The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-03-04
Speech of Rob't G.. IngersoH i'm the Re.
publican Convention of 1875.

publican Convention of 1875.
The Republicans Of the United
States demand as their leader in the
great contest of 1876 man of intel
lect, man Of integrity, a man of
well-known and approved political
opinions. They demand statesman.
They demand reformer after, as well
as before, the election. They demand
a politician in the highest, the broad
est, and the best sense Of that word
They demand man acquainted with
public affairs, with the wants of the
people, with the requirements of the
hour not only, but with the demands
of the future. They demand man
broad enough to comprehend the rela-
tion of this Government to the other
nations Of the earth. They demand
man well versed in the powers, duties,
and prerogatives of each and every de-
partment of this Government. They
demand man who will sacredly pre-
serve the financial honor of the United
States; one who knows enough to
know that the national debt must be
paid through the prosperity of this
people; one who knows enough to
know that all the financial theories in
the world cannot redeem a single dol
lar; one who knows enough to know
that all the money must be made, not
by law, but by labor; one who knows
enough to know that the people of the
United States have the industry to
make the money and the honor to pay
it over just as soon as they can. The
Republicans Of the United States de-
mand man who knows that prosper
ity and resumption, when they come,
must come together; when they come
they will come hand in hand through
the golden harvest fields; hand in hand
by the whirling spindles and the turn
ing wheels; hand in hand past the
open furnace doors; hand in hand by
the flaming forges; hand in hand by
the chimneys filled with eager fire,
raked and gras ped by the hands Of the
countless sons Of toll. This money
must be dug out Of the earth. You
cannot make it by passing resolutions
in political convention. The Repub-
licans of the United States want a
man who knows that this Government
should protect every citizen at home
or abroad; who knows that any gov
ernment that will not defend its de-
tenders, and will not protect it's pro-
tectors, is disgrace to the map Of the
world. They demand man who be-
lieves in the eternal separation and
divorcement Of church and school.
They demand man whose political
reputation is as spotless as a star; but
they do not demand that their candi-
date shall have certificate Of moral
character signed by the Confederate
congress. The man who has, in full,
complete, and rounded measure, all of
these splendid qualifications is the
present grand and gallant leader of the
Republican party-James G. Blaine.
Our country, crowned by the vast
and marvellous achievements Of its
first century, asks for man worthy
of her past and prophetic of her fu-
ture; asks for man who has the au-
dacity Of genius; asks for man who
has the grandest combination Of heart
conscience, and brain the world ever
saw That man is James G.. Blaine
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 the recollections of
the Revolution; filled with proud and
tender memories Of the sacred past:
filled with legends Of iberty-a year
in which the sons of freedom will
drink from the fountain of enthusi-
asm-a. year in which the people call
for the man who has preserved in
Congress what their soldiers won upon
the field-a year in which they call
for the man who has torn from the
throat of treason the tongue of SLAM
der; the man who has snatched the
mask of Democracy from the hideous
face of the Rebellion; the man who,
like the intellectual athlete, hath stood
in the arena of debate challenging all
comers, and who up to the present
moment is total stranger to defeat.
Like an armed warrior, like plumed
knight, James G.. Blaine marched
down the halls of the American Con-
gress and threw his shining lance full
and fair against the brazen forehead
of every traitor to his country and
every maligner Of his fair reputation.
For the Republican party to desert
that gallant man now is as though an
army should desert their general upon
the field of battle James g. Blaine is
now and has been for years the bearer
Of the sacred standard of the Republi-
can party. [ call it sacred because no
human being can stand beneath its
folds without becoming and without
remaining free.
Gentlemen of the Convention: In
the name of the great Republic, the
only Republic that ever existed upon
the face of the earth; in the name of
all her soldiers living; in the name of
all her soldiers that died upon the field
of battle, and in the, name of those
that perished in the skeleton clutch of
famine at Andersonville and Libby,
whose sufferings he so vividly remem-
bers, Illinois-Illinois nominates for
the next President of this country
that prince of parliamentarians, that
leader of leaders, James G. Blaine
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