The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

which now attempts to sneak back TO power
as q conspirator for plumber and spoils. New
ertheless, fellow republicans, we have learned
upon fields less peaceful than this that our foe
is not a foe to be despised; he will feel our
lines to find our weakest point, he will search
the work Of this convention with electric light,
he will try us by our candidate, and therefore
the man to whom we commit the banner, the
banner that Abraham Lincoln bore, must be,
like Abraham Lincoln, a knight indeed, and
like the old knight without fear and without
reproach; he must be a statesman identified
with every measure of the great republican
past, and a pioneer In every measure OF its
future reforms,-in himself pledge that the
party will not only put its face forward, but
that 1t will set its foot forward; and a pledge
also that that mighty foot will trample and
crush and utterly destroy whatever disgraces
public service, whatever defes the republican
name, whatever defeats the Just expectation
OF the country and Of the republican party.
He must be also, to echo the words Of the dis.
tinguished orator who preceded me, he must
be also an answering republican, man and
a statesman not strong in an unrecorded OBJ
security, but walking for many year conspicu-
GUS, commanding, upon the nights OF eminent
places, in the full sunlight Of unquestioned and
unquestionable purity of personal and of
public conduct-a statesman, as all our hearts
assure u.s. the most eminent the one pre-
eminent republican about whom republicans
have never differed, and for whom every re-
publican, every democrat, every independent
voter and every American citizen, who under
any cireum stances whatever would support
the republican ticket would gladly and
proudly vote This is the man. fellow-repubi-
cans, who from the situation of the country,
who from the condition of the party, who from
our knowledge OF the combat upon which we
enter is the man, the fitting MANN my judy
ment the most fitting man, to be our leader.
Mr.. President, in the beginning of the revou-
ton Green Mountain boy crossed Lake Cham
plain and, followed by his brave comrades,
climbed the sheer precipice and in the name Of
the great Jehovah and of the continental con-
gress demanded and received the surrender of
the British at TiconderQga. There is another
Green Mountain boy. Let us make him our
ter. Make him our captain of the host, the
ers we shall be doubtless of any man who
bears the banner of the republican party. In
the name of the great Jehovah and in the
name OF the republican party, he will demand
and receive the surrender of the democratic
party. His name is in your hearts before it
leaves my lips, uncorruptble unassailable,
republican whom every republican trusts to the
utmost whom every democrat respects with
| all his heart, candidate who will make every
republican state surer. every democratic state
uneasy, every doubtful state republican, and
| who will awaken the old republican enthu-
| siasm of principle and character. This Is the
| candidate whose name has been presented by
| the old Bay State, and the candidate whose
nomination, on behalf of every citizen who be-
| lieves political honesty is the best political
policy, proudly second in calling the name of
George \ Edmunds of Vermont