The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09

make this man fit beyond all others. Let not
experience disquaiify or excellence impeach
HIM. There Is no third term IN the case and
the pretense win die with political dog DAYS
which geDderedit. Nobody is really worried
about a third term, except those hopelessly
longing for first term and the uupes they
have made without bureaus, committees, Off
Gals or emisSaries to manufacture sentiment
IN his favor, without intrigue or effort on his
part. Grant Is the candidate whose supporters
have never threatened to bolt unless the Con-
vention did they said. He is a Republican
who never waivers He and his friends stand by
the creed and candidates of the Republican
party holding the rightful rule of a majority
as the very essence of their faith and meaning
TO uphold that faith against the common
from time 20 time deploy between the lines
and forage on the one side or the other. The
Democratic party is standing protest against
progress, 1is purpose ITS spoils; its nope
ana vely existence is a Solid SOU
lis success is a menance TO prosperity
and order. This Convention is master OF
supreme opportunity. 1t can name the next
President of the United States and make sure
of his election and peaceful inauguration. 1t
can break the power which dominates and
milde ws the South. 1t can speed the Nation
in a career OF grandeur ecipsing all past
the din and look beyond the dust OF an hour
to behold the Republican party advancing 10
victory with its greatest marshal at its head.
Tremendous applause.l
SHERMAN PIT IN NOMINATION.
Mr.. Garfield then presented the name of
John Sherman in the following speech:
Mr. PREsIDENT-I have witnessed the extra
ordinary scenes of this Convention with deep
solicitude. No emotion touches my heart
more quickly than sentiment In honor of
great and noble character, bat sat on these
seats and witnessed these demon pstrattons,
and 1t seemed to me you were a human ocean
in a tempest. have seen the sea lashed into
fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur
moves the soul OF the dulIest man; but 1 re-
member that 1t is not the bilows, but the calm
level of the sea from which all heights and
a. nv,fh IorO min ali f1aa
torn has passed and the hour OF calm settles
on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its
smooth surface, then the astronomer ana sur
veyor takes the level from which he measures
all terrestrial heights and depths Applause.
Gentlemen of the Convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthtul pulse OF
our people. When our enthusiasm has passed,
when the emotions of this hoar have subslded
we shall find that calm level OF public opinion
mighty people are to be measured, and
by which their nnal action will be
determined lapplausej, not here in this bril-
liant circle, where 10 6o0 men and women
assembled is the destiny of the Republican
party to be declared L''Tnat is so."l; not here
where see the enthusiastic faces OF 100 dele
gates waiting to cast their votes in turn ana
determine the choice OF the Republic zap
TesSf; egss where fet be Ho5ea5
with wives and children about them,
with calm thoughts. inspired by
love of home and love of country, with
the history of the past, the hopes OF the fu
ture and the knowledge OF the great men who
have adorned and blessed our Nation in days
gone by. There Goa pre- epares the verdict that
shall determine the wisdom of our work TO-
night. lApplause Not in Chicago in the
heats or June, bat in the sonber quiet that
comes to them between now and November.
In the silence of deliberate judgment will this
great question be settled. lCTies OF "Gcod?'l
Let us aid them tonight. lGreat applause
But now, gentlemen of the Convention, what
do want? A voice, "GaTfield!" followed
by applause.l Bear with me moment; hear
me Tor this cause, and for mom' nJ be silent,
that you may hear. Cries OF "GoOdHl
Twenty five years ago this Republic was
wearing a triple chain OF bondage. Long
familiarity with traffic in the bodies asd
souls of men had paralyZed the c0nsciences OF
a majority OF our people. The baleinl doc,
weakened the DOblest and most bene fcent
powers of the National Government, and the
gTasping powers OF % slsVery w was seILlng tne
them into the den of eternal bondage. AT that
crisis the Repub lean party was born; It drew
its first inspiration from that fire of liberty
which God has lighted in every human heart,
and which the powers of ignorance and tyr
any can never wholly extinguish. Applause J
save the Republic. 1t entered the arena where
| the beleagured and assailed Territories were
| struggling for freedom and drew around them
| sacred circle of liberty, which the demon of
slavery has never dared to cross. 1t made
them Tree forever. Loud applause and cries
Of"GOo1."l strengthened by II S victory On the
| frontier, the young party under the leadership
of that great man, who, on this spot twenty
years ago was made its leader and en-
| the high duties of government. APP
| plausel. The light which shone from
| its banner dlspelIed the darkness IN which
5 avery had enshrouded the Capital, and 10
| that melted the sbackles of every slave, and
| consumed in the fire OF liberty every slave
pen within the shadow of the
| Capital Our great National industries, by
| unprotected policy, were themselves prostrat-
feeble currents that the treasury Itself was we'll
nigh empty. The money OF the people was
| the wretcned notes OF 1900 uncontrolled aud
which were filling the country with n circula-
| tion that poisoned rather than sustained the
| life of business. Loud applause TIE
ft hepG4Gh Abolished p tns BABEL % Of co Confusion 5I
| and gave the country currency as national
| as its flag, based upon the sacred faith of the
| people. lAppiause.l 1t threw protecting arm
| around our great Industries, and they stood
erect as with new li;e. 1t filled with the spirit
/ of true nationality ali the great functions OF
| the Government. 1t confronted rebellion OF
unexampled magnitude, with slavery behind
/ it, and under God fought the final battle OF
/ Tnen, after the storms of battle were heard,
| tine sweet, calm words OF peace spoken
by the conqueIlng Nation and say
lTs Illustrate as Sts feet aThs Sy
| only revenge, that you join us in lifting it in
| the serene ornament of the Constitution 70
shine like stars forever and ever the immor
| tai principles of truth and justice that all men
| white or black. shall be free and stand equal
| before the law" Loud applause.J Then came
| the questions of reconstruc ion. the public
debt and public faith. In thesettlement OF
| these questions the Republican party has
completed its twenty-five years OF glorious
existence, and 1t has sent us here to prepare
1t for another lustrum of duty and o
victory. How shall we do this great
work? We can not do it, my friends, by as
sailing our Republican brethren. [Great ap.
plause and cries of 'goOd.''l God forbid that
should say one word TO cast shadow upon
any name on the roll of our heroes. This
coming fight is our Thermopyl@. We are
| standing upon narrow isthmus. If oul
| AnQrtan hosts united Withstand
the Greeks that the Xerxes of the Democracy
can bring against us. Let US hold our
ground this one year for ''tht
| stars in their cOurse;" fight
for us In the future. The census TO be takeI
this year will bring relnforcements and con
| tinued power lappiausel; but in order to wiI
| this victory now, we want the vote of every
Republican, of every Grant Republican and
every anti-Grant Republican in Amerlcs
lgreat applausel-of every Blaine man anC
every anu-Baine man. The vote OF every
fnllnxuer candidate IL r,eeded