The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-02-28

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 broadcast, and the best sense of
that word. They demand man ac-
quainted Witlrpublic affairs, with the
wants of the people, with the require
ments of the hour not only, but with
the demands of the future. They
demand man broad enough to com.
prehend the relation of this Govern
ment to the other nations of the earth.
They demand a man well versed in
the powers, duties, anG prerogatives
of each and every department. of this
Government. They demand man
who will sacredly preserve the finan-
cial 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 single dollar 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 Uni
ted States have the industry to make
the money and the honor to nay it
over just as soon as they can. The
Republicans of the United States de-
mand man who knows that pros
perity 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 turning wheels /;
hand in hand past the open furnace
doors; hand in hand by the flaming
FORCES; hand in hand by the CHM
neys filled with eager fire, raked and
grasped by the hands of the count
less sons of toll. This money must
be dug out of the earth. You cannot
make it by passing resolutions in a
political convention. The Republic
cans of the United States want man
who knows that this Government
should protect every citizen at home
or abroad who knows that any gov
eminent that will not defend its de-
tenders, and will not protect its pro-
tectors, is disgrace to the map of
the world. They demand man W no
believes in the eternal separation ard
enforcement of church and school.
They demand a man whose political
reputation is as sp0tless as a star;
but they do not demand that their
candidate shall have a certificate of
moral character signed by the Con-
federate congress. The man who has,
in full, complete, and rounded meas
ure, all of these splendid qualifica-
tons 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 a man worthy
of her past and prophetic of her flu
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
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
liberty-a year in which the sons of
freedom will drink from the fountain
OF enthusiasm--a year in which the
people call for the man who has pre-.
served in Congress what their SOL
diers won upon the field-a year in
which they call for the man who has
torn from the throat of treason the
tongue of SANDER; the man who has
snatched the mask of Democracy
from the hideous face of the Rebel
lion the man who, like the intellec-
tual athlete, hath stood in the arena
of debate challenging all corners,
and VINO up to the present moment
is total stranger TO defeat. Like an
warrior, like a pum'ed knight,
James G. Blaine marched down the
halls 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
Ilgner of his fair reputation. For the
party to desert that gall
ant man now is as tho an army
should desert their general upon the
ield OF battle. James G. Blaine is
low and has been for years the bear
sr Of the sacred standard of the Re-
publican party. / call il sacred be-