The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-03
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN NOTES.

REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN NOTES.
june 81 was fixed upon by the COM
mittee appointed by the, national CON
yention to notify James a. Blaine Of his
nomination to the presidential candidacy
Of the Republican party. !,
Promptly at IL o'clock the committee pro.
toeeded in d body to MI. Blaine's residence,
and were received by Mrs Blaine, As tho
day was progressively hot and the rooms of
the mansion crowded almost to suffocation,
it was suggested that the presentation be
made upon the lawn. Accordingly the COM
mittee and guests proceeded to we'll shaded
portion Of the grounds, where a semicircle
was formed and all present stood with un-
covered heads, making 1t an impressive
scene The rustling Of the spreading
branches Of the great elms and the buzzing
of insects We're the only sounds to disturb
the stiffness When all was in readiness MI.
Blaine was escorted to the lawn, where he
stood within the arc Of the senlicircle
$ CHAIRMAN HENDERsoN's ADDRESS
Gen. Henderson then stepped forward and
presented the address Of the committee, read
ing from manuscript He spoke as follows:
Mr. Blaine, your. nomination for the office Of
president Of the United States by the national
Republican convention, recently assembled at
Chicago, Ia 1fready known to YOU The gentle
men before you, constituting the committee COM
tory In the country and one from the District Of
Columbia, have now come rs the accredited organ
Of that convention to give you formal notice of
the nopi1ation and to request your acceptannce
side your own several other names among the
most honored in the councils of the Republican
party were presented by their friends as candi-
and the friends Of the gentlemen SO justly enti-
tied to the respect and confidence OF their polit-
1cal associates, the contest was one Of generous
free from reproach or Injustice. At an early stag
Of the proceedings OF the convention 1t became
manifest that Republican states, whose aid must
be invoked ct last to insure success to the ticket
earnestly desired your nomination. lit was
equally manifest that the desire 80 earnestly ex-
pressed by the delegates from those states was
but the fruitful reflection Of an irresistible pop
that this demand had Its origin in any ambi
tious desire of your own or in the organized
work Of your friends; but 1t was recognized to
preston by. q free peopleof the love and admir-
alton for q vi ~. l.4g; iis
THEIR CHOSEN LEADER. H. III
denomination would have given satisfaction
expected in q country so extend ed:in area and so
varied in interests. The nomination Of Lincoln
in 1860 disappointed SOY many hopes and soyer-
short time, disaffection threatened to ripen into
open revolt. In 1872 the discomfort was SO pro-
nounced as to impel large masses of the party to
many weeks after the nomination Of Garfield In
1880, defeat seemed inevitable. In each case
the shock of disappointment was followed
by sober second Thought, and sltndfvidu
io{j
public duty. The promptings Of patriotism
finally rose superior to the irritations and ami
mosities of the hour The party in every trial
gives us pleasure Is Te1nember those great meas.
ures which furnished causes for party congratu-
latton by the late convention at Chicago, and
the country; measures which have strengthened
and {dign1f1ed the nation, and while they have
elevated and advanced the people, have at all
times and.on all proper occasions received your
earnest and valuable support. It was your good
fortune to aid in protecting the nation against
the assaults Of armed treason; you were present
and helped to unloose the shack elsot the slaves
dom in federal institutions. Yonr voice was
potent in preserving the national faith when
false theories Of finance would have blasted ma
5ionaa end inalydgal prosperity We Kindly
money, commercial integrity In all that pertains
to the security and repose of capital and the
dignity OF labors the - ii s$z!s IS
freedom pf the people, the right of the oppressed
to demand and the duty OF the government to
afford protection Your public acts have re-
az not 81 s @
That parties, like individuals, cannot live ter-,
tireiy on the past, however splendid the record.
The present is ever charged with immediate
cares, and the future presses In with its new
auttes and It's perplexing responsibilities Par
ties like individuals, however, that are free from
stain Of violated faith in the past fairly en-
f1n5
promises FOR the future Among the promises
made by the party In dts last convention OF
Chicago, arc economy, in admins Ion; pro-
lection Of citizens, snative and naturalized, at
home and abroad prompt restoration Of tho
navy; wise reduction of surplus revenues, res
lieying the taxpayer without injuring he.
lahorer; the tion Of the public lands for
at all, to I. be levied, not for reve-
nue. only, but for the double pur-
pose of revenue and protection; regulation
ttonal differences by peaceful arbitration, but
coupled with the reassertion and maintenance
Of the Monroe doctrine, as interpreted by the
work of civil service reform to the end that lhe
dangers to free institution which Turk in the
power Of ottc1a! patronage: be wisely and effect
lively avoided; honest currency based on coin of
i trinslc value, adding Strength to the public
credit and giving renewed vitality to every
branch OF American industry. Mr.. Blaine, dur
ing the last twenty three years the Republican
more splendid than iginaIly designed by our
fathers As It's proportions are already grand,
they may yet be enlarged; Its foundations may
yet be strengthened and its columns adorned
With beauty more Tesnlendent still To You, as Y
Its architect in chief will soon be assigned this
grateful work. III r. pa s. 81
4 Mr. BIAnyE's RESPONSE
i Blaine listened to Gen. Henderson's ad.
dress, standing under an elm tree with his
arms folded on his chest and his eyes usually
east down but ct times wandering abou.
scanning, the faces Of the audience = Wba,.iS