The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09

for the vice-presidency. General John A Logan.
Is there soldier here that doesntlove himl [cries
of No is there a member Of the Grand Army
that does not kindle with enthusiasm at the men
ton of the name of their distinguished comrade
"a soldier of two wars, with three wounds in
his body, won in honorable fight for
his country An upright, manly fear
less, honest man as ever lived is John A. Logan.
These are our candidates. The one has long
been the idol of his party, and IS enthroned to-
day in their affections Talk about these old
stories His own State has since approved MN
by an election to the highest office IN her gift
Nor can 1 forget that Garfield, who passed
through a campaign of abuse to the presidential
chair, taking with him the affection and conf
dence of the people, leaned upon and trusted
James G. Blaine. 1 cannot forget, my country
men, that that sad morning when going
upon his first tour of pleasure from the vexa
tions which had surrounded the opening of his
administration that he was leaning upon the
arm of James G. Blaine in the full trust of
friendship when the assassin's bullet struck him
down. l would not have you forget that Gar
field gave the sanction of his Conservative Judg-
ment to the much abused policy. No, this will
be no defensive campaign Our Democratic
friends will have to look elsewhere than in a
yard for man that can drive
Blaine into his intrenchments He stands
upon all of the great issues square
with his party, and has so stood from the begin
ming Do those business men who feac Blaine
understand that he has been always right upon
those questions affecting the business interests
| OF TINS country tnat nad TO De SOlVeu before we
came to this condition of sound currency and
| solid basis for all business enterprises! He also
| stands with his party upon all those great meas
ures in which the laboring masses of the country
are interested. He does not believe in "a tariff
for revenue only" He does believe that our
revenues should be so adjusted as to yield protec
ton to the toiling masses of this country. He
| does believe that an American laborer is some
! thing more than a foregn laborer. He believes
that, instead of getting protection, as the Dem
ocrats say, incidentally out of the tariff we
had better do 1t on purpose and get
some credit for it. am not going
to discuss the tariff question tonight
But, my fellow-citizens, my friend who tolls
| if l speak to you to-night-these free trade
Democrats, and these tariff for revenue only
Democrats, will every one of them admit, if yod
ask him the question, that tariff for revenue
only" or free trade will reduce your wages. No
one of them will claim that they can get the
benefit of a reduced price or cost of the articles
of manufacture without involving the reduction
of the wages of the man who makes the article.
But they say they are going to give you some
incidental benefits, by enabling you to buy
cheaper coat and taking twenty five or thirty
per cent. off your wages. Mr.. Blaine stands to-
night square with his party upon the PROPOSE
ton embodied in our platform at Chicago, that
we do not want in this country imported
tract labor. 1 believe in letting any who
wants to become a citizen come here, If he comes
of his own impulse. But do
not believe nor does he believe, nor
! does the Republican party believe in imported
| gang labor. Contracts made in foreign lands are
made at foreign prices, and the competition IS
unfair. Labor contracts should be individual.
Mr.. Blaine believes in what the Republican
party has declared to be its policy of preserving
| the public lands of this country for actual set
| tiers. There was a time in our history when we
| thought our public domain was inexhaustible
| There was time when our Pacific slope lay sep
| arated by weeks of travel from us, over sandy
| plains in slow coaches. There was sentiment
| that we might well aid in the construction of
paiIpOadc N tho Rutt that IyOfE has
been done, and we stand, as he stands to-day in
defense of the principle enunciated at Chicago,
that the land not fairly earned by these compa-
MES Should be returned to the public domain,
| and that what is left of the public domain suta-
BILE for agricultural uses shall be saved
for the actual settler in small tracts.
| The public mind has been aroused by the fact
that foreign capitalists, lords and mobiles of the
old country, have come here and acquired vast
| tracts of our public domain; public indignation
| and interests have been excited, and we have
said it must stop l would not dispose of an
acre of the public land otherwise than under the
homestead laws.
| My fellOw-citizens, I can not run through the
| discussion of all of these questions formulated
| in our platform, and upon which our candidates
| stand the representatives of the sentiment of
| the party. l challenge any man to show where
! they are out of line with it. We extend to our
Republican friends in other parts of Indiana and
of the United States our hearty congratulations
! upon the nominations at Chicago, and we prom
| Use to give the electoral vote of Indiana to the
nominees. The old ticket is too slow
| This battle upon which we have started
| is to be fought not upon dead issues of
| the past, but upon the living ones of the pres
ent My fellow-citizens as Republicans, stand
/ ing upon the threshold of this campaign, let US
put aside every dividing thought let no division
| come in among us, let us crown the good word at
! Chicago with good work in our State convention
on the 10th of this month, and win victory in
November Let us show our Democratic friends
| that the fight is not a defensive one, except as
they will have to take care of themselves if they
would not get run over.
Senator Harrison's speech made strongly
marked impression on the crowd, who gave vent
| to their enthusiasm by cheer after cheer. After
he had conc luded, Governor A G. Porter was
formally introduced and his brief remarks met
with most cordial appreciation. He said in
brief:
GOVERNOR PORTERs SPEECH.
Fellow citizens: You are evidently feeling as
| if something good had happened, and if you
| had had something to do with it. The
convention at Chicago did not nominate Mr.
Blaine The people of the United States nomi-
mated him. The convention merely regis
tered their will There was never man
who less sought the Office for which he was nomi-
mated. The more Indifferent he grew for his
success the more determined the people became
that he should be successful He got Just as far
away from the convention as he could, and the
| further he got from it the nearer he
seemed to be to the people. And when he hid
| himself in his own house he was more visible
| than ever to them. This time the will of the
people has been fully executed at a convention
The man whom James A. Garfield loved as he
loved no other is now called upon to execute
Garfelds policy. Garfield is not all dead; his
policy still lives in the heart and resolute will of
Blaine. The people will see that the dead Gar
field, who lived but four months after he took
his great Office, shall execute the peoples will
for four years through his representative, James
G. Blaine.
Blaine lives in Maine But who love him best2
The great States and Territories of the West
| The representatives of all the Territories except
New Mexico voted for his nomination. So did
the Pacific States The great Western States
| voted with almost unbroken unannaity for him.
Indiana cast her full vote for him WHY. You