River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-17

snrOuueu the capitol, ana To the rlNeieu
| shackles of every slave, and consum ed
in the fire of liberty every slave pen
within the shadow ofthe capitol. Our
great national industries, by an unpro-
tected policy, were themselves prostrat-
ed and the streams of revenue flowed
in such feeble currents that the treasury
itself was well nigh empty. The moHcy
of the people was the wretched notes of
1000 uncontrolled, irresponsible state
banking corporations, which were filing
the country with circulation that
poisoned rather than sustained the life
of business. loud applause.1 The
republican party changed all this. 1t
! abolished the babel of confusion and
vega the country a currency as national
as its flag, based unon the sa-
cred faith of the people.
| (Applause.) 1t threw its protecting arm
around our great industries and they
stand erect as with new life. 1t filled
with the spirit of true nationality all the
great functions of the government II
confronted rebellion of unexampled
magnitude, with slavery behind it, and
under God fought the final battle of lit-
erty until the victory was won. ZAP
| plause.) Then after the storms of bat
tie were heard, the sweet calm words of
peace, spoken by the conquering nation
and saving to the conquered foe that Law
| PROSTATE at it's feet, this is our only Ie-
venge: that you join us in lifting into the
serene armament of the constitution to
shine like stars forever and ever, the mn
mortal principles of truth and justice,
| that all men white or black shall be free
and stand equal before the law. loud
! applause Then came the questions of
reconstruction, the public debt and the
public faith The republican party las
completed its twenty-five years of glo-
rious existence and it has sent us here
to prepare it for another lustrum of
duty and of victory. How shall We do
this great work; we cannot do it my
friends by assailing our republican
brethren. Great applause and cries of
good. y God forbid that | should say
one word to cast n shadow upon any
name on the roll of our heroes. This
coming fight is our Thermopyl@ and We
are standing upon narrow isthmus.
! If our Spartan hosts are united we can
withstand all the Greeks, that the Xerxcs
of democracy can bring against it. Let
us hold, our ground this one year for
the stars in their course will fight for
us in the future. The census to be
taken this year will bring reinforements
and continued power. applause But
in order to win this victory now. we
want the vote of every republican,, of
every Grant republican, and every anti
Grant republican in America, (great
applause) of every Blaine man and
every ant-Blaine man. The vote Of
every fellowman of every candidate is
needed to make our success certain.
| (Applause.l. Therefore, / say gentle
men and brethren, We are here to take
calm council together and inquire what
we shall do, a voice, nominate Gar
tield"l (great applause) we want man
whose opinions embOdy all the achieve,
ments of which / have spoken We
tain high who sees al the
achievements Of our past history ssnd
carries in his heart the memory of all
its glorious deeds, and who. looking for
ward prepares to meet the labor and
the dangers to come. We want one who
will act in no spirit Of unkindncSs to-
ward those We lately met in hattie. The
republican party offers to our brethren
of the south the olive branch of peace,
and invites them 10 renewed brother
hood ON this supreme condition that
it shah be admitted for ever
and forever more that in the
war for the Union, We were right
and they were wrong, (chcers). On shat
| supreme condition we meet them as
brethren and on no other; we ask them
to share with us the blessings and Non
ors of this great republic. (Applatlse),
Now, gentleman, not to weary you, |
am about to present name for coIisid-
Grafton. The name of a man who was
the cOmrade and associate friend of
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces
look down upon us from these walls to-
night. (Checrs.) referring to the
portraits of Giddings, Lincoln, Sumner,
Wade Chandler and other eminent
Americans hanging ON the walD. A
man who began his career of public
service twenty-five years ago; whose
first duty was cOurageously done in the
days of peril on the plains of Kansas,
when the first red drops of that bloody
shower began to fall, which finally swell
ed into the deluge of war. (ChecH)
He bravely stood by young Kansas then
and returning to his seat IN the national
legislature, through all the subsequent
years his pathway has been marked by
labors performed in every department
Of legislature. You ask for his monu-
ments. | point you to 25 years OF na-
tional statutes Not one great benefi-
Genet statute has been placed on our
statute books without his intelligent and
powerful aid. Cheers He aided
| tn Lad, h 1,,,.
raised our great armies and navies and
carried us through the war; his hand
was seen in the workmanship of those
statutes that restored and brought back
the unity and calm of the states. His
hand was in all that great legislation that
created the war currency, but in a still
greater work that redeemed the promise
of the government and made the
currency equal to gold and
when ut last he passed
from the halls of legislation into high
executive Office, he displayed that OK
perience, intelligence, irmness and
poise of character which has carried us
| through a stormy period Of three years,
with one-half the public press crying
cruelty him, and hostile congress seek
ing to prevent success. In all this he re-
manned mmovcd until victory crowned
him. (Applause.) The great fiscal Affairs
of the nation and the great business in
tereste of the country, he has guarded
and preserved while executing the law
of resumption, and effected it's object
without jar and against the false prcph-
estes of one-half of the press and all the
democracy of this continent. TAP
plause.) He has shown himself able to
meet with calmness the great emergen-
cy of tho government For twenty-five
years he has trodden the perilous heights
of public duty, and against all the
! shafts of malice, has borne his breast
unframed. He has stood in the blaze
of that fierce light that beats against the
throne, but its fiercest ray has found no
! flaw in his honor; no stain on his shield
| do not present him as better helper
| or better man than thousands of 9TH.
| ers that we honor, but present him for
| your deliberate consideration | nomi-
! nate John Sherman of Ohio. Applause
lasting several minutes.
EDMUNDs NOMINATED.
Mr.. Billings, of Vermont, in a short
address nominated Senator Edmunds
wAsHBURSE NoMISAIEp.
Mr.. Cassoday, of Wisconsin. presented