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

lHelT ClllluIlOOu anu the SItNtS VI tiiCh
murdered dead
When he refused to receive Dennis
Kearney in California, he meant that
lawlessness and communism, although
it should dictate laws to whole city,
everywhere would meet foe in him
and that popular or unpopular, he will
hew to the line of right, let the chips
fly where they may. His integrity, his
common sense, his courage and his I'M
equalled experience are the qualities
offered to his country.
Having tried Grant twice, and having
found him faithful, we are told we
must not, even after an inter
val of years, trust him
again. What qualification does
not such fallacy involve The Amer
lean people exclude jefferson Davis
from public trust. Why? Because he
was the arbitrator and would-be-de-
stroyer of the republic, and now the
same people are asked to ostracize
Grant and not to trust him. Why? Be
cause he was the arch-preserver of his
country, because not only in war but
afterwards, twice as civil magistrate,
he gave his highest, noblest, efforts to
the republic. Is such absurdity, an cleo
pioneering iugget, or hypocrisy's mas
querade?
There is no form of human activity
responsibility, or reason in which IA
tional beings object to an agent because
he has been weighed in the balance and
not found wanting, and because he has
unequaled experience, making him eX-
ceptionaly competent and fit. From
the man who shoes your horse
to the lawyer who pleads your
cause, the officer who manages
your railway or your mill, the doctor in
to whose hands you give your life, the
minister who seeks to save your soul,
what man do you reject because you
have tried and by his works have known
him true? What makes the presidential
office an exception to all things else {? If
common sense is to be applied in select
ing its incumbent, who dares to put fet-
tiers on the free choice and judgment
| which is the birth-right of the American
people? Can it be said that Grant has
used official place and power to perpet-
uate his term He has no place, and of
| fetal power has not been used for him.
| Without patronage or power, without
telegraph wires running from his house
to the convention, without election
contrivanccs, (cries of OH, oh, and
| laughter) without effort on
his part, his name is on his country Is
| lips and he is struck Mt by the whole
democratic party, because his nominal
ton will be the death blow to democrat
ic success. He is struck at by others
who find offense and disqualifications
in the very services he has rendered,
and III the very experience he has
gained. Show me better man.
| Name one and | am answered; but dc
not point Us u disqualification to the
very fact which makes this man fit be
yond Ill others. Let not experience
disqualify or excellence impeach him.
There is no third term in the case and
the pretense will die with the political
dog days which engendered it. No
body is really worried about third
term except those hopelessly longing
for first term, and the dupes they
have made. Without bureaus,
committees, officials or ennis
saries to manufacture sentiment
in his favor, without intrigue on his
part, Grant is the candidate whose sup
porters have never threatened to bolt
unless the convention did as they did.
| 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 majority
us the very essence of their faith and
meaning to uphold that faith against the
common enemy and charlatans and
guerrillas who from time to time deploy
between the lines and forage on the one
side or the other. The democratic
party is standing protest against pro
gress. Its purpose is spoils, its hope anC
very existence is solid south
its success is a menace
to prosperity and order. This conven
ton is master ola supreme opportunity
1t can name the next president Of til,
United States and make sure of hi.
election and his peaceful Inauguration
1t can break the power which domi
mates and mildews the south. 1t car
speed the nation in car of grandeur
eclipsing all past achievements. We
have only to listen above the din and
look beyond the dast of an hour to be
hold the republican party advancing tC
head. Tremendous cheering.)
SHERMAN PRESENTED.
The speech of Gen Garfield in pre-
senting the name of John Sherman, was
as follows:
Mr.. President, | have witnessed the
extraordinary scenes of this convention
with deep solicitude. No emotion
touches my heart more quickly that
the sentiment i'll honor of the great
and noble character, but as | sat in
these seats and witnessed these demon
STATIONS, it seemed to me you were a
human ocean in tempest.
| have seen the sea lashed into fury
and tossed into spray, and its grandeur
moves the soul of the dullest man, but
| remember that it is hot the pillows,
but the calm, the level of the sea from
which all heights and depths are meas
ured, (applause) When the storm has
passed and the hour of calm settles
on the ocean, when the sunlight
bathes its smooth surface, then the as
! tronomer and surveyor take the level
from which he measures all terrestrial
heights and depths (Applause.) Gen
| tlemen of the convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthful
pulse of our people when our enthu-
siasm has passed. When the emotions
of this hour have subsidized we shall find
that the calm level of public opinion is
below the storm, from which the
thoughts of mighty people, are
to be measured and leveled. Zap
plause.) Not here in this brilliant cir
Gle where $1,000 men and women
are assembled is the destiny
of the republican party
to be decided-that Is so.
Not here where | see the enthusiastic
faces of seven hundred and fifty-six del
egates waiting to east their votes into the
urn and determine the choice of the re-
public, (applausc) but by four million
republican firesides, where the thought
full voters 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
future and knowledge of the great men,
who have adorned and blessed our ma
ton in days gone by, There God prepares
the verdict that shall determine the wis
dom of our work tonight applause
Not in Chicago in the heats of June but
il the sober quiet that come to them be-
tween now and November in the silence
of deliberate judgment will this great
question he settled. (Cries of good. J
Let us aid them tonight, (great APP