The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-11


mas used official power and place to perpetuate his
term? He has no place; and official power has not
been used for him. Without patronage and without
elssar1es, without bureaus without telegraph wires
running from his house to this convention or run
ming from his house anywhere else.
His name is on his countrys lips and he ia struck
at by the whole Democratic party, because his nom
inaton is the death-blow Of Democratic success He
is struck at by Others who find an ofense and dis
qualtlcatlon IN the very services he has rendered
ana the very experience that he has gained. Show
me better man. Name one, and I am answered But
dontpoint as disqualification to the very experience
which makes this man fit beyond all Others There
is no h1rd-term in the case, and the pretense will die
with the political dog-days that rendered If One
week after the Democratic Convention win hear +ha
last OF this rubbish about third term Nobody
NOBODY now IS really disquieted about third term
except those hopelessly longing for first term Tt
is the men who long for q first term
lie is the candidate whose friends have never
threatened to bolt unless this convention did as they
SAD. de is Republican who never wavers. He
ana MS friends stand by the creed and the candidates
OF the Republican party They hold the rightful rule
OF the majority the very essence of their faith
ana they mean to uphold that faith against not only
Ine common enemy but against the charlatans law
hawkers, ramps and guerrillas- the men who deDlov
between the lines, and forage now on one side and
then ON the other. This convention is master of a
supreme opportunity. 1t can name the next Presi-
dent. 1t can make sure of his election
1t can make sure not only of his election, but of
his certain and peaceful inauguration It can break
that power which dominates and mildews the South
eICe Is y standing protest against progress.
The purpose of the Democratic party is spoils
1ts very nope OF existence is a solid South Its sue
cess Is menace to order and progress I say this
convention can overthrow that power 1t can dis
solve ana emancipate a solid South. 1t can speed
Ine n2uon IN career of grandeur ecipeng all past
aehleYenents. Gentlemen, we have only to listen
ABOVE the din and look beyond the dust of an hour
20 oeno-d the Republican party advancing with it's
ens1gns respondent with ilustrious achievements,
marching to certain victory with it's greatest Mar
shal at Its head.
Gen. Garfield nominated John Sherman. of
Ohio, seconded by f. G. Winckler, Of Wiscon-
SIN, and Mr.. Hil of South Carolina. Mr. Gar
field spoke as follows
Mr.. President 1 have witnessed the extraordinary
scenes Of this convention with deep solicitude No
emotion touches nay heart more quickly than senti-
ments i'll honor of great and noble character but
have thought as I sat these seats and witnessed
this demonstration that it seemed to me YOU were
the human gathered in this circle I have
seen the sea dashed in its fury and tossed into SPRAY
ana there is grandeur that moves the soul of man
when he looks upon it; but remember that it is the
ca IN level OF the sea from which all heights ard
depths are measured
When the hour OF calm settles on the ocean. when
the sun light h&thes it, then the astronomer and sur
veyor takes the level and measures all terrestrial
heights and depths and, gentem Of the cOnyen-
ton, when the fervor of our enthusiasm has passed
when the passion of the moment has subsidized it is
that ca IN level Of public opinion, below the storm
below the passion from which the great tbOupbts Of
Almighty peop are to be measured and by which they
are TO be judged. Not here in this brilliant circle
where $4,000 men and women are gathered
is the destiny Of this republic to be settled for the
next four years Not here, where see the enthusi-
astc faces of 700 and odd delegates to cast their lot
into the urn and determine the fate of the republc
but by 100000 Of Republican fresides where
100000 of voters, with wives and children abort
them with the calm thoughts of home, with the
story of their country, with the history of it's
life, with the knowledge of the great men that
have lived upon it, burning down into their
hears-there God prepares the destiny that shall de-
termtne this mighty question. Not in CHICAGO in
the heat Of June, but in the republic in the quiet
melancholy days of November when men think and
act in the silence of their best Judgment will this
question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the con-
ventiOn, what do we want? What do we want9
Bear with me a moment: s hear me for NV cause
and for moment g be silent that you may 6earO
Twenty-Five years ago this republic of ours was
bearing and wearing the triple chain Of bondage
Long familiarity with traffic in the bodies and souls
Of men had parayzed and unclaimed the eonsciences
OF majority OF our people the narrowing and dis
integIatng doctrine Of State sovereignty had par
ayzed the MODEST and most benefcent powers of the
National Government; and the aggressive power of
slavery Selling the virgin Territories of our West
and dragging them into the den of eternal slavery
At that crisis the Republican party was born
1t drew its first inspiration from the fire of
liberty which God has lighted in every heart
and which no power Of slavery has ever been
able wholly to extinguish. The Republican party
was born out of this great and God-given impulse
and it came to deliver and save 1t entered where
the beeaguered and assaed Territories were strug-
Cling for life, and It stood beside them and drew
were forever strengthened by their victory and the
Republicans, under the leadership of that great
man who, ON this spot twenty years ago, was made
their leader, entered the national capital and
took their high places there. The cleaning light
from their banners melted away the shackles of
slaves about the capital, ind threw its rays into the
darkest corner of every slave-pen in Washington.
That party entered into the control of the Govern
ment, and it found all its nobest functions in bond
age; the great national industries by an mpractic-
able currency, were themselves PROSTATE and the
streams were SO sicky that the treasury itself was
empty, on nearly empty and the dregs that were in
the treasury We're the rags of 1000 uncontrolled and
unregulated independent corporations filing this
country with circulation that poisoned the life of
business everywhere The Republican party touched
all this threw it's protecting about the great
national industries. and they rose in their might
and contributed full Golfers to grateful Govern
ment. They filed with the genius Of nationality all
the great functions Of the Government, and made
them live again. More than that, they confronted
revolution with splendid armies that fought until the
mighty contest was ended; but above the storm of
battle, and above the roar of the guns, hear the
sweet calm words of peace that came from the con-
querng nation, saying to the rebels who lay pros
trate at their feet 1--WE take this our only reenge
ask you to join in lifting into the forum of the
constitution, to shine forever and like the star
Of God, the simple doctrine of equality of all men be-
lore the law" And then returning to our great
questions OF reconstruction, to our great debt, to
pupl4C OUlBaClOll, hepuDlcan party nh
lshed its twenty-five years of glory and success and
is here tonight to ask you to launch out on another
lustrum OF glory and victory. How shall you do it?
You must do it first my friends by assailing no Re-
publican. God forbid that 1 should lay one limita-
ton OF worth upon any distinguished name in the
category of our heroes If we win this
hght-for it is our Thermopyle this year:
we stand on the narrow isthmus. and the
little Spartan host must meet all the Persians
that Xerxes can bring: the stars in their courses will
hight for u.s. the that will be taken this month
will give MS the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. say / to win this
victory now we want every vote of every Grant Re-
publican in America and every anti-Grant Republic
can III America. We want the vote of every Blaine
man ana every anti-Baine man. of every follower of
every candidate, or we dare not hope TO-. success
Therefore, say L gentlemen brethren we are here to
take calm counsel together, and inquire what we
shall do.
We want man whose life and opinions enobody all
these achievements of which I have spoken We
want man who, standing as it were on a mountain
height, beneath his foot all the achievements and in
his heart all the love for the glories of our past
looks forward to meet the dangers to come We
want him in spirit of revenge against those that
we fought in battle. The Republican party goes to
the South with the palms of peace the olive branch
of peace in its hand and holds it out to every one
this supreme condition: that it shall be adj
mitted forever and forevermore that we were rioh+
and they were wrong, On that supreme condition
we meet them brethren, and on any other terms
we make no terms foreverInore.
Now, gentlemen not to weary you, am abollt To