Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-09
POLITICAL ELoQuEhcE.
Bob 1ngersol's Nomination Of Blaine
in the Republican Convention
Eight Years Ago.
THE "PLUMED KNIGHT,

lSpeech Of Robert G.. Ingersoll in presenting rYs
name OF James e. Blaine for the Presidential
nomination at Cincinnati in june, 1861
MIR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENT1EMEN:
massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty
OF BENJAMIN d. Bristow; SO am I; but II any
man can not carry the State Of Massachusetts ]
am not satisfied with the loyalty of that State,
y the nominee OF this convention can not carry
the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Dy seventy-fiv Thousand majority, 1 would adj
wise them to sell out Faneuil Hall as Demo-
take from Bunker Hill that Old monument OF
glory. -
The Republicans Of the United States demand
as theT leader IN the great contest Of 1876 man
OF ln1enlgence. man OF well known and ap-
proved political opinions. They demand a
statesman; they demand a reformer after as
well as before the election. They demand a
politician in the highest, broadcast. and best
SENSE -.
A NAN OF SUPERB MORAL COURAGE.
Ihey demand man acquainted with public
aHa1rs, with the wants of the people; with not
only the requirements OF the hour but with the
demands OF the future. [Applause.l
they demand man broad enough to COM
other nations Of the earth. They demand q
man well versed In the powers, duties, and pre-
negatives OF each and every department. Of this
sacretly preserve the financial honor of the
United States; one who knows enough to know
that the national debt must be paid through the
y Of ms people, OF who
in the world cannot redeem single dollar; one
who knows enough to know that all the money
must be made, not by law. but by labor; one
the United States have the industry to make
the money. and the honor to pay it over Just as
fast sta as + they make It: Applause
Inc Republicans OF the United States demand
q: man who knows that prosperity and resump-
ton, when they come, must come together;
mat at When th they come they will come hand in
in hand by the whirling spindles and the turn
ing wheels; hand in hand past the open furnace
doors; hand in hand by the chimneys filled with
eager nre, greeted and grasped by the countless
This money has to be dug out of the earth.
You cannot makeit by passing resolutions in a
T6e t AApPaHss
man who knows that this Government should
protect every citizen, at home and abroad; who
Knows that any Government that will not de-
TEND its defenders and protect its protectors is
disgrace to the map Of tho world. They de-
mand man who believes in the eternal separa-
ton and enforcement of church and school,
Ihey demand man whose political reputation
Is Is as spotless as star; but they do not demand
that their candidate shall have a certificate OF
moral character signed by Confederate Con-
gress. The man who has
IN FUIL-HEAPED AND ROUNDED MEASURE
all these splendid qualifications Is the present
grand and gallant leader of the Republican
pafCy7JameS u. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vast and mar
velous achievements Of its first century, asks
for man worthy of the past and prophetic of
her future; asks for man who has the audacity
or genius; asks for a man who is the grandst
combination Of heart. conscience. and brain be-
neath her t1ag-such a man is James G. Blaine.
[ADplanse.l
For the Republican host, led by this intrepid
man, there can be no defeat.
This Is grand year-a year filled with recol-
lections of the revolution; filled with the proud
and tender memories OF the past; with the
sacred legends OF iberty-a year in which tn ,
sons of freedom will drink from the fountains
OF enthusia m; a year in which the people call
for man who has preserved in Congress what
our soldiers won upon the field; year in VIII CHI
they call for man who has torn from the
throat OF treason the tongue of slander-for the
man who has snatched the mask of Democracy
from the hideous face of rebellion; for the man
who, like an intellectual athlete has stood in
the arena OF debate and challenged all corners,
and who is still total stranger to defeat Jap
plause.]
Like an armed warrior
LIKE PLUMED KNIGHT,
James G.. Blaine marched down the halls of the
American Congress and threw his shining lance
defamers of his country and the maligners OF
| its honor. For the Republican party to desert
this gallant leader now is as though an army
should desert their general upon the field Of
battle [Applause.]
James G. Blaine Is now and has been for years
the beare1 OF the sacred standard of the Repub.
uCan parry. call IL sacred because no human
being can stand beneath it's folds without be-
coming and without remaining flee
Gentlemen Of the convention, in the name OF
the great Republic, the only Republic that ever
existed upon this earth: in the name of all he1
defenders and OF all her supporters; in the name
Of all her soldiers living; in the name OF all hel
soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the
| name of those who persisted in the skeleton
clutch of famine at Ande sonville and Libby
whose sutferings he so wildly remembers, lii
nois-Illinois dominates for the next President
of this country that prince of parliam ent a ians
that leader OF leaders-James G. Blaine