upou that banner looked and
saw it floating from the walls of Vicks-
burg; looked and saw it borne by the
freedmen before our great president,
through the streets of the rebel capital.
Blood was water, money was leaves, ana
human life only common air, until that
banner floated over the republic, without
a master and without a slave.
A few days ago I listened to the
speeches of three rebel officers. plh
solemn voices they tlcclared that hence
forth they could know but "one country
and one flag." Every rebel brigadier
thanks God that slavery is a thing ot the
past, and secession in its tomb.
In a letter to nis son tren. uee saiu,
"Secession is nothing but revolution; it
is idle to talk of secession." Why did it
take four years of war, untold millions
of money and the liyeg ot nousanus oi
brave men to teach these men truths so
self evident that in 1801 they were under
stood and discussed by the boys in every
northern Bchool district? The only ans
wcr is, that power intoxicates its holders
until they lose tHeir reason.
R nd old llomer. Who sang uy me
shores of the Aecean sea thousands ot
Years aero, the wonderful songs that still
stand unequaled in all the writings of
men. in his history of the travels and toils
of wise old Ulysses, that mucn enaunng
man, sings oi me jrouucss vntt, uu
iu her island home and, by her songs and
beauty attracted admirers to her banquets
and by magic drugs placed in their wine,
turned them into brutes and -yith rods
el rove them fcrlh as wolves and swine
Ml their nature changed, hair to uristies.
hands to brutish feet. In our country,
slavery and aristocracy, working together
fnrevil. seem to have been enaoweei wun
the power of old Circe. By their baleful
influence, men once brave aud noble be
el as huuirrv lions, eloinjx the
hiddinsr of hideous slavery, until they be
came as changeel as Circe's victims. Side
by side with savage blood hounds, they
followed the track of a fellow-man, aud
floried in the horrid chase. In temples
of justice they sat upon the highest seat,
end after prating aoout tue scaies m:u
hung suspended from the eyes of IJeaven
to detect rinht from wrong, tney graveiy
announced to a wondering world that
man. made in God's own image, was not
Lfina. but a chattel. In legislative
halls in the Nineteenth century, they en
acteel that man miarht buy and sell, whip
and starve his feilow-man, and that if the
lordly owner desired, he might bring to
our northern homes and parade in chains
before our very eves, the victims of the
accurseel laws. Nay, more than this; it
was fcolemnly declared, and at our ex
pense printed and published, that if the
victim, while being dragged in bondage
over tho free states, felt the inspirations
born of purer air, and made a rush for
life and liberty, he or she who should aid
this poor fugitive by giving him so much
as a cud of cold water, siiouui ue punisu
ed as for crime. To this the people sub
mitted and the law-makcra further pro
claimed that if in all our north-land
anions our free hills and peaceful valleys,
the slave-hunter blew his horn, the free
men and their sons should forthwith for
sake their honest to:l and so forth to elo
for the slave-driver the office of his ab
sent hounds.
They prated of chivalry, but sold to
tha cotton fields their own flesh, and
blood, when darkened a shaele by thei
peculiar institutions. They stood before
the world infamous, .but contented. At
last, in God's own time, when He hat
grown weary of the cry that arose from
our burdened bind; these monsters, made
mad that they might be destroyed, pro
claimed that in the free territories, upon
the very soil where we now stand, slav
cry should find a home and landed aris
tocracy a new stronghold. Their laws
were followed by acts. To thin ter
ritory they brought their human chattels;
in the streets of Nebraska City they erec
ted their auction blc-ck and sold the
slaves. Then when the savagery of the
lash, the barbarism of the chain and the
insanity of secession confronted the'civil-
i.ation of our country, the question.
"Will the great republic defend itself r"
trembled on the lips of every lover of
mankind.
luen the north, tilled with intelligence
and wealth fruits of liberty marshalled
her hosts and from a million happy
homes sent forth the Grand Army of the
Republic, ihe soldiers ot this army
were not seekers after yulgar glory!
