Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-12

come, must come together that when
they como they will come hand in hand
through the golden harvest fields
hand in hand by the whirling spindles
and the turning wheels hand in hand
past the open furnace doors hand in
hand by the chimneys filed with Eager
fires greeted and grasped by the count
less sons of toll.
This money has 10 be dug out of the
earth. You cannot make it by passing
resolutions in political convention
| [Applause.l
The republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this gov
eminent should protect every citizen
at homie and abroad who knows that
any government that will not defend
its defenders, and protect its protect
Ors, is disgrace to the map of the
world. They demand man who be-
lieves in the eternal separation and di-
vOrcement of church and school. They
demand man whose political reputa-
ton is as spotless as star but they
do not demand that their candidate
shall have certificate ofmoral charac-
ter signed by a Confederate congress.
| That man who has
IN FULL, HEAPED AND ROUNDED
MEASURE
all these splendid qualifications, is the
present grand and gallant leader of
the republican party-James q. Blaine.
Our country, crowded with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for man worthy of the
past, and prophetic of the future /;
asks for a man who is the audacity of
genius asks for a man who is the
grandest combination of heart. con-
science and brain beneath her flag
such man is James G. Blaine. APP
plause.]
For the republican host, led by this
intrepid man, there can be no defeat.
This is a grand year-a year filled
with recollectiOns of the revolution !;
filled with the proud and tender men,
cries of the past; with the sacred
legends of liberty-a year in which
the sons of freedom will drink from
the fountain of enthusiasm year in
which the people call for man who
has preserved in congress what our
soldiers won upon the field year in
which they call for the 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 hidcOus face of rebellion /; for
this man who, like an intellectual ath-
lete, has stood in the arena of debate
and challenged all corners, and who is
still total stranger to defeat. [Ap-
plause.
Like an armed warrior,
LIKE A PLUsiED KNIGHT.
James g. Blaine marched down the
halls of the American Congress and
threw his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen forehead of the de-
famers of his country and the malign-
ers of his honor. For the republican
party to desert this gallant leader
now, is as though an army should de-
sert their general upon the field of
battle. [Applause.l
James q. Blaine is now and has been
for years the bearer of the sacred
standard of the republican party. |
call il sacred because no human being
can stand beneath its folds without
becoming and without remaining free.
Gentlemen of the convention. in the
name of the great republic, and the
only republic that ever existed upon
this earth in the name of all her de-
Tenders and Of all her supporters in
the name of all her soldiers living; in
the name of all her soldiers dead upon
the field of battle, and in the name of
those who persisted in the skeleton
clutch of famine at Andersonville and
Libby, whose sufierings he so wildly
remembers, Illinois nominates for the
next president of this country that
prince of parliamentarians- lead
err of leaders-James e.. Blaine.