Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-08

W. ' OOfneeS arcs
with enthusiasts
| GEN. J. c. BLACK. applause
As the eloquent orator from Indiana pro
ceeded his speech was repeatedly cheered, al
though the Thurman men were evident,
FESTIVE under the points the Tall Sycamore
made in favor of selecting an lndianian fol
the vice presidential nominee. He said:
| The historians of Europe describe Belgium a
the battle ground in all the great wars that tran
| spire between European nations / come from
| the political battle ground of the United States
| from the state of Indiana. While great war,
take place in other countries, and empires aud
dynastes are overthrow or established, so in In
diana questions of mightier import are determined
for the whole country by her attitude, either OF
victory or defeat at presidential elections. Who
will inquire How goes the battle" ON any but one
| or two northern states except Indianay You
gentlemen in the south, with everything in peril
will not ask How goes Inois?' in west, foi
| you know how she will go. You will not ask
"How goes the battle in Ohio?'' 1t is already pre-
determined what the result will be there. Nor
will you ask how the battle RACES in Pennsylvania
except to inquire how great the majority against
us will be. There will be inquiry made except
how the shock of the battle is sustained in In
diana, and in New York, and in New Jersey, witt
an inquiry sometimes also as to Connecticut.
Gentlemen of the convention, we come before
you, not a. mendicants or suppliantS but as rep
resenting u power We ask an honor on this
ticket and we tender you victory with the othel
hand. We ask name on this ticket and We
tender you fifteen electoral votes in your college
Let us pass moment in retrospect of history
Indiana became state in 1876, and from that
hour TO this no Democratic president has ever
been naugurated except by her vote. Indiana
has voted for every Democrat who has ever been
sworn into office from 1916 forward. Where Il
the state whose record overnatches hers? Where
is the state which comes before this convention
with higher right to demand respect and recOgni
tion2 We will again cast that vote; but dismiss
from your mind now, and from this on until No
vember, the thought or the calculation that this
year is to be any exception to her history. Grover
Cleveland and whoever goes on the ticket with
him, will be reelected this fall with the vote OF
Indiana will not be reelected at all. Make ne
mistakes. l know of certain calculations to leavt
Indiana out Whatever influences destroy Indiani
destroy every vestige of hope for success.
say here Mr., Chairman and gentlemen of this
magnificent convention, that the lines of battle
the same this year that they were in 1884
that 1t will not be changed. The pledges we
made are to be fought on again. The states
where victory is obtained-if we succeed at all
are the same. You can not recast the lines of
battle, An attempt to do SO will be fraught with
disaster and overthrow to our splendid Demo
cratic party
A voce-Oregon.
Voorhees-Take warning by Oregon and rely
on Indiana and you will not be defeated.
We present to you a name this ticket phys
cally and mentally strong endowed with mental
and physical life for years to come. We name q
man who has proven himself and over
again winner. He has never been started in a
race that he has not led the field If you say to
me that he came late to the Democratic party,
say he came in the year whenDoolitte came, when
Trumbull came, when Governor John NJ. Palmer
came into the Democratic party. He came with
them. Allow me to say to you that recruit into |
the ranks of the Democratic party in Indiana |
soon becomes a veteran soldier. Such battles as |
we wage in Indiana are, happily, unknown in |
other states You have them not in Massachu |
Sets in Georgia, any of the other states. The
majority is so great in other States one way or
the other that the conclusion is almost foregone. |
But look at the spectacle which Indiana presents.
She cast four years ago 1876, 900 votes. She Will
cast $4,000 votes at the approaching election, |
and with that enormous vote there is merely |
plurality between the two parties of 5000 or |
1000 No majority-a mere plurality You can |
imagine, then, what the shock of battle is there |
You can imagine how important it is to us to |
have every atom of straightforward and polt |
obtain, in order to hold
our hard pressed lines. Recruit the pivotal point
In the battlefield If you are wise The key of the
situation is in Indiana. Strengthen her you bold
brave men, whose judgments are convinced, de-
spite the honorable sentimentality which is ii
your hearts. Come to the rescue at the position
In the battlefield where the fight is hottest, and
the fight will be won il won all.
| challenge every fair minded man to answer
what state could present any other name which
could bring its vote to the electoral college, ex-
cept that of Isaac P. Gray. We do not put UP
our man for show parade but for a hard bat
tie and winning results. Do you say to me
charges are made against him at home and else
where2 Show who has never had
charges made against him, and will show you
worthless creature. l know something about
charges. But how have these charges, whatever
they NAV be-they are not worth Identifying by
description-how have they been met? Governor
Gray on the ticket in Indiana with Cleve
land and Hendricks, and strong as was the ma
tional ticket yet this man, Governor Gray, car
ried the state of Indiana by $50 more votes than
were cast for Cleveland and Hendricks for presi
dent and vice president. He has been tried by
jury of his peers, and jury of vicinage, and the
verdict has been with him, and it will be with
him again.
He will be in the ranks fighting, whether on
your ticket or not; but he is so interviewer with
our hopes of victory in Indiana that his name il
that state becomes guaranty of success. an
not here to say that not win without him I
but am here to say that if you want to reduce tt
an absolute certainty before you leave this hal
Isaac P. Gray with Grover Cleveland and the worl
will be done.
Then season of speechmaking was in
lulged in. Humans nomination was sec
1nded by Dryden of Missouri; Green, of New
Jersey; Dorsey, of Nevada; Raines, of New
York; Powell, of Ohio, and others, anC
3ray's by Cox, of Georgia, and Settle. OF
Kentucky, after which the convention pro
,eeded to vote.
The choice was made during the most in
ense excitement, every delegate in the hal
,eing upon his feet and shouting at the tor
# his voice. VI hen vote was announced
rom Ohio for Gray there was a storm OF
Uses and cries of Put him out Before The
-ote of Wisconsin was announced it was evi
lent that Thurman's nomination was assured
nd in tine midst of the most intense excite
nent the nomination was made unanimous
nd then, after the passage Of the usual reso !