The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-06-18

insul.ed and outraged in his rights,
! that spirit will come down with
sword and shield, lake the qulvering
and trembling black man by the
hand. lead him safely through the
files of the enemy until he can vote:
and speak. and think as he pleases.
lTApplause.l This is our platform.
These are our candidates. Your
second chsice, selected with a una
nimity almost marvellous in great
conventions of this character, had
every trace of Democratic blood fired
out of him when the first shot ex-
ploded upon the walls of Sumter.
| From that time to this undertaking,
unwavering, and unfaltering, there
has never been Republican idea OF
which John A. Logan has not been
. vigorous, an aggressive, an elo-
ouent and courageous champion.
ifApplause.l We have the real spirit
of the fiber of the party embodied
and illustrated by this great ticket.
We have a platform broad enough
for every citizen to stand upon.
THE DEMOCRACY.
The night is closing down upon
us. the old diabolism of the Demo
cratic party is not yet gone. Anoth-
er convention will be held here next
month. Tilden will probably be
nominated. 1t is possible that he is
already dead, laughter and ap-
plause, but with the slyness and
the secretiveness of the author of the
cipher dispatches, he might be dead
two years and never let anybody
know. [Laughter.l We will run
substances against shadows. We
will run living, breathing men, with
bone and flesh, and muscle and ap-
petite, against ghestly reflections
such as he. [Applause and laugh
teri They tell us that he may car
ry New York. New York is a great,
practical, splendid business state. 1t
was my great good fortune to be
born there. 1t is the old Empire
State. 1t stands like the angel OF the
Apocalypse with one foot resting
upon the sea and the other upon the
land. the mistress of both. 1t has
the spirit of Blaine and Logan in its
bosom. [Applause.] The old Repub-
licanism of that state which chal-
len.ed the diabolism of Democracy
thirty years ago has still within its
heart the old undying and imperish-
able faith. [Applause. 1t will car
ry this banner, you may rest assur-
ed, forward through the storms and
fires of the conflict upon which we
are about to enter to triumph and to
victory. [Applause.l There may
be those who will hesitate and falter
bv the roadside. There may be
those who will weary in this mag
nifcent march. The campaign is
now upon us. We have no time for
| liniments or poultices. We cannot
stop to heal the infirm. The lame
men must fall behind, the cripples
be relegated to the rear The great,
healthy, splendid marching of the
Republican millions taking up this
banner will place it, ycu may be
sure, upon the topmost eminences
of magnificent victory. [Applause. ]
THE TWO PARTIES.
! have never seen the time, | nev-
er expect to see it, when | can de-
bate with myself where is the choice
between the Republican and the
Democratic party. One, with Its
shining and glorious record of great
deeds, and the other with a career
ieprous with sin and spotted with
iniquities, never in all its history
has done the right thing except at
the wrong time. Laughter.] Dur
ing all the war it was in favor of
peace. After the war had ceased it
raised the devil in the South. When
the greenback was a necessity it
spurned it as unconstitutional, and
when the necessity ceased it swore
we should have nothing in the heav
ems but greenbacks. Applause and
laughter.l Thus it has been with
that crooked, incomprehensible par
ty-the demon of political cussed-
ness and the embodiment of all that
is wicked. 1t wants US to look to
Tilden as its prospective representa-
tive, who weighs ninety pounds and
is unable to hear, and is remember
ed only because he was the architect
of the most unsuccessful fraud ever
engineered in American politics.
Loud applause He is pitied be-
cause the fraud did not succeed. l
have no sympathy with him for that
reason. Democrats tell me, "We
will nominate Tilden." That is a
sentiment. ] say to them, "For
Gods sake, if you have got senti-
ment, stick to it laughter tbs the
only one you have got; you have
not had any in quarter of Gen.
tury You are situated like the man
with one pair of pants you cannot
be critical it is these trousers or
nakedness." Laughter and cheers.
NO DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGN.
Now, gentlemen, this is no defen
sive campaign. Don't you forget it.
| presume that before the campaign
is closed you will hear something of
the Mulligan letters. | remember
very well, in 1880, you might tell
Democrat that his party had oppos-
ed the war, and he was dumb; you
might tell him that it had opposed
the conscription law, and he was
speechless; you might tell him that
he had wrought against the draft,
and be was still silent you might
charge him with having undertaken
to destroy the National existence,
the National credit. and the National
honor, and he had not word to
say but along toward the close of
ths campaign this Democrat whom
YOU had thus addressed, silent and
utterly unable to answer your argu
ments, would awaken you at mid
night by mysterious scratching on
the sidewalk, and you would find as
the only answer this Democrat,
prone on his belly, writing with
great anxiety and with great pain,
the wrong-side out. 329. laugh