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r -! ohmhvi VOL. XIX -NO. 11. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1888. WHOLE NO. 947. mmnm. J .- v COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. DIRECTORS: LEANDER GERHARD. FcWt. OEO. W. IIUIT, Vice 1'ren't. JULIUS A. REED. It. 1I.1IENUY. J. E. TASKER, Cashier. Basic C WepoMlt. llM;ouat CIIectleN rromptly Jltule o mil PelatN. Pay tereKt e Time Depos it 274 -OF COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000. OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON, Pros't. W. A. MoALLIHTER. Vice I'reV. HOHRHT UHL1G. Cashier, DANIEL SCHUAM. Ass't Cash. o DIRECTORS: J. P. BECKElt, II. P. H. OEIILRICH. JONAH WELCH. CAUL HEINKE. II. M. W1NSLOW. - i - -This Bank transacts a regular Hanking Htisi nees, will allow interest oil limn deiswits, make culloctioiiH. buy or sell exchange " Unittl States and Euwin-, anil buy ami sell available securities. We shall be pleased to iww'm- r basiiie. We solicit your patronage. 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We advise if patentable or not, free of charm. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A book. How to Obtain Patents," with rvfer aea to actual clients in your state, county or ma,stfe. glfOW go. Opposite Patent OBce. Washington, D. C. CMJMCIiL Bil jipBBKgjMf EI COTTAGE ORGAN -""s GREAT SPEECHES. They Were Made in Republican Conventions of the Past. YYOKDS THAT ARE NOW HISTORIC Growth of th Nomination Address Cn known to tno Father. It la Now a Begn lur American Institution There Were None In Early Republican Convention. A llnxcn Short Addreasea In 1808. the Ramo In 1872 The Great Orations of 1 870. IS80 and 1884. A national convention without a nom inating speech would strike the young (olitician of today as the play of "Ham let with the character .of the Prince of Denmark omitted. Yet that was tho rule before 1876. Indeed, until CoL Robert ingersoll Bet the fashion at Cincinnati in 1876. nothing more was expected than a mere announcement of the name and a sort of perfunctory pledge that the state of the nouilnator would give his candidate its vote, a pledge which could hardly be called deceitful since it never deceived anybody. But after In gersoll's glorious effort at Cincinnati a condidato 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 tho result has been to gi ve us some brilliant pieces of oratory, the best of which wo herewith present for the study of young America. We also present some of the short and pithy addresses made in casting state votes at other conventions. In the first Re publican national convention, held at Philadelphia June 17 and 18. 1856. thero wero somo good speeches made on the general issue, but the candidate was not even formally put in nomination, and nearly the same is true of the conventions of 1SG0 and 1864. In 18C8 Gen. Grant was really nominated in advance by spon taneous enthusiasm, yet bo was not for mally presented in the convention. So easily do we grow accustomed to that which is that this omission would now be thought an unpardonable slight; yet it is worth noting that tho nomination in 18S0 went to a man who had not been presented, and who had most eloquently presented tho name of Senator Sherman. Although there were no nominating siieeches in 1SC8 and 1872, yet the chair men of several state delegations embraced tho opportunity of casting tho vote to give a few "pithy remarks," tho "pith iest" of which we present. The general rule was. however, for each state to sim ply annoitrice its vote, and tho first de partures therefrom wero rather looked upon as impertinences. But now the nominating address is tho great feature of a convention's opening work, and we all liko it. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. nifl Speech In the National Republican Convention of Cincinnati. June, 1870. Nominating James G. Maine for the Presidency. Massachusetts may bo satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow so am I; but if any man nominated by this convention cannot carry tho state of Massachusetts I am not satisfied with the loyalty of that state. If the nominee of this convention cannot carry tho grand eld commonwealth of Massachusetts by 75.000 majority I would adviso them to sell out raneuil hall as a Democratic headquarters. I would adviso them to lake from Bunker 11IU that old monu ment of glory. Tho Republicans of tho United States demand as their leader in tho great con test of 1876 a man of intclligeuco, n 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 tho highest, broadest and best sense a man of superb moral courage. They demand a man acquainted with public affairs, with tho wants of the people, with not ouly the requirements of the hour, but with tho demands of tho future. They demand a man broad enough U comprehend tho 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 preservo tho financial honor of tho United States; one who knows enough to know that the national debt must be paid through tho prosperity of this people; one who knows enough to know that all tho financial theories of tho world cannot re deem a single dollar; one who knows enough to know that all the money must be made, 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 the United States demand a map who knows that prosperity and resumption, when