The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-06-16
SOMERSET, PA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE Is. 1880.

majestic example of its kind in the
worlds diplomacy. [Applause] When
initiation at the height of its popu-
larity and frenzy had swept both
Houses of Congress, it was the veto
of Grant, which single and alone
overthrew expansion and cleared
the way for specie resumption. Zap
plause.]
To him, to him mmeasurably
more than to any other man, is due
the fact that every paper dollar is as
good as gold. GApplause.1 With
him as our leader we shall have no
defensive campaign. Greatapplause.
No, we shall have nothing to explain
away. GApplause and laughter ]
We shall have no apologies to make.
[Cries of "Nom and applause.l The
shafts and the arrows have all been
aimed at him, and they lie broken
and harmless at his feet. Tremen-
dous applause, chorus, and confus-
Joni Life, liberty and property will
find safeguard in him. When he
said of the colored men in Florida,
wherever | am they may come
alsoH-[applause and cheers s]-he
meant that had he the power, the
poor dwellers in the cabins OF the
South should no longer be driven in
terror from the homes of their child
hood and the graves of their murder
ed dead. [Great applause and con-
fusion When he refused to receive
Denis Kearney in California lap
plause], he meant that communism,
lawlessness, and disorder, although
it might stalk high-headed and die
tate law to whole city, should find
a foe in him. [Great applausc.] He
meant that, popular or unpopular,
he would hew to the line of right,
let the chips fly where they may
Applause and cheers.] His integ-
rity, his common sense, his courage,
his unequalcd experience, are the
qualities offered TO his country. The
only argument, the only one that
the wit of men or the stress of poll
tics has devised is one which would
dumbfound a Solomon, because he
thought there was nothing new un-
der the sun. Laughter] Having
tried Grant twice, and found him
faithful, we are told that we must
not, even after an interval of years,
trust him a third time Ny coun-
trymen, my countrymen, what stul-
tification does not such a fallacy in
volve GApplause.] The American
people exclude Jefferson Davis from
public trust. Why? Why? Because
he was the arch-traitor and would
be destroyer, and now the same peo-
pie is asked to ostracize Grant and
not to trust him. [Applause,] Why ?
Why? / repeat. Because he was the
arch-preserver of his eountry-[ap-
plausel and because not only in
war but twice as civil magistrate he
gave his highest, noblest efforts to
the republic. Is this an electioneer-
ing juggle, or is it hypocrisy's
masquerade? ? There is no field of
human activity, responsibility or
reason in which rational beings OBJ
iect to an agent because he has been
weighed in the balance and not found
wanting. [Cries of Time" Order"
and "Go on"
There is, say, no department of
human reason In which sane men
reject an agent because he has had
experience, making him exception
ally competent and fit. From the
man who shoes your horse to the
lawyer who tries your cause, the Off
Ger who manages your railway or
your mill, the doctor into whose
hands you give your life, the minis
ter who seeks to save your soul
what man do you reject because by
his works you have known him and
found him faithful and true? [Ap-
plause.
What makes the Presidential of
flee an exception to all things else?
In the common sense to be applied
in selecting its incumbent, who dares,
who dares to put fetters on the free
choice and Judgment which is the
birthright of the American people?
[Applause.] Can it be said that
Grant has used an official power and
place to perpetuate his term? He
has no place, and official power has
not been used for him. [Applause.
Without patronage, without emissa-
ries, without committees, without
bureaus-[ laughter in the galleries.
without telegraph wires-[cries of
Coco" running from his house to
this convention, or running from his
house anywhere [Applause and
loud and prolonged Kisses, which the
speaker deprecated by raised hands. ]
Let me finish.
Mr.. Bishop of Montana rise to
ask the American people to listen to
the gentleman when he says: 'Let
me finish" Remember that we are
here to do right.
The Chair-The gentleman will
proceed unless some member of the
convention makes the point of order.
No member. of the convention has
manifested a disposition to do it.
Mr.. Conkling-And, Mr.. Chair
man, let me say to the Chair that i
shall be careful and not exceed the
forty minutes which, without objec-
ton, were given to those who pro-
posed and seconded the last nomina-
ton. [Cries of Good" and cheers.
| say this man without bureaus,
without appliances, without election
eering contrivances-[hisses and loud
cries of "Oh," "Oh," and laughter]-
without effort on his part his name
is on his country's lips-[laughter
and Kisses and he is struck at by
the whole. Democratic party-[cries
of "sit down. sit down." and hisses]
because his nomination is the
death blow of Democratic success.
[Applause.l He is struck at by
others who find offensesi,and disqual-
ification in the very services he has
rendered, and the very experience he
has gained.
SHOW ME A BETTER MAN
Name onel [Cries from the galleries
of Blaine Blaine" and general
laughter and applause. Gentlemen,