They were not animated by hope of plun-
ler or the love ot conquest they fought
for the "homestead of liberty" and that
their children might have peace. They
were the defenders of humanity, the ele-
stroyers of prejudice, the breakers of
chains; and in the name of the future
they salutetl the monsters of their time.
They finished what the soldiers of Wolfe
and of the revolution commenced. They
relighted the torch that fell from their
tigust hands, and filled the world tgain
with light. They blotted from the stat-
te books laws passetl by hypocrites at
the instigation of robbers; and tore with
ndignaut hands from the constitution
that infamous clause that made men the
catchers of their fellow-men. They made
t possible for judges to be just and
statesmen to be human, I hey broke the
hackles from the limbs of slaves, from
the souls of masters, and from the north
ern brain. They kept our country on the
i an of the worlel and our flag in heaven.
They rolled the stone from the sepulchre
f progress anil found therein two angels,
lad in shining garments nationality
and liberty. These soldiers were the sa
viours of the nation. They were the lib-
rators of mankind. In written procla
mation of emancipation. Lincoln great
est of p.ur mighty dead, whose memory is
as gentle as the summer air "when reapers
ing mid gathered sheaves, copied with
tho pen, what Grant and his brave sol
diers wrote with swords, These soldiers,
Qbler than the Greek, grander than the
Roman, with patriotism "shoreless as the
air," fought for the nobility of labor,
fought that mothers might own their
babes, that arrogaut idleness should no
longer scar the back of patient toil; that
ur country should not be ft many-headed
louster of warring states, but'a nation
sqyengn, great ami iree.
For four years tins litauic struggle be-
ween the cavaliers of the past aud the
round heads of the future went on, our
grand old army winning victory from the
hands of unwilling fortune, until at last
after Sheridan had sent Early up the val
ley, after brave old Farragut had batter-
eel down the walls of Mobile; after Sher
man had dug Ins fiery way to tho heart of
Qeqrgia and the brave old army of the
otomac, that army hardened and tough-
ned by tho blows it had received, until
it had the solidity of iron and the elastic
ity of steel, whose lines would sometimes
bend but never broke, had stretched out
its lvft flunk aud seized in its relentless
rasp tho heroic army of northern V lr-
nnia, the last army of all rebeldom, then
the work was done; aud when the rebel
Lee accepted the unconditional surrender
of indomitable Grant, the inscription
upon our banner became living truth.
The glorious record of these soldiers aia
not end at Appomattox: they were as
oncst n peace tis braye in war. They
went home to their waiting wives, to
thpir glad children, and to the girls they
oved. They went back to the lields, to
the shops and the minea, They had not
been demoralized, uqt tney were euno
bjed. MQC&iqg a.t poverty they made a
friend of toil. When the question was
asked will the nation pay its debts? the
soldiers said we have saved the nation s
life, aud what is life without honor; and
so they voted, wrought and saved with
all of labor s royal sons, until today every
promise of the war has the ring of gold.
Will all the wounds or trie war ue neai-
edi I answer yes. 1 he south has sub
mitted not to the will of the n;rth, but
to the wil of God a.ud the verdict of
mankind, They were wrong, and the
time has now come when they can say,
"They are victors still who are conquered
bv the right." Freedom conquered tnem,
and freedom will cultivate their feelings,
educate their children and people; weave
for them robes of wealth and till their
land with happy homes
Already the re;
suits of the war have
br,,r.:rht io the
south a rich har vest; her cities and towns
are ringing with the strokes of honest
-1 "in
toil: the banks of her streams are lined
with busy factories; her valleys aie check
ered with iron rails and her hillsides are
dotted with school houses. Half a mil
lion Grand Army men died to free the
south as well as the north; died to deliver
us from the curse that poisoned the blood,
rotted the bone, and palsied the brain of
the nation,
It is a great thing for a nation In all
periods of its fortunes to bo able to look
back to a race of founders in whom it
mi"ht see the realized idea of true hero
ism. That felicity, that pride, that help
is ours. Our past, all its great eras; that
of settlement, that of independence, and
that of regeneration, should compel a.
