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


against the same waves, against the same dan
gers. She WAS freighted with all that il prec-
ious in the principle, of our Republic, with the
rights OF American citizenship, with all that II
guaranteed to the American citizen by our
constitution. The eyes of tho whole nation
American heart tlest the grand old ship, the
State of Maine, might 60 down beneath the
waves carrying the precious freight with her.
But, sir, there was man
at the helm (spplause) calm, deliberate,
com manding, sagacious. He made even the
foolish man wise. Courageous, he inspsred the
timid with courage: Hopeful, he gave heart to
the dismayed, and he brought that good old
ship safely into the harbor, into safety, and
there she floats to-day, brighter, purer, strong
er from her baptism by danger. That man, too,
was hero, and his name was James g. Blaine.
cloud applause.) Maine sends greeting to this
magnificent convention, with the memory of
her own salvation from impending peril fresh
upon her: She says to you, representatives of
fifty million of American people, who have
met here to counsel how tn republic shall
saved-she says to you, representatives
the people. take the man, the true man, the
staunch man, for your leader, who has Just
saved her, and he will bear you to safety and
certain victory. loud and long continued
Minnesota being called, Mr.. e. F. Drake took
the platform and nominated VIM. Window in
the following address,:
The Republicans of the State of Minnesota
place before this convention as candidate for
the Office of President of the United States,
the Hon. VIM. Window, of Minnesota, great
applause.) We believe that the candidate
which we present will better unite all the dis
cordant elements of the party than any of the
distinguished names shat will be be-
lore io this ..s.o convention. VIM. Window
He has served twenty years in the Congress of
the United States and during all that time with
acceptance to his constituents. Four times
was he nominated as Republican by acclama-
ton, and twice elected to the Senate of the
United States without oppositition. In his
own party, during the days of the rebellion he
pnblicanism is of high order. He has ever in
all his political life maintained q character I'M
sullied for honesty. His private life ii blame.
less. In his course he has
ever sustained the cause of the oppressed
and supported the government Loyalty. Such is
the candidate we present to you and ask You
to support.
One word more and l am done: Whoever
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 before
you, am authorized to pledge in advance, the
Republicans of Minnesota to give your nomi.
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and to give You the vote of Minnesota in No
vember. [Applause].
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 should never dare to disregard,
expressing also my own firm conviction, rise in
behalf of the State of New York, to propose q
nomination with which the country and the
Republican party can grandly win. The
election before US will be the
Australia Of American politics. It will decide
whether for years to come the country shall be
Republican or Cossack, The 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 is for Ulysses 8. Grant. He alone
of living Republicans has carried New York rs
"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
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, "a
they have searched in vain in tho past, for any
other on whom the nation leans with such con-
fdence and trust.
Standing in the highest eminence of human
distinction, and having filled all lands with
his renown, modest, firm, simple and aelf-
poised. he has seen not only the titled but the
poor and the lowly in the nttermrst 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 a better American than ever, with
wealth of knowledge and experience added to
the hard common sense which so conspicuously
distinguished him in all the fierce light that
beat upon him throughout the most eventful,
trying and perilous sixteen yearalo 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. Villifed and reviled, ruth
lessly aspersed by numberless presses,
not in other lands, but in
. a,s own; md assaults upon him have
lie heart. Tho ammunition of calumny has
all been exploded. The powder has oil been
burned once. It's force is spent, and Grants
name will glitter "a a bright and imperishable
star in the diadem of the republic, VIXEN those
who have tried to tarnish it have moldered in
forgotten graves. and their memories and
epitaphs have vanished utterly. Never elated
by success, meyer depressed by adversity, 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 prophecies of true re-
construction.
Victor in the greatest of modern wars, he
rNNS 4tNvrv
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
of the blackmen in Florida, wherever am
they may come also," he meant that. Had he
power to help it the poor dwellers in the cab
ms 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 it 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 fall where they may.
His integrity, his common sense, his courage
and his unequalled experience, are the quail
ties offered to his country. The only argu-
ment against accepting them would amaze
Solomon. He thought there could be nothing
new under the SUM-" Having tried Grant
twice, and having found him faithful, We are
years, trust him again. What stultiRcAti on
does not such . fallacy involve2 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
net trust him. Why7 Because he was the
arch preserver of his country; because, not on
~ in war, but afterwards, twice a. civil magis-
trate, he gave his highest, noblest efforts to the
public. Is 'uoh absurdity an electioneeriug
1uggle or hypocritical masquerade. There Is
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 ct, 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 y0n have tried him and by his works
have known him7
What makes the Presidential Office an excep-
ton to all things else-commen sense to be
applied to selecting its Incumbent Who
dares to put letters on the free choice and
Judgment which IL tho birthright of the Ameri-