Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-06-16

of traitors were determined TO destroy the
honor OF our country whom great financial
measures were in issue. Ihnvo seen IL defend
tho honor and honesty OF our people when me
and degrade us In the eyes of the world.
Having seen all this am Republican.
fought for II in battle. have fought for IL on
the stump. | shall fight for It, have no
doubt, till die
Upon every great question of public policy
since the Republican party was organized Il
has been right, and In the light of history 1
challenge any man, Democrat or Republican,
to tell me one great issue of tho Republicans
which has not been right. Now don't know
what your resolutions are going to be, and
don't care much. don't believe much in plat;
of the party. Now we have our little auarrels,
petty disturbances, and the like, and we have
have been called up here to attend the obse-
quies OF the Republican party time and again,
but IL turned out to he the livelicst corpse
ever saw. II has lived, and we may suffer our
little detcats we may have our little divisions
of this kind or that; we may have our little
squabbles and dlsagrecments; there may be
depression of stocks, strikes, hard times or
failure of the crops, or the like, from time to
time, but we are going to succeed. IL has got
to be the great dominant party of this State
and OF this country, and you may Just rs well
buckle on your armor and go out this fall de-
termincd to win Some of our friends have
been recently dissatisfied with us, dissatisfied
with some of our actions and some of our legis-
laton. Perhaps 1t is not becoming In me here
to talk very much about the matter one way
or the other, but the Republican party is the
party of law and order, and OF honesty, and II
will so remain. We would ostracse no man,
and no body, nor association of men from our
party. We hold out our hands to all, and we
ask them to stand by us. Now, among our
warm friends, to whom have always been at
taohed, and to whom have been largely in
debtcd for whatever honors have been be-
slowed on me at the hands of the people of
Ohio. While these Republican Germans feel
aggrieved over what they regard in the light
as an infringement of their rights. 1 do not
forget record
that party with which nil their sympathes
have heretofore been, and to go oyer and help
| into power u party disoyal and with which
they have had no sympathy whatsoever. We
have had our little quurrels, our little fuses
and come together. We will stand by the
party, we will conduct 1t to success this year.
we will conduct 1t to success next year, and
we will keep 1t in power for the next twenty
years as we have done for the last twenty
| years.
delegates sprang to their feet and cheer after
cheer went up from the enthusiastic throng.
Judge West was then called for with great
| enthusiasm, and being conducted to the front
| by the President, was received with perfect
storm of applause. lIe spoke as follows:
Mr. Chdl3nan and People Of Ohio: have no
am covered over with some bruises and scars
| by reason of a recent discontinue, and hence
can only exhibit them and ask your sympathy.
| ! was Republican, and | suspect i am yet.
| My impression from the noise hear, for sec
no faces is that the Republican party is still
|
| Republican deep are again broken up, and the
| windows of Republican enthusiasm are open
Is bsnr 1 a1~ ae ON thst MS % his s ne m M
heretofore, that we will again submerge the
| Democracy and launch the ark of the covenant
and of liberty upon the road of triumph. Gen
| tlemen, we are right. We are generally right.
| And we are always going to be right if we
know it. And knowing the right, the Repub-
| lican party has the courage to pursue and de-
| fend it, no time serving, no temporary tri-
umph. but for the purpose of establishing ey..
the heavens should fall. Talk about the Dem
ocratic party! 1t is the sewer into which all
the dissatisfied elements rushl have heard
the name German mentioned here to-
day. If there is heart upon this
continent that admires the German
character, 1t is here. Sirs, 1 remember when
| thrilled rs they saw the blue sky of liberty
stretched above,a and felt rocking beneath them
shores of this land of the free and home of
| the brave, aud we welcomed them. We well
| come them now, but we do not recognize any
| distinction. We have no Germans, we have no
| lrish we have no Scotch, we have no England
| er, we have no Southerner, we have nothing
| but American citizens the rights of which are
| liberty of all. II we have some old fashioned
| cherished institutions and cherished traditions
| which our fathers loved, and which we do not
well like to relenquish, it is simply because of
| our old IA hiDned notions. In the forest came
our fathers, with the institution of one day in
| seven for rest and culture and moral and intel
ectual elevation The forest fell, civilization
! was followed up, liberty was entrenched, and
| all lands, nations, and countries come to enjoy
| II. Shall we be criticised because we desire to
| continue in existence an institution that has
Never. o, Never! Never, by the memory of
| our fathers, by the ashes of our mothers, by
| the shadows of our dead heroes. We SHALL
| we must. and we willsstand maintain and de-
| fend these honored institutions of our civili-
| zation and our liberty. The Democratic party
| take 1t from us? Never. Never! There may
be defeat for little while. The Republican
|
| feated for n season but truth crushed to earth
| will rise again. The DeWocratic partyl The
| glory of the Democratic party is in the past
| gone glimmering through the dream of the
1 things that were, school-boy's tale, the won
| der of an hour. The glory of the Republican
| party illumes its past. Not only does ii IL
| lumne what is gone before but. like the glory
| and brighter and will grow brighter as tho
| centuries roll to future. "Truth crushed to
earth will rise again." the eternal years of
| God are hers, but error wounded writhes in
vain and dies among His wOrshppers.
Again the convention grew wild and gave the
sightlesS but brilliant orator an ovation that
any man on earth might be proud of. Such
| dom seen, but the Convention was full of grit
and determination, and only sought such an
occasion to give it expression; and it was an
expression that made the attenuatcd fiber on
the vertebra of the moss backs vibrate with
dread at the approaching storm. tl-
The Platform.
Senator Pringle, of Clarke, from the Com
mttee on Platform, presented the following as
the unanimous report of the Committee on
| The Ropuhlicans of Ohio in State Conycn-