St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-04
CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS.
THE OPENING CEREMONIES.

THE OPENING CEREMONIES.
CHICAGO, June 3.-The convention was called
| to order at 1925 p. by United States Senator
| Sabin, of Minnesota, as follows:
Gentlemen of the Eighth National Republican
Convention The hour having arrived appointed
for the meeting of this convention, it will now be
opened by prayer by Rev. Mr.. Bristol, who ut
| tered the following prayer:
''God of our fathers, we adore and worship
Thee, and to Thee, by whose grace and provi-
dence we are what are as q ma
| ton, we would lift our hearts in de-
vout Thanksgiving and avoSing praise. We
! thank Thee for glorious national heritage
| for this magnificent land of wealthy hills and
fertile plains and for the laws and institutions
which make it a land of progress and of liberty
We thank Thee for our Christian sires, lovers of
freedom and of God, men of conscience and in
tegrity, whose names have jeweled history, and
| the memory of whose deeds is an inspiration to
| herosm and patriotic pride. We thank Thee for
| Plymouth Rock, for Yorktown for Appommattox,
as footstep to mark the progress of righteous
ness and the higher laws. We thank Thee
for the Declaration of independence, the Consti-
| tuition of the United States, the Emancipa-
ton proclamation, blood bought charters
| of freedom. We thank thee for the Republican
party, and for its splendid history and its still
more splendid possibilities. And now as this
great convention enters upon work which will
involve the most precious interests of $4,000 600
of people, and in large sense the interests of
free institutions, we devoutly and most earnestly
supplicate the blessings of Almighty Cod Bless
the members of this body, the homes the states
the parts of the nation which they represent
May the ambition of PATRIOTS.
the wisdom of craftsmanship and
the righteousness of Christian consciousness
possess every breast and control every action
and may the result of this convention be harmony
with the will of odconcerning us, and be re-
drx-ith iNtrf1
And grant, Almighty God, that the coming polit-
ical campaign may be conducted with that decen-
cy, intelligence, patotism and dignity of temper
that become free and intelligent people Con-
time Thy mercies to u.s. bless our country with
peace, prosperity and universal enlightenment.
May we never deny the faith of our fathers, NAV
we never cease to be temperate, free, all in
dustrious, Sabbath keeping, God fearing and.
a Christian people, blessed with the righteous
ness which ''exalteth a nation''
The chair: 1.-THE secretary of the national
committee will now read the call for the conyen-
tion." Whereupon the secretary read the call.
MIR. sABIN SPEAKS.
Gentlemen of the convention: On behalf of
the national Republican committee permit me to
welcome you to Chicago. As chairman of the
committee it is just my duty and pleasure to call
you to order as national Republican convention.
This city, already known as the city of cony en-
tions, is among the most cherished of all the
spots of our country sacred to the memories of
q Republican. 1t is the birth place of a Repub-
llcan victory. On these fields of labor gathered
the early fathers of political faith and plan
ned the great battle for the preservation of the
union. Applause. Here they chose that i'm
mortal chief who led US to victory, Abraham
Lincoln. IApplause.I Here was gathered
| in council those gifted men who
by elevating to the first place in the nation the
foremost chieftan of the great contest, General
Grant Loud applause. There was afterward
witnessed that signal triumph which anticipated
the wish of the nation by nominating as the color
bearer of the party that honored soldier, and
that shining citizen and that representative
among Americans, James A. Garfield. Loud ap-
| plause.l Every deliberation of the Republican
forces on this historic ground has been followed
by signal success, aud every contest on this