they come, must come together; that, when they come, they will come hand in hand through the golden harvest fields; hand in hand by tho whirling spindles and the turning wheels; hand in hand past tho open fur nace doors; hand in hand by the flaming forges; hand in hand by the chimneys filled with eager fire come greeted and grasped by the countless sons of toil This money has to bo dug out of the earth. You cannot make it by passing resolutions in a political convention. The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this govern ment should protect every citizen, at home and abroad; who knows chat any govern ment that will not defend its defenders, and protect its protectors, is a disgrace to the map of tho world. They demand a man who behoves 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 signed by a Confederate congress. The 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 G. 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; asks for a man who is tho grandest combination of heart, conscience and brain beneath her nag Such a man Is James G. Blaine. For the Republican host, led by this Intrepid man, there can be no defeat. This is a grand year a year filled with the recollections of the revolution, filled with proud and tender memories of the past; with the sacred legends of lib arty; 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 in which they call for a man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander; for the man who has snatched 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 allcomers, and who is still a total stranger to defeat. Like an armed soldier, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marcnea down tha haUsof tha . Ainwtom cooere. and threw nis Burning lance run ana rair against the brazen foreheads of the de faniers of his country and the mallgners 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 battlo James G Blaine Is now and has been for years the 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 the name of tho great republic, the only real republic that ever existed upon this earth; in the namo of all her defenders and of all her supporters; In tho name of all her sol diers living: In the name at all her sol diers dead upon the field of battle, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Anderson vllle and Libby. whose suffering he so vividly remembers. Blinds Illinois nom inates for the next president of this coun try that prince of parliamentarians that leader of leaders James G. Blaine. ROSCOE CONKUNG- Speech In the National Republican Con vention nt Chicago, Jane, 1880. Nomi nating Ulrasea 8. Grant for the Presi dency. And when asked what state he bafts from. Our sole reply shall be, fie hails from Appomattox And the famous Apple Tree. Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, I rise in behalf of the state of New York to propose a nomina tion with which tho country and the Re publican party can grandly win. The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. It will decido 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 be, more surely than any other, con carry Now York against any opponent, and carry not only the north, but several states of the south. New York Is for Ulysses S. Grant. He 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 1868 or 1872. Never defeated i war or In peace, his name is tho most illustrious borne by any living man; his services at test his greatness, and his country knows them by heart. His fame was born not aloue 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 post, 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 ro nown. modest, firm, simple and self poised, ho has seen not only tho titled but tho poor and lowly in the utmost ends of tho world, riso and uncover before him. He has studied the needs and defects of many systems of government, and he comes back a better American than over, with a wealth of knowledge and experi ence added to tho liard common senso which so conspicuously distinguished him in oil tho fierce light that beat upon him throughout tho most eventful, trying and perilous sixteen years of tho nation's his tory. Never had a policy to enforce against tho will of tho 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 oiher lands, but In his own. tho assaults upon him have strength ened and seasoned his hold upon the pub lic heart. Tho ammunition of calumny has all been exploded; tho powder has all been burned once, its force Is spent, and (en. 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 moldered 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. Tho terms he prescribed for tree'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 aiplo macy When Inflation, at the height of its popularity and frenzy, had swept both houses of congress, it was the veto of Grant which, single and alone, overthrew expansion and cleared the way for specie resumption. To him. immeasurably mora than to any other man. Is due the fact that every paper dollar is as good as gold. With him as our leader we shall have, no defensive campaign, no apologies or ex plonations to make. The 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 the black man In Florida, 'Wherever I am they may come also,' ho meant that, had he the power to help it, the poor dwellers in the cabins of the south