Herald of Kansas., 1880-03-12

they come will come hand in hand.
Hand in hand through the golden
harvest fields; hand in hand bv the
whlrling spindles and the turning
wheels; hand in hand past the open
furnace doors; hand in hand bv the
flaming forges; hand in hand by the
chimneys filed with eager fire, raked
and grasped by the hands Of the
countless sons Of toll. This. money
must be dug out Of the earth. You
cannot make it by passing resolu-
tlons III political convention.
The Republicans Of the United States
want man who knows that this
Government should protect every
citizen at home or abroadi who
knows that any Government that
will not protect its protectors, is
disgrace to The map of the world.
They demand man who believes i'm
the eternal separation aud divorce
ment Of church and Stare They de.
mand man whose political rcptta-
ton is aS spotless as star; but they
do not demand that their candidate
shall have a certificate of moral
character signed by the Confederate
Congress. The man who has, in full
complete and rounded measure, all
these splendid qualifications, is the
present grand and gallant leader of
the Republican party, James G.
Blame.
Our co untry, crowned by the vast
and marvel Gus achievements Of its
first century, asks for man worthy
of her past and prophetic of her
future; asks for a man who has the
audacity Of genius; asks for a man
who has the grandest combination Of
heart, conscience and brain the world
ever saw. That man is James G.
Blame. For the Republican hosts,
led by this intrepid man, there can
be no such thing as defeat, This is
a grand year-a year filled with recol-
lectfohs Of the re volution; filled with
proud and tender memories Of the
sacred past; filled with legends of
liberty-A year III which the sons Of
liberty will drink from the fountain
Of enthusiasm-a year in which the
people call for the man who has
preserved in Congress what their
soldiers won upon the field: year
IN which they call for the man who
has torn from the throat of treason
the tongue Of SANDER; the man who
has snatcheA the mask of Democracy
from the h:deous face of Rebellion !.
the man, who like an intellectual ath-
lete, has stood i'll the arena of debate
challenging all corners, and who up
to the present moment IS 4 total
strnger to defeat. Like tan armed
warrior, like plhmed knight, James
of the American Congress and threw
his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen forehead of every
traitor to his country and every ma
ligner Of her fair reputation. For
the Republican party to desert that
gallant man now is As though all ar
my should desert their general upon
the field of battle, James G. Blaine
il now and has been for years the
bearer of the sacred standard Of the
Republican party. | call It sacred.
because no human being can stand
beneath its fold without becoming
and remaining free.
Gentlemen of the Convention In
the name Of the great Republic,
the only Republic that ever
existed Oh the earth; in the
name of all her defenders and sup
porters in the name of al her SOL |
diers living; in the name of al her !
soldiers that died upon the field
of battle, and in the name of those
that perished in The skelton clutch
of famine Mt AndersonyilIe anil Lib
by, whose suffering he so wildly re-
members, Illinois nominates for the
next President of this country that
prince of parliamentarlans, that
leader of leaders, James G, Blaine.