St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-22

and most deadly conflict of arms ever
known succeeded. We have had
of Republican rule since then four
years of war and twenty years of
peace. The four years of war produced
heroes, sacrifices and suffering without
parallel and reunited country. The
twenty years of peace increased the
I population, internal improvements,
manufactures, useful inventions, COM
forts in homes and the general develop
ment of all classes, with rapidity un-
equaled in the history of the world
within the time named. In the Ian
guage of Daniel Webster, we may say
of this Republican rule, the suffering
and the fruits of the war, and the un-
paralleled prosperity of this peace,
1.-THE PAST IS AT LEAST SECURE"
We have assembled again to select a
president for 60,000,000 of free people.
Who most in character is the very es-
Sence of these people. Who, of all the
names suggested, will draw support
most largely from all classes? Who can
best bring together and reunite the
broken fragments of our party? Who
by personal courage and sublime conf
dence in his own convictions, is an ideal
leader OF the American people? Who
most Strikingly stands for cosmopolitan
American character? These are the
questions of the hour addressed to US
all. l suggest the name of
WALTER Q. GRESHAM, OF INDIANA
and Illinois, and invite thoughtful con-
sideration of some of the reasons why he
should be nominated: He was born of
sturdy and rugged parents, in Harrison
county, Ind, fifty-Seven years ago. and
has spent One-third of his life in labor
upon farm. He acquired. by nature
and education, a profound belief in the
fundamental doctrines of government
and the union of the state, lone and in
seperable," as taught by the lives and
example of Washington and Hamilton.
Clay and Webster, Lincoln and Thad
Stevens, and disbelief in and aversion
for the political hereSieS of John e. Cal
houn, Breckenridge, Jefferson Davis
and Lamar-Of property in man, and
/ THE RIGHT OF SECESSION.
L He ehas always been an unwavering and
intiexible Republican. One third of a
century ago he organized the party of
Fremont and Dayton in his native
county, which consisted, all told, of four
people. In 1860, then at the age of
twenty-nine, he was elected to the state
I Legislature at the same time Mr.. Lin
coin was elected president. from a
strong Democratic county and by the
aid of German votes. There he origin
ated and passed law which authorized
Oliver P. Morton, our greatest war gov
ernor, to organize and arm. at the eX-
pense of the state, any regiment any
where in the state. We owe the peace
and loyalty of Indiana at this critical
period to the admirable working of this
law and the fact that she was not be-
. hind the call of the president one mo-
ment in furnishing her quota of men.
After