should not be driven in terror from the 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 city, would every where meet a foe In him, and, popular or unpopular, he will hew to the Una of right, let the chips fly where they may. His integrity, his common sense, his courage, and his unequaled experience are the qualities offered to his country The only argument against accept ing them would amaze Solomon. He 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. And now the same people are asked to ostracize Grant and not. trust him. Why? Because he was the arch preserver of Um coantry ; Because, not only in war, bat afterward, twice as a drio magistrate, he gave his highest, noblest 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 been weighed la the balance and not found wanting, and because he has had unequaled experience, making him excep tionally competent and fit. From the man who shoes your horse to the man who pleads your ease, the officers who manage your railway, the doctor Into whose hands yon give your life, or the minister who seeks to save your soul, what now do you reject because yon have tried him and by bis works have known him? What makes the presidential office an exception to all things else hi the com mon sense to be applied to selecting its incumbent? Who aires to put fetters on tho free choice and judgment which is the 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, witbjntelectkmeBrlTig oontriTanoa. with out: enori on uis pari, uis umue is vu ms country's lips, and he is struck at by the whole Democratic party because his nom 1 luation will be tho deathblow to Demo cratic success. Ho Is struck at by others who find offense and disqualification In the very service ho has rendered and in tho very experience he has gained. Show me a better man. Name one and 1 am answered. But do pot point, as a dis qualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyoud 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 mada Without bureaus, commit tees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment In his favor, without intrigue I or effort on his part. Grant Is the candi date whose supporters have never threat ened to bolt. As they say. he Is aRepub " lican who never wavers. He and his friends stood by the creed and the candl dates of the Republican party, holding the right of a majority as the very essence of their faith, ana meaning to uphold that faith against the common enemy and the charlatans and guerrillas who deploy be tween the lines and forage on one side or the other The Democratic party Is a standing protest against progress. Its purposes are spoils, its hope and very existence is a solid south. Its success is a menace to prosperity and order. This convention Is master of a su preme opportunity, can name the next president of the United States and make sure of his election and his peaceful inau guration. It can break the power which dominates and mildews the south. It can speed the nation in a career of grandeui eclipsing all past achievements We have only to listen above the din and look be yond tho dust of on hour to behold the Republican party advancing to victory with its greatest marshal at Its head. JAME3 A. GARFIELD. Speech In the National Republican Con vention at Chicago, Jane, 1880, Nomi nating John Sherman for tho Presidency. I have witnessed the extraordinary scenes of this convention with deep solic itude- No emotion touches my heart more quickly than a sentiment in honor of a great and noble character. But as I sat on these seats and witnessed these dem 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 tho 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 tho level from which he measures all terrestrial heights and depths. Gen tlemen of the convention, your present temper may not mark tho healthful pulse of our people When our enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find tho calm level of public opinion below the storm from which the thoughts of a mighty peoplo are to be measured, and by which their final action will be determined. Not here, in this brilliant circle, where 18.000 men and women are assembled, is tho destiny of the republic to be decreed; not here, where I see the enthusiastic faces of 756 delegates waiting to cast their votes into the urn and determine tho choice of their party; but by 4,000.000 Republican firesides, where tho thought ful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and love of country, with tho history of the past, the hopes of the future, and tho knowledge of tho great men who have adorned and blessed our nation in days gone by there God pre pares the verdict which shall determine tho wisdom of our work to-night. Not In Chicago In tho heat of June, but in the sober quiet that comes between now and tho melancholy days of November, In the silence of dehberato judgment will this great question be settled. Let us aid them to-night. But now, gentlemen of the conven tion, what do we want? Bear with me a moment. Hear me for this cause, and for a moment be silent, that yon may hear. Twenty-five years ago this repub He was wearing a triple chain of bondage Long familiarity with traffio in the body and souls of men had paralyzed the con science of a majority of our people. The baleful doctrine of state sovereignty had shocked and weakened the