Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-07


this 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 befOr
you, am authorized to pledge in advance, tn
Republicans of Minnesota to give your nomi
nee an unfaltering and unyielding support
and to give you the vote of Minnesota in No
vember. Applausel.
The nomination was not seconded and the
secretary proceeded with the call of States.
Roscoe Speaks for Grant.
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:
When asked whence comes our candidate, we
say from Appomattox. (Applause.) Obeyine
instructions l should never dare to disregard
expressing also my own firm conviction, rise IN
behalf of the State of New York, to propose 6
nomination with which the country and the
Republican party can grandly win. The
election before US will be the
Australia of American politics. 1t will decide
whether for years to come the country shall bt
Republican or Cossack, The need of the houl
is candidate who can carry doubtful States
North and South, and believing that he more
surely than any other can carry New York
,ainst any opponent, and can carry not only
| tne NOrLn DuG seVeral states OF tne SOuIn,
New York is for Ulysses 8. 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
its standard in his hands, is stronger now than
in 1868, or 1872. Never defeated in war or in
peace his name is the most illustrious borne
by living man. His services attest his great
ness 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-
fidence and trust.
Standing in the highest eminence 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 uttermcst 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 ever, with
wealth of knowledge and experience added to
distinguished him in all the fierce light that
beat upon him throughout the most eventful,
trying and perilous sixteen years. # the nations
history.
Never having had policy to enforce against
the will of the people, he never betrayed q
cause or friend, and the people will never be-
tray or desert him. Vlllifed and reviled ruth
lessly aspersed by numberless presses,
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. It's force is spent, and Grants
name will glitter as a bright and imperishable
star in the diadem of the republic, when those
who have tried to tarnish it have moldered in
forgotten graves, and their memories and
epltaphs have vanished utterly. Never elated
by success, meyer depressed by adversely, he
has ever, in peace as in war, shown the very
germs of common sense. The terms he pre-.
scribed for Lees surrender foreshadowed the
wisest principle, and prophesies of true re-
construction.
Victor in the greatest of modern wars, he
quickly signalized his aversion to war and his
love of peace by an obliteration of internation-
al disputes which stands as the wisest and most
majestic example of it's kind in the worlds
diplomacy. Initiation, at the height of its pop-
ularity and frenzy, had 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, immeasur-
ably more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is as good as gold.
With him as our leader we shall have no de-
fensive campaign, no apologies or explanations
to make. The shafts and arrows have all been
aimed at him, and they lie broken and harm
less at his feet. Life, liberty and prosperity
will find safeguards in him. When he said
of the blackmen in Florida, wherever I am
they may come also," he meant that. Had he
power to help lt the poor dwellers in the cab
ins of the South should not be driven in terror
from the homes of the bloohounds and the
graves of their murdered dead. When he re-
fused to receive Dennis Kearny in California,
he meant that lawlessness and communism, al
though 1t should dictate less 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 fail where they may.
His integrity, his common sense, his courage
and his unequalled experience, are the unal-
ties offered TO his country. The only argu-
ment against accepting them would amaze
new under the sum-" Having tried Grant
twice, and having found him faithful we are
told we must not, even after an interval of
years, trust him again. What stultifcati on
does not such fallacy 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 ked to ostraoise Grant and
net trust him. Why? Because he was the
arch preserver of his country; because, not ou-
ly in war, but afterwards twice as civil mapis
trate he gave his highest. noblest efforts to the
public. Is such absurdity an electioneering
iuggle or hypocritical masquerade. There is
no article of human activity, responsibility or
reason, In which rational beings object to an
agent who has been weished 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
to save your SOUL what man do you reject be-
cause you nave trleI him and by his works
have known him?
What makes the Presidential office an excep-
tion to all things else-comm mon sense to be
applied to selecting its incumbent? Who
dares to put fetters on 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 not
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 laughter1.
without effort on his part his name is on his
country's lips and he is struck at by the whole
Democratic party because his noination will be
the death to Democratic success He is struck
at by others who fud offense and disqualified
tion IN the very services he has rendered, in the
very experience he has gained. Show me bet
Ter man, name one and am answered. But do
not point as disqualification to the very facts
which makes this man fit beyond all Others.
Let not experience disqualifY or excellence
inpeach him.
There is no third term in the case, and the
pretenee will die with the political dog days
which gendered it. Nobody is really worried
about third term except those hopelessly
longing for first term and the dupes they
have made. Without beaureas, committees.
officials and emissaries to manufacture senti.
ment in his fa!or; without intrigue on his
! part, Grant is the candidate whose
supporters have never threatened
to bolt unless the convention did as they de-
manded. He is Republican who never wavers.
| He and his friends stand hu the craad and cax,