Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-06-22

that State. Cheers, applause and
laughter. If the nominee Of this con-
vention cannot carry the grand old
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by
seventy-five thousand majority,
would advise them to sell out Faneuil
Hall as a Democratic headquarters.
[Cheers and laughter ! would advise
them to take from Bunker Hill that
old monument of glory. The Repub-
licans of the United States demand as
their leader in the great contest of 1876
a man o. intellect, man of integrity,
man Of well-kLown and approved po-
litical opinion CHEERS; they demand a
statesman; they demand a reformer
after as well as before the election.
/ [Cheers. They demand politician
in the highest and broadest and best
sense of the word. Cheers. They de-
mand man acquainted with public
affairs, with the wants of the people,
with not only the requirements of the
hour but with the demands of the fu-
ture. They demand a man broad
enough to comprehend the relations of
this Government to the other nations
of the earth. Applause. They de-
mand a man well versed in the powers,
duties and prerOgations of each and
every department of this Government.
CApplause. They demand man who
will sacredly preserve the financial
honor of the United States; cheers
one who knows enough to know that
the National debt must be paid through
the prosperity of this people; one who
knows enough to know that all the
financial theories in the world cannot
redeem a single dollar [applausel; one
who knows enough to know that all
the money must be made, not by law,
but by labor cheers |; one who knows
enough to know that tne people 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.
! GCheers. The Republicans of the Uni
ted States demand a man who knows
that prosperity and resumption, when
they come, must come together
| [Cheers. When they come, they will
come hand in hand-hand in hand
through the golden harvest fields; hand
in hand by the whirling spindles and
the turning wheels; hand in hand past
the open furnace doors; hund in hand
by the flaming forges; hand in hand by
the chimneys filled with eager fire.
reeked 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 ii. by passing resolutions
in a political meeting. Applause.
The Republicans of the United States
want man who knows that this Gov
ernment should protect every citizen
at home and abroad tcheers]; who
knows that any government that will
not defend its defenders and will not
protect its protectors is d disgrace to the
mep of the world [applause]; they de-
mand man who believes in the eter-
nal separation and enforcement of
church and schools, they demand a
man whose political reputation is spot
less as star, but they do not demand
that their candidate shall have certiii-
cate of moral character signed by a
Confederate Congress. Great cheer
ing. The man who has in full habit
and rounded measure all of these splen-
did qualifications is the present grand
and gallant leader of the Republican
party. James G. Blaine. Cheers.l
Our country, crowded with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for man worthy of her
past, prophetic of her future; asks for
man who has the audacity of genius
[applausel; |; asks for man who is the
grandest combination of heart, con-
science and brains beneath the flag.
Applause. That man is James G.
Blaine applausej; for the Republican
host LED by this intrepid man there can
be no such thing as defeat. Applase.
This is grand year-a year rilled with
the recOllections of the revolution ap-
plusel; filled with the legends of liber-
ty; year in which the sons of freedom
drink from the fountain of enthusiasm
[applausel; year in which the people
cali for man who has preserved in
Congress what our soldiers won upon
the field [applause]; a year in which
we call for the man that has torn from
the throat of treason the tongue of SLAM
der [applauseI; man that has snatch
ed the mask of Democracy from the
hideous face of rebellion; 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 plumed knight, James q. Blaine
marched down the halls of the Amerl- |
can Congress, and threw his shining
lance full and fair against the brazen
forehead of every deiamer of this coun-
try and maligner of its honor. Loud
cheers, and cries of Time, and Go on
The Chairman-Is it the will of the
Convention that the time oil the speak
er be extended ten minutes? Cries of
'Yes.'7
Col. Ingersoll continued: For the Re-
publican party to desert that gallant
man now is.as though an army should
desert their general on the field of bat
tie. 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
free. [Cheers.] Gentlemen
Of the Convention, in the name of the
great republic, the only republic that
ever existed upon this earth, in the
name of all her defenders and of all her
in the name of all her sol
1iersl living, in the name of all her SOL
iiers that died upon the field of battle,
and those who perished in the skeleton
dutch of famine at Andersonville and
Libby Tcheers1, whose suffering he so
remembers, Illinois-Illi- +,
lois nominates for the next President
If this Country that prince of parlia-
that leader of leaders, !
lanes G. Blaine. Loud and repeated 5
.heers.
Mr.. Turner, colored delegate fol- {
ow ed, and also Mr.. Frye, of Maine, r
Who seconded the nomination of Blaine +
mid great applause. +
Gen. Woodford responded to the call :
# New York, and nominated Roscoe n
amid enthusiasm. He made a
n extended speech, appealing for
andidate that will insure success, and i.
eminded the Convention of recent U
victories and urped that II