Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-29

| demand man well versed in the power, duties,
and prerogatives of each and every department Of
this government. Applause. They demand
man who will sacredly preserve the financial honor
| of the United States. Applause. One who
| knows enough TO know that the national debt
| must be paid from the prosperity of the people.
| [Applause.1 Who knows enough to know that
| all financial theories in the world can not redeem
a single dollar [applause]; who knows enough to
| know that all money must be made, not by law
| but by labor lapplausel; one who knows enough
to know that the people of the United States have
| the industry to make the money and the honor to
pay it over just fast as they can. The repubii-
| cans Of the United States demand man who
| knows that prosperity and resumption when they
| come must come together [applause); when they
| come they will come hand in hand through the
| golden harvest of the fields lapplause hand IN
hand by the whiring spindles and the turning
| wheel hand in hand past the open furnace doors
| hand in hand by the flaming forge; hand IN hand
by the chimney filled with eager fire, rocking and
| graspng by the hand of the conqqering sons
| of toll. Applause.
This money has got to be dug out of the earth.
| You cannot make it by passing resolutions IN po-
| ltical meeting The republicans of the United
| States want man who knows that this govern
| ment should protect every citizen at home or
abroad; who knows that every government that
will defend its offenders and Will not protect us
protectors is a disgrace to the map of the world
loud applause. They demand man whose
political reputation is as spoess as Is star, oui
| they do not demand that their candidate shall
/ q
| Confederate Congress. Vocferous applause
| The man who has in full heart and rounded meas,
all the qualifications is the present grand ana
gallant leader Of the republican PARTY, james u.
| Blame. Loud applause.
Our country, crowned by the vast and marvel
Gus achievements OF its first century, asks Tor
| man worthy of her past and prophetic OF her
| future; asks for a man who has the audacHy OF
| genius; asks for man who has the grandest com
| bination of heart, conscience and brain beneath
| her flag. Applause That man is James q.
| Blaine. Tremendous applause. For the repuo-
lcan hosts, led by this intrepid man, there can be
no such thing as defeat. [Aprlsuse.I This Is a
grand year-a year filled with the recollectons OF
the Revolution [applausel; filled with proud and
tender memories of the sacred past; tlllec with
| legends of liberty-a year in which the sons oil
freedom will drink from the fountain OF enthu-
siam;.a year in which the people cail ior the
| man who has preserved in Congress what their
| soldiers won upon the field. Loud applause
| year in which We call for the man who
has torn from the throat of treason the
| tongue Of the slanderer. Loud applause The
| from the hideous face Of the rebellion the man
who, like the intellectual athlete, hath stood in the
arena of debate challenging all corners and who
up to the present moment is total stranger to de-
| feat Applause. Like the armed warrior, like
the plumed knight, James e. Blaine marched
| down the halls of the American Congress and
| threw his shining lance full and fair against the
brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and
| every mallgnef OF MS lar reputallon IIe"enu'
GUS applanse.J
Time being called on the speaker, the conven-
| ton extended the rule, and allowed him to con-
tinue as follows
For the republican party to desert that gallant
| man now is as though the army should desert their
| General on the field of battle. James G. Blaine
| is now and has been for years the bearer of the
sacred standard of the republican party. call it
sacred because no human being can stand beneath
dc with hncn andy ms Dipu
free Loud applause.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION In the
name of the great republic, the only republic that
| ever existed upon the surface of the earth; in the
| name of all her defenders aud of all her support
ers in the name of all her soldiers that died upon
( the field of battle, and in the name of those that
peri he'd in the skeleton clutch of famine at An
derville and Libby [spplausel whose suferings he
| 80 wildly remembers, Illinois dominates for the
next President of this country that prince Of par
| liamentarians, that leader of leaders, James c.
Blaine. Loud and uproarious applause.
| IOLi7ICAL.
The democrats of the First Congressional Dis
trict of California have split because of the renom
naton of Mr.. Piper, and his opponents have
called convention in San Francisco, July |, to
| put another candidate in the field.
The democrats on Monday evinced their desire
| to inconvenience the public and block the wheels
| of business by refusing to pass the Presidents
olution to authorize the use Of unexpended baan-
| ces in the event of the non passage of the Appro
| pration bills. The vote was strictly partisan
| yeas 81 nays ll2-whereas a two-thirds afrma-
| tive was necessary for its passage.
| The man who under took to interview Governor
Hendricks might as well have tried to hold an eel
| for careful inspection. The boldest thing said by
l uas hat nd an dea hut wo
not express it." After conversation of desul-
tory nature the Governor, in reply to pleasantly
INDUCED in by the interviewer, said "When
become President can tell you more than can
| now" Hendricks all over.
GENERAL Ne US.
Niagara Falls are to be illuminated on the night
| of the Fourth.
In Texas cities people wear colored goggles to
guard their eyes from reflection of the sun from
| the sidewalks.
Both Servians and Turks are gathering at the
| Morava river the crossing of which by the form
er will bring battle.
| The Paris Kentuckian says that the average age
of tie forty five soldiers Of the of 1912 who
met in that city last Monday is eighty years,
| three months and six days.
| Mr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has completed his
HYMN of welcome to all nations, to be sung at the
| Centennial ceremonies on the Fourth Of July at
| Philadelphia
| Henry Ward Beccher has been engaged by the
Redpath Bureau of Boston to lecture eighty nights
the coming season for 900. Mark Twain W i'll
write and deliver some new sketches for limited
number of nights
Much interest is manifested in New Orleans in
reports that native quicksilver has been discovered
on the bank of the Mississippi, a few miles below
that city. The New Orleans Atheneum has APP
pointed commission to investigate the subject
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll's father n-aw died at
PEORIA H., last week. The funeral services were
| conducted by Col. Ingersoll himself no clergyman
being present. At the house he made the follow
ing remarks "To fulfil promise made years
| ago, it is necessary for me to say word. He
whom we are about to lay in the earth was gen.
| tle kind and loving in his life He was ambitious