The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-06-16
WHOLE NO. 1910.


Our great national industries. by
an unprotected policy, were them /
selves prostrated, and the streams of
revenue flowed in such feeble cur
rents that the Treasury itself was /
well nigh empty. The money of the {
people was the wretched notes of
two thousand uncontrolled and ire /
sponsible State banking corporations
which were filling the country with
a circulation that poisoned, rather
than sustained, the life of business. |
cloud applausc) The Republican
party changed all this. 1t abolish
ed
THE BABEL OF CONFUSION
and gave the country currency as
national as its flag, based upon the
sacred faith ofthepeople. (Applause.) J (
1t threw its protecting arm around
our great industries and they stood
erect as with new life. 1t filed with
The spirit'of true nationality all the
great functions of the government.
1t confronted a rebellion Of unexam-
pied magnitude with slavery behind
it, and under God fought the final
battle of liberty, until the victory
was won. (Applause.) Then, after
the storms OF battle, were heard the
sweet calm words of peace spoken
by the conquering nation, and saying
to the conquered foe that Law pros
tratc at its feet: This is our only
revenge, that YOU Join aus in lifting
into the serene armament of the
Constitution, to shine like stars for
ever and ever, the immortal princi-
I pies of truth and justice that all men,
white or black, shall be free and
stand equal before the law" cloud
applause.) Then came the questions
of reconstruction, the public debt,
and the public faith. In the settle
ment of these questions the Repub-
lican party has completed its twenty
five years of glorious existence, and
it has sent us here to prepare it for
another lustrum of duty and of vic
tory How shall we do this great
work? =? We cannot do it, my friends,
by assailing our Republican breth-
iren. (Gredt applause and cries of
Good. " God forbid that | should
isay one word, cast a shadow upon
any name on the roll of our heroes.
The coming fight is our Thermopyle.
We are standing upon a narrow
isthmus. If our Spartan hosts are
united, we can withstand all the
Greeks that the Xerxes Of Democra-
Icy can bring against us. Let us
bold our ground, this one year, for
the stars in their course" fight for
us. In the future the census to be
taken this year viii bring reinforce
ments and continued power. (Ap-
| planse) But in order to win this
victory now We want the vote Of ev-
cry Republican, and OF every Grant
Republican and ever an;i-Grant
Republican in AmericI great ap-
plause); of every Blaine man and
every anti-Blaine man; the vote of
every follower of every candidate is
needed to make our success certain.
(Applause.) Therefore. | say, gen
tlemen and brethren, we are here to
take calm counsel together and in
| quire what we shall do. "a voice
Nominate Garfield" Great ap-
! plause) We want a man whose
life and opinions embedy all the
achievements (which | have spoken.
We want 4 man who, i
STANDING on \ MOUNTAIN HEIGHT,
/ sees all the achievements of our past
history, and carries in his heart the
memory of all its glorious deeds, and
when looking forward prepares to
meet tie dangers to come. We want
one who will act in no spirit of un-
kindness toward those we lately met
in battle.
The Republican party offers to our
brethren of the South the olive
branch of peace, and invites them to
renewed brotherhood, on this su-
preme condition: that it shall be adj
mitted, forever and forevermore, that
in the war for the Union we were
right and they were wrong. Cheers
On that supreme condition we meet
them as brethren, and on no other
We ask them to share with us the
blessings and honors of this greatre-
public (Applause.)
Now, gentlemen, not to weary YOU,
| am about to present a name for
your considcration-the name of
man who was the comrade, and as
sociate, and friend of nearly all these
noble dead, whose faces look down
upon us from these walls tonight.
(Cheers) (Referring to the portraits
of Giddings, Lincoln, Sumner, Wade, 1
Chandler, and other eminent Amer
leans hanging in the hall. "A man
who began his career Of public SER
vice 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 swelled into the deluge /
of war. (Cheers.) He bravely stood /
by young Kansas then, and return !
ing to his seat in the national legis- /
lature, through all the subsequent I
wears his pathway has been marked Z
bV labOrs performed in every depart (
ment of legislation.
You ask for his monuments. |
point YOU to twenty-five years of na- /
! tional statutes. (Cheers.) Not one /
great. benefcient statute has been /
placed on our statute books without {
his intelligent and powerful aid. !
| Cheers He aided these men to
formulate the laws that 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 married calm of (
States His hand was in all that
great legislation that
CREATED TIE WAR CURRENCY,
but in still greater work, that re
deemed the promises of the govern
ment and made the currency equal
to gold. And, when at last he pass
ed from the halls of legislation into
n hioh executive office. he displayed 4