, 1888-06-20

own laudable ambition that some other
Ian MAY CLIMB TO POWER.
As his true friends we cannot, dare not,
commit the political crime of disobedience
to his expressed wish. We cannot place
him at the head of the ticket, but we will
make him commander-in-chiet at the head
of the forces in the field, where he will be
invincible, and though James G.. Blaine
may not be our president yet he remains
our uncrowned king, welding the baton of
acknowledged leadership, supreme in the
allegiance of his devoted followers, hon
ored and respected by all honest and loyal
men, the greatest living American and the
worthy object of our undying love. But
the Republican party is not left without
great men to place upon its ticket. We
have that honest, able and experienced
fnancier, statesman and senator from
Ohio, and his no less distinguished
COLLEAGUE FROM IOWA.
Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin pre-
sent to III gallant soldiers, while New
York. New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut
and other states offer worthy and ~fayorlte
IONS. From this splendid galaxy of po-
litical stars we cannot choose amiss. The
Republican party points with pride to the
great achievements of the past, and offers
as an earnest of its future faithfulness an
unbroken record of services performed for
freedom, union and national prosperity.
1t is pre-eminently the party of protec-
ton. 1t was born of an irrepressible de-
sire to protect the slave from the lash of
his master and to save our civilization
from the blighting curse of its crime
against humanity. 1t performed its sa-
cred mission of protecting the republic
from secession and disunion; and in later
time it succeeded in protecting the credit
and currency OF the nation from
REPUTATION N INITIATION.
Reconstructed Democracy has now been
in power nearly four years. Its admins
tration has been most satisfactory to those
who hold office under it. Its loyalty has
received the approval Of every enemy of
The government, the courage of its for
eign policy has amused the great powers
and pleased every coward; its civil service
has been SO thoroughly reformed as to
delight Virgins; its Justice to disabled
soldiers has won golden opinions from
those who gave them their wounds; its
financial movement has been safe because
of inability to destroy the resulting pos
perity of Republican legislation, and its
unparalleled straddle Of the tariff ques-
ton has been a source of wonderment to
the gods and men," 1t is strong in the
imbecility of ''innocuous desuetude,"
and deserves to live as a Renaissance of
promises forgotten
N PLEDGES UNREDEEMED.
There are those in this land who seem
to believe that the mission OF the Repub-
lican party is at an end, that the emanci-
patton proclamation, Appomatox and the
constitutional amendments are at once
the monuments of its glory and the grave
stones of its demise. But the work of
the Republican party will never be done
until every American citizen enters into
his unquestioned inheritance of liberty,
| equal rights and Justice; until representa-
ton in congress is based upon the votes
freely cast and fairly counted; until ade-
quate provisions have been made for the
Grams and widows and orphans of their
dead comrades; until those
POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT
which insure national and individual pros
perity are firmly established, aud until
patriotism and loyalty are, the only quail
ficatIons except fitness fer official position
in the service of the Republic. There are
those in the land who insist that the Re-
publican party keeps alive the old time
sectional feeling and refuses to let the
Dead past bury its dead" The Repub-
lican party longs and prays for the coming
of the millennium of hope when in spirit
and in truth Mason & Dixon's line will be
blotted out forever; when fraternal ties
and common interests unite us all; when
the whole people are found rejoicing to-
gether that the inherited institution of
| human slavery was DESTROYED hv
THE JUSTICE OF GOD.
AS we gather here we remember that
other great convention held in this city in
1860; we remember how it was inspired
with wisdom and courage to select that
great man of the people, that Moses, who
led US through the parted waters of the
sea. past the wilderness of battle, over the
Jordan of safety into the Promised land.
In 1884 we were driven back into the
wilderness again. God give us wisdom to
ind another Moses who can limit our
wanderings to four years instead of forty.
The mighty past Is with us here to-day.
1t fills us with that same spirito of freedom,
patriotism and devotion which instills into
the common dust of ordinary humanity
the sublime
INSPIRATION OF HEROIC DEEDS
Let us read Its lessons rightly and hold
its precepts dear. When Robert Bruce,
king of Scotland, lay upon his dying bed
he requested that his heart should be
taken from his inanimate body and borne
by knightly hands to the Savior's sepul-
cher. After his death, James, Earl of
Douglas, with the heart encased in a
golden casket, set out upon his pilgrimage
to the Holy Land. On their way thither
himself and comrades were set upon by a
great host of Moorish warriors. Though
they fought with all the valor of mortal
men, they were borne backward by sheer
FORCE OF NUMBERS
and their overthrow seemed certain,
when Douglas, drawing from his bosom
the priceless casket, cast it far out into
the midst of the oncoming host and cried
out: Lead on, heart Of Bruce, we fol-
low thee" and the knights of Scotland,
never defeated while following Bruce,
pushed forward and won the day. Let
this convention find a Douglas for our
Bruce; He will take the soul Of our
0paat laaHar into fhn oa1loa 1911 q Il.