The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-02

, capable of it, that l now invoke
your aid, and promise you mine to
secure the election of the Republican
ticket.
SENATOR HAwLEY's ADDRESS.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Sher-
mans speech, a campaign song, en-
titled, I'VE will follow where the
White Plume waves" was sung by a
glee club of thirty voices, accompa-
MED by the Marine Band. Senator
Hawley, of Connecticut, was then
introduced and began by calling for
three cheers for James Gillespie
Blaine heartily responded to-; then
for three more for John Alexander
Logan Ga like response). Then
some one in the crowd shouted !:
Three cheers for Hawley." Loud
cheers
| General Hawley then continued
his speech. He said the game was
fairly opeaed. He expected to hear
that sort of music for several months
to come, to wind up early in No
vember with whole night of cheers.
The Republican party was not made
up of ten or fifteen hundred "good
men of Boston any more than fif-
teen drops of water made the Missis-
sippi river. The Republican party
had carried on and won the war for
the Union in the face of the prophe-
cies of all the enemies OF republican
government all over the world, in
the face of doubts and sometimes in
the face of treason among its own
friends. 1t had established the
Union; it had established liberty
and shown that the strongest form
of government was that in which all
the people governed. Nor was its
work over He smiled when he
heard "good men" talk about Or
ganizing new party in which
pleasant people should have good
time. They might as well talk of
having an ocean where no man
would ever be seasick and where
sailors would encounter no storms.
As one of those who had received
even less support at the Chicago
Convention than the honorable and
distinguished gentleman who had
preceded him Senator Sherman),
he had this testimony to bear: That
when the Republic began-there never
was a Presidential nomination that
more fairly represented the actual
choice of the people. [Cheers.] He
bowed to it ; he respected it; and
he had no doubt of its success.
Loud cheers, followed by the song
Marching Through Georgia.
MAHoNE ON vIRGINIA's POSITION.
Senator Malone being loudly
called for, spoke at considerable
length:
He said he came to interchange |
compliments and greetings with the
Republicans of the Nation upon the
action of its Convention at Chicago.
He made no venture when he as
sured his hearers that every loyal
heart of the old Commonwealth beat
warmly in unison with the senti-
ments so earnestly inspiring the
vast assemblage before him. Decid-
ed as was the preference, great and
deep as was the devotion of the peo-
pie of Virginia for that American
Statesman whose administration
had been so broad and benign, the
Republican party of Virginia know
no higher duty than to support |
earnestly and heartily the nomina-
tions made at Chicago. Cheers 1t
has been under such auspices that
Virginia and the South came to re-
alize that the National Government
was no longer one of exaction mere
ly rs to that State and section, but
the unquestioned heritage of equal
rights, imn.unities and burdens. 1t
would be the high ambition OF the
Republican party of Virginia to
swell the electoral majority by which
the standard bearers were assured
of election. In this great contest
the twelve electoral votes from that
State, by constitutional majority
of the people and despite the Bour-
bon methods OF the sans culOttes and
the shotgun, would, "by the Eter-
nal," be given to Blaine and Logan.
Loud cheers.
Senator Frye, of Maine, eulogized
the ticket:
He had been told that the Repub-
lican party would have to fight
defensive battle. Defensive of what,
and defensive of whom? In 1876
the Democrats had an overwhelming
majority in the House of Represen-
tatives. The Presidential election
was coming on then asst is coming
on now, and the Democrats deter
mined to bring infamy on the Re-
publican party, and put it on the
defensive, and they resolved them
selves into great investigating
committee. They went to work
but the moment the investigating
auger penetrated a single inch it
struck every time writhing and
bowling Democrat. [Cheers and
laughter.] In less than two months
the whole Democratic party was
whistling off the Democratic dogs.
They deliberately determined to tear
the laurels off the brow of the great
Republican leader and to make him
bend low before the American peo-
pie.
They penetrated the holiest of
the penetralia. They went into the
innermost temple. Nothing was sa-
cred to them nothing private. One
day Blaine went into the House of
Representatives and said he pro-
posed to take into his confidence
100000 of his American fellow
citizens. And then he went on
without oratory, without ornamen-
tation, and told his story; and when