Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-19

names rlaughter1 by any one vho desires
to 60 on With his remarks.
l need NOT dwell on the names of our
| candidates You all know them and know
them we'll The country knows them. and
history knows them and will know more of
them hereafter than il has heretofore Ap-
plause.
There seems to be no difficulty in ratifying
the nomination of Blaine and Logan Never
| in the history of the country were names re-
ceiyed in the city where they were presented
a. candidates for the highest Office With such
demonstrations Of popular ratification as in
the city of Chicago, There is no mystery in
the nomination Of Blaine. Applause ]
There was no trick about it, no scheme. no
strategy, no grand tactics; il was expressly
and remarkably q nomination BY the people.
| II seems the names of our candidates have
excited good deal of disapprobation on the
part of some of the great and respectable
public journals of the day. Several OF the
journals have halted little, and seem to be dis
posed to hesitate good deal, and TO make a
number of criticisms in advance Of the demo-
cratic nomination; but they will find it vain
TO contend against the popular current that
the opposition TO Blaine encountered al Chi
cago. They are entering upon lonesome
and dusty road and if they don't get out of
it in good time they will find it tedious and
a troublesome way. Applause.
| don't believe that the people OF the
United States, now numbering 55.0O0.OOO,
are likely 10 be stampeded an filled with ap-
prehension and dismsy because Blaine be-
lieves little in the exaltation of the Ameri-
can eagle. [Cheers and applause
don't think there is anv cause for alarm
about what is known to be or what is believed
to be his foreign policy. understand that it
is his policy TO advance the American nation
TO higher place among the nations of the
earth. Applause. l understand that il is his
policy to protect American citizens at home
and abroad. Applause. l understand that
he believes it would be good thing to have
the nations of the great American continent
come together in a peace congress that
they may preserve peace among themselves,
and take a becoming stand agaist the aggres-
sions and the intermeddling of the powers of
Europe. Applause- am not afraid of any
of these things. l don't think the young men
of the country are afraid of them A applause.
On the contrary they glory in Blaine as the
highest type and most brilliant of American
statesmen. Applause. And if there were any
qeston of doubt as to the supreme fitness
and excellence of the nomination of that
most able and thorough statesman, James u.
Blaine [applause], and of that splendid vol
unteer soldier and experienced statesman.
John A. Logan Applause B; if there was even
any doubt about their fitness TOR the great
trusts now in their hands, it comes home to
the whole American people that they must
make choice between the republican and
democratic parties; and am not aware OF
anything the democratic party has done with
in the last quarter of a century, or anything
that it IS enabled now to make promise to
do-anything that it has done o, would like
to do-that commends it to the confidence
and sufirsges of the people of the United
States. Applause. We shall have to vote
whether all the great departments fthe Gov
ernments shall or shall not be turned into the
hands of the democratic party, and the pres
ent House of Representatives is an example
and warning, Laughter. In word l
am opposed to trusting the vast and complex
interests of the country in the hands of the
democratic party. Loud applause.] 1t
don't seem to know what it would do if it
could. and so far as it does its ends are evil