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

NUMBER IL.
cloud applause.) Maine sends greeting to thi,
magnificent convention, with the memory oI
her own salvation from impending peril fresh
upon her. She says to you, representatives OF
my milnon OF American people, who have
ssved-she says to you, representatives OF
! tho people, take the man, the true man, the
staunch man. for your leader, who has iust
| saved her, and he will bear you to eafety IND
certain victory. cloud and long continued
applause.)
Minnesota being called, Mr.. E. F. Drake took
the platform and Nominated Vim. Window in
| tho following address:
The Republicans of the State of Minnesota
place before this convention as a candidate fol
the office of President of the United States
the Hon. VIM: Window, of Minnesota (great
sPpl:use.) We believe that the candidate
winch We present will better unite all the dis.
cordant elements of the party than any of the
distlnguished names that will be be-
fore this convention Vim. Window
"a statesman of ripe experience.
He has served twenty years in the Congress Of
the United States and during all that time with
acceptance to his constituents. Four times
| was he nominated as Republican by ae clama.
ton, and twice elected to the Senate of the
United States without oppositition In hia
| own party, during the days of the rebellion he
supported the country unfslteringly. This re.
Pub'ioaniam il of . high order. He has eyer in
~ ~ paSifsesl life maintaiaed q eAauaoterx NJ
les. In bis course he ," ' h.:
ever sustained the cause Of til. =. oppr... a,s
aao supported the government loyalty. such IN
tho candidate We present to you ami ask Won
to support. ~"
One word more and am done: Whoever
TINS convention may select to be the standard
bearer OF the party, whether it be William
WINDOW, or that of the distinguished gentle
men whose names have or will come before
You. am authorized to pledge in advance the
Republicans of Minnesota to give Your nomi.
nee an nnfalterng and unyielding support
vember. [Applause].
When New York was reached Senator Conk-
ling arose amid loud cheers and proceeded
lowly to the reporters platform, until the
cheering had ceased. and then spoke slowly
and very deliberately as follows:
Wnen asked whence comes our candidate, We
say from Appomattox. (Applause.) Obeying
instructions I should never dare to disregard
EXPIRE ssing also my own firm conviction, rise in
behalf OF the State of New York, to promise a
nomination with which the country and the
republican party can grandly win. The
electlon before us will be the
whether for years to come the country shall be
Republican or Cossack, Tho need of the hour
10 candidate who can carry doubtful States
North and South, and believing that he more
surely than any other can carry New York
agalnse any opponent, and can carry not only
the North, but several States of the Soutb.
New York il for Ulysses 8. Grant. He alone
OF living Republicans has carried New York as
"a Presidential candidate" Once he carried
1t. even according to the Democratic count. and
twice he carried it by the peoples votes, and he
is stronger now. The Republican party, with
its sda a IN his hands, is stronger now than
III 1868, or 1872. Never defeated in war or in
peace bis name is the most illustrious borne
by living man. His services attest his great
mesa and the country knows them by heart.
His fame was born not alone of things written
and said, but of the arduous greatness
OF things done, and dangers and
emergencies will search in vain the future, as
they have searched in vain in the past, for any
other on whom the nation leans with such cen.
tidence and trust.
Standing in the highest eminence Of human
distinction, and having filled all lands with
his renown, modest, firm, simple and self
poised, ne has seen not only the titled, but the
Poor and the lowly in the utterm:st ends of
the earth rise and uncover before him.
he has studied the needs and defects of
many systems of government, and he
comes back better American than cve- with
wealth OF knowledge and experience added to
the nard common sense which so conspicuousIy
distinguished him in all the fierce light that
beat upon him throughout the most evcntful.
history. ' = o. ''1 .
Never having had policy to enforce against
tho will of the people, he never betrayed
cause or a friend. and the people wall never be-
tray or desert him. Villifed and reyiled, ruth
y
not in other lands, but in
his own, assaults upon him have
strengthened and seasoned his hold on the pub
lie heart. The ammunition of calumny has
all been exploded. The powder has all been
burned once. Its forco il spent. and Grants
star in the diadem of the republic, when those
who have tried to tarnish it have molde1ed in
forgotten graves, and their memories and
eepitaphs have vanished utterly. Never elated
by success, never depressed by adversely, he
has ever, in peace AS in war, shown the very
scrlbed for Lees surrender foreshadowe ed the
wlsest principle, aud prophesies of true re-
construction.
Victor in tho greatest of modern wars he
quickly signalized bis aversion to war and his
love OF pesce by an obliteration Of internation-
majestic example Of it's kind in the worlds
diplomacy. Imitation, at the height Of lis pop
niarlty and frenzy. had swept both houses If
Congress, it was the veto of Grant which single
aud alone overthrow expansion and cleared the
way for specie.resumption. To him, immeasur-
abiy more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is a. good as gold.
win him as our leader We shall have no de-
tenslve campaign, no apologies or explanations
tn make. The shafts and arrows have all been
aimed at him, aud they lie broken and HARM
less At bis feet. Life, liberty and prosperity
vii! find safeguards in him. When he said
of the blackmen in Florida, 'whercver / nm
they may come also," he meant that. Had he
power to help it the poor jewellers in the cab
ms Ut the South should no: be driven in terror
from the homes of tho bloohounds and the
graves of their murdered dead. When he re-
fused to receive Dennis Kcarny in California,
he meant that lawlessness and communism, al
though 1t should dictate lcss to u whole CITY
every wheSc, would meet foe in him, and that
popular or unpopular, he will hew to the line
OF right. let the chips fall where they may.
his integrity, his common sense, his courage
and his nncqualled experience, arc the quail
ties offered to his country. Tho only a.gu-
gent gent against accepting them would amaze
new under the SUM- Havin. tried Grant
twice, and having found him faithful, We aro
told we must not, even after interval Of
years. trust him again. What stultifcati on
does not such fal'acy involve? The American
PeopA0 CACAuuC VcucI3On LAWS 1rOW pubic
trust. Why? Because he was the arch traitor,
and would be destroyed, and now the
same people are asked to ostracisc Grant and
not trust him. Why? Because he was the
arch preserver OF his country; because, not on
ly in war, but afterwards, twice as civil magis-
trate, he gave his highest noblest efforts to the
public. Is 'uch absurdity an clectionec,ins
juRgle or hypocritical masquerade. There Is
no article of human activity, responsibility or
reason. in which rational beings object to IN
agent who has been weighed in the balance and
found wanting, and because he has
unequaled experience, making him exception
ally competent and tit, from the
man who shoes your horse, to the lawyer who
pleads your case, the officer who manages your
railway or your mill, the doctor into whose
hand You give your life, the minister who seeks
tc save your soul, what man do You reject be-.
cause you have tried him and by his works
have known him?
What makes the Presidential Office an excep-
ton to all things eltc-common sense to be
applied to selecting its Incumbent Who
dares to put letters OH the free choice and
judgment which is the birthright of tho Ameri-
can people? Can it be said that Grant has
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