The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-02

, couch his lance, and be and Logar
lighting shoulder to shoulder to.
gether with HIM would make al
onset, and once more the Democrat
ic hordes would be routed, horse
foot and dragons. Cheers.
/ Senator Harrison, of Indiana, fol-
lowed, saying:
Blaine had never lived behind
hattiements-had never heard the
challenge of mortal foe without
meeting him in the open plain. So
it was with Logan. He did not
usually wait until others sounded
the call to battle. He usually
sounded it himself. and the adver-
sary must be quick if he does not
cover half the distance in getting to-
gether.
! Hon. Chas. A. Routelle, of Maine,
said Maine made no apology for
James G. Blaine his eulogies were
written on the brightest pages of the
nations history. This closed the
meeting at the main stand.
OVERFLOW MEETINGS.
At one overflow meeting, Hon. t.
B. Reed, of Maine, reviewed the rec
ord OF the last Congress, and asked
what was to be expected of it.
AT third meeting Fred Douglass
presided, and said of the Independ-
ents:
They are very learned and very
excellent gentlemen, but they are
wholly impracticable. They are
men who would make successful
party organization utterly impossi-
bic. They will support a nomina-
ton by the majority when they
themselves are with the majority,
but not otherwise. 1t is hardly too
harsh to say that they will rule or
ruin.
Speeches were also made at this
stand by Representative Milliken,
of Maine, who said the candidates
nominated at Chicago would give
the country as patriotic an admins
tration as it had had since Wash
ington.
Representative Miller, of Pennsyl-
vania, said that Blaine was the
choice of that State, and that if he
was not pure man and an honest
man, representative of the great Re-
publican party-a representative of
the best elements of that party, of
its honesty, morality and intelli-
gence, then God help the people of
Pennsylvania.
Speeches were also made by Rep
resentative Belford, of Colorado; ex-
Representative Smalls, (colored), of
South Carolina Mr.. Simon Wolff,
formerly United States Consul in
Egypt, and others.
A letter was received from Secre-
tary Lincoln, expressing his regret
at his inability to be present. and
saying:
/ wish in this way to express my
hearty concurrence in the object of
the meeting. After an unusually
animated discussion throughout the
country as to the choice of leader
for our Republican forces in the
contest now before us, the Conven-
ton of our representatives has Sc
lected man who, in many years of
political battles, has always been in
the front, and has justly won as
large share of the admiration and
regard of his fellow-citizens as any
public man of the day. With him
on the ticket is our Illinois Senator
and soldier, VINO was never found
wanting in the performance of the
many duties put upon him. For
these two men-true and tried pub
lie servants-we can ask the votes
not only of our old party friends,
but of all who agree with the pro-
gressive views of our platform of
principles, and of all who do not
wish to see in power that party
whose want of principle is most
clearly shown in its systematic falsi-
fication of the ballots cast by the vo-
tiers upon whose numbers its repre-
sentative strength depends.
The Republican party is the only |
one to be looked to to carry out the |
principles of civil service reform,
and it is doing so now. 1t will also
endeavor to secure to every voter
the counting of his ballot and in the !
adoption by the country of its plat
form alone can we hope for a contin-
uance of the marvellous prosperity |
of our land and the growth of Its in
dustries.
The meeting will be largely COM
posed of citizens from all parts of
the country, and it will be in sense
representative. hope that by its
size and enthusiasm, even thus early |
in the campaign, an earnest will be |
given of the heartiness and vigor |
with which all who wish for the sue
cess of the Republican principles
will unite in the support of our can
didates-Blaine and Logan.
A letter was also received from
Senator Hale, in which he says:
The ticket represents the earnest |
spirit and belief of the party to-day, !
and | have no doubt the Republi- /
cans of the country, reinforced by
of honest, intelligent vo-
tiers from the opposition, who will be
drawn to us by their confidence in
our candidates and their belief in
the great Republican doctrines of
labor. will take care that
it is triumphantly elected.
At 11:30 the meeting adjourned,
and the assemblage dispersed.