The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-07
THE CHICAGO NOMINATIONS.

The national Republican convention at Chi
cago has spoken and by its potential voice.
has placed before the American people as its
candidate Hon. James G. Blaine of Maine for
the office of President of the United States
and for Vice-president John A. Logan, of
Illinois. No man in the Republican party has
as many friends and ardent admirers as Mr..
Blaine He has been most conspicuous fig
ure and prominent leader in every campaign
of the party, from the date of its organization
to the present time, when he is now crowned
with the highest honor the organ
ization could confer. He has
been always in the forefront of every fight,
and his white plume, like that of Henry of
Navarro, was ever to be seen where the battle
was fercest. Mr. Blaine is and has been to
the Republican party what Henry Clay was 10
the old Wing party-its leader and champion.
While he was not the first choice of the Jour
nal, it accepts his leadership without hesitation
and without fear of results. AS we have so
often said, the party is greater than any
man, and the voiced wisdom of
its convention better than individual
Judgment. There can be no bitterness
over the result in any quarter. The Republic
an party is not made up of children, but of
strong, stalwart, sensible men, and the YER
diet of the national convention will be ac-
cepted with true loyal devotion to the party,
whose success is greatly more to be desired
than the advancement of any individual, and
in the spirit of full belief that the continu-
ance of the Republican party in power is abso-
lutely and unquestionably indispensable to the
prosperity of the country, and to the mainte-
nance and permanencyof those principles and
methods of government. by which alone
the peace and good order of society may be
conserved, and individual liberty and happiness
most largely secured and enhanced.
The name of John A. Logan was happy
inspiration. The suggestion ran through the
convention like wild fire, and it will be re-
ceived with equal enthusiasm throughout the
nation. The name, fame and services of Gen.
Logan belong to the whole country, and their
incorporation into the national Republican
ticket will add the greatest strength to it, par
ticularly in the West and South. There was
no moro brilliant soldier in the war, and there
has been no more true and thoroughly stanch
defender of Republican principles in
peace than John A. Logan. He is SO
strongly identified with all the great VIC
tories of arms and the equally great measures
of reconstruction and rehabilitation; he is so
positive character so forceful, so incorruptible
in his personal and public character and serv-
ices that there can be and will be no dispar-
agement when the candidate for Vice-presi-
dent shall be put in comparison with the brill
liant and aggressive statesman who heads the
column.
There is vim, enthusiasm, and at the same
time real downright ability and trained expert
ence in public affairs, in the ticket which the
National Republican convention presents to
the members of the party and with it chal-
lenges the confidence and the suf-
frages of the whole people. The
are from the body of the people. They come
from the average parentage and through the
average circumstances which beset the path
of those who must needs work their own way
through the world. They have by their own
hands and with their own unaided forces
carved out careers which are brilliant, even
when compared with the other brilliant
records that not only shine resplendent in the
annals of the Republican party but which
adorn the history of the country and the
world.
Blaine and Loganl In this sign we conquer.
With the greatest pleasure and earnestness
the journal enters into the canvass about to
open, and which will prove to be one of the
hottest the country has ever known. under the
leadership of the able and brilliant men whom
the voice of the party has called to the com
,naDd of o,,r victorious hoetc
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