Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-06-26

ton on Thursday night of last week,
over which the Hon. Samuel Shellaoar'
ger presided. Senators Hswley. Frye,
and Sherman, Congressman Horr and
Reed. and Others. made speeches. be
low is the admirable speech of Senator
Sherman, which is well worth careful
perusal:
i l will support the nomination cheers
of Blaine and Logan as heartily as | have
done those of Fremont and Lincoln and
Grant and Hayes and Garfield. Ap-
plause.l And this [ would do, fellow
citizens, even if they were less worthy
than know them to be of the distin
guished honor proposed for them.
would do it for my own honor. l have
no patience with any man who. for him
self or any other person, would take hi:
chances for success in political solves-
lion, and when disappointed would seek
Ito thwart the action of the convention
Political conventions are Indispensable in
Il republican government, for it is only by
such agencies that opposing theories can
be brought to the popular judgment
These can only be presented 10y candI
dates chosen as standard bearers of flag
or a cause, or party.
That Blaine and Logan have been fair.
Ily nominated by the free choice of our
500 delegates. representing the republi-
cans of every state. county, and district
in the broad extent of our great country
is admitted by every man whose voice
has been heard.
They are not dark horses" Their
names are known to fame; the evil and
good that men could say of them had
been said with license that is shame
to free discussion. Travelling in peace
and in war through the memorable
events of quarter of century, they
have kept their place in the busy jostling
of political life well in the foreground.
And now they have been selected from
among millions of their countrymen to
represent not themselves, but the Re-
publican party of the United States
Cheers.
They represent the American union,
one and indivisible. .snatched by war from
the perils of secession and disunion.
They represent a strong national govern
ment, able, | trust, in time, not only to
protect onr citizens from foreign tyranny,
but from local cruelty. intolerance and
oppression.
They represent that party in the coun-
try which would Scorn to obtain or hold
power by depriving by crime and fraud
more than of men of their equal rights as
citizens They represent party thai
would give to the labOring men of our
country the protection of our revenue
laws against undue competition with
foreign labor.
They represent the power. the achieve
ments, and the aspirations of the Repub-
lican party, and now, for twenty-four
years, has been greatly trusted by the
people, and in return has greatly advaD-
ced your country in strength and wealth,
intelligence, courage, and hope, and in
the respect and wonder of mankind.
Fellow republicans, we are about to
enter into no holiday contest. Yon have
to meet the same forces and principles
that opposed the union army in the war;
that opposed the abolition of slavery;
that sought to impair the public credit;
that resisted the resumption of specie
payment. They are recruited here and
there by deserter from our ranks, but
meanwhile, a generation of younger men
are coming to the front in the south as
well as in the north. They have been
educated amidst memorable events with
patriotic ardor, love of country, pride in
strength and power. They are now de-
termined to overthrow the narrow bour-
bon sectiOnalism Of the democratic party.
They live in the mountains and plains of
they west. The breathe the fresh air of
the hills of Virginia, North Carolina and
Tennessee: They are the hardy, liberty
loving laborers Of every state.
They come from the fatherland, they
come from old Ireland. They are the
active spirits, native and naturaliZed, of
a generation of free men who never felt
the incubus of slavery, and who wish on
Ily as Americans to make stronger and
plant deeper the principles of the repub-
lican party. 1t is to these men we who
have grown old in the conflict wish now
10 hand over the banner we have borne,
Let them take it and advance IL to high
er honors. Let them spread the influence
of our republican institutions north and
south until the whole continent of Amer
lea shall be- a brotherhood of republics.
Let them assert the rights Of American
Icitizenfhip, so that they will be respect
ed AS were the rights of citizens of the
Roman republic. Let them deal with
this most difficult and subtitle problem of
social politics so as to secure to the man
who labors his just share of the fruits of
labor. Let them improve upon the pro-
teetive policy we have pursued, so as to
diversity our industries and plant in all
parts of the country the workshops of
millions of well paid contented citizens.
Let them do what we have not been able
to do since the war-restore our CON-
/ 70 an6 rrnfQ0t If nndQr
our flag in every sea. My countrymen,
| regret to say it, you cannot accomplish
any of these great objects of national de-
sire through the agency of the democrat
ic party 1t cannot be made an instru
ment of progress and reform.
Its traditions. IFS history for 25 years.
and its composition forbid it. You may
punish US for our shortcomings by its
success, but you will punish yourselves as
well and stay the progress of your coun'
try.
A party that with seventy majority in
the house cannot pass bill on any SUBJ
ject of party politics, great or small, is
not fit to govern this country.
Every advance, every reform, every
improvement, the protection of your la
Dor, the building of your navy, the as
sertion of your rights as free man, the
maintenance of good money! good
dollar, good in every land, worth dollar
in gold-all these objects Of desire must
await the movements of the republican
party. 1t may be slow; but if you turn
to the democratic party you will always
find it watching and waiting
steady citizens of the olden time, ground
ed on the resolutions of '9S and the
times before the wah.'
1t is said that Blaine is bold and ag-
greSsive; that he will abstruct the hasi
ness interests of the country would
like to try such president He might
shake off some of the cobwebs of diploma
cy and invite the attention of mankind
to the existence of this country. There
| will al WAYS he conservatism enOnph in