Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-06-19
InsersoIl's Speech on Blaine.


the first paragraph relating to the speech
of Mr. Dana, of Massachusetts,, just de-
livered:
Massachusetts may be satisfied with
the loyalty of Benjamin 81. Bristew; SO
am but if any man nominated by this
convention cannot carry the State OF
Massachusetts,, 1 am not satisfied with
the loyalty of that State. If the nomi-
nee of this convention can not carry the
grand old Commonwealth Of Massachu-
setts by $4,000 majority, 1 would advise
them to sell out Faneuil Hall as Dem
ocratic headquarters. l would advise
them to take from Bunker Hill that old
monument of glery.
The Republicans Of the United States
demand IS their leader in the great con-
test of 1875 a man of intelligence, y man
Of well known and approved political
opinions. They demand statesman
they demand reformer after as well as
before the election. They demand pol
itician in the highest, broadest and best
sense-a man Of superb moral courage.
They demand a man acquainted with
public affairs, with the wants of the
people; with not only the requirements
of the hour, but with the demands of
the future. (Applause.)
"They demand man broad enough to
comprehend the relations of the Govern
Hent to the other nations of the earth.
They demand NAN we'll versed in the
powers, duties and prerogatives of each
and every department of this Govern
ment. They demand a man who will
sacredly preserve the financial honor of
| the United States; one who knows
enough to know that the National debt
must be paid through the prosperity of
this people; one who knows enough to
know that al the financial theories in
the world can not redeem single dollar;
one who knows enough to know that all
the money must be made, not 10y law,
but by labor; one who knows enough to
know that the people Of the United
States have the industry to make the
money. and the honor to pay it over just
AS fast as they make it. (Applause)
"fhe Republicans of the United States
demand man VINO knows that prosper
ity and resumption, when they come,
must come together; that when they
come, they will come hand in hand thro
the golden harvest fields; hand in hand
by the whirling spindles and the turning
wheels; hand in hand past the open fur
mace doors; hand in hand by the chim-
neys filled with eager fire, greeted and
grasped by the countless sons of toll.
This money has got to be dug out of
the earth. You can not make it by
passing resolutions in Political cohven-
tion. (Applause)
The Republicans of the United States
want man who knows that the Cow
erament should protect every citizen, at
home and abroad; who knows that any
government that will not defend its de-
tenders and protect its protectors is
disgrace to the map of the world. They
demand u man who believes in the eter-
nal separation and enforcement of
church and school. They demand man
whose political reputation is as spotless
as star; bat they do not demand that
their candidate shall have certificate
of moral character signed by Confed-
crate Congress. The man who has in full
heaped and rounded measure all these
splendid qualifications is the present
grand gallaDt leader of the Republican
party-James G. Blaine.
"Our country. crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for = man worthy Of the
past. and prophetic Of her future; asks
for q man whe has the aadaeity of ge-
Mus; asks for a man who is the grand
est combination of heart, conscience and
brain, beneath her flag. Such man is
James G. Blaine. (Applause)
"For the Republican host, led by this
intrepid man, there can be no defeat
This is grand year-a year filled
with recollections of the revelation
filled with the proud and tender memo
ries of the past; with the sacred legends
of Iiberty-a year in which the sons of
| freedom will drink from the fountains
of enthusiasm; year in which the peo-
pie call for man who has preserved in
| Congress what our soldiers won upon
the field; year in which they call for
the man has torn from the throat of
treason the tongue of slander-.for the
| ~, ol ha ash nf
ocracy from the hideous face Of rebellion:
for this man who, like an intellectual
athlete, has stood in the arena of debate
and challenged all comers. and who is
still a total stranger to defeat. ZAP
planseD
Like an armed warrior. like plumed
knight, James Ii. Blaine marched down
the halls of the late American Congress
and threw his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen foreheads of the de-
famers of his country and the maligners
of his honor. For the Republican party
to desert this gallant leader now is as
though an army should desert their
General upon the field of battle. Gap
plause.)
James G. Blaine is now and has been
for years the bearer of the sacred stand
ard of the Republican party. call IL
sacred because no human being can
stand beneath its folds without becom-
ing and without remaining free.
Gentlemen of the Convention, in the
name of the great Republic, the only Re-
public that ever existed upon the earth;
in the name of all of her defenders and
of all of 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
perished in the skelstsn-clutch OF famine
at Andersonville and Libby. whose suf-
ferings he 80 viyidly remembers, Illinois
- Illinois nominstes for the next Presi
dent of this country that Prince of par