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

Loud applause.) Maine sends greeting to tn;
magnificent convention, with the memory q
her own salvation from impending peril fres
, 1pon her: She says to you, representatives O
( nifty million of American people, who hav
met here to counsel how the republic shall b
| eaved-"he says to you, representatives O
the people. take the man, the true man. tn
staunch man. for your leader, who has jus
: saved her. and he will bear you to eafety IN,
certain victory. cloud and long continue,
Minnesota being called, Mr.. E. F. Drake too,
the platform and dominated WIN. Window il
tho following address:
, The Republicans of the State of Minnesot,
place before this convention as a Candidate fI
the office Of President of the United States
applause.) We believe that the candidat.
which we present will better unite all the dis
eordant elements of the party than any of the
9istlngulshed names that will be be-
lore this convention. Vim. Window
statesman of ripe experience.
ne nas served twenty years in the Congress OF
the United States and during all that time with
acceptance to bis constituents Four times
was he nominated as Republican by &C clana.
ton, and twice elected to the Senate of the
United states without oppositition. In his
own party, during the days of the rebellion be
supported the country unfalteringIy. This re.
al biz political ifsmsintaiued. q -chsr.cter M.
fs!':"' fsss!s':; f"' fc""'iEi Ii. HI; cSaiss be Ia.
and supported the government loyalty. Such is
the candidate We present to you and ask you
to support.
One word more and 1 am done: Whoever
this convention may select to be the standard
bearer of the party, whether 1t be William
| men whose names have or will come before
you. l am authorized to pledge in advance, the
Republicans of Minnesota to give Your nomi.
! nee an unfaltering and unyelding support
and to give you the vote of Minnesota in No.
vember. [Applausel.
,. When New York was reached Senator Conk-
| ling arose amid loud cheers and proceeded
iowly to the reporters platform. until the
cheering had ceased, and then spoke slowly
| and very deliberately as follows:
When asked whence comes our candidate, we
say from Appomattox. (Applause.) Obeying
/ instructions should never dare to disregard,
expressing also my own firm conviction riae in
behalf of the State of New York. t. propose
nomination with which the country and the
Republican party can grandly win. The
| election before us will be the
Australitz of American politics. 1t will decide
whether for years to come the country shall be
Republican or Cossack, Tho need of the hour
is candidate who can carry doubtful States.
North and South, and believing that he more
surely than any other can carry New York
against any opponent, and can carry not only
the North, but several States of the south.
New York ia for Ulysses g. Grant. He alone
of living Republicans has carried New York as
"a Presidential candidate Once he carried
it. even according to the Democratic count, and
twice he carried it by the peoples votes, and he
is stronger now. The Republican party. with
it's standard in his hands, is stronger now than
in 1865 or 1872. Never defeated in war or in
peace his name is the most illustrious bornc
INV vsrs~n
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 con.
tidence and trust.
Standing in the highest emincnce Of human
distinction, and having filled all lands with
his renown, modest firm, simple and self
poised, he 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.
de has studied the needs and defects Of
many systems of government, and he
comes back . better American than eve- with
wealth of knowledge and experience added to
the hard common sense which 30 conspicuously
distinguished him in all the fierce light that
beat upon him throughout the most eventful,
trying and perilous sixteen years{of the nation's
history.
Never having had policy to eaforce against
the will of the people, he never betrayed
cause or friend, and the people wall never be-
tray or desert him. Villifed and rev:led, ruth
not 'ea in Other iands' n's''FS' bu! p'e'Si,, 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 is spent, and Grants
I~0sA L..
star in the diadem of the republic, when those
who have tried to tarnish it have moldered in
forgotten graves, and their memories and
epitaphs have vanished utterly. Never elsted
by success, never depressed by adversely he
has ever, in peace AS in war, shown the very
germs of common sense. The terms he pre-
scflbed for Lees surrender fOreshadoWcd the
wisest principle, and prophesies of true re-
construction.
Victor in tho greatest of modern wars, no
quickly signalized his aversion to war and his
love of peace by an obliteration of internation-
n disputes which stands as the wisest and most
majestic example of it's kind in the worlds
diplomacy. Imitation, at the height of its pop
ularity and frenzy. had swept both houses "f
Congress, it was the veto of Grant which single
and alone overthrow expansion and cleared the
way for specie. resumption. To him, immeasur-
ably more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is as good as gold.
tensive campaign, no apologies or explanations
to make. The shafts and arrows have all been
aimed a. him, aud they lie broken aud HARM
less ut his feet. Life, liberty and prosperity
will find safeguards in him. When he said
of the blackmen in Florida, "~herever I nm
they may come also,' he meant that. Had he
power to help it the poor dwellers in the cab
ms uf the South should not be driven in terror
from the homes of tho bloohounds and the
graves of their murdered dead. When he re-
fused to receive Dennis Kearny in California,
he meant that lawessness and communism al
though it ahould dictate lcss to u whole city
everywhere, would meet foe in him, and that
popular or unpopular, he will hew to the line
of right. let the chips fail where they may.
His integrity, his common sense, his courage
and his nnequalled experience, arc the quail
ties offered TO his country. The only a.gu-
Solomon. He Thought there could be ''nothing
new under the sun" Having tried Grant
twice, and having found him faithful, We Gro
told we must not, even after an interval Of
years. trust him again. What stulti6csti on
does not such faliacy involve? The American
people exclude Jefferson Davis from public
trust. Why? Because he was the arch traitor,
and would be destroyed, and now the
same people are asked to ostracise 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 masis-
public. Is puch absurdity an electioneerins
juRgle or hypocritical masquerade. There Is
no article of human activity responsibility or
| reason. in which rational beings object to an
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-
tion to all things eltc-common sense to be
applied to se!ecting its iucumbent3 Who
dares to put fctters OIL the free choice and
judgment which is the birthright of the Ameri-
can people? Can it be said that Grant has
used official place and power to perpetuate his
term? He has no place and official power has no
been used for him without patronage of
power, without telegraph wires running from
his house to the covention, without election
contrivances lCries Of oh, oh, and laughter,
without effort on his part his name is on his
country's lips aud he is struck at by the whole