The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-13
A Powerful Pair.


A Powerful Pair.
The Republican party has agair
placed its nominees for president ant
vice-preSident before the people. A
wiser selection could not have beer
made by any party. The action of thu
Chicago convention will certainly
have the effect of harmonizing the fac,
tions in the party, and bring it again
to victory in November.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
the nominee for president, has been q
life long and ardent republican, and
for many years past has been promi
nently before the people in various ca
pacities in public life, and has made
for himself a great and glorious record
He was born at Indian Hill farm,
Washington county, Penn, in 1880
His great grandfather, Colonel Ephri.
am Blaine, was a friend of Washing.
tor and had charge of the commissar.
lat OF the revolutionary forces during
the terrible winter which they passed
mt Valley Forge. At the age of twelve,
Blaine was SEN to school in Lancaster,
Ohio, where he lived in the family OF
his relative, Hon. Thomas Ewing, then
secretary of the treasury. One year
later he entered Washington college,
where he graduated at the head of a
large class in lS47. In 1850 he went
to Kentucky as a teacher i'm the mill
tary academy at Blue Lick Springs.
In 1862 Mr.. Blaine WIS elected to
congress. During HE fire: term he
gave himself up to study and observa-
ton, but in the next congress, the
thirty-ninth, he gained some prOmi-
nence, and from hat time to the end
of his career he occupied a foremost
place among the republican leaders.
During the period of southern recon-
struction Blaine made many speeches
that attracted much attention and
spread his fame as an orator. In the
forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third
congresses he was elected speaker OF
the house. In this capacity he showed
a ready knowledge of parliamentary
usage and a fairness and unpartiality
in his rulings that won him general
praise from both parties.
In June 1876, Blaine was elected to
fill the seat in the senate vacated by
Lot NJ. Morrill,, who had been made
secretary of the treasury, and in JAN
uary, 1877, he was elected for the full
term, ending March 4th. 1854.
In all his labors, Mr.. Blaine has
striyen to be with and by the people.
Ambitious, it is true, he was; but am
bilious to do his country great service
and enhance the interests of the mass
es. His splendid Oratory and his
matchless magnetism made for him
thousands of friends who were ready
to so anywhere with him that honor
able and brave men might go"
JOHN A. LOGAN
the soldier and statesman, was wisely
selected for the second place on the
ticket by the convention. His name
will insure the party thousands of
votes. Being always true to his friends,
a brave and loyal max, the soldiers
friend sAG many other noble attri-
butes, has endeared him to the people.
when the union flag was assailed by
enemies in arms, when the integrity of
the union was imperilled by an organ-
lied treason, when the storm of wal
threatened the very life of this nation,
this gallant son of the Prairie state re-
signed his seat in the congress of the
United States. returned to his home,
and was among the first of our citi-
zens to raise a regiment and march to
the front in defense OF his country.
Like Douglas, he believed that in time
of war, men must be patriots or trait
ors, and ne threw his mighty influence
On the side of the union and Illinois,
made a record second to none in the
history OF the states in the struggle to
preserve this government. Among
the large number of brave men, of
brave soldiers of the late war, whose
names are proudly written on the
scroll Of fame, none appear more
grandly than the name of Logan"
Such Is the fame of John A. Logan,
one of Americas greatest statesmen.
With these two gallant standard bear
ers, the republican party will so to
victory in November. Let every re-
publican lay aside all prejudices and
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