The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-06-24

cannot redeem q single dollar applause]
one who knows enough to know that all the
money must be made, not by law, but by la
Dor cheersl one who knows enough tC
know that all the people of the United States
must have the industry to make the money
and the honor to pay 1t over just as fast as
they make it, [Cheers. The republicans Of
the United States demand man who know:
that prosperity and resumption when they
come must come together Cheers. When
they come they will come hand ~ hand
hand in hand through the golden harves
field hand in hand by the whlrllng spindleS
and turning wheels; hand in hand past the
open furnace doors; hand in hand by the
aamlng fOrges hand in hand by the chin
neys filled with eager fire and grasped by the
hands of the countless sons OF toll. ThiS
money has got to be dug out OF the earth
You cannot make it by passing resolutions
in political meeting. Applause The
republicans of the United States want man
who knows that this government should pro
| tect every citizen at home and abroad
| Cheers, Who knows that any government
that will not defend its defenders and will
not protect its protectors is a disgrace TO the
map Of the world, [Applause.l They de
mand u man who believes IN the eternal sep
aration and enforcement Of church and
schools; they demand a man whose political
reputation is spotless as star, bat they DC
not demand that this candidate shall have
certificate of moral character signed by a
confederate congress. Great cheering The
man who has in iull habit and rounded
measure all of these splendid qualifications
is the present grand and gallant leader Of the
republican party, James G.. Blaine. Cheers.
Our country, crowned with the vast and mar
velons achievements of its first century, asks
for man who has the audacIty OF genius
- applause ; asks for a man who is the
grandest combination of heart, conscience,
and brain beneath the flag. Applause
That man is James G. Blaine. Applause.
For the republican host led by this intrepid
man there can be no such thing as defeat.
Applause This is a grand year; year
nlled with the recollection Of the revolution
-[applause filled with proud and tender
memories OF the sacred past: filled with the
legends of liberty-a year in which the
sons Of freedom will drink from the fountain
of enthuslasm-[ applause "a year in which
the people call for a man who has preserved
in congress what our soldiers won upon the
field cheers "a year IN which we call for
the man that has torn from the throat of
treason the tongue of slander-[applause]; -
man that has snatched the mask of demo
cracy from the hideous face of rebellion a
man who, like an intellectual athlete stood
IN the arena of debate, challenged all corners.
and who up to the present moment is total
stranger to defeat Applause Like an
armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James
e. Blaine marched down the halls of Ameri-
can congress and threw his shining lance full
and fair against the brazen forehead of every
defamer OF this country and maligner of It's
honor Loud cheers and cries OF "tme"
and $50 on
The Chairman-Is 1t the will of the con.
vention that the time of the speaker be ex-
tended 10 minutes Cries of Yes"
Col. lngerson then proceeded: For the re-
publican party to desert that man now is as
though an army should desert their general
upon the field OF battle James c. Blaine is
now and has been for years the bearer of the
sacred standard of the republic. [Cheers.
| call it sacred because no human being can
stand beneath its folds without becoming and
without remaining free. [Cheers.l Gentle
men of the convention, in the name of the
greatest republic, the only republic that ever
existed upon the earth, in the name of all
her defenders and OF all her supporters, in
he name of all of her soldiers that died upon
The field of battle and in the name Of those |
who persisted In the skeleton clutches of ia
mine at AndersonvIlle and Libby cheers
whose suffering he so sloquently remem.
1ers, Illinois nominates for the next presi |
lent of this country that prince of parlamen.
arians, that leader OF leaders, James G.
Blaine Loud and protracted cheers.