The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-06

of the United States Applause If we be welded
to a fatal choice. the solid South which has already
captured the Capitol will occupy the White House
and the resal OF the will be rol,ed backward for
generation. We are the accredited representatives
from every State and all the Territories, representing
party to the wisdom and paerl 3 hn,o 81
progress owe more than to any political organic
alton since governments were instituted among
men To ii impartial history VIII accord mon saved
Constitution maintained and imbued with a larger
spirit of liberty ernancipate enfronchsed and
regenerated With such proud history in the past
and such high hopes for the future. stand pledged
sir not to make shpwrec of organization in which
the interests and honor of our country are still
wrapped up. Never before to . national convention
was such an opportunity presented or the PAIN OF uu
made plain. The great tidal has ebbed it has
LETT wrecks along the shore and disclosed only tne
Hats and the shadows The councils of our opponents
confused They have been smtten again with
blindness The heart of the great American people IN
stinctlvey and Enthusiastically turns once more TO the
Republican party. The supreme duty of the hour Is
for that party IN this convention to select candidate
under whom surely and grandly win APP
plause. Such candidate must first of all, be true
and tried Republican one whose name alone shall
stand for platform one who has the courage OF his
convictions, whose convictions all great ques-
hons have been always Tight-rght on the war, right
on reconstruction, right each and every OF the
constitutional amendments, right resumption right
on the currency, right the tariff, right on civil
rights. and right cyil-service reform. Applause
Standing, sir in this great presence, in this
historic hall. inspired by memory of the great lead
ers and martyrs of our faith who look down as with
6enediction upon this scene, impressed with pro
found conviction of the Importance of the trust with
which ] stand charged, requested to nominate
such candidate to the brethren of other States by
the Republicans of Connecticut and in their name and
on their behalf nominate who fulhls adj these
conditions and who, in the largest degree represents
the fitness and the availability of their cand
date, whose name lead to certain victory IN
November-General Joseph r. Hawley, of Connecti
cut. Loud applause. Mr.. President, the delegates
from Connecticut sit in this grand council Of the party
unnstructed, uncommitted and unpledged. They are
here sir free to speak free to hear free to deliberate
and to decide They offer to you the name of their
great leader and senator the best which, in their
judgment, this convention select, If it is the
best, then make choice yours If you have a bet
ter we will cheerfuy make your choice ours. [Ap-
plause. But wherever the lot may fall and whoever
the candidate may be- pledge ourselves IN advance
with unhesitating, pngrudging loyalty with al our
[Great applause General Hawley was
10 born in North Carolina He draws from southern
chivalry of nature that abhors cant, and by
pocrisy, and falsehood, and feels the stain like
wound Thrty-forl years ago he came, poor bare
footed, penniless boy to the rugged soil of Connect
cut where, breathing free air, listening to IT'S free
foundations of a manly character and life m prnc
piles which are enduring Gonnecticuts everast-
ing hills As young man he became citizen of New
York, and he drew from the classic shades OF Old
Hamilton College that culture which graces the snewy
Saxon of his speech He studied law with honest John
the free soil movement whose voice, then,
crying loud for repentance of the nations great sin
The fire lindled in the young mans soul, and he
could not stand the dry qHps and the dusty maxins
of law while-human beings were being hunted over
the mountains of New England like cartridges. under
the fugitve-slave act When the Boston court house
hung in chains he threw away his Coke and
Blackstone and could plead after that no less sacred
ausethan TINT of emancipation and the rights of men
lApplause1 He started the first free-soil paper IN
Connecticut, to become in time the leading Re
publican newspaper of New England At last
at att Sumter echoed round the world He rst caught
the call of Abraham lincoln sitting in his Office; he
the great crowd collected in the old State house
square at Hartford, reading the proclamation He
threw aside his pen and walked out among them say
ing: me time has Gomez can stay here no longer
who will go with meln He was the first man in Con
nectict that enlisted in the FIRST company of the first
regiment that left that soil FOR the defense Of the cup
ital [Applanse.l lie the last to leave the
stricken field of Bull Run. The English historian of
that rout writes
"Hawley brought off in good order his little Con
necticut company, while the United States army
flying panic stricken to Washington. He fought the
through frern private from Bull Run until that
day when the Democratic party laid down its arms
under the apple tree of Appomattox. 1Applause.i
Hew M with mnsket; he out a major
general But sir, it is not in the purple vestments of
bleeding war that his name is written amongst the
foremost alone he stands well in the front rank Of
debaters, orators and senator's. There is State
where his voice has not been heard, preaching the
gospel of Republcanism. He a Republican
before the Republican party born. He believed
in its creed before it was formulated. There is no
question in the Senate of the United States which has
received the benefit of his intelligence thoroughly
equipped in all great measures of administration and
legislation which concerned the interest the honor
of our country home orabroad. In that dark hour
sir fer the nations faith when it seemed it the old
ship to be swept by the storm Of Reputation
from its moorngs, il Havley's voice that pro
claimed the various States sir that you
py that every dollar of the nations debt shord be
sacred as soldiers grave; and when IN the Senate OF
the United States when trusted leaders wavered
he summed up the duty of the hour in the pithy
tenee, Uncle Sam is gentleman, ard he must NOT
pay his debts in bogus dollars. Applause General
Hawley believes IN the morality Of practical politics
He Iformer but he believes not in the reform by
which heelers and strikers and baInrners control
politics, nor in the 'abhorrent forces OF the
slums, but in the duty Of every citizen
the whole weight of his personal
influence in and OF season. for the of
good government, from the primary to the polls. As,
sir his public record is without flaw, his private
chaa aster is without stain. There is nothing to
apologize for; there is nothing to conceal there Is
nothing to extenuate and naught to defend The
fierce hight which beats against presidential candidate
will explore his record in vain. He will out
brighter from the oaze His life is gentle
the clements mixed in him. that nature might
stand up ana say TO an me world, inns Is man
II II should seem TO some that he comes from too
small State to furnish presidential candidate let
remind you, gentlemen that bigness is not great
ness and that States measured not by acres but
by men, and in the charter of Charles, Con
neeticut was hounded on the west by faith
er ocean. and though lnodestly have not
have filed the vast interval with statesmen and
with States. If it shall to to come from
too the North star let me remind you that
since this party born have you given it candi-
date from the East while the of that section for
generation. have cheertvly supported the dfdate
Of your choice Mr.. President if this man is nom
mated it will be the humiliation of other
candidate: there will be nothing 60 be for
given forgotten. nothing to be unsaid
or taken back. His nomination will be like passing
an act of oblivion the dreadful dissensions in
other States which have brought this party to the
gateway of the grave. IF he is nominated all ele-
ments can support him, for he is radical eonserva-
tive and a conservative radical a friend of Garfield
and friend of Grant. Sir f he should be nominated
Tonight lbs cant-aga Syeuld commence Tomorrow
and continue until victory is assured There would
be no powder burned to fire into the backs OF
leaders It will only be exploded to illuminate his
inauguration. The brazen threats of cannon in
yonder square, waiting TO herald the result of this
convention would not have time TO cool before his
name would be caught up ten Thousand tongues of
electric aamo. Il would sweep down from the old
Pine Tree State: it would go the bills and villages
Now Eneland ii would insure Cnltiacticut by