The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-06-21
RATIFYINa THE NOMINATIONS.
Grand Demonstration by Baltimore Re-
publicans-Able Speeches and Ster-
ring Letter from Hon. John. A. j.
Creswell.

grand ratification meeting, under the auspices
of the Young Mems Republican Club of Baltimore
city, was held at the Concordia, on Wednesday
night last. Hon. III. b. Holton presided, and
there was an immense attendance to listen to able
speeches by Hon. Lewis E. McComas, Robt. G.
Thackary, Esq, of Elkton, ten. A. E. King and
others. The following letter from Hon. John
A. J. Creswell was read and was received with
heartiest demonstrations of APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, D. c., June IL, 1884.
George 4. Baggs, Esq, Secretary Of the Young
Mems Republican Club of Baltimore:
NV Dear Sir-None of the good people who
will attend the ratification meeting to be held
under the auspices of your club, at Concordia
Opera House tomorrow evening, will regret more
than my inability to be present on that occasion.
My professional engagements here make it i'm
possible for me to address the meeting as you re-
quest, or to join the imposing multitude that
will be gathered there in giving vocal expression
to that enthusiasm which already promises to in
spire the Republican campaign of 1884 with I'M
wonted activity and vigor. Nevertheless, would
not remain unheard. I hold that every sincere
Republican is bound to sustain the ticket lately
chosen at Chicago. In our times and history
James G. Blaine and John A. Logan are both
leading characters. They are, indeed, among the
most famous of our public men, for their names
are as familiar as household words to millions of
voters. They have stood in the fierce heat
and glare of public life for more than twenty
years, giving ample opportunity for friends and
opponents alike to discuss their merits and deme-
rits; and in the recent contest within the party
lines, their claims have been jealousy compared
with those of other distinguished gentlemen who
were in competition for the same high honors.
And yet, after days of consultations and exhaus-
tive interchanges of opinion, the National Re-
publican Convention nominated the veteran states
man of Maine, and the no less veteran statesman
of Illinois, as the candidates for president and
vice president of the Republican party. I have
never heard O word against the fairness of their
nomination, nor a well founded accusation against
the sincerity, ability efficiency with which they
have maintained and still maintain those cardinal
maxims of good government and human rights so
clearly formulated and so strongly embodied in
the Republican platform. How, then, can we
hesitate? What Republican or patriot can doubt
as to his duty? If the nominations of national
conventions, fairly made, are not to be accepted,
why longer persist in such cumbrous and sense
less engnery? Why summon delegates from every
state territory and district of the republic if per-
sonal preference and prejudice are to be held
supreme, and we may absolve ourselves at will
from all obligation to acquiesce in the deliberate
verdict of majority, although obliged to concede
that that verdict has been given and recorded
with due observance of every essential form,
usage and precedent? For myself, l am Repub-
lican, and I shall act as becomes Republican.
Loving my party because of the blessed results
it has heretofore accomplished, and building my
hopes for the honor, glory, prosperity and happi-
ness of my country upon the success Of that party
in the future, am ready to proclaim that cheer
fully and Loyalty accept and ratify the nomina-
tions of Blaine and Logan; and that, regarding
them as the fairly chosen representatives of Re-
publican opinion and doctrine, pledge to them
my constant fealty and my cordial and jealous
support
Let the Republicans of Maryland show that in
their devotion to great cause they will adhere
to the principles and candidates of their party,
and that as they
Here the slogan
OF Blaine and Logan,
they will muster and enroll every man, and then
move onward solemn, firm, united and true.
1 am, very truly yours,
(Signed) JOHN A. J. CREswELL.