The Portland daily press., 1884-06-23

the great city of Chicago I now introduce to
you Hon. George r. Davis of illinois,
MIR. DAVIS SPEECH
Mr.. Davis said that Chicago sends her greet
ings to Portland tonight. The Democratic
party are now DESTROYS of taking command of
the government because as they say they have
reformed but no man of business principles
would trust to such professions. Another
reason why they wish to be put in power is
that they say some of our people have stolen
something That argument amounts to Moth
ing and is no argument against the Republican
party as party. Mr.. Blaine was nominated
at Chicago without the Csc of patronage or
unfair means. Every man was consulted, and
after fair, careful and candid elaboration,
with no mighty genius to sway their judg-
ments, with no promised rewards, the conven-
ton decided that the ticket should be the
Plumed Knight of Maine and the Black Eagle
OF Illinois. (Applause.) The delegates gath
cred together and formulated that magnificent
platform, that platform that means what it
says and says what the party means, and then
they deliberately graced 1t with the candidates
Of Maine and illinois. (Applause.) Now, a
few propose to exercise what they call the
divine right to bolt That heresy has been
taught by some people but we have none of
l. in the West. The ticket is in response to
the great and intense feeling of Western men
and when the campaign is fully inaugurated,
when you hear from the Pacific slope as the
wave comes over the Sierras and across the
Rocky Mountains ploughing its way through
the granaries OF the West with increased We
locity, rounding up as it reaches New York
and Massachusetts and the Democratic party
defeated, the kickers, metaphorically speak
ing, will be thrown into the oblivion to which
belong all those who believe themselves to be
greater than the majority. (Applause) We
have had deliberate convention and not a
packed caucus; 1T was the deliberate judgment
of seven-eighths of the Republican party that
this is the proper ticket. Do you suppose
there is question about its election? / do
not. We have declared a new declaration of
independence and that declaration is in the
platform. 1t is advanced AmericaDism and
represents the people of the West the people OF
the East the people of the South who believe
in Americanism. And as twenty-four years
ago Illinois and Maine led in advance for
new era of things so in 1884 will Maine and
Illinois join hands and achieve victory great
er than that of 1860; aye, greater than that of
Garfield in 1880. (Applause.)
Chairman Reed-Every soldier who assisted
in putting down the war of the rebellion made
great sacrifice, our own as great as any. And
yet it has seemed to me that perhaps South
ern Union man exhibited the most thorough
devotion to the Union; for while our soldiers
exposed themselves to peril, they left their
wives, their families aud their homesteads
under the sacred protection of the law. But
those who battled for the Union in the South
left their homes to pillage and their wives and
children to flee from the attacks of the enemy
have the pleasure of introducing to you a
member of Congress, who was a colonel in the
Union army from the State of Tennessee,
Leonidas @ Houck.
REMARKS OF JUDGE HouCK. "
Judge Houck began by saying that it gave
him great pleasure to look into the upturned
faces and know that their hearts, their minds
their political impulses and patriotism were in
unison with that which today permeates the
entire country, in favor of Blaine and Logan
He said the nomination of Blaine and Logan
was the elimination of long accommodating
sentiment. representing, not our friends in
Boston, but that element Of the people which
underies popular government, the people
spoken of by Mr.. Lincoln as the plain people
of this country. What does Democratic resto-
ration mean? What does it import? Let me
say to those independents that the logical re-
suit of their vote, If they are successful in de-
feating the ticket, will be to bring on four
vears Of practical anarchy, without any rule
or government whatever. (Appaase). 1t is
true the South has been solid. Up to the close
of the war it was solid, but when Sherman
got ready to march to the sea he found it was
only she'll, and now we propose in this war
against the Democracy, under the lead of the
Plumed Knight and the Black Eagle, to break
this she'll of the solid South. l know it is diff
fcult to bring you people of the North to be-
lieve in Republican success in the South; but
1 say TO you, understanding the situation as
think l do perfectly, that if the Republican
party desire it, if they make fight for it, if
Won will struggle for Tennessee as you will for
Indiana, you will achieve a victory there
much easier than you can in Indiana. Grant
received $4,000 votes in 1868; rs, 600 in 1872;
Hayes $4,000 in 1876; aud Garfield received
107,677 in 1880; nearly $4,000 more votes than
Hayes. aud Hancock received nearly 8, 900 less
than Tilden. You see at once that similar
increase in the Republican vote of Tennessee,
and the State will be overwhelmingly Repub-
lican. L allude to these facts that l may set
you people to thinking. There hasn't been a
time within the last ten years that West Vir-
ginis, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Florida didn't belong to the Republican
party, and they could have been carried for
the Republican party with proper effort. 1t
has been said that the danger in Mississippi is
in the count. Well, the Democratic party
can outcoant any people on earth where tissue
ballots are used, but in my State there will be
no tissue ballots cast, no fraud, no dishonest
count; every vote that is poled will be count
ed. and my word for it you will hear good
news from us in November. Great spplsuse).
Mr.. Reed-I desire to introduce to you next
for few remarks distinguished citizen of
The State of Missouri, Hon. Chauncey I.
Filley.
MIR. FILLEY's REMARKS.
He said the Chicago convention was an I'M
usual convention. 1t was called in obedience
to the rules made at the national convention
where the unit rule was broken and the rule
established that thereafter popular district
conventions should be held, and the delegates
be allowed to voice the will of their cOnsti-
tuents in the national convention. Who will
gainSay that throughout this broad land
popular district conventions were not held. If
understand anything about Republican
politics it is that the Republican party was
started because it was demanded that the
majority will and voice of the land should be
respected We have read in the paper estab-
lished by Horace Greeley, in Harper's Week
ly, and in all the great Republican papers
that have been printed in this country for "A
years, that the majority will of the Republi-
can party and of the nation, not only in Re-
publican conventions, but in the National
Congress and in the State Legislature should
be respected. Will anybody undertake TO
deny. that the voice and will of the great Re-
publican party was expressed at Chicago,
and is there Republican today so craven, so
disregardful of the majority will that he will
attempt to kick at the nomination because it
does not suit him? What kind of conven-
ton should we have if we were to suit every
DOuy9 nv CUuN6uJlOu db all, no party at all.
No party could survive under any such work,
and no party ought to survive that did not
respect the will of the majority of the dele
gates expressed in the national convention.
(Applause,) Therefore have no apology to
make for the work of the majority of the
delegates to the Chicago convention. The
Republican platform speaks out manfully,
courageously and fearleSsly ON every public
question. There can be upon these questions
but two parties, the Republican party and
the Democratic party, and if there is a man
who has been Republican who wants to 90
over to the Democratic party that is his priv
ilege and his right, but don't let him do it I'M
der any pretence that the convention wasn't
honest and that it didn't reflect the voice and
will of the people.
Is there Republican in this broad land that
has one word to say against the platform OF
the party? Does he propose to surrender all
your great manufacturing interests here? Does
he propose to surrender the tariff? Does he
propose to surrender popular education? II SO
let him get up and say so before any audience
in this country and see how he will be re-
ceived. For the majority will of the party
must and will be respected. The convention
nominated the greatest commoner this country
has had since Henry Clay, the man whom YOU
have taught by your condolences, whom step
by step you have elevated from the Legisla-
ture to the speakership, to the halls of Con-
gress, from the floor of Congress TO speaker,
from speaker to the United States Senate,