The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-18

of what is best in human society the round world
over. 1t is the nomination Of the
| great free States. 1t is the nomination
| of the church and of the school-house. 1t is the
] nomination Of the men who own and till their
own farms, 1t Is the nomination of the men
! who perform skilled labor in the shops. 1t is
the nomination of the soldier-of the men who
went to the war and stayed all through. It is
REORGANIZATION of the men who paid the debt
and kept the currency sound aud saved the Ma
TORS honor It's the nomination of the men
who saved the country in war and who have
made it worth living in in peace. This, fellow
citizens is the riff raff Of the Republican party
that surrounds James G. Blaine"
They say Mr.. Blaine is lingo" He is just
such lingo as was John Quincy Adams. The
malice of his detractors brings against his per-
sonal integrity single charge, which is sup
ported by no proof and refuted by every witness
who knows the facts, and single phrase in
letter which is fully susceptible of an honest
construction. 1t is said that the President OF
the United States ought to be, like Caesars wife,
above suspicion. / have one thing to say about
Cesar Cesar did many base things; among
them was the destruction of the liberties of his
country; but he never did baser thing than
when he abandoned his wife because somebody
slandered her.
wish to say word concerning Mr. Blaine's
associate on the ticket, whom for fifteen years
| have had abundant opportunity of knowing.
General Logan's opinions and character have
been constant growth from the time he entered
public life as Democratic representative from
Egypt thirty years ago. have not explored,
but have no doubt if you were to look back
among forgotten records, you would find many
opinions that he expressed and many votes that
he gave with which you and / should have little
sympathy. But what of that2 He was born
again in the day of the great regeneration. He
went through the baptism of fire and blood and
ever since has been true as steel on every ques-
ton of patriotism and freedom. He is the type
and representative of the American volunteer
soldier. He entered the war private He
n NIX md hp
nous of all the men who enlisted from civil life.
Ever SINCE the people OF his great State have
kept him in public service in House and Senate,
until the other day she presented him at Chicago
as her candidate for the highest Office. If any
body questions General Logan'S civil capacity
should like to have him try his hand at en-
countering him in debate.
THE CAMBRIDGE PROFESSORS
see the president of Harvard tells his neigh
bors that the platform is immoral and demagogi-
cal. Well, differ with the worthy President
The Republican platform states squarely
and clearly what a majority of Republicans
think. The ciyil-service plank was drawn by
George William Curtis, and that about the sur
Plus by Cabot Lodge. President Eliot thinks the
civil-service resolution is not honest Well
would rather stand for ivil-service reform with
the men who passed the law of last year with
Edmunds and Hawley and John Sherman and
Dorman Eaton, than the men who retired
Pendleton to private life. President Eliot does
not like the Chinese resolution. / quite agree
with him. like the Declaration of Independence
better. But am sorry to say that the policy Of
Chinese exclusion is in accordance with the
opinion of a large majority of American
people of both parties. We must submit to it
till we can convert them President Eliot ex-
presses the sentiment of little body of men
about Cambridge. l am happy to believe he does
not represent the college-whose influence in
my Judgment has tended infinitely to degrade
the public life of the Commonwealth These
men have taught our educated youth to be
ashamed of their own history. They have told
them that ssince the close of the war there has
been no time when a young man knew how he
could honorably serve his country They were
preaching In the same strain during the war;
and before the war. Their eyes are microscopes
which can see a blemish on the skin, but can.
not take in fair landscape or a healthy hui
man figure They can find no statesman
ship and no public virtue in the pay
ment of the the debt, in the settlement Of the
currency, in the return to specie payment, in
the sublime clemency that dealt with the
conquered after the war, in the great self-re-
straint OF the Alabama treaty. in the miraculous
development of our manufactures in the crea-
ton of the great domestic commerce, in the
peaceful settlement of the disputed presidential
succession. There is hardly man who has not
been compelled to undergo the contenptuous
criticism of the gentle hermits of Cambridge It
has been so from the beginning Even the men
whom they are now most eager to praise, and
whose examples they cite to show the decay of
modern statesmanShip-the dealt the same
measure in their time-John Adams and his
inustrious sons, Sumner, Andrew Wilson, as
they erect their mausoleum to each, they should
write over it the Inscription, "Our Fathers
stoned this prophet and we built his sepulchre.p
Congressman Jobu D. Long. who mada fbe
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in the Chicago convention, said, in part:
am here at the opening Of another presiden-
tial campaign, to renew nv allegiance to the
party and principles of Lincoln and Andrew of
and to unite with the great masses of the inteli-
gent and patriotic people of Massachusetts, in the
election of their candidates, the Republican
nominees for the Presidency and Vice presidency
of the United States.