The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-06-10

part, Grant is the candidate whose
supporters have never threatened
manded. He is Republican who never wsve ~
5 ne ana his friends stand by the creed and can.
atdates OF the Republican party. holding the
Hsntful rule of = majority as the verv essence
o. tneir faith, and meaning to uphold that
aaun a2anst the common enemy, and the
guardians and gorrillas who, from the time The
me IL formed, deploy between the lines. and
A"rage on the one side or the other
luz Uemocratlc party is q standing protest
asains. progress. Its purpose is spoils. Its
nope ana very existence is solid South, Its
Su:cess rs a menance to property and order.
Tbs convention ia master f sun,eme On.
p"rtnnity. It can name the next Presidents ~
tne un1ted States and make sure Of his election
ana MS peaceful inauguration. It can break
Tue power Which dominates and mildews the
eoa'n' 1t can speed the nation in a career Of
s:s9aeur ec!'pslng ell past achievements.
we have only to listen Adore the din avid
LOOK beyond the dust of an hour to behnd Tho
republican party advancing to victory with
Ia greatest marshal at ita head (Tre1oendons
cheering.)
When the State of Ohio was reached. Cen
w. Ta'a ae arose to nominate Sherman, making
Inc following speech:
II. President: l have witnessed the extra.
Ordinary success OF this convention With deem
seiicltnde: Nv emoti0n touches my hesras =
'h!dfs quickly than sentiment in honor
OF . great and noble character, but Al
sst on these seats and witnessed those demon.
strataons 1T seemed to me YOU were A hu.
man ocean in tempest. have seen
the sea Tapped into fury and tossed into spray.
ana 1ts grandeur moves the soul Of the duI!est
man. but remember that it is not the billowa
but the calm level of the sea from which ali
heights and depths a1e measured, (applause.)
When the storm has passed AID the bonr ~
k1.a
oathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer
ana surveyor takes tho level from which he
measures all terrestrial heights and depths.
(Appla9se.) '''
Gentlemen OF the convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthful nnlsc ~
our people. When our enthusias N has nssscd
when the emotions of this hour have subsidized
We shall ind that calm level of public opinion
pelow the storm tlorn which the thoughts uf a
mighty people have to be measured at, and by
winch their final action will be determined.
(Applause.) Not here in this brilliant c;rc]e
where fifteen Thousand tmen AID women arc
assembled. is the destiny of the Republican
party to be decreed. Not. here where I see
me enthusiastic faces Of seven hundred and
MY SIX delegates waiting to cast their votes
into the urn and determine the choice of the
r nnt,;a @anPlause2, but by four million Re-
with wives and children about
them, with the calm t,,oruhts
lnspsired by love of country :nd love
OF home; with the history Of the past, the
hopes of the future. aud knowledge of the
great men who have adorned and blessed our
nation in days gone by, there God prepares the
verdict that shall determine the wisdom of our
work tonight. Not in Chicago in the heats of
) une, but IN the sober quiet that con- ca to them
between now and November. in the silence of
deliberate judgment will this great question be
settled (cries of good). Let MS aid them to-
night (sreat appluse).
The Republican party changed all this. abol-
ished the babel of confusion and care the
country currency national as its Sag. based
upon the sacred faith O. the people. iAp
plause!. 1t threw its protection around our
great industries, and they stood erect as with
new life. 1t filled with tie spirit of nation
slity of the great functions Of the government.
1t confronted rebellion of unexamp,ed
magnitude with slavery behind it, and under
God fought the final battle of liberty until the
battle was won, (Applause.) Then after the
storms OF battle were heard the sweet calm
words of peace spoken by the conquerine na-
tlon, and saying to the conquered foe that Law
PROSTATE at its feet this is our only revenge
'nat you JOIN us, lifting into the serene TRINA
nent of the constitution to shine like stars
forever and ever the immortal priuc:pl 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, of the public debt, and the pub
nc faith in the settlement of these questions.
The Republican party has com pletcd its
twenty-h years Of glorious existence. and f.
has sent US here to prepare it for another
iustrum of duty and of victory. How shall We
do this great work? We cannot do it, nv
friends. by assailing our Republican e:hren.
(dreat applause and cries of. good.}
God forbid that should say one word to
cast shadow on any name On the roll of our
heroes. This coming fight is our Thermoplye.
We are standing on a narrow isthmua. Il our
Spartan hosts are united we can withstand all
the Greeks that tho Ner.es Of Democracy can
Drlng against us Let rs hold cur GROUND thia
one year, for the stars in their course fight
Tor Us. In the futu1o the census to be taken
This year will bring reinforcemants and con-
tinued power. (Applause.) But in order to
win this victory now. we want the vo;e of every
Republican, every Grant Republican and every
Republican in America. Great
applanse.) OF every Blaine NAH and every
anti Blaine man. The vote Of every follower
Ut every candidate is needed to make our sue
cess certain. (Applause.) Therefore, / say,
gentlemen and brethren, We arc here to take
calm counsel together and enquire what we
ehall do? (Nolninate Garfield, voice said.
Great APPLAUSE
We want a man whose life aud opinion en-
body all the achievement or which [ have
spoke. We want man WIN, standing on a mon
history and carries in bis heart the memory of
all its glorious deeds and who, looking forward
prepares to meet the labor and The dangers to
come: We want one who will act in no spirit
of unkindness toward those VIC lately met in
battle.
The Republican party offers to the brethren
OF the South the olive branch OF peace, and in
vltes them to renewed brotherhood on this gu-
premc condition, that it shall be admitted 10y
ever and forever more that in the war for the
Union we were right and they were wrong.
lCheers): On that supreme condition we meet
them as brethren and no other. We ask them
to share with us the blessings Of the great re-
public (applausc). Now gentlemen, not to weary
you am about TO present to yOu n name for
your consideration, the name of man who
was the comrade and associate, and friend OF
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces look
Ne.FrflhS TO the portraits of
Giddings. Lincoln Summer, Wade.
Chandler and other eminent Americans hanging
in the hall among whom he began his career Of
public service several years whose first duty
was conrageously 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 swelied to the deluge of war. (Cheers.)
He braved and stood by young
Kansas then, and returning to his seat in
the national legislature, through all the subse-
quent years his pathway has been marked
legislation. You AK for his monuments. /
point you TO twenty five years Of national stat
utes. (Cheers.) Not one great bene6cent stat
ute has been placed on our statute books, with
out his intelligent and powerful aid. (Chec.s.)
be aided these men to formulate the Laws that
raised our great armies and navys, and carried
us through the war. His hand was seen in the
workmanship of those statutes that restored
and brought back the unity and marrcd calm
ct States. His hand was in all the great
legislation that created the war currency,
but in . still greater work that redeemed
the promises of the government and made the
currency equal to gold, and when at last he
passed from the halls of the legislature into a
high executive Office lie displayed that expert
enee, intelligence, frmness and poise
of character which has carried us
through stormy period Of three
years. with one-half the public press crying
cruelty him. and hostile Congress seeking to
prevent success. In all this be remained
unmoved Victory crowned him. The great
fiscal affairs of the nation, and tho
great business interest of tho country
he has guarded and preserved. while executing
the law of resumption, and effected it's object,
without Jar and apainst the falao nronvieties