The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-20
FOR BLAINE AND LOGAN.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-Heartier or greater
enthusiasm has probably never characterized
the ratification of any presidential or vice presi-
Dental nominations than those of Blaine and
Logan here tonight. The demonstrations were
held on Judiciary square, about which, from
8 to 9 o'clock, there was a most brilliant
display of fireworks, bands of music march
ing with Republican organizations of different
states, and a surging mass of citizens, number
ing many thousands. On three sides of the City
Hall platforms were constructed, and speaking
was conducted from all of them continuously,
from 9 P. NJ. until almost midnight. The
speeches were from eminent and brilliant men,
and their words were brimfull of good cheer and
confidence. Among the most forcible remarks
were those of Senator Harrison. He
was frequently interrupted with cheers,
applause and approving Interpolation from the
thousands who heard him. Senator Harrison
did not speak until near IL o'clock, and spoke
briefly. He pointed out Mr.. Blaine's brilliant
career in Congress and in the Cabinet, and said
his friends were not the chronic officeseekers,
but the thrifty, self-reliant people. He would
be elected, and would make a good President.
The reference he made to Logan's military ca
reer and his sterling personal qualities elected
great enthusiasm from his hearers. He
thought this ticket the strongest in
the hind parts he had ever seen.
The Senator commenced by saying that where
ever a thriving population was to be found
throughout the land, there Blaine was strongest.
He was strong among people who did not seek
Office, but who helped the cause with
their votes. WHAT" asked Senator Har-
rison, lis the matter with Blaine? Bring
forward the best and ablest men of the nations
assemble the greatest men, not onlyin our land,
but in others; let the summons go out to the ma
tions of Europe; let bismarck and Gladstone be
in the company, and we will not fear to have
their measure applied to our candidate. [Good,
good1 Blaine will stand among them all a
representative of whom the American people
need not be ashamed. He has stood in the
House of Representatives when its rolls bore
the names of our most representative men, and
no man counted Blaine to be inferior to the
best. In the Senate no man counted him an
unworthy opponent. In Garfeld's Cabinet, he
stood [cheersl cherished, loved, leaned upon not
only in the labors of public life, but in friend
ship and personal intercourse with him whose
noble name we revere. In the same trust
in which Garfield leaned on the
arms of Blaine when the assassins
bullet struck him down do the Republicans of
this country lean upon him to-day. But some
people say he will introduce an aggressive for
eign policy. IA voice, Thank God for thatl.
/ am free to confess there is a stall
wart Americanism about j. G. Blaine
that 1 like. The Pail Mall Gazette is
reported to have said that. England would
look with great apprehension on this conflict
in America, because it believed Blaine was in
clined to supersede British commerce with
American commerce. If anybody should ask
Blaine whether he preferred that England or the
United States should have the trade of Brazil, l
have no doubt he would say the United
States by cultivating friendly intercourse
with the States of America he would endeavor
to bring to us the that rightly be-
longs to us. Applause. | think that if it
gets to be we'll understood in this coantry that
any foreign country does not want James G.
Blaine elected President of the United States,
the American people will be just obstinate
enough to elect him"
Judge William Lawrence, of Ohio, read a
series of resolutions indorsing and ratifying the
Republican nominations for President and Vice
president, and setting forth reasons why Blaine
and Logan should be supported and elected by
those who had at heart the best interests of the
country. The resolutions were adopted with
cheers.
SPEECH OF SENATOR SHERMAN.
Judge Shellabarger then introduced Hon.
John Sherman as the first speaker. Mr.. Sher-
man said, in part;
81 will support the nominations of Blaine and
Logan as heartily as l have done those
of Fremont, and Lincoln, and Grant,
and Hayes, and Garfield, and this 1
would do, feilow-citizens, even if they were less
worthy than / know them to be of the dis
tingulshed honor proposed for them. 1 would
do it for my own honor. have no patience
with any man who, for himself or any other per-
son, would take his chances for success in a po-
litical convention, and, when disappointed,
would seek to thwart the action of the conven-
ton. Blaine and Logan have been selected
from among the millions of their countrymen to
represent, not themselves, but the Republican
party of the United States. They represent the
American Union, one and indivisible, snatched
by war from the perils of secession and
&~isunion; they represent a strong ma
tional government, able, 1 trust, in
time, not only to protect our citlzeas from for
eign tyranny, but from local cruelty, intolerance
and oppression; they represent that party in this
country which would scorn to obtain or hold
power by defrauding more than a million men of
their equal rights as citizens; they represent a
party that would give to the laboring men of our
country the protection of our revenue laws
against undue competition with foreign labor;
they represent the power, achievement and as
pirations of the Republican party,
that for now twenty-four years has
been greatly trusted by the people,
and in return has greatly advanced you country
in strength and wealth, intelligence, courage and
hope, and in the respect and admiration Of man
kind. A generation of younger men are coming
to the front in the South as well as in the North,
and they are determined to overthrow the mar
row Bourbon seetionalism of the Democratic
party. They live in the mountains and plains
of the West; they breathe the fresh air of the
hills of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee;
they are hardy, libertyloving laborers in every
from old Ireland; they are the active
spirits, native and naturalized, off generation of
freemen, who never felt the incubus of slavery,
and who wish only as Americans to make strong
er and plant deeper the principles of the Re
publican party. Every advance, every reform,
every Improvement, the protection of your la
Dor, the building of your navy, the assertion of