The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-06-28

quehanna. At the hour the dele
gates were not all present, and Yer,
few spectators were in the galleries
On motion of a delegate Col. Davi'
Taggart, of Northumberland, wa
unanimously selected presidentami'
loud applause. During Colonel Tag
CARTS remarks the Opera House FL
ed with spectators, who, with tn
delegates, which were now almost 81
in, loudly applauded the PRESIDENT
address.
ADDRESS OF COLONEL TAGGART.
This Convention has very proper
ly reassembled to complete its owl
unfinished work, and if it has no
the right and the power TO do that
/ should like to know who has AnC
in spite Of my learned friend Lear
whois unavoidably absent to-day or
account OF sickness in his family.
think that body which made such
good nominations before can b(
trusted to make another. But | am
very sorry that one of our nominees
Tom Marshall, did not have as good
opinion ofhimself as we had Of him
He could have filed the hill well
enough but for his confounded mod,
esty-a failing which is as rare rs il
is unbecoming in a Congressman ol
a Senator. Ifany mischief making
Democrat tries to make you believe
that Don Cameron owns this Con-
vention, tell him that you have Just
called to preside over it a man who
is not only for James a. Beaver fol
Governor, but for James G. Blaine
for President from the crown of his
head to the soul of his pot-metal
boots, and who looks upon Boss
Wolfe, Boss Mitchell, and even Boss
Cameron, and all the other bosses
as of very little account with the con.
t;nued supremacy ofthe great Repub-
| lican party. And it occurs to me
THAT the party could spare them all
for a little while Just now, till after
the election, with great advantage to
Itself. For then we should have
Independents nor Stalwarts,
but only Republicans, who learned
the battle cry Of freedom under Ben
Wade, Thad. Stevens, Simon Cam
oron, and Abraham Lincoln, and
whose flag has never trailed in nation
al defeat since the complete organi-
zation Of the party, twenty-five years
ago.
If the people could only realize
how transitory, and of how small
consequence both big and little men
in public life are by the side of eter-
nal principles, they would be no par
ty schisns growing out of personal
friendship or personal hatred. But
of all political tantrums, the most
illogical, and the most didbolically
unjust, Is to oppose IA brave and gif-
ted candidate, who is the almost
unanimous choice OF the party, be-
cause some big dog Of the lanyard"
whom We envy, fear or hate, is also
for him, and on this account to be
willing to hand over the destinies of
the country toan organization whose
policy we believe to he pernicioUs, ii
not destructive.
The right time to show your hos
tility is when the obnoxious fellow
himself comes up for election. l
would be ashamed to allow Don
Cameron, or even his grand old dad
dy-I don't mean his old grand-dad-
dy-to influence me half as much as
our soieheaded friends areinhuenced
by him. They have even permitted
him to drive them out Of the party,
for the present at least, and to put
them in opposition to their lifelong
convictions, and to make them elf
cient allies of the Democratic party.
.SGlgotioa by proxy is what most of
us will have to depend upon, but
Dama0tiOR by the same process is Il
triile unreasonable, and yet this is
the dose they offer TO our pure and
popular candidate for Governor and
his worthy colleagues upon the regu-
lar Republican ticket. Through Don
Cameron all Stalwarts are to be
damned, and By him all Independ-
ents, especially when he has the
toothache. This puts both wings of
the party in a bad fix. We all know
that Gen. Beaver would have been
nominated if the bosses had been
against him. We all know that
Charles Wolfe did not get a single
vote for Lieutenant Governor, al
though the big boss electioneercd for
him.
We all know that Tom Marshall
got a two-thirds vote, and yet neither
Quay nor Cameron ever asked man
to go for him. The truths, no man
ever lived who was big enough to
own Convention of 251 picked men
of the Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania, and it is Il calumny upon the
State, the henation, and popular govern
ment to assert it. There are men in
this Convention whom even their
Hives do not own exclusively. and
yet they are assessed rs the sole
property OF one poor. inofi'ensive falii-
ble man. If it be possible for US to
devise some plan by which our grand
organization can be reunited with
Its forty thousand majority, it Is our
very obvious duty to devise it, regad-
less Of the wishes or any one man,
Dr set Of men. The success OF the
party is Of more account than that Of
a thousand bosses, or of a whole pack
of wolves. with Charley at the head
or tail of them. / am tor Blaine
all the time, and | may say, without
that 1 don't care a Beaver
dam who knows it, and | ana sure
that most of you are Just Us indepen-
dent, if not quite so StaiWdTt as my
self. Being "A sort of accidental
President, | don't feel that 1 an un-
der particular obligations to any OF
you for the place. [ viii try to
deserve it, however, by acting fair
lv.
The speech was delivered in a con-
yersatioaal tone, and the quaint way
in which many sentences were
thrown at the audience ELECTED loud
shouts of laughter and applause.