wise, moral and glorious future. Those
heroic men should not loc.lv down on a
dwindled posterity. They who keep the
"raves, bear the names and boast the
blood of men in whom the loftiest sense
rf dutv blended itself with the fiercest
spirit of liberty, should add to their free-
.i. j.iHop inteoritv honor, without
which freedom, valor and power are but
v,,inrtl,ir,crs. And vet is the nast noth-
iq7 ven our past out as wequicucueu
by its examples, instructed by its experi-
eiice warned by its voices, assisted by its
accumulated instrumentality, shall repro
duce it in the life of to lay. Its once
busy existence, variotiV' sensations, fiery
trials, dear-bought triumphs; its dynasty
of heroes, all it pulses of joy and an
guish, of hope and fear, and" love and
praise, are with the years beyond tho
flood. "The sleeping and the dead are
but as pictures." Yet gazing on theso
long and intently and often, we may pass
into tiro likeness of the depart. 1; mav
emulate their lubors aud partuke of their
immortality.
The Glee Club of this city, then
4 1 rill . . . m . .
ino oreeu fields ot J--rin, which was,
as is their custom, rendered with kurpasa-
ing excellency, and for it they were liar
tilly encored, to which they responded
with "The Buccaneer's Bride."
i nc next on the programme was
"Democracy and Reform" by
attor.ney-oeneral wm. leese
of Lincoln. Mr. Leese hit right and left
ut the democritic party, and rebuked
Judge Bartlet for speaking favorably of
such a party. He said the party was
simply a sham and had by promising
prohibition in the south, whisky iu the
north, free trade in the west, high tariff
in the east, etc., they had succeeded in
getting a president. Mr. Leese was greet
ed with applause throughout his toast.
The next address was entitled "lbsa"
and given by
HON. JOHN M. TIIUSTftN
of Omaha. He spoke as follows:
Gentlemen ok the Ye-u.No Men's Rk
i'U uLrcAN Cu n:
Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is
the year when the motion of the Demo
cratic party for a new trial will bo over
ruled by the deliberate judgment of the
American people. ( Applause.)
The cause which will then be finally
neled is of ancient origin.
It has been representee! on the one side
y the Republican aud on the other by
the Democratic party.
It was first brought into the tribunal
of ublie conscience to determine as to
whether or not the institution of human
slavery could be maintained upon Amer
ican soil in the noon of the niuteenth cen
tury.
The Rible and tho spelling book, assist
ed by the eloquence of William Lloyd
Garison and Wendell Phillips, won the
first decision in accordance with the law
of God.
In 18G0 the case was retried at the bar
of public opinion.
Championed by A brahani Liucoln the
ballot box returned a verdict in favor of
the Republican party and the equality of
man
The Democratic party then reformed
its issues, and amended its pleaeliugs by
asserting that each state could defeat ex
ecution of the national judgment by se
cession from the Union. Ulysses S. Grant
and his marching millions, under the ap
ple tree at Appomattox, settled that ques
tion forever. Applause,
Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
will be known in history as the grave
yard of the Democratic party. Thereaf
ter, at stated intervals on moonlight
nights some of the unquiet ghosts of
the departed deael may be seen by obser
vant watchers, but that will be all. In
the daylight of intelligence, loyalty and
patriotism there will only be seen the
gravestones and the record.
After Appomattox the Democratic par
ty behaved itself pretty well for a while.
Like a jointed snake, struck by a club, it
was broken into pieces aud scattered in a
thousand ilirectious. It could not readi
ly reform.
As time went on some of the scattered
pieces wiggled together and on various
occasions more or less of the " same old
suake presented itself to public view, but
it was many years before there was
enough of it to do any harm.
For almost a quarter qf a century the
Republican purty took charge of the na
tion it had saveel.
