The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-28
CONVENTION ORATORY.
Speeches OF Messrs. Hubbell, CutcheOn,
and BOies I'm the Republican
State Convention.
Address of Gen. R. A. Alger Accepting
the Nomination for Gov
ernor

Ex-Congressman Jay A. Hubbeli, upon
being introduced as Temporary Chairman,
spoke as follows:
Accept my profound thanks for this unsought
and unexpected honor. Were II not for the fact
that j always feel at home in a Republican
gathering, would hardly feel able TO assume
this trust and responsibility. Another Presi-
Dental campaign has on our part been fully
commenced. Our party In Chicago has fully
stated the articles OF faith OF the Republican
party, and enunciated those articles 40 plainly
that those who run NAV read On our banner
has been EN- blazoned those truths This banner
have been placed in the hands OF our most fear
less leader, this purest, strongest type of the
American people, James Il. Blaine. Long
continued applause.l Under that banner and
around that leader are ralying grand bands OF
men. both OF foreign and native birth, and an
overwhelming success Is almost already as
sured. They follow the leader because they be-
Heve him TO be a fearless man. His letter or
acceptance 80 clearly marks the principles OF
our platform, and every pulsation OF his great
heart beats In unison with every feature OF 1t.
For one have no doubt as to the result be-
1evean all-wise Providence interposes in the
affairs OF this republic. Only when the Re-
publican party becomes careless does He chas-
tise us by giving the Democracy little tempo
rary success. This Is the only use the Demo-
cratic party has been put to in the past and the
only one 1t will be put to in the future;
Congressman Byron M. Cutcheon, in
nominating Gen. Alger for Governor, said:
The Republican party of Michigan stands'to-
day upon the threshold OF fourth decade of
unbroken responsibility. Its record for thirty
years Is n glorious memory of grand achieve
ments The great lights that shone upon the
party In Michigan at its Dir have all set.
Chandler, the Towards, and Bagley lcheersl, the
great statesmen who behed the dawn of Repub-
licanism. are with Us no longer. We are here to-
day to select new stars for our political skies by
which to guide the ship of state to select names
OF vtgor, supreme patriotism and consummatc
manhood The magnificent record of our great
party suffered partial eclipse in 1892 and in
1888 the clouds OF disaster had not en-
tirely cleared away. This lost ground must and
shall be recovered this year Applause Where
shall we look for the trusted leader who shall
pick mp our fallen banner and bear it forward of
the column to victory? This is no time for
mistakes. We want the man who will poll the
last possible vote Of the Republican party
Some bright pages are written In the annals of
when men went into battle and to certain death
for the Union as gayly as to a banquet hall.
MANY bright names also appeared In those
black years. No record was made brighter
than that written by the Michigan cav
airy brigade Iapplausel, and among its names
none exceeded in splendid history that OF Cap
tain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Gem
eral Russell A Alger. lAplause.l name him
as the leader of our Republican hosts Jap
plause.J Michigan gave 10000 soldiers to the
Union army. OF these $4,000 survive. 1t is
twenty years since the war closed, and no sol
d1er has ever yet been Governor of Michigan.
The soldiers must be recognized soon, il ever,
Tor they are rapidly passing away. No soldier
has ever before asked the nomination. In be-
half OF the soldiers of Michigan ask the nomi
nation of Russell A Ager the hero of Trevel-
Ign Station.
The speech of John X. Boies, of Hud-
son, in presenting the claims of Cyrus c.
Luce for the gubernatorial nomination,
was an eloquent bit of oatory He
opened by description of the growth and
development of Michigan, and then turned
to glowing eulogy Of the agricultural in
terests Of the Stale, which had taken the
lead in the development of the State, and
would still be here when the mines were
exhausted, the salt wells dry, and the lum-
Der had disappeared. He then continued
The State still has men in 1t who have borne
part in all this history OF its glorious progress
men whose untiring energy and purity OF life
shed luster on the State. These men possess
the confidence of the people and are worthy of
any honor that can be bestowed upon them
One OF these men i am going to nominate in
Cyrus q. Luce. fApplause.l He is a clear
headed, sagacious, clean handed representative
OF the best interests OF Michigan. He has been
elected to many positions by his neighbors who
know him best, and is noted for the zeal, eff
ficiency, and fidelity with which he executed all
trusts. He chose In his youth the honorable oc-
cupation OF tiller OF the soil wild cheers, and
was one OF the army OF men who, by their tire
less energy. transferred the State from forest
TO cultivation. One of that kind OF men ought to
be chosen for Governor once in awhile. Kingsley
S. Bingham was Michigan = last farmer Governor,
and he was one of the best OF Michigan's Execu-
tives. Why should the great agricultural in
terest be ignored? The strength OF the Repub-
lican party IS among the farmers in the rural
districts. They contribute to Republican ma
iorities as they contributed TO the les of the
Union. And how they rallied from The farms
around the old fag and went into the battle
field as resistiessly as they had entered golden
harvest fields at home. The boys in blue who
rallied in defense of the flag have friend in
Cyrus q. Luce. He aided, in legislation and
in every other way possible, the soldiers of the
Union. Is IL not right and polite, other things
being equal, that he should be nominated? We
cannot concede a locality that has had the Gov
ernor eight out of sixteen years and that now
has a State Senator and State Treasurer everyA
thing. Nominate Cyrus G.. Luce, and the ticket
Will go forth to conquer. Nominate him, and
all disaffection and discord will be sienced.
Nominate him, and the sun will go down, on
election day in November, on Michigan re-
deemed from the thraldom of fusion.
Gen. Alger, IN accepting the nomination
for Governor, spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: i regret
very much that no words OF mine can adequate
ly express my thanks to you for this great
honor, for, although have trodden in the ranks
so long, never have learned the art of speech
making and know nothing about it, | think il
1t had been given me tonight for my choice to
make cavalry charge, although do not like
that, or speech before this convention, think
/ should prefer the former.
Gentlemen, thank YOU for this great honor
thank you not only for myself, but for every
soldier here and in the State of Michigan, and
gentlemen, they, in turn. when they hear this
news, will send up shout OF thanksgiving that
they have been TINS recognized. i thank You
not Only LOT tnat, Uit thanN you tnat you nave
so magnaminiously come here and spent your
time and named me for this high office. / &C
cept the trust gratefully. will, to the best of
my ability, perform the duties of the Office if
elected, az shall he. For the interest of every
m2n, woman, and child in Michigan,
whatever his or her party, or whatever
their nationality, 1 accept IL under the
platform G you laid it out to-day, plank
by plank Upon that issue we will fight It out,
and we will win I'm November. Those cheers
that have heard to night with all the praise TO
Il
years ago or more. 1 used TO hear those cheers
when our lines were forming and we were adj
vancing upon the enemy. heard them when
we took their works, although we looked back
to see the ground strewn with our fallen COM
rades, like sheaves behind the binder have
heard IL when the victory was won. and have
heard IL over and over when peace was declared
and war was ended. Gentlemen, 1 thank YOU
again for this honor which IL the hinhoat tbat