The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-11

most eminent degree, also by another great man of
TINS country the great of the great State of Ken
/ tucky-Harry Clay. On the second nomination of
Gen. Grant in 1872 he was called upon in the same
way, and he traversed the country exercising his
poWer ms ability and his eloquence in the cause of
the country over the same extent of this Northern
border. he had become so well known, the people
OF the country had become SO well acquainted with
nln ne mad fastened them to him by attractions so
| great, that in the convention which was
held at Cincinnati four years ago he had become the
Leading candidate of the Northern people for the
Presidency of the United Stetes He was the favor
lite candidate of the State which represent in tbs
convention Its delegates went to that convention
! with view OF urging and securing, if it were
| possible, his nomination He came within a
| few votes Of success, when, for some reason
his column broke, and the result was another
nomination, which had not been before the
country. You all know the disappointment Won all
know, perhaps, the establishment which was created
in some sections of the country at that result In the
State which have the honor to represent upon this
floor it was considered almost calamity to theind-
vidual members of the Republican party of that
State. They felt it almost as a personal blow
But while he might have been disappointed reason
ably IN the results, when the canvass came on
and when the fight was close one and when if was
doubtful whether the Republicans would succeed i'm
electing their candidate, although he had been re-
pudiated at the convention, he buckled on his har
ness, he entered the ranks he trayersed the country
and fought manfuly, gloriously and vigorously I'M
til the battle was won, though by a small majority.
The result was gentlemen, that he endeared him.
self tenfod more to the working Republicans of this
Northwest than he had ever done before And when
this convention called, the people of the State
which REPRESENT and which had so earnestly advo-
Gated him before, determined again to place him be-
fore this convention. am but executing their wish
when I do so.
Now, gentleman, will say, with regard to the
State of Michigan, it is not doubtful State It is
State which stands by its banner all the time It
will not matter so far as the work. the vigor and the
energy which the State shall put into the contest
whether he be nominated here or not We stand
by the flag there, whoever may be the standard
bearer.
With these remarks, gentlemen, longer than in
tended, have the honor to present to this conven
ton, as candidate for the Presidential chair for the
1ls',ng term, to be voted Tor by the people, the
name of the Hon. James G. Blaine, of the State of
Maine.
Messrs Pixlev, of California, and FRYE. of
Name seconded the nomination.
Mr.. Drake, of Minnesota, nominated William
Window, of Minnesota. His remarks were as
follows:
The Republicans of the State of Minnesota place
before this convention candidate for the Office of
President of the United States, the Hon, William
Window, of Minnesota. We believe that the candi-
date whom we present will better unite all the dis
cordant elements Of the party than any of the
distinguished names that before this con-
vention. Mr.. Window is 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 he nominated a Representative by ac-
clamaton, and twice elected to the Senate of the
United States without opposition in his party.
the country unfalteringly. His Republcansm is of
high order. He has in all his public life main
tanned a character unsulied for honesty. His pri-
vate life is bameess In his course he has ever sus-
tanned the cause of the oppressed and supported
the Government Loyalty. Such is the candidate
present to you and ask for your support. One word
more and have done. Whomever this convention
may select to be the standard-bearer of the party
whether it is William Window or either of the dis
tinguished gentlemen whose names will come before
you, am authorized to pledge in advance by the
Republicans in Minnesota to your nominee an I'M
faltering and unyielding support, and to give you
the vote of Minnesota in November.
Roscoe Conkling named Ulysses S. Grant, the
nomination being seconded by Mr.. Bradley, of
Kentucky. Senator Conkling said:
And when asked what State he halls from, our sole
reply shall be- he halls from Appomattox, with its
famous apple tree In obedience to instructions
should never dare to disregard expressing also my
own firm conviction, rise to propose a nomination
with which the country and the Republican party
can grandly win. The election before is to be
the Austerlitz of American politics. It will
decide for many years whether the country shall be
Republican or Cossack. The supreme need of the
hour is not a candidate who can carry Michigan
All Republican candidates do that. The need is
not of candidate popular in the Territories, be-
cause they have no VOTE The need is of candi-
date who carry doubtful States. Not the doubt
fN States of the North. but doubtful States of the
South, which, we have heard, if I under
stand it Alright, ought to take little or part
here, because the South has nothing to give but ey-
presses upon the conscience of this convention is of
candidate who can carry doubtful States both
North and South. And, believing that he, more
surely than any other man, can carry New York
against any opponent, and carry not only the
North but several States of the South, New York is
Tor Ulysses S. Grant. Never defeated-never de-
teated in peace or in war; his name is the most illus
triOus borne by living man.
His services attest his greatness, and the country
nay, the world-knows them by heart. His
fame was earned not alone in things written and
said, but by the arduous greatness of things done.
And perils and emergencies will search in vain IL
the future they have searched in vain in the past
for any other whom the nation leans with such
confidence and trust. Never having had policy to
enforce against the will of the people, he never be-
trayed cause friend, and the people will never
desert or betray him. Standing on the highest emf
nence OF human distinction, modest, irm simple, and
set-poised, having filled all lands with his renown,
he has not only the high-born and the titled,
but the poor and the lowlY in the uttermos ends of
the earth, rise and uncover before him. He has
studied the needs and the defects of many systems
OF government; and he has returned better Ameri-
can than ever, with a wealth of knowledge and ex-
perience added to the hard common sense which
shone so conspicuously in all the fierce light that
beat upon him during sixteen years, the most trying
the most portentous, the most perilous.
vilifed and reviled truthIessly aspersed by I'M
numbered presses, not in other lands, butin his own
assaults upon him have seasoned and strengthened
his hold on the public heart Calumny's ammuni-
ton has all been exploded the powder has all been
J burned once. It's force is spent And the name of
the diadem of the republic when those who have
tried to tarnish that name have moldered in forgot
ten graves, and when their memories and their ep-
taphs have vanished utterly.
Never elated by success, depressed by adver-
sity he has ever, in peace in war; shown the very
! genius Of common sense The terms he prescribed
for Lees surrender foreshadowed the wisest prophe
cies and principles of true reconstruction. Victor in
the greatest war of modern times, he quickly signal
lied his aversion to and his love of peace by an
arbitration of international disputes, which stands
the wisest, the most majestic example of its kind in
the worlds diplomacy When imitation, at the height
of its popularity and frenzy bad swept both houses of
Congress, it was the veto of Grant which, single and
alone, overthrow expansion and cleared the way for
| specie resumption. To him, to him, immeasuraby
more than to any other man, is due the fact that
| every paper dollar is good as gold
With him as our leader we shall have defensive
campaign. No! We shall have nothing to explain
| away. We shall have no apologies to make. The
shafts and the arrows have all been aimed at him,
! and they lie broken and harmless at his feet.
Life, liberty and property will find safeguard in
! him. When he said of the colored in Florida,
wherever am they may come also" when he said
so, be meant that if he had the power the poor dwell
ers in the cabins of the South should longer be
driven in terror from the homes of their childhood
| md Tho Of fboi-n 1arnd lead ha