Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
INGERsoLL SPEAKS.

CHICAGO, june % -Immedietely after
the adjournment the audience set up a
| wild yell for Bob In2ersoll, in which q
maj ority of the delegates Joined. After
| witnstanding considerable urging, Col.
| Ihgersoll stepped out from behind the
desk where he had been sitting and was
received with enthusiastic cheers. He
| addressed the meeting as follows:
/ Ladies and Gentlemen-I am repub-
licap, belong to the greatest, to the
grandest party ever organized by tt
human race. (Applause.) I belong TO
that great party that is in favor of giving
to every human being equal rights with
every other, and the mission of the re-
| publican party is not ended until the
great republic shall be civilized.
| (Cheers.) The mission CT that
great party is not ended
until every man beneath her flag not
only has the right to cast his vote in
peace, but to have it counted honestly
and in peace. (Appleuse) I am a re-
publican because that party Is pledged to
the protection of American labor
| (Cheers.) The country that raises raw
material snd sells it as such will always
/ be ignorant and poor. (Cheers }
Why? Because the labor employed to
raise raw material is ignorant labor, but
the moment the raw material is worked
into fabric, fashioned into beautiful
| shapes, that requires intelligence, conse-
quently the greater number of industries
We have in the United States the
MORE INTELLIGENT QUE POPULATION WILL
Another reason, ordinary labor is
1 n Hs in fba
proportion that the mind is mixed with
the muscle; IN the proportion that
| thought is mingled with effort. (Cheers.)
The people who want us to raise raw
material for England to man
| ufacture will simply vote for
| the poverty and ignorance of America,
and for the wealth and intelligence of
Great Britain. | am in favor of American
Industries because it will develope Amer
lean brains; because under that system
we can raise the most beautiful things
beneath the stars-great men and great
women. Where men pursue but one
industry they become stupid, Where the
industries are diversified, every part of
the brain is developed and we have use
for every aptitude, for every talent and
for every kind Of genius. I am in favor
of American protection because under
that policy we have become the richest
nation on the globe. (Cheers.)
/ am in favor of that policy because We
are the most ingenious people who ever
lived; because on the average we have
more sense than any people that 1 have
ever happened to meet. | am in favor of
that policy because here in the United
States We have on an average better
homes, better clothes, better food
and better schools than any
other nation. 1 believe the
hearthstone is the foundation of America
believe the Preside is the altar of the
republic. l am in favor of that policy
that will put a roof over the head of
every mechanic. I am not only in favor
of the republican party because it is in
favor of
PROTECTING THE INDUSTRIES AT HOME
bui I am in favor of that party because
it believes in education, because it be-
lieves in protecting the rights of Ameri-
can citizens everywhere. 1 am for that
party because it took the last
stain from the American flag.
an for that party because
it gave freedom not only to Jour
millions of people but TO thousands of
millions yet unborn. I am in favor of it, !
because you Can be a man and belong to |
it. Now, having said this little, regard |
the success of the republican party as the |
most i'm pGrtant thing for the republic. |
In the next place, no single man, what |
ever his services may be nor whatever his |
achievements have been, no single man, |
whatever his capacity is, is of the slight |
est i'm pOrtanoe compared with the
SUCCESS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Consequently the next question is who is
the most available man, other things be-
ing equalG (Cries for Gresham, Blaine |
and Oeher candidates) 1 do not care
who you are for or who | am for, the
great question is, and that question must
be settled at the polls, lot in the whirl
wind of excitement, but after months Of |
discussion, when the burrah is out of your !
lnngs, and -nse in your brain, that ques
ton must be settled by the most inGelli-
gent man under the flag and when you
can do thing easily there is no need of /
straiLing yourselves. I would like to
see this convention rise to
the dignity and splendor of the |
occasion, and l believe you will. 1 would /
like to see you put on your ticket two
soldiers who helped to save our country. |
[ would like to see two heroes pitteC |
against two democrats. / want two pa
triots pitted against two oopperheads.
Then let the American people
MAKE THEIR CHOICE.
Let them say who they will have, and my |
idea is this, that man who did not go to |
Redmond during the war should not be /
sent TO Washington. The great thing [
want is success, not simply /
for the party alone but for |
principle, because I believe human liberty /
is more i'm portant than any country on |
the globe. Now, being a republican, be
ing for the republican party, being for
protection, wishing and hoping for sue
cess, am in favor of the nomination of |
Walter Q. Gresham. Great applause,
cheering and waving of flags, the Illinois |
delegation standing on top of their chairs
and cheering loudly
AS REPUBLICANS SEE HIM.