Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-12

| oeuiJOrS IN ~OlQ h6ntuck, anu duSNoI-
ed prolonged encore by again appear
ing and giving a musical sketch OF the
nominee. which pleased the convention
immensely.
The committee having appeared with
the nominee, Hon J d Taylor, he was
presented to the convention. and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheers. Mr.
Taylor spoke as follows:
MR. President AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Con-
vENTIoN-I thank you most profoundly for the
cordiality of your reception, and for the distin-
guished honor you have conferred upon me in
making me your nominee for representative in
congress. With most sincere and grateful
appreciation of your confidence, and of the
dignity and honor of representing such people
in the national congress, and with full recog-
milton of the responsibilities and labOrs of the
position, accept the nomination at your hands,
| trusting that | may so discharge its duties as
TO merit your approval and commendatiOn. To
the true and tried Republicans of this district,
who have through you, their delegates, ex-
pressed so generous an endorsement of my
course during the brief period in which l had
the honor of being your representative, desire
TO express my thanks, and to say that this en-
dorsement, so emphatically expressed, will ever
be one of my proudest memories.
To the Republican and independent press of
the district, from whom | have received such
cordial support, l desire to express my pro-
found gratitude, for the manner in which they
have been pleased to regard my course in con-
gress, and the manner in which they have
favored my candidacy. The unanmity of this
nomination, and the knowledge that it expresses
the unpurchased and unpurcbasable will of a
people who have no saDeriOTs on this continent
in intelligence or virtue, puts at rest the asper
sions which are too often made against candi
dates for Office. Away with intimations of
Doodle and corruption in the Republican party.
There is no power in money to buy delegates
like these, or to purchase nomination in
convention like this. Let the Democratic party
retain a monopoly of this foul and fostering
abomination in our body polite.
The men, who compose the Republican party
of this district honest men and true, who fear
God and love their country, are above any re-
proach of this kind. Let vile ISLANDERS like
these hide away in the slime of modern Demo-
cratic methods. No Hamilton county or coal
oil methods can find lodgment in the Repub-
lican party. The man who would be base
enough to attempt this thing with the incorrup-
tible voters of the seventeenth district would be
buried, deeper than plummet can sound, beneath
the indignant wrath of ar outraged people. This
is not the first time that this vile charge has
been made against candidates in this district,
and it has always received the condemnation
which it so richly deserved.
This is not the time nor place TO discuss the
issues OF a political campaign. This is mainly
business meeting. But l desire to say that
the defeat of the Republican party in 1884 has
only widened and strengthened the foundation
for triumphant victory in 1883. Ohio has
been redeemed, and We have a Republican Gov
ernor, a Republican supreme court, Republican
state officers, and a Republican legislature
which no candidate for the U. S. senate can
besmear with that commodity known in Ohio
politics as coal oil. More than all this, in two
years from now, the grand old party intends to
90 up and re-take the citadel of the nation in
the name of Republicanism.
The combination of circumstances that placed
a Democratic President at the head of the
nation has entailed a new responsibility upon
the Republican party. The interests of the
people are being jeopardized, the industries of
the country are languishing, and strong men
90 half-clad and hungry for want of employ
ment.
There are danger clouds that now darken our
national horizon and startle with alarm the
wsest of our people, and it is for the Republi-
can party to say whether they shall break in
destruction and woe upon our beloved country,
or whether thev shall fly before the sweeping
blasts of awakened and aroused Republcanism.
The halcyon days of Republican supremacy must
come again. The fires of loyalty and patriotism
must be rekindled, and the party which was
born to rerleem and rule this nation must come
again into power and shape the destiny of the
Republic. Applause. The presidential chair
occupied by Lincoln and Grant and Garfield
in fha of u rtv
that placed in it a Grover Cleveland. The man
who with the same pen can restore Fitz John
Porter to the army and deny pension to the
widow of the brave and heroic General Hunter,
who can not only draw his pen across the pen
sions voted by congress to widows and brave
men but who can accompany it with brutal lests
and hearlless comments, can not succeed him
self at the head of great nation like this.
Cries of "That's so u
The Republican party gave to this country the
| star of hope and the glory of a new empire. 1t
melted the chains of human slavery and lifted
the bondsmen from the darkness of degradation
to the sunlight of liberty, and freedom, and
citizenship. 1t found this nation mendicant
and beggar, without money and without credit,
and gave it national character among the nations
of the earth, and the best currency the world
| ever saw. Our system OF protection has almost
doubled our population and more than quad
rupled our wealth, and has made of this young
republic the grandest and strongest nation be-
meath the circle of the sun. 1t has given homes
to the homeless, employment to the laborers,
and a country where human right and human
liberty are protected by law. [Cheers.
But the work of the Republican party is not
yet finished. Our system of protection is now
being assailed, and our industries are menaced
by an unfriendly congress. The problems affect
ing capital and labor are as yet unsolvcd, and
| they must be met. Our naturalization and en-
| igraton laws must be SO revised as to protect
labor as well as the product of labor. The
doors OF the republic must be closed against
communists, anarchists, socialists, criminals
and paupers that now food our country from
foreign shores. Imported contract labor must
not be suffered to drive from the forge and furn-
ace, from the loom and shop, our own people
and our own citizens. The wool industry, with
its vast interests, has been stricken down, and
it appeals to the American people to-day for
that protection which will give the hills and
valleys of the east and the plains and praires
of the west an opportunity Of growing the wool
we wear, instead of bringing it from Australia
and South America. Prolonged applause.
A hundred years ago England conceived the
grand idea of covering every sea with her ships
that time to this British feet has been seen
in every port, and British seamen frequent every
mart. This has given England much of her
wealth, and we should follow her example. The
carrying trade of America should go in Amer
lean ships, under an American flag, to the ends
of the earth, and in this way we should be
brought in connection with the people Of every
country and cline.
There is one other thing in which l feel the
greatest concern. The pension laws should be
revised so as to do justice to the soldiers and
their families. No nation can live ard prosper
that forgets its patriot dead or neglects to make
provision for the needy soldier.
The men who stood like wall of fire between
treason and the nations life must not be for
gotten in their poverty and helplessness now.
We should crown the memory of the living and
the dead, not only with garlands of flowers, not
only with imperishable gratitude and honor,
l. a.