noblest and most beneficient powers of tho national government, and tho grasping power of slavery was seizing the virgin territories of the 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 fire of liberty which God has lighted in every mans heart, and which all the powers of ignor ance and tyranny can never wholly ex tlngulsh. The Republican party camo to deliver and save the republic. It entered the arena when tho 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 on 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 tho high duties of the govern ment. The light which shone from its banner dispelled tho darkness in which slavery had enshrouded tho capital and melted the shackles of every slave, and consumed. In the fire of liberty, erery slave pen within the shadow of the eapi taL Unr national industries, by an Im poverishing policy, were themselves pros trated, and the streams of revenue flowed in such feeble currents that the treasury itself was well nigh empty. The money of the 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 publican party changed all this. It abol ished tho 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 God, fought the final battle of liberty untfl 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 yon loin us in lifting to the serene firmament of the constitution, to shine 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 the law.' Then came the questions of reconstruc tion, the public debt and the public faith In the settlement of the questions the Re- Eublican party has completed its twenty ve 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 ThermopykB. We are standing upon a narrow isthmus. If our Spartan hosts are united we can with stand all the Persians that ii Tfr of. Democracy can onng against us. ut us bold our ground this one year, for the stars in their course fight for us In the future.1 The census taken this year will bring re-enforcements 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-Blaine man The vote of every follower of every candi date Is needed to make our success certain, therefore 1 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 l have spoken. We want a man who, standing on a mountain height, sees all the achievements of our past history, and carries iu his heart the memory of all its glortotiH deeds, and who. looking forward, prepares to meet the labor and the dangers to coma We want one who will act in uo spirit of unkindness toward those we lately, met in battle. The Republican party'offers to our brethren of the south th 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, I 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, whoso 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 sweued Into the 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 monuments. I point you to twenty -five J ears of national statutes. Not one great eueficent 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 carried us through the war. His hand was seen in the workmanship of those statutes that created tho 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 the 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 three 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. The great fiscal affairs of the nation, and the great j business interests of the country, he has j guarded ana preservea, wnue 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. He has shown himself able to meet with calmness the great emergencies of the government for twenty-five years. He as trodden the perilous heights of pub lic duty, and against all the shafts of malico has borne his breast unharmed. He has stood In the blaze of "that fierco light that heats against the throno," but its fiercest ray has found no flaw in his armor, no 6taln on his shield. I do not present him as a better Republican or as a better man than thousands of others we honor, but I present him for your dellber ate consideration. I nominate John Sher man, of Ohio. FRYE NOMINATING BLAINE. II U Speech In the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1880. I once saw a storm at sea In the night time, an old ship battling for Its lifo with the fury of the tempest; darkness every where; the winds raging and howling; the huge 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 ever where. I saw at the helm a bold, coura geous. Immovable, commanding man. In the tempest, calm; in the commotion, quiet: in the danger, bopefuL 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 lost 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 our constitution. The eyes of the whole na tion were on her, and intense anxiety filled every American heart, lest tho grand old ship, the "State of Maine." might tro down beneath the waves forever, carrying her precious freight with her. 