Daily Republican., 1884-09-04
Ringing speech From senator
HO0p.

A TIER the mpleti0n OF nominating Z
State ticket Wednesday in Massachu.
setts the Convention broke into ap.
plause as Senator Hoar took the plat
form. He said
MR PREsIDENr rise to perform q
grateful duty which has been assigned
to me by representative OF your COM
mittee. You have heard something of
the riff raff'' Of the Republican party,
that 1t should be represented among It's
candidates for Office. i therefore have
the honor to move, ~ representing that
portion of the Republican party which
trusts and honors the character Of
James G. Blaine [applause that
Mark Hopkins, Of Williams:own lap.
plausel, and Thomas Talbot, df BIZ
lerica tapplause], be nominated as
your electors st-large. IAppla anse]:
The motion prevailed by unani-
nous vote. Senator Hoar, In response
to calls for q speech, said that At the
outset of campaign on which such
Issues hung he could congratulate his
bearers on the unerring auguties Of
victory which already begin TO appear,
ON the party, its platform and the can
didates. He continued
"They strangely distort our meaning
when they claim that our party binds
any one to support candidate or a
principle that Is unworthy. When our
party IL shown to have stood for savery,
for rebellion, for n debasement of the
DIN, we will leave 1t. When our plat
form straddles the tariff and dodges
every living issue, We won't stand on
It. When our candidate has nothing to
promise but that he will continue TO
uphold the principles Of q party that
has been wrong for thirty years, we
won't vote fer him Iagree that the
issues Of this campaign are moral ques-
tions. and when, for thirty years, have
they been otherwise ?Self-goverrhent IL
morality in the highest sense, and mo-
rality in the highest sense is self-gov.
ernment.
"We don't belong to that school oi
critics which always fastens its gaze
upon the faults and imperfections Of
public men, which doesn't care for the
accomplishment OF public results, aud
only looks for flaws In the skin of those
who would achieve them. The Repub'
lican party is not perfect; its platform
isn't perfect; its candidates are not per.
feet. They are human, but We ask for
them fair and honest Judgment rs a
whole. Let history deal with the Re
publican party, let history deal with
James g. Blaine and John A. Logan In
this temper, and we are satisfied. am
distressed to see how some of our lnde
pendent friends are drifting into oppo
sition this year to everything we and
they have ever held dear. They harp OIL
civil service and propose to vote for 8
man who says the first thing to he don't
after the ath of March is to turn oul
30, ,0c0 Republican office holders on poll
tical grounds solely.
| The Senator argued briefly on the tar
III question, saying that 1t is necessary
to preserve in general the principle ol
protection to manufacturing interests
keeping in view the rate of wages and
the hours of the laborer. England
wants the election that they should hS
the market and the exchange of the
world, and Democratic victory would
be step toward that result. If tht
Republican party has done nothing else
1t has achieved the independence o.
American manufacturers from this sub
lection. There Is one other thing o
which wish to say word. There ism
an Independent in this country who will
say that Grover Cleveland can be elected
without the forty votes of Louisiana snt
Mississippi, and they must know tina
those votes cannot be 80 counted with
out murder and int timidation. Itis wei
enough to say we are waving tho bloody
shirt and for Colonel Goldman I'd say thu
men in the South do not approve o
them. True enough.
1.-THE best men IN the South don't ap
prove of those methods. They are thu
victims of them, and it Is for You to say
whether the next President of the Uni
ted States should be seated Ia the w hit
House by these methods. As has be I
we'll said by the chairman, wheneve
the Democratic party ia dead we shall
have fair elections in the South. Nov
wish TO put this proposition to an!
young Independent having any regarl
for my opinion In voting for Grove
, Cleveland you are not joining any nev
party; you simply aid a Conspiracy
!, We have succeeded thus far in prevent
, ing this burglary, but the independent
are simply drawing the bolts and poison
ing the Watchdog"
The Convention adjourned shortl
after the conclusion of Senator Hoar'
3 remarks, and the delegates separate
with renewed enthusiasm for the nation
al ticket.