The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-22
A BLAINE SPEECH.
From Col. Robert 1ngersoll, of Ill

IuC NlIClildUl COllNGullOh lhoV WOVhi otJ
ing Bristow was the only man who was
sure to carry Massachusetts, at the next
election. He was followed by CO.. Robt,
Ingersoll, of Illinois, in Blaine speech,
pointed epigrammatic style. We copy
from the Commercial;
AND THEN BLAINE.
Upon the close of Mr.. Dana's speech,
Col. Robert Ingersoll, of Illinois, appear
ed upon the platform, and it was under
stood that he was to nominate Blaine,
the friends of the latter gentleman broke
out into storm of cheers, which was
continued for several minutes, and closed
with three rousing cheers for the man
from Maine When the tumult subsidized
Col. Ingersol spoke as follows; Massa-
Chusetts may be satisfied with the loyal
ty of Benjamin II. Bristow, SO am L.
| Applause. But if any man nominated
by this convention cannot carry the
State of Massachusetts, am not satisfied
with the loyalty of that State. Cheers,
applause and laughter.] fthe nominee
of this convention cannot carry the grand
old Commonwealth Of Massachusetts by
seventy five thousand majority, would
advise them to sell out Faneuil Hall as
Democratic headquarters. [Cheers
and laughter | would advise them to
take from Bunker Hill that monument
ofglory The Republicans of the United
States demand as their leader in the
great contest of 1875 4 man of intellect, a
man Of integrity, a man of we'll known
and approved political opinion, cheers]
they demand statesman they demand
reformer after as well as before the
election. [Cheersl They demand a
politician in the highest and broadest
and best sense of that word. They de-
mand man acquainted with public af-
fairs, with the wants of the people, with
not only the requirements of the hour,
bnt with the demands of the future
They demand man broad enough to
comprehend the relations of this Gov
ernment to the other nations of the earth.
| Applause They demand a man we'll
versed in the powers, duties, and prero-
gatives of each and every department of
this Government. [Applause. They
demand man who will sacredly pre-
serve the financial honor of the United
States; 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 can
OF redeem single dollar, [applause1
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 the 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. [Cheers The
Republicans of the United Sta es demand
a man who knows that prosperity and
resumption, when they come, must come
together. [Cheers. When they come
they come hand in hand-hand in hand
through the golden harvest fields; hand
in hand by the whirling spindles and
turning wheels; hand in hand PAST the
open furnace doors; hand in hand by the
flaming fOrges; hand in hand by the
chimneys filled with eager smoke. reek-
ed and grasped by the hands of the
co lntless sons of toll. This money has
got to be dug out of the earth. You can
not make money by passing resolutions
in political meeting. (Applause.) The
Republicans of the United States want
man who knows that this Government
should protect every citizen at home and
abroad; who knows that any government
that will not defend its defenders, and
will not protect its protectors is dis
grace to the map of the world; (applause)
they demand man who believes in the |
eternal separation of church and schools
they demand man whose political rep
utation is spotless as a star; but they do |
not demand that their candidate shall |
have a certificate of moral character |
signed by Confederate Congress. (Great |
cheering.) The man who has in full habit |
and rounded measures all of these splen-
did qualifications is the present gallant
leader of the Republican party, James
G. Blaine.
Our country, crowded with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for a man worthy of her
past, prophetic of her future; asks for a
man who has the audacity of genius;
(applause) asks for a man who is the
grandest combination of heart, brains
and conscience beneath the flag (Ap-
plause.) 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 is grand year-a year filled with the |
recolleCtions of the Revolution; filed |
with proud and tender memories of the |
sacred past; filed with the legends of
liberty; a year in which the sons of free
dom drink from the fountain of enthusi-
asm; year in which the people call for
man who has preserved in Congress
what our soldiers won upon the field; a
year in which we call for the man that |
has torn from the throat of treason the |
tongue of SANDER; man that has taken
the mask of Democracy from the hideous
face of rebellion; a man who, like an in
tellectual athlete, stood in the arena of
debate. challenged all comers and who,
up to the present moment. is a total
stranger to defeat. (Applause.) Like
an armed warrior, like plumed knight,
James G. Blaine marched down the halls
Of the American Congress, and threw his
shining lance full and fair against the
brazen forehead of every defamer of this
RON6TuuOuG anu uldllBuOI VI lIb uOHOT.
loud cheers, and cries of Time" and
go on.")
The Chairman-1s it the will Of the
convention that the time of the speaker
be extended ten minutes? (Cries of
"Yes.w Y
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 battle.-
James G. Blaine is now, and has been
for years, the bearer of the sacred stand
ard of the republic. (Cheers) l call it |
sacred, because no human being can
stand beneath its folds with becoming
and without remaining free. Gentlemen
of the convention, in the name of the
great republic, the only republic which
ever existed upon this earth, in the name
of all her defenders and of all her sup
porters, in The name of all her soldiers |