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 he brought that 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 us to this convention with a memory of her own salvation from pending peril fresh upon her. To you representatives of 60.000.000 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 e will bring yon safety and certain vic tory.'" JUDGE WEST, OF OHIO. His Speech in the National Republican Convention at Chicago, Jane, 1884, Nom inating James G. Blaine for the Presi dency. As a delegate to the Chicago conven tion of I860, the proudest servico of my life was performed by voting for tho nom ination of that inspired emancipator, the 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 skies have lowered and reverses have threatened, but our flag is still there, waving above tho 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 hi 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 the immortal spirit of the Immortal martyr who first bore it to victory, bidding us hall 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 trlnmohatrainl i uommlflt to tno oeartng of that chief, the inspiration of whose Illustrious char acter and great namo will firo the hearts of our young men. stir tho blood of our manhood and reklndlo tho fervor of the veterans, and the closing of the seventh campaign will see that holy ensign span ning the sky like a bow of promise. Po litical conditions are changed since the accession of the Republican party to power The mighty issues of the 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, have ceased their contentions. The subordi nate issues resulting therefrom are settled and buried away with the dead soldiers of the past. I ho 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 the conquering battalions from the farm, the anvil and the loom, from the mines, the workshop and the desk, from the 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 coma Does not sound political wisdom dic tate and demand that a leader shall be given to them whom our peoplo will fol low, not as conscripts advancing by fu nereal marches to certain defeat, but a grand civic hero, whom tho souls of the people desiro. and whom they will follow with all the enthusiasm of volunteers, as they sweep on and onward to certain vie tory, a representative of American man hood, a representative of that living Re publicanism that demands the amplest industrial 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 bo intrusted our battlo flag? Citizens, I am not hero to do it. and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do abate one tithe from the just fame, integrity and public honor of Chester A. Arthur, our president. I abate not one tithe from tho just fame and public integ rity of George F. Edmunds, of Joseph U. Hawley, of John Sherman, of that grand old black eagle of Illinois. And 1 am proud to know that these distinguished senators whom I have named have borne like testimony to the public life, the pub lic character and the public integrity of him whose confirmation brought 1dm to the highest office second In dignity only to tho office of president itself the first premiership in tho administration of James A. Garfield. A man for whom senators and rivals will vote for the sec retaryship of stato of the United States Is good enough for a plain flesh and blood God's peoplo to vote for for president. Who shall be our candidate? Not tho representative of a particular interest or a particular class. Send tho great procla mation to tho country labeled "Tho Doc tor's Candidate. " "The Lawyer's Candi date." "The Wall Street Candidate,- and the hand of resurrection will not fathom his November grave. Gentlemen, he must be a representative of that Republicanism that demands the absolute political as well as tho 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 homo or abroad, whether under tho sky of Bismarck, under the Palmetto, under the Pelican, or on tho banks of tho 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 tho namo 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 Maino. If nominated to-night his campaign would commence to-morrow and continue uutil victory Is assured. There would be no powder burned to fire into the backs of his leaders. It would only be exploded to illuminate the Inauguration. The brazen throats of the cannon in yonder square, waiting to herald the result of the con veution. would not havo time to cool bo fore his name would be caught up on ten thousand tongues of electric flame. 1 1 would sweep down from the old Pine Tree state. It would go over the hills and val leys of New England. STATE RESPONSES. As the States Were Called la the Repub lican Convention off 1868. California We come here 3,000 miles to cast our votes for Gen. Grant. Colorado The Rocky mountains of Col orado say 6 votes for Gen. Grant. Connecticut Unconditionally surren ders her 12 votes to Gen. Grant. Florida, the land of flowers, gives six votes to Gen. Grant. Georgia cast her vote through Governor Brown, who said The Republicans of Georgia, many of whom were tho original Secessionists, recognize the wisdom of the maxim, "enemies in war. in peace friends. and heartily desiring to speed the restora tion of the union, harmony. jeace and good government. Instruct me. through their representatives here, to cast 18 votes for Gen Grant. Kansas, the John Brown state, gives 6 votes for Grant. Louisiana gives 14 votes for Grant. and we propose to fight it out on that line if it takes all summer. Maryland, believing that our great cap tain will crush treason In the cabinet, as ho crushed it In the field. "Maryland, my Maryland." gives 14 votes for Grant. Minnesota, the North Star state, gives all she has. 8 votes, for Grant. Mississippi, the home of Jeff Davis, re pudiates the traitor, and offers her 14 votes for Grant. Montana. The mountains of Montana, whence flow