The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-26
BLAINE OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED BY
THE COMMITFEE OF HIS NOMI-
NATION, AT CHICAGO.
Speech of General Henderson.
In Which are Lots of Gush
and TaaIy,
But Mentions Nothing About
the GuanO Business, or
Like Matters.
Jack Logan is Serenaded Ey
Old Soldiers and Sailors and
Becomes EnthuSed.

| AUGUSTA, June 2i.-Rarfy thi
morning the streets began to assum,
a lively appearance and long befor,
the time for the arrival for the com
mittee appointed by the national con
vention to notify James &. Blaine o.
his nomination to the presidential
candidacy of the republican party t.
perform that duty, considerable
crowd collected around the AuguSta
house to gaze, with curiosity on mem
bers of the committee. Promptly al
II o'clock the national committee Of
notification proceeded, in a body, tC
Blaine's residence, and were received
by Mrs. Blaine. AS the day was very
hot and the rooms of the mansion
were crowded almost to sufficatioD, il
was suggested that the presentation
of the address be made on the lawn
Accordingly theIcommitteeand guests
proceeded to a well shaded portion OF
the grounds, where semi-circle was
formed and all present stood with un.
covered heads, making an impressive
| scene.
When all were in readiness, Mr..
Blaine was escorted to the lawn
where he stood within the arch of a
semi-circle. Gen. Henderson then
stepped forward and presented the adj
dress of the committee. Reading
from manuscript, he spoke as fol
lows:
"Mr. Blaine, your nomination for
the Office of president of the United
States, by the neutrality-suspicious. con-
vention, recently assembled at Chica-
go, is already known to you. The gen.
tlemen before you constituting the
committee, composed of one member
from each state and territory of the
country, and one from the'district of
Columbia, now come as the accredited
organ of that convention to give you
formal notice of your nomination, and
to request our acceptance thereof.
1t is, of course, known to
you that, beside your own, there
were several other names, among
the most honored in the councils of
the republican party-presented by
their friends as candidates for this
nomination. Between your friends
and the friends of gentlemen so justly
entitled to the respect and confidence
of their political associates, the con-
test was one of generous rivalry, free
from any faint of bitterness, and equ-
ally free from reproach or injustice.
At an early stage of the proceedings
of the convention, it became manifest
that the republican states whose aid
must be invoked at least to insure sue
cess to the ticket, earnestly desired your
nomination. 1t was equally manifest
that the desire so earnestly expressed
by the delegates from those states
was but truthful reflection of an IT.
resistible popular demand. 1t was
not thought nor pretended that this
demand had its origin in any ambi-
tious desires OF your own, or any or
gained work of your friends, but was
recognized to be what it truthfully
waS-a spontaneous expression by a
free people for the love and admira-
ton of a chosen leader. No nomina-
ton would have given satisfaction to
every member OF the party. This
was not to be expected in a country
so extended in area and so varied in
interests. The nomination of Lin
coin in 1860, disappointed so many
hopes and overthrow so many cherish
ed ambitions, that, for short time,
disaffection threatened to ripen into
open revolt. In 1872, the discomfort
was so pronounced as to impel large
masses of the party to organize oppo-
sition to the nominees. For many
weeks after the nomination of
Garfield in 1880, defeat seemed
to be inevitable. In each case
the shock of disappointment was fol-
lowed by the sober, second thought.
Individual references gradually yield
ed to convictions of public duty. The
promptings of patriotism finally rose
superior to the irritations and animos-
titles of the hour. The party in every
trial has grown stronger in the face
of threatened danger. In rendering
you the nomination, it gives us pleas
ure to remember those great meas
ures which. furnished the caus-
es for party congratulations by
the late convention at Chicago, and
which are now cryStaliZed into
the legislation of the country. The
measures which have strengthened
and dignified the nation, and while
they elevated and advanced the peo-
pie, have at all times, on all proper
occasions, received your earnest and
| valuable support. 1t was your good
fortune to aid in protecting the nation
against the assaults of armed treason
You were present and helped to I'M
loose the shackles of the slave. You
assisted in placing a new guarantee
of freedom in the federal constitution
| Your voice was potent in preserving
the national faith, when false theories
of finance would have blasted nationa
and individual prosperity. Wekindl!
4 ,kNcv- naf frfn nf hon
est money, commercial integrity in al
that pertains to the security and re
pose of capital. the dignity of labor
manhood, of the elevation and free
dom of the people; right of the OF
pressed to demand, and the duty of tn
government to afford protection
Your public acts have received the IN
qualified endorsement of popular az
proval. But we, not unmindfu
of the fact that parties
like individuals cannot liv
entirely on the past, howevel
splendid the record-the present
ever charged with immediate care
and the future presses on with il
new duties and its perpleXing respoI
sibilities. Parties, ike individual
: however, that are free from tn
strain of violated facts in the pas
, are fairly entitled to the presumptio
/ of sincerity in their promises for til
, future. Among the promises mao
J by the party in its late convention ;
Chicago, are economy and purity
: administration, the protection
: citizens, native and natura
ed-at home and abroad
the prompt restoration
of the navy, a wise reduction of SUI
plus revenues; relieving the tax pa
er without injuring the laborer; ii
= preservation of the public lands f,
. actual settlers; import duties, VIII,
! necessary at all, to be levied not f
!, revenue only, but for the double pu
, pose of revenue and the protectit
I and regulation of internal commerce
y the settlement OF international diffe
: ences by peaceful arbitration, b
- coupled with the re-assertion al
E maintenance of the Monr
doctrine as interpreted
, the fathers of the republic; persev,
. ence in the good work of civil servi
= reform, to the end that the dangers
- free institutions which Turk in t
:, power of official patronage, may
q wisely and effectually avoided; a
e honest currency based on coin, of
:, trinsic value, adding strength to t
. public credit, and giving renewed
tally to every branch of Americ
industry. Mr.. Blaine-during
last twenty-three years-the repl
q. lican party has built n
le republic republic far more spl
he did than that originally organ
s. ed and designed by our fathers, a
y grand as its proportions already g