St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30
county ticket and endorsed the nominees of
the Tammany county convention.
Blaine and fine Preachers.

morning the gentlemen's parlor OF the Fifth
Avenue hotel was filed with clergymen of
various denominations who had gathered to
meet Jas. &. Blaine. Five minutes later
Rev. DR.. Jos. King called the assembly to or
der, and Rev. DR.. Buchsrd was chosen chair
man and Rev. DR.. Macarthur secretary. Dr.
Dr. King then presented the following reso-
lutions:
ReSosvetl, That we believe that the triumph
Of the principles of the Republican party is
essential TO the welfare of the country, and
to the preservation of the results of the late
civil strife, and that consequently the cleo
ton of its representatives iii the persons of
Hon. James G.. Blaine and John A. Logan is
imperative.
Second, That we believe in the purity
of the personal character of these standard
bearers, and also believe in their trained ca
pacitv as statesmen to meet the claims of the
high offices for which they are in nomina-
ton.
Third, That we protest against the corrup-
ton of the conceded personal impurity as
presented by the head of the Democratic
ticket, and while We deplore the necessity we
Go not evade our responsibility of declaring
our judgment of this insult to Christian civ
! ilizatiOn, embodied in such nomination for
the presidency of the Republic
Fourth, That we are opposed to putting Il
premium on disloyalty, Is represented by
the candidate for the presidency.
Fifth. That we eXhort all web meaning
and loyal citizens, regardless OF party, when
purity is at stake, not by voting for prohi-
btion candidate to cast half a vote for the
Democratic candidate with semi-sanction of
impurity and dissipation, nor to east whole
vote for man whose name is the SYNONYM
of iucompetency.
Sixth. That we exhort our fellow citizens
to cast one vote for virtue in the home. for
protection of the rights of the humblest citi-
zens at home and abroad, for the settlement
of international difficulties by arbitration, for
war against polygsmy, for decent treatment
of the Indians, for preservation of the results
of the war of the revolution and of the re-
bellion, for every sacred interest of our be-
loved country, by voting the Republican
ticket ct the ensuing election.
Rev. DR.. Spear. of Brooklyn, commended
the resolutions as satisfying his head and
his heart and they were adopted without
dissent
| Rev. DR.. Burchard then named as COM
mittee to address Mr.. Blaine when he should
be brought before them, the following gentle
men: Rev. DIR. Jas. King, of fhe NJ. E.
/ church; Rev. DR.. Spear, of the Presbyterian
church; Rev. DR.. McCarthen, of the Baptist
| church; Rabbi Brown, of the Temple of
| Hope; Rev. G. Roberts, of the BROOKLYN
| Congregationalist, and Richard Lawrence, of
The Friends meeting house.
The clergymer then went to the corridor
on the first floor and gathered about the foot
of the stairway down which walked Mr..
Blaine on the arm of Rev. DIR. King, while
Minister Levi P. Morton, his son Walter
Blaine, Mrs. Blaine and his daughters
were ON the landing above.
Rev. DR. King and Mr.. Blaine paused
on the fourth or fifth step from the floor and
| Rev. DR.. Burchard was introduced TO Mr..
Blaine by DR.. King. Dr. Burehari then as
cended to the side Of Mr.. Blaine and adj
dressed him as follows: We are very happy
| to welcome you to this circle. You see here
representative OF all denominations of this
| city. You sec the large number that are
represented. We are your friends, Mr.
| Blaine, notwithstanding all the calumnies
| that have been urged in the papers against
! you. We staud By your side, We expact Ia
| vote for you Tuesday: we have higher ex-
| pectations, which is that you will be presi-
dent Of the United States and that YOU will
| do honor to your name and to the United
States and to the high office you will occupy
We are Republicans and don't propose 10
leave our party and identify ourselves with
the party whose antecedents have been ruin.
! Romanism and rebellion. We are loyal to
you
| As DIR. Burchard spoke, his voice trembled
greatly, showing the earnestness of what he
said. His speech affected Mr.. Blaine, and
moisture glistened in his eyes. A number
of other ministers spoke, and Mr.. Blaine re-
sponded as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and revernd gentlemen
This is altogether very remarkable assem-
blage; remarkable beyond any of which
have known in the history of political con.
tests in the United States and it does not
need personal assurance that YOU should
know am deeply impressed by it. / do mo-
feel that l am speaking to these hundreds Of
men merely. ] am speaking TO the congre-
cations and the great religious opinion which
is beyond them, and as they represent the
great Christian bodies know and / rea.
lie tie full weight of tina
which you say to me, and of the influence
which you tender to me. Were it to me per
sonaliy, confess that ! should be overwon
by the compliment and the weight of conf
dence which it carries, but l know that it /:
extended to me as the representative of The
|
harmony with the churches. The Republi-
can party from its very outset stood up OIL
the impregnable platform of opposition t.
the extension of human slavery, and stood
on that platform till it was drifted by thu
hostility it provoked into larger assertion
OF national sovereignity-and thence into
bloody conflict to maintain it from that ON
ward. | deny any to point to a single meas
ure of the Republican party which could no
challenge the appreciation OF Christian min.
listers and the approval Of God, and when,
as one of the reverend speaker;
has said, that / narrowed the issue when I
! spoke OF its coming down to a question of
| the tariff, / did not mean to exclude there.
from, could not mean it, that the great his
tory of the party which is its word and If:
creed, and which gives to you, and to al
that stands behind you, the assurance thai
whatever issue it attempts to enforce It viii
| 90 it in good faith. They can no more
separate party from its history than you
can separate man from his character, auo
when the great make up of public opinion is
ready it takes into account the origin. the
progress, the measure, the character of the
| party aud the character of its public men.
What mean by saying that the tariff wac
the conclusive issue was that it steps TO the
! 'front.', not IN exclusion OF thousand other
important issues, but for this critical
occasion and at the close of this
great campaign, It stands forth as that is
sue which represents bread to the hungry
and clothing TO the poor, and prosperity &c
an entire people, and the tariff is therefore
merely as a national issue, distinct and sep
arate from the great moral issues. Because.
as have said before 10 western audiences,
/ not INN
IS hungry, with any other thought than be
shall be fed You cannot impress a man II
he is naked with any other thought than that
/ he shall be clothed and therefore that mi