Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-06-11

ment IN his favor; without intrigue on his
part, Grant is the candidate whose
supporters have never threatened
to bolt unleas the convention did q they de-
mauded. BE 10 q Republicans who never wsvers.
He and his friends stand BY the creed and cam
didates of the Republican party, holding the
rightful rule Of . majority q the very essence
Of their faith, and meaning to uphold that
faith against the common enemy, and the
oharlatans and gorrillas who, from the time the
line IL formed, deploy between the lines, and
forage on the one side or the other.
The Democratic party Is . standing protest
against progress. 1ts purpose IL spoils. It's
hope and very existence ID . solid South. Its
This convention ID master IF . supreme OPP
portunity. It can name the next President Of
tho United States and make sure of his election
and his peaceful Inauguration. II can break
the power which dominates and mildews the
South. 1t can speed the nation in career Of
When the State Of Ohio was reached, Gen.
Garfield arose to nominate Sherman, making
the following speech:
Mr.. President: have witnessed the ext,a-
ordinary success OF this convention with deep
solicitude. NJ emotion touches my heart
more quickly than sentiment in honor
OF great and noble character, but -
sat on these seats and witnessed those demon
strations it seemed to me you were = hu-
man ocean in q tempest. have seen
the sea Tapped into fury and tossed into spray,
and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest
man, but remember that it ia not the pillows
but the calm level of the sea from which all
heights and depths aye measured, applause. }
When the storm has passed and the hour of
calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight
bathes ita smooth surface, then the astronomer
and surveyor takes the level from which he
measures all terrestrial heights and depths.
(Applause.) :. -
Gentlemen of the convention; your present
temper may not mark the healthful pulse of
our people. When our enthusiasm has passed,
when the emotions of this hour have subsided,
We shall find that calm level of public opinion
below the storm tom which the thoughts of .
mighty people have to be measured at, and by
which their final action will be determined.
(Applause.) Not here in this brilliant circle,
where fifteen thousand men aad women are
assembled, is the destiny of The Republican
party to be decreed. Not here where I see
the enthusiastic faces of seven hundred and
fifty six delegates waiting to cast their votes
into the urn and Determine the choice of the
republic (applause). but by four million Re-
publican friends, where the thoughtful voter,
them, with the calm thoughts
inspsired by love of country and love
of home; with the history of the past. the
hopes OF the FUTURE aud knowledge of the
great men who have adorned and blessed oar
| nation in days gone by, there God prepares the
verdict that shall determine the wisdom of our
| work tonight. Not in Chicago in the heats of
June, but In the sober quiet that cones to them
between now and November, in the silence of
deliberate Judgment will this great question be
settled (cries of good). Let us aid them to-
night (Qre2t appluse)
We have only to listen above the din and
look beyond the dust of an hour to behold the
Republican party advancing to victory with
its greatest marshal at its had. (Tremendons
cheering.)
| But now, gentlemen uf the convention, what
do we want?(A voice, Garfield. followed by ap-
plause.) Bear with me q moment. Hear me
for this cause and for a moment be silent
that you may hear (cries of good). Twenty
five years ago this republic was wear
ing triple chain Of bond
The bodss and soia ar h sp tEni
the consciences of a majority of our people.
The baleful doctrine of STATE sovereignty had
| shocked and weakened the noblest and most
| benefcent powers of the national government,
| and the graspipg power of slavery was
Selling the virgin Territories of the
eternal bondage. At that G, Isis the Republican
party was born, and drew its first inspiration
| from that fire of liberty which God had lighted
| in every human heart, and which all the pow
ers of ignorance and tyranny can never wholly
extinguish, (applause.) The Republican party
came to deliver and save the republic. It entered
the arena where the beleagnered and assailed
territories we're struggling for freedom, and
drew around them sacred circle of liberty
which the demon of slavery has aever dared to
cross. It made them free forever. Loud ap-
plause and cries of good.) Strengthened by
its victory On the frontier the young party, I'M
der the leadership of that great man who. on
this spot twenty years ago, wsa made its lead
er, it entered the national rapitol and assumed
| the high duties of the government (applause),
The light which shone from ITS banner dispelled
the darkness in which slavery had enshrouded
| the capitol, and to that melted the shackels of
every slave and consumed in the fire of liberty
| every slave pen within the shadow of the CAPT
| tol.
Our great national industries by an unpro-
tceted policy were themselves FRUSTRATED and
| the streams of revenue flowed in such feeble
currents that the treasury itself was will nigh
empty, the money of people was the wretched
bic State banking corporations which were
| filling the country with a circulation that
poisoned rather than sustained the life of
business. cloud applause.)
| The Republican party changed all this, abol-
ished the babel of confusion and gave the
COuuCIy currency rs u6tlOu8l RS lL6 nag, Oa9e0
| upon the sacred faith of the people. Jap
plauseI. 1t threw its protection around our
great industries and they stood erect "a with
new life. It filed with the spirit of nation
| atty of the great functions Of the government.
1t confronted q rebellion of unexampled
magnitude with slavery behind it, and under
God fought the final battle Of liberty until the
battle was won, (Applause.) Then after the
storms of battle were heard the sweet calm
words of peace spoken by the conquering ma
tion, and saying to the conquered foe that lay
PROSTATE at its feet, this is our only revenge
that you join us, lifting into the serene firma-
! ment of the constitution to shine like stars
forever and ever the immortal principle of
truth and justice that all men white or black
shall be free and stand equal before the law
| loud applause.) Then came the questions of
reconstruction, of the public debt, and the pub
lie faith in the settlement of these questions.
The Republican party has completed its
twenty-five years Of glorious existence, and it
has sent us here to prepare it for another
| lnstrum of duty and of victory. How shall we
! do this great work. We cannot do it, my
friends. by aseailing our Republican brethren.
(Great applause and cries of. good.)
GOD forbid that should say one word 10
cast a shadow on any name on the roll of our
heroes This coming fight is our Thermoplye.
We are standing on narrow isthmus. If our
Spartan hosts are united we can Withstand all
| the Greeks that the Xerxea of Democracy can
! bring against us. Let us hold our ground this
| one year, for the stars in their course fight
for US. In the future the census to be taken
| this year will bring reinforcements and con-
tinued power. (Applause.) But In order to
win this victory now, wo want the vote of every
Republican, every Grant Republican and every
anti-Grant Republican in America. (Great
applause.) OF every Blaine man and every
anti Blaine man. The vote of every follower
IF every candidate is needed to make our sue
cess certain. (Applause.) Therefore, say,
gentlemen and brethern, we are here to take
calm counsel together and enquire what We
shall do7 (Nominate Garfield, voice said,
Great applausa-l
We want man whose life and opinion en-
body ali the achievement of which 1 have
spoke. We want man WIN, standing on mon
tain height see all the achievements Of our past
history and carries in his heart the memory of
all its glorious deeds and who, looking forward
prepares to meet the labor and the dangers to
come. We want one who will act in no spirit
of unkindness toward those we lately met in
battle.
The Republican party offers to the brethren
of the South the olive branch of peace, and in
vites them to renewed brother hood On this su-
preme condition, that it shall be admitted for
ever and forever more that in the war for the
(Cheers). On that supreme condition we meet
them as brethren and no other We ask them
to share with us the blessings of the great re-
public (applause). Now gentlemen not to weary
you am about to present to you a name for
your confederation the name of q man who
was the comrade and associate, and friend of
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces look
down on Ms from these walls to. night (cheers).
Referring to the portraits OF