During this timo it administered a gov
ernment which gave security to its citi
zens on lanel anet sea,
It maintained it3 honor and credit at
home and abroad.
It freed the slaves and habilitated them
in the robes of citizenship and equal
rights.
It made the declaration of the fathers,
"all nen ere created free and equal," a
living truth.
It extended to the conquered South the
sympathy of the great, generous, loyal,
American heart, ami forgetful of the
past restored to its people all of the rights,
privileges and possibilities they had for-
feiteel by rebellion
It laiel the lounelation of luture great
ness wide and deep,
It re-established the credit of the gov
ernmeiit and redeemed its every pledge
It fostered the agricultural interests,
and by wise protection multiplied the in
dustries of the people,
Tt marutaiacid iho national honor in
every portion of the globe. It redeemed
its promises to pay in honest gold, and
i m . -
laid the burden of taxation so that it fell
lightest upon those who could least afford
to pav.
R opened its doors to the oppresseel oi
every nation.
It made of its vast agrrculturai territory
free homes for the homeless.
It built the great traus-continental rail-
way, opening up its rich domain to set-
tlement anil commerce, and bringing the
extremes of our country into close and
advantageous relations.
It welcomeel to our shores all people of
whatever birth and gave to all the inesti
mable blessing of citizenship in a gov
ernment of the people.
It gradually paid oft the
great war
debt and reduced taxation.
The administration of this great loyal,
her-oio uartv was wise, patriotic, econo-
, .
nuc, nation extended its power auroaa
and its prosperity at home in an unparal
leled degree.
During it labor received its just reward.
All industrial andxonimercive enterprises
were fostered and encouraged.
Under it. an American citizen at
home
or abroad, on land or sea, in the shadow
of the stars and stripes was protected in
i uia uikiz.cusmi' - - -
cise of all his civil and political rights.
It remembered the debt of grtitude to
"heroic living and the unforgotten dead,
and e-ladlv crave of the nation's treasure
that the old age of the helpless and de
nendr-nt should at least be free from
i
want.
Tn tho lifht of this history, why is it ,
that this great party at last was beaten l
its Democratic foe!
There is a certain element of disconten
1 1 human nature, which shows itself
intervals in the history of every govern
meni. lovery until is creaiea with more
or less inherited dissatisfaction with tho
existing condition of things,
The Democratic party made use of this
weakness of human nature.
It graelually gathered together all tho
disaffected and discontented.
Unrepentant rebels and mossback Dem
ocrats, copperheads and criminals, dis
satisfied Republicans and disappointed
oince seekers, selt-gloriheil mugwumps
ana the rag-tog and bob-tail of ignorance,
anarchy, disloyalty and curseilricss, all
confederated together, without a party
conscience or a principle, unlimited by
only one common purpose that of de
feat of the Republican party.
i ins is at last aecompiisiiea by lul.se
charges and promises w hich its party
leaders were expected to fulfill.
i ne JK'inocratic party has now been iu
power for more than two years. What
has it done?
They tell us the government is still
safe; yes so it is. Its obligations are still
paid, its honor still maintained; yes, so
they uro. Prosperity still continues, anil
labor is still protected; yes, even so.
But is this because of Democratic rulefl
Far from it. It is because the Demo
cratic party has continued on under the
laws enacted by the Republicans.
It has not had the courage to attempt
new legislation.
You will liud that ull congressional ae
on affecting the materiul interests of
the country, found upon the statute
ooks when Democracy came into power.
yet remain iu full force.
1 he btrongest campaign appeal was
that the Republicans were dishonest and
that an examination of the government
accounts would reveal vast peculation
and fraud.
The Democrats have examined every
ook, have counted eyery dollar in the
reasury: have verified every voucher,
and the anticipated cry of exultation is
silenced and forever dead.
The friends of Mr. Cleveland and the
believers in a personal government say he
should be given credit because he has
not j et turned all Republican oflice hold
ers out.
Mr. Cleveland has left no Republican
n ollice because ot choice. lie lias done
so to conciliate the mugwump clement,
and for no other reason.
