Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-06

admission to veteran soldiers and sailors, to
be distributed through tie chairman of the
several State delegations. The chair then
called on the secretary to call the roll of the
States, stating that when the name of State
having candidate to present is called, the
party selected to make the presentation will
come forward and speak.
Hawley's Name Presented.
The secretary then proceeded to call the
roll, calling Alabama, Arkansas, California
Colorano and Connecticut. and when the lat
ter State was called Brsndagee arose amid
loud applause. Brandagee spoke as follows
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the conven-
ton:
We are here to select a chief magistrate
for 3S States and 50, ,OOO.OOO people. If we
choose wisely the election of Juue will be
the election of November and March will
inaugurate in line and continuous success
sion Of the seventh republican President of
the United States. Applause.l If we be
welded to the fatal choice of the solid South,
which has already captured the capitol and
occupies the White House. the
results of the war will be rolled
backward for q generation. Never before to
the national convention was such an oppor-
tunity presented or the path of duty so plain
The great tidal wave has ebbed. 1t has left
wreck along the shore and disclosed only fats
and shadows. The counsels of our opponents
ard confused. They have been smltten
again with judicial blindness. The heart of
the great American people instinctively and
unmistakably turns once more to the repub-
licau party. The supreme duty of the hour
is for that party in this convention to select a
candidate under whom we can surely win.
Such candidate must, first of all, be a true
and tried republicsn-one whose name alone
shall stand for the platform; one who has the
courage of conviction who has the right on
all great questions; always right; right in
war, right on reconstruction, right on each
and every one of the constitutional amend
ments, right on resumption, right on currency,
right on tariff. right on civil rights and right
on civil service reform. Applause. Stand
ing, sir, in this great presence in this historic
hall, inspired by memory of great leaders and
martyrs of our faith, who look down
as with benediction upon this scene
impressed with profound conviction OF the
Importance of the trust with which l stand
charged. | am requested by the representa-
tives of Connecticut to nominate such candi
date to the brethren of the other States and
in their name and on their behalf nom
mate one who fills all the conditions and
who in the largest degree represents the
fitness and availability of the candidate,
whose name can lead to certain victory in
November. Gen. Joseph X. Hawley, of Con-
necticut. Loud applause.
Mr.. Brandagee closed with a brilliant
eulogy of Hawley. as soldier and states
man,
Logan's Name Presented.
The.secretary called the States of Dele
ware, Florida and Georgia without meeting
with any response. When Illionis was called
and Senator Cullum rose from his seat about
1000 voices INDUCED in the exclamation,
"Oh, oh, OH" The senator walked down
,he aisle to the platform, cody buttoning his
coat. As he mounted the platform he was
received. with a volley of yells which died
out and were renewed again ar he confronted
the audience from the speakers desk.
The chair introduced him. More wells fol-
lowed, during which the senator smoothed
himself down in front with his hands, and
when the uproar subsidized he spoke as fol-
lows:
Twenty four years ago the second national
convention of the republican party met in
this city and nominated the first successful
candidate for President of the United States,
Abraham Lincoln. [Applause. Abraham
LluCUi1 leu tHe IepuDilCdu party W Tie uISt
great victory. He stands in the estimation
of the world as the greatest figure, the most
majestic figure in all modern times. Ap-
plause. Again an other republican conven-
ton came together and nominated as its can
didate for the President of the United States
another eminent citizen of Illinois, Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, cloud cheers and waving
of fans and other demonstrations of ap-
proval. and the republican party was again
victorious. Still again in 1880 the republi-
can party turned its face to this political
Mecca where two SUGGESTIONS had been or
ganized, and murdered Garfield led the re-
publican party to victory. Cloud and con-
tinued applause.) The commonwealth of
Illinois. which has never waivered in adher
ence to the republican principles, since it
gave to the nation and the
world the illustrious Lincoln.
1t now presents to the convention for its con-
sideration as the standard bearer of the re-
publican party another son of Illinois, one
whose fame will be recognized from one end
of this land to the other as an able statesman,
a brilliant soldier and honest man, Gen.
John A, Logan.
The announcement of Logan's name was
received with wild burst of applause, a
great many persons rising to their feet, wav-
ing hats and handkerchiefs, and thousands in
the gallery joined in the roar of applause.
The cheers were renewed again and again.
The speaker then resumed. When yonder
flag was assailed by enemies in arms. when
the integrity Of the Union was imperilled by
organized treason, when the storm of war
threatened the very life of the nation, this
gallant son of the prairie resigned seat in
Congress, returned to his home and was the
first of our citizens to raise q regiment and
march to the front in the defence of his coun-
try. (Applause. During the long struggle
of four years he commanded first a regiment,
then q brigade, then a division, then the
army corps, and finally the army. Then he
remained in the service until the war closed,
when at the head of his army, with the scars
of battle on him, he marched into the capital
and with the brave men with whom he bled
on hundred fields was mustered out of ser
vice under the very shadow of the capitol
building, which he had left four wears before
as q member of Congress to 60 and fight the
battles of the couatry. When the war was
over he was again invited by mis- fellow citi-
zens to take his place in the council of the
nation. In q service of 20 years in both
houses of Congress he has shown himself to
be no less able and distinguished as q states
man than renowned as q soldier.
Blaine's Name Presnted.
The call was then proceeded with, Indiana,