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

part, Grant is the candidate who's.
.uppGIters have never threatened
to bolt unless the convention did as thew de-
~ manoeo; ne is Republican who never wayers
didates Of the Republican party. holding b, the
1,snt1ul rule of = majority as the very essence
OF tnelr faith, and meaning to uphold thst
1aHn against the common enemy. and the
char!atans and gorrillas who, from the time The
,ine ID formed, deploy between the lines, and
1"rage on the one side or the other.
Inc democratic party is I. standing protest
ra.nss plosress. Its purpose is spoils. Its
nope ana very existence is solid South. Its
success 81, is menance to property and order.
Ah1s convention ia master # a sup,orne on
p"f1an1ty. 1t can name tho next President of
tue united States and make sure Of his election
ano MS peaceful Inauguration. It can break
cue power Which dominates and mildews the
eoatn. 1t can speed the nation in career Of
grandeur eclipsing all pas. achievements.
we nave only to listen above the din and
look beyond the dust of an hour to behold the
iepuollcan party advancing to victory with
ITS greatest marshal at its head Tremendous
cheering.)
When the State of Ohio was reached, Gen.
tha Tas1eid 9e arose to nominate Sherman, making
the following speech:
Mr. President: have witnessed the extra
ordinary success of this convention with deep
eo!!cltude: NJ emotion touches nv heart
more quickly thsn ,s septimsRt in, shqppr
Sat on these seats and witnessed those demon
stratioDs it seemed to me you were a hu
man ocean in a tempest. 1 have seen
the sea Tapped into fury and tossed into spray,
and its grandeur moves the soul of the dul,est
man, but l remember that it is not the billowa
but the calm level of the sea from which all
heights and depths ale measured, (applause.)
When the storm has passed and the hour Of
calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight
bathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer
and surveyor takes tho level from which he
measures all terrestrial heights and depths
(Applause.)
Gentlemen of the convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthful pul:e of
our people. When our enthusiasm has passed
when the emotions of this hour have subsidized,
We shall find that calm level of public opinion
below the storm tom which the thoughts uf
mighty people have to be measured st, and by
which their final action will be determined
(Applause.) Not here in this brilliant circle,
where fifteen Thousand Emen AID women arc
assembled. is the destiny Of the Republican
party to be decreed. Not. here where l see
the enthusiastic faces of seven hundred and
ht'y-s 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,
with wives and children about
them, with the calm thoughts
inspsired by love of country end 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 our
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
J June, but In the sober quiet that com ca 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 (sreat appluse).
+ :: = y
The Republican party changed all this, abol-
lshed the babel of confusion and gave the
country currency as national as its Sag, based
upon the sacred faith o: the people. Jap
plause 1t threw its protection around our
great industries, and they stood erect as with
new life. 1t filed with the spirit of nation
slity of the great functions Of the government.
1t confronted rebellion of unexamp.ed
with slavery behind it, and under
iod 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 conquerirg na-
tion, and saying to the conquered foe that Law
prostrate at its feet, this is our only revenge
tnAI you JOIN us, lifting into the serene frma-
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
has sent us here to prepare it for another
[ustrum of duty and of victory. How shall we
do this great work? We cannot do it, my
friends. by assailing our Republican brethren.
(Great applause and cries of. good!
GOD forbid that shorld say one word to
cast shadow on any name On the roll of our
heroes. This coming fight is our Thermoplyae.
Spartan hosts are united we can withstand all
the Greeks that the NerEes Of Democracy can
bring against us. Let us hold cur ground this
one year, for the stars in their course fight
Tor Us. In the futu1o the census to Dc taken
This year will bring reiuforcemnrts and con-
tinued power. (Applause.) But in crder to
win this victory now, we want the vote of every
Republican, every Grant Republican and every
sn:i-Grant Republican in America. (Great
applause.) OF every Blaine mail and every
anti Blaine man. The vote Of every follower
,f every candidate is needed to make our sue
cess certain. (Applause.) Therefore, say,
gentlemen and brethern, We arc hero to take
calm counsel together and enquire what we
shall do? (Nominate Garfield, voice said.
Great applause-'
We want man whose life aud opinion en-
body all the achievement or which l have
spoke. We want a man who, 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 VIC 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 brotherhood On this su-
premc condition, that it shall be admitted io--
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 name for
your consideration, the name of e man who
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces look
down on US from these walls 20 night (cheers)
G;ddi"s Lincoln the supner p2ret@''' wade Sf
Chandler snd other eminent Americans hanging
in the hall among whom he began his career Of
public service several years ago, whose first duty
was courageously done in the days of peril on
of that bloody shower began to fall which
finally swelied to the deluge of War. (Cheers.)
he braved and stood by young
Kansas then. aud returning to his seat in
the national legislature, through all the snbse-
quent years his pathway has been marked
by labors performed in every department Of
legislation. You ask for his monuments. I
point you to twenty-five years of national stat
utes. (Cheers.) Not one great bene6cen: stat
ute has been placed on our statute bucks, with
out his intelligent and powerful aid. (Chee.s.)
He aided these men to formulate the laws that
raised our great armiea and navys, and carried
us through the war. His hand was seen in the
workmanship of those statutes that restored
and brought back the unity ard naarrcd calm
Of States. His hand was in all the great
legislation that created the war currency,
but in a still greater work that redeemed
the promises of the government and made the
currency equal to gold, and when at last he
passed from the halls of the legislature into
high executive Office, he displayed that expert
enee, intelligence, frmncss and poise
of character which has carried us
through stormy period Of three
years, with one-half the public press crying
cruelty him. and hostile Congress seeking to
prevent success. In all this he remained
unmoved. Victory crowned him. The great
fiscal affairs of the nation, and tho
great business interest of the country
he has guarded and preserved, while executing
the Law of resumption, and effected its object,
without jar, and against the false prophecies
l. Al 4 A.