the waters of the Columbia and the Mississippi, are vocal with the name of Grant, to whom she gives 2 votes Nebraska, the last state admitted to the Uulon, and the first to adopt impartial suffrage, gives 6 votes for Grant. Nevada, the Silver state, has only 6 votes, but proposes to give six mora next fall for Grant New Jersey Her delegation, instructed by her convention, which spoke the voice of every man of the Republican party within her borders, deliver their 14 votes for Grant, not only their victorious soldier, but conspicuous for calmness of judgment, sincerity of patriotism and per sonal honesty North Carolina, known as tho land of the Tar Heels, gives 18 votes for Grant, and will give a majority of 86.000 votes for him, all of which will stick. Ohio has the honor of being the mother of our great leader Ohio is the line, and "uuder that line" Ohio proposes, under the captain who never knew defeat, to fight it out through the summer and in the autumn, when the great victory will be secured. Ohio casts 42 votes for Grant. Rhode Island. Little Rhody. small in stature, but great in patriotic impulses, gives her 8 votes for Grant and wishes she had more. South Carolina, tho birthplace and borne of Calhoun and the doctrine of state rights, first to withdraw herself from the Uuion. directs her representatives sent here by a majority of 43,470. returning, as we do, to the counsels of those who de sired only to preserve the Union, arm and arm and heart to heart with Massachn setts, to give her 12 votes for Grant. Tennessee, beinar one .of the. southern states mat was lorveu luioreoeinon. oeing the first to reconstruct, ask. and be ad mitted into the Union, and today being in the enjoyment of tho most liberal Repub lican government In the United States, and with tho solemn pledge never again to present the name for president or vice president of such a traitor as A. Johnson, casts 20 votes for Grant. Texas, the Empire State of the south, containing 275.000 square miles, and ca pablo of sustaining 20.000.000 of people, casts 8 votes for Grant Virginia. Rising from the grave that Gen. Grant dug for her at Appomattox in 1865. comes up here with 20 votes and en lists under his banner They propose next November to move on the euemy a works West Virginia. A corner of the rebel Hon which never gave a Democratic ma jority. gives freely and willingly her 10 votes for Grant Wisconsin the last of the roll of states, adds her voice to that of her sister states and gives 16 votes for Grant. STATE RESPONSES In the National Republican Convention of 1873. Michigan William A. Howard. Mich! gan has 22 delegates: not an office holder among them. They were sent here not as a delegation of office holders We repre sent the Republican party of our state. We cast 22 votes for U S. Grant, and only regret that they are not 44. Mississippi James Lyuch (colored) Mississippi, with her sixteen delegates, requests me to put that great state on national record as appreciating the wants of all this great country, as gratefully recognizing the heroic and patriotic of the whole country; as pledged to maintain the liberty and political equality of all men, without regard to race or color, by nominating one for tho presidency of the United States whoso connection with na tional affairs constitutes oneof the bright est pages of the history of the republic. President U. S Grant. Nebraska gives her 6 votes for the tanner who will tan the hldo of Horace In the vat of Democratic corruption and damnation, U. S. Grant. Nevada Mr. Stevenson The Silver state of the Union casts her 6 votes for Grant. New Hampshire Governor Smith New Hampshire, one of the old thirteen states and the birthplace of Horace Greeley ca3ts for Ulysses S. Grant 10 votes, and she will give him her electoral vote in November. New York Mr. Townsend The Em Sire state, by the unanimous wish of our elegates, intrusts mo to cast her 70 votes for thai man of whom Greeley said he never had been beaten and never will be, U. S. Grant. North Carolina The stato called the Tar Heel stato intends to stick to U. S Grant with her 12 votes. Ohio, the birthplace of Ulysses S Grant, presents her united front. As to this nomination today Ohio, that never failed or faltered when Republican work was to be done Ohio promises to the con vention and to the country 60.000 ma jority for tho nominee. Ohio casts her united vote. 44, only for Ulysses S (5 rant Tennessee E. A. Todd lam instructed by tho Republicans from the state of Tennessee to cast her 24 votes for the most gallant soldier the world ever saw. Ulysses S. Grant- Did n't Quite Understand. "What are you doing?" demanded s citizen of a countryman who was criti eally examining the former's electric boll knob "Say. mister.' replied the countryman straightening up. "there's stithin the matter with your door bell. The knob s got pulled clear into the hole." Burling ton Free Press- A farmer near Chebanso, Ills., having an ox that did not obey orders, concluded that the animal was deaf and bought an ear trumpet, which worked with great success. The animal had lost its appetite, but with its return of hearing ate heartily The ear trumpet is fastened hi placo by wires around one of the horns. Tho story is from a western paper, and no cbromo goes with It. 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