The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-13
IngersoIps Speech on Blaine.

Inefe is call Tor lngerSolI's speech n0ml-
mating Blaine at the Cincinnati Convention in
1876. Here 1t is-the first paragraph relating
to the speech OF Mr.. Dana of Massachusetts,,
Just delivered:
Massachusetts may be satisfied with the
loyalty of Benjamin 81. Bristow; so am /; but
if any man nominated by this convention can
not carry the State of Massachusetts,, am not
satisfied with the loyalty of that State. Ii the
nominee of this convention cannot carry the
grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts by
$4,000 majority, l would advise them to sell
out Faneuil hall as a Democratic headquar-
ters. L would advise them to take from
Bunker Hill that old monument Of glory.
THE Republicans of the United States de-
mand as their leader in the great contest of
1876 man of intelligence, a man of we'll
known and approved political opinions. They
demand a statesman; they demand reformer
after as well as before the election. They de-
mand politician in the highest broadcast and
best gense--a man OF superb moral courage.
They demand man acquainted with public
affairs, with the wants OF the people; with not
only the requirements of the hour, but with
the demands OF the future. Applause.
They demand man broad enough 10 COM
prehend the relations Of the government to
the other nations of the earth. They demand
man well versed In the powers, duties and
prerogatives of each and every department Of
this government. They demand man who
will sacredly preserve the financial honor Of
the United States; one who knDws 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 can not redeem a 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 United States have the
Industry to make the money, and the honor to
pay 1t over jus. as fast as they make it. (AI.
plause.)
"The Republicans Of the United States de-
mand man who knows that prosperity and
resumption, when they come, must come out
together; that 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
chimneys filled with eager fire, greeted and
grasped by the countless sons of toll.
his money has got to be dug out of the
earth. You can not make it by pacing resc.
Iutions in political convention. Applause.
"The Republicans of the United States want
| man who knows that the Government should
protect every citizen, at home and abroad who
kn9ys that any government that will not de-
fend its defenders and protect its protectors is
disgrace to the map of the world. They de-
mand man who believes in the eternal separ-
alton and enforcement of church and school.
Ihey demand man whose political reputa-
ton is as srotless as star; but they do not de-
| mand that their candidate shall have certif-
| cate OF moral character signed by a Confeder.
ate Congress. The man who has in full heaped
| and rounded measure all these splendid quail
| hcatlons 1s the present grand gallant leader OF
the Republican party.-James G. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vast and
marvellous achievements of its first century,
asks for a man worthy of the past, and proph.
| etic OF her future; asks for a man whc:has the
audacity of genius; asks for man who is the
| pfan66at C0mhinQ tim 0f HART nd
brain, beneath her flag. Such a man is James
| G. Blaine. (Applauss)
"For the Republican hest, led by this in
trepid man, there can be no defeat.
| This is grand year-a year filed with re-
| collections OF the revolution; filled with the
| proud and tender memories of the past; with
| the sacred legends of liberty-a year in which
the sons of freedom will drink from the foun-
| talns OF enthusiasm; year in which the poo
pie call for man who has preserved in Con-
gres3 what our 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
siander-Ior the man who has snatched the
mask OF Democracy from the hideous face Of
rebellion; for this man who, like an intellec
l. tual athlete, has stood in the arena of debate
and challenged all corners, and who is still a
| total stranger to defeat. Applause.
| Like an armed warrior, like a plumed
knight, James G. Blaine marched down the
halls OF the late American Congress and threw
| MS enihinS lance Iull ana Ialr against the
brazen forehesds of the defamers of hislcoun
| try and the maligners of his honor. For the
Republican party to desert this gallant leader
| now is as though an army should desert theil
general upon the field of battle. Applause.
James G. Blaine is now and has been fol
| years the bearer of the sacred standard of the
| Republican party. call it sicred, because nc
| human being can stand beneath its folds with
out becoming and without remaining free.
Gentlemen of the convention, in the namt
OF the great republic, the only republic tina
| ever existed upon this earth, in the name O
all her defenders, and of all her supporters
in the name of all her soldiers living; in tn
name of all her soldiers dead upon the field o
battle, and in the name of those who persisted
in the skeleton-clutch of famine at Anderson
vile and Libby, whose sufferings he so viyidlJ
remembers IlliDois-Illinois dominates for thu
next President of this country that prince Of
parliamentarians, that leader of leaders
i James G., Blaineo