The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-11

fall upon the representatives OF the people, we
are here in the interests Of the people and to all
the people Of the country and the whole coun-
try. We are here to select for president man
from our own ranks, but man whose record
and character, whose tested services, whose tried
incorruptibility, whose walk through the storms
and fires of public life, whose approved wisdom
in every emergency, whose recognized capacity
to put firm and safe hand upon the helm and
so hold up the public confidence, IL will not be
our choice for them but their choice for
themselves. lie must be one party, but the
whole of it. He must be one who will hold
every republican to his cordial allegiance, one
who will stand for every beat that ever throbbed
in the national heart for humanity, freedom,
conscience, and who will command their un-
divided support. Not merely brilliant quail
tiles on the one hand, or meritorious qualities
on the other are enough. He must have all
the staying qualities of the sturdiest American
character. He must represent no wing or fac
tion Of the reform; one who will stand for
whatever has been honest and OF good report
in our national history, for whatever Is made
for economy, for whatever is economy,
financial wisdom, clean politics. and integrity
of national life. And, above all, he must
be one whose name will carry in the COM
ing canvass that sense of security to which
at each presidential election the country turns
as to a very rock OF salvation. Such man,
honest and capable will first master the sober
Judgment and approval of the people. Thence
my friends, that counts, and that is the enthu
siasm of public confidence-and then on cleo
ton day, conscious where their safety lies, the
irrepressble uprising of the people, like the
might inrolling of the ocean tide, will sweep
him-never fear-into the highest seat OF your
public service. That is the measure not OF the
party but of the country. Meet 1t and you
have done your work and won your victory in
advance. Respond here and now to this in
stinct Of the people and they will take care
hn No 4. I.,.,I I,.A
the candidate have named rises to it. If
there be an ideal American citizen in the
best sense, 1t Is he. You know, the people
know, his character, his abilities, his worth, his
courage are az recognized and familiar as
household words His fame needs not the
kindly nothing but good with which death
obscures the faults and exaggerates the efforts
of public men. Calumny dare not assail him,
and II 1t dare, recoils as from galvanic shock.
Against no other candidate can less be said
than against this one; for no other candidate
can more be said, stand here, Mr. President,
honored by the duty of presenting his name
to this convention. But it is not the state nor
the delegates whom here represent who pre-
sent that name to you. 1t is presented by I'M
counted numbers of our feow-citzens good
men and true, over this land, who only wait
his nomination to spring to the swift and
hearty work of his election. 1t is presented by
an intelligent press from Maine to California,
representing healty public sentiment and an
advanced public demand. 1t is the name of
one whose letter of acceptance of an unsolicited
honor will constitute all the machinery he will
ever put into its procurement. 1t is a name
which in itself is a guaranty of inflexible hon.
esty in government of the best and wisest cabi-
net the country can afford, and no man in it
greater than its head. 1t is guaranty Of APP
pointments to office which are fit, clean and
disnterested all the way through-a guaranty
Of an administration which believe, and which
in your hearts you know will realize, not only
at home but abroad, the very highest concep-
tions of American politics. 1t is a name, too
which will carry over the land grateful feel
ing of serenity and security, like the benignant
promise OF perfect day in June. 1t will be as
wholesome and refreshing as the Green Noun
tains of his native state. Their SUBMITS tower
not higher than his worth, their foundations
are not frmer than his convictions of truth
the green and prolific slopes, with bounteous
harvests at their feet, aie not richer than the
fruitage Of his long and lofty labors in the ser
vice of his country. Earnest and capable, I'M
exceptionable and fit, the best and most suita-
BILE, the very stanchest of the old republican
guard, the most unflinching of American patr-
OTIS, with the kindly heart of a courteous gen.
tleman as well as the robust and rugged mind
OF great statesman, not more sternly just in
the halls of congress than tender in that sane
tuary OF the American heart, the American
home man of no class, no caste, no pre-
tense, but man of the people, East, West,
North and South, because a representative of
their homliest, plainest and best character
istics. Massachusetts, enthusiastically leaping
her own borders, commends and dominates
him to this great republican convention as the
man it seeks, as the man of its instructive and
honest choice, as the only man whom its con-
stituents everywhere will hail with one I'M
broken shout not only of satisfaction but of
relief Gentlemen, nominate as the republic
can candidate for the next president of the
United States the honorable-aye, the honor
able George + Edmunds Of Vermont -
This speech evoked no wild hurrahs and
shrieking tigers " from the mob, but its we'll
put passages drew enthusiastic and genuine
applause, and the name of Edlnunds was re-
ceived with decorous enthusiasm. The pa
thence and endurance of the assembage had
been exhausted by hours Of prosy speech
making, but from his first utterance Governor
Long commanded the close attention of his
hearers, which, with his superb delivery, en-
braced the entire vast concourse. AS he pro-
ceeded he fixed the interested gaze of every
eye, and at the close burly Texan delegate,
wild as a Texan steer, who had been tanned by
the reason and eloquence of the Bay State
orator, with a slap of the hand that had the
ring OF sledge-hammer stroke upon an anvil,
declared that that speech was "a bouquet"
In speech OF great power and felicity, which
will be published in our next issue, George
William Curtis of New York seconded the
nomination of Mr.. Edmunds. An effort was
made to get a ballot, but after motion to ad-
journ had been voted down and renewed and
after scene Of great confusion, the conven-
ton, at two o'clock Friday morning, adjourned
to meet at eleven o clock
FRIDAY.
At eleven o'clock Friday morning the con-
vention reassembled. The test of the strength
OF the individual candidates, which had been the
subject OF so much conjecture and assertion,
was to be put to a formal and numerical test
Amid suppressed excitement, the roll-call for
the first ballot began nipples OF applause
followed the announcement of some of the bal
let's and the Blaine shouters were always on
hand for roaring greeting to every indication
OF that candidates strength. The results of
the ballots was as follows:
First. Second. Third. Fourth.