The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-29

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| [eheersl who knows that nny geYem-
ment that will not defend its defenders
and will not protect it's protectors is o
| disgrace to the mass of the world.
| TApplause.l They demand a man who
believes I'M the eternal separation and
divorcement of Church and schools
they demand man whose political
reputation is spotless as a star, but
they do not demaiid that their cam
didate shall have a certificate of moral
character signed by Confederate
Congress. Great clieering.1 The
man who has, in full habit and fbund-
| ed measure, all of these splendid quail
| ifications is the present grand and
gallant leader of the Republican party,
James q. Blaine. [Cheers.] Our
country, crowned with the vast and
marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for a man worthy OF
her past-prophetic of her future; asks
for man who has the audacity of
genius [applause]; asks for a man who
is the grandest combination of heart,
conscience, and brains beneath the
flag. [Applause.] That man is James
G. Blaine. [Applqltse.l For the Re.
publican host, Ted by that intrepid
man, there cant be no such thing as
defeat. [Applause. This is grand
year-a year filled with the recollec-
ton of the Revolution [applause]j
filled with proud andtetder memories
of the sacred past; filled With the
legends of liberty; year in which the
sons of Freedom will drink from the
fountain of enthusiasm [applause1;
year in which the people call for man
who has preserved in Congress what
our soldiers won upon the field [clieers;l
lido, ,iol, xx-., fs,rt hn mn
that has torn from the throat of tren-
son the tongue of slander [applause];
! a man that has snatched the mask of
Democracy from the hideous face of
rebellion, u man who, like an intel-
lectual athlete, stood in the arena of
debate, challenged all comers, and
| who, up to the present tttUineht is Il
total stranger to defeat. Applause.J
| Like ali armed warrior, like plumed
knight, James G. Blaine marched
down the halls of the American Con-
gress and threw his shining lances full
and fair against the brazeh forehead
of every defamer of his country and
maligner of its honor. Loud cheers
and cries of time" and Ego on."]
The Chairman. Is 1t the will of the
convention that the time ofthe speaker
be extended ten minutes9 [Cries of
"Yes."1
Colonel tngersoll then proceeded.
For the Republican party to desert
that gallant man now is worse than If
an army should desert their general
upon the field of battle. [Cheers.
James G. 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.
Gentleman of the Convention, in the
name of the great Republic-the only
! Republic that ever existed upon this
eartli-in the name of all her defenders
and of all her supporters; in the name
of all her soldiers living; in the name
of all her soldiers who died upon the
field Of battle, and in the name of
those that perished in the skeleton
clutch of famine at Andersohville and
Libby chccrs], whose .sufterings he
SO eloqueiltly remembers. Illinois
noininates for the next President of
this country that prince parliament-
arinhs, that leader of leaders, james
G. Blaine. Loud and repeated cheers.