Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-06-20
INGER>OLL ON BLAINE.
His Celebrated speech ut the Cincin
natl Convention

natl Convention.
There is a call for Iugers IFS speech nomi
mating Blaine at the Cincinnati convention il
1876. Here it is-thc first paragraph relating
to the speech of Mr.. Dana of Massachusetts,
just delivered
Massachusetts may be satisfied with tn,
loyalty of Benjamin II. Bristow so am l
but ii any man nominated by this convention
cannot carry the State of Massachusetts,
am not satisfied with the loyalty of tina
State. If the nominee of this convention
cannot carry the grand old Commonwealth
OF Massachusetts by $4,000 majority,
would advise them to sell out Faneuil hal
as Democratic headquarters. l woulc
advise them to take from Bunker Hill thai
old monument of glory.
"The Republicans of the United State,
demand as their leader in the great contes
Of 1876 man of intelligence, man of wei
known and approved political opinions
They demand a statesman they demand {
rcformer after as well as before the election
They demand a politician in the highest
broadcst and best sense-a man of superb
moral courage. They demand a man ac
quainted with public affairs, with the wants
OF the people; with not only the require.
ments of the hour, but with the demands Of
the future. Applause
"They demand a man broad enough tc
comprehend the relations of the government,
to the other nations of the Garth They dc
mand man well versed in the powers,
duties and prerogatives of each and every
department OF this government. They de.
mand man who will sacredy preserve the
financial honor of the United States; one
who knows enough to know that the national
debt must be paid through the. prosperity OF
this people; one who knows enough to know
that all the financial theories in the world
cannot redeem single dollar; one who
knows enough to know tina; all the mon
ey must be made, not by law, but
by labor; ooe who knows enough
to know that the people of the United States
have the industry to make the money, and
the honor to pay it over just as fast as they
make it. Applause.
Tile Republicans of the United States de-
mand man who knows that prosperity and
resumption, when they come, must come out
together that when they come, they will
come hand in hand through the golden har-
vest fields: hand in hand by the whirliu g
spndles and the turning wheels hand
hand by the chimneys filed with eager fire,
greeted and grasped by the countless sons of
toll
This money has got to be dug out of
the earth. You can not make it by passing
resolutions in political convention. APP
plause.
The Republicans o. the United States
want man who knows that the Government
should protect every citizen, at home and
abroad who knows that any government
that will not defend its defenders aud protect
its protectors is n disgrace to the map of the
world. They demand man who believes
IN the eternal separation and enforcement of
church and school. They demand man
whose political reputation is as spotloss as
star but they do not demand that their
candidate shall have a certificate of moral
character Signed by Confederate Congress.
The man whV has, in full heaped and rounded
all these splendid qualification is
the present grand gallant leader of the Re-
publican party, james G. Blaine.
"Our country, crowned with the vast and
achievements Of It's first century,
asks Tor a man worthy Of the past, and
prophetic Of her future; asks for man who
has the audacity of genius asks for mau
who is the grandest combination of heart,
a man is James G. Blaine. Applause,
"For the Republican host, led by this in-
trepid man, there can be no defeat.
This is grand year-a year filled with
recollcclions of the Revolution filled with
the proud and tender memories of he past
with the sacred legends of liberty-a year
in which the sons of freedom will diink
from the fountains Of enthusiasm year in
which the people call for man who has
preserved in Congress what our soldiers won
Upon the field year in which they call for
he man who has torn from the throat of
reason the tongue of slander-for the man
who has snatched the mask of Democracy
rom the hideous face of rebellion for this
nan who, like an intellectual athlete, has
'tood in the arena of debate and challenged
Ill corners, and who is still a total stranger
o defeat. Applause
Like an armed warrior like pumed
might, James G. Blaine marched down the
TAILS Of the late American Congress and
brew his shining lance full and fair against
he brazen forehca1s of the defamcrs of his
ountry and the maigners of his honor. |
FOR the Republican party to desert this |
allant leader now is as though an army |
hould desert their general upon the field of !
atlle. Applause.
James &. Blaine is now and has been for |
ears the bearer Of the sacred standard of the |
republican party. | call it sacred, because
o human being can stand beneath its
bids without becoming and without re-
laining free.
"Genllcmen of the convention, in the
anne of the great Republic the only republic
lat ever existed upon this Garth, in the
anne of all her defenders, and of all her
Importers IN the name OF all her soldiers
wing in the name of all her soldiers dead
pom the field Of battle, and in the name Of
lose who persisted in the skeleton clu'ch
famine at Audersonvile ard Libby,
hose sutferiugs he so wildly remembers,
linois-Illinols nominates for the mex
resident of this country, that prince of par
amentarians, that leader of leaders-James
. Blaine"