But where he has had a chance the
Union soldier has gone and the confeder-
e veteran come in.
I wish, however, he had turned ey. ry
old oflice holder out. I still believe that i
the Republican who hangs on to oflice j
under Democratic rule is in elanger of i
political degeneration. I only believe in
ciyil service reform to this extent, that
all offices should be filled by worthy,
lonest and competent men, but those
men should belong to the party in power.
In 18SH, under a Republican adminis
tration, civil service reform will mean
"turn the rebels out." Great laughter
ter and applause.
Four years of Democratic rule will
elemonstrate two things: That the Re
publican party while in power were true
to its every pledge, and that the Demo
cratic party was false to every promise.
Aye, every one.
In 1B8S the Kepublican party will be
restored to power because of its loyalty
to the country, of fidelity to the people
and of devotion to the rights of man.
It will succeed, too, because 1888 is to
be tho young men's year, and is to witness
the triumph of their Republicanism.
In 1888 the sons ot veterans, born to
them in 18G6 and '7, are to cast their
first ballots, and they will cast them as
their fathers fought. Their number will
be more than enough to decide the con
test. Young men will win su cess for the
Republican party for another reason, be
cause all over the great free north they
have been brought up to read the history
of their country and to think for them
selves. They will not blindly accept the
political beliefs of their fathers unless
they commend themselves to their sense
of right and justice. 1 hey cannot help
but decide in fayor of that political party
whose hitory is inseparably a part of
their country's glory. Wrho will lead the
republican party to victcry in 1888 ?
There was one, whom many loyai Hearts
believed and hoped would be the man; a
boru leader; a hero on the battlefield and
a Statesman in the halls of Congress; the
great "Black Eagle of Illinois. Jureat
applause. The infinite wisdom of God
has remoyed him adove.
But, my friends, though John A. Logan
is dead in the body, yet he lives again;
lives in the illuminated pages of his coun
try's most splendid history; lives iu the
greateful love of a free people, wuose un
ion he so gallantly fought to preserve;
lives in the blessings of a downtrodden
! race, whose freedom he so manfully
I struggled to achieve; lives in the future
song and story or a nero-worsniping
world, and in 1888 ins spirit win. animate
j the republican host and lead it on to
j certain and splendid victory. Applause, j
Fellow citizens, any man representing
j republican principles can be elected pres-
j ident of the United States in 1888.
It makes me angry to hear people dis-
rusaicf? as to whether or cot this man or
the other can be elected if nominated.
The campaign of 1888 is not to be con
ducted on the basis of availibility or ex
pediency.
Leave that to the Democratic party,
! -which put aside all its great leaders for
I l , -1.1 1 XT -v..l.
one urover e.ieveianu, a locai mew
nolitican
The republican party cannot auoru io
a a. r-r 1 A
fliKorace itself in the same way.
Let us win under some great, tried aud
heroic leader, as we can win, grandly and
gloriously
Tt. mav be that the wisdom of the par
tv leaders will choose for our standard
I bearer that great statesman and financier
John Sherman of Ohio. Applaase.
But in my judgment, my wish aud my
1trttif it. TK ill be that grand, glorious and
I representative Republican cineitain, who
j3 nearest and dearest to the hearts of the
, - , - . ....
people, who represents more nearly than
any other man the progressive courage
and statesmanship of the republican par
ty, "the Plumed Knight of. Maine" James
G. Blaine. TGrcat and continued ap
plause. '
I believe he will be the man lccauBo of
tho innate justice of the American peo
ple, who know that a freo ballot ami
fair count, U-yond all doubt, elected him
president in 1884; and 1888 is to right
tho great wrong done him then.Ap
plause.
If he shall be the nominee of tho Na
tional convention the Republican party
iu 1888 w ill grandly w in.
He will be elected because every man
who yoted for him in 188i will vote for
him again, and thousunds who voted
against him then are eager to have an
opportunity to atone for their great fi'a
and shame.
Ho will be elected because he is the
best exponent of advanced American
ideas.
He will be elected lecauso hentanda in
this country today as the friend and
c hampion of honest labor, and because
he is eternally pledged to tho lnantain-
uiu-e of Republican institutions on th
American continent.
He will be f leeted because his greart,
generous, liberty loving heart Ixats in
full sympathy with tl.o cause of freedom
and self goverinent all over tho world,
and especially will his nomination bring
to the Republican party tho support
of thousands of Irish Americans, who
ove him for his unuuestioned belief in
the justice of Ireland's struggle for lib
erty, aud for his courgeous and power
ful advocacy of her cause.) Applause. j
I wibh to say to that eloquent and able
rish leader, Patrick Egaii. who has hon
ored this banquet with his presence and
delighted us with a ringing republican
speech applause, that tho republican
isrty u honestly in favor ol home rule
n Ireland. Applause.
It rs necessarily and unquestionably no.
for it has always stood, and always will
btnnd, as tho champion of Universal Lib-
i tvand popular government, and b cuuso
t has not forgotten its debt of gratitude
to the thousands of loyal Irishmen, who,
on American Battle fields, fought so gal
antly for the grand cause of Union and
lurnanrty. Applause.
There flows in my veins the coinnnng-
cd blood of English and Irish aneestrs.
nd some might say that I ought to stand
inpartial on the Irish question.
1 cannot forget that my forefathers,
Englibh aud Irish, left the Paid of their
nrth. the homes of their ehiianooa anet
he graves of their holy dead to escape
he oppression and domination of En-
lish Prince ami Peer. I cannot forget
hat my two grand fathers, one an EnglLsh-
an by descent, the other an iribhmuii uy
rth fought together under General
Stark at the battle of Bennington to for-
ver free this land from kingly rule; and
the cause of any people struggling t es
cape from the enforced servitude of ages
is very near and dear to me.
James G. Blaine will be elected Presi
dent because the American people be
lieve and know that he will so adminis
ter this Government that American Agri
culture, American Industry and American
Commerce will be fostered aud protected;
that the National Honor will be maiu
tained at home and abroad, and that the
American citizen will le sustained and
nrntcf ted in his liberty, his property and
the exercise of the civil and political
rights.
One year from tonight as you gather
here at another annual banquet your glad
ears will hear the message, as it flashes
over the Electric wire to the great, glad
host of the republican party, that James
G. Blaine has leeu selected in National
convention to lead you on to victory.
Great applauseand two years from to
night every federal omco win ue nneu.
with a loyal, honest and competent re
publican. Prolonged applause.
II. C. Ritchey and Charles F. Whitney
of the Glee Club then sang "Larboard
Watch."
O. II. Rothacker of Omaha, was to ad
dress the club concerning "The Young
Republicans," but being unwell and not
able to be present
I). II. slaughter
responded to that toast, giving the boys
much encouragement and good hints
which tey heartily appreciated.
David A. Mercer of Umaha, was to
speak of "Offensive Partisans," but as ho
was unable to be present
M. D. HAHTIGAN
responded in a hearty, lively manner,
scoring a number of excellent points and
at the same thime keeping those present
in an excellent humor. He Bpoke only a
few minutes but said a great deal.
Gov. Thayer then rose and thanked tho
young men for their attention and enter
tainment, and in behalf of the Young
Men's Republican club thanked the reading-room
girls and the ladies of the M.E.
church for the excellent repatt they had
prepared and served for the benefit of all
present.
The banquet closed about 1 a. m. with
the songs, "Roll Away," and "Uoou
Night," by the Glee Club.
The evening passed quickly and agree
ably to all present, not a flaw of any kind
wa3 noticable anywhere. The Bpeaken
were all heartilly applauded and their
toasts appreciated. The choice of the
speakers and hearers for president in 1888
seemed to be unanimously the "Plumed
Knight" but all expressed themselves
ready to support whoever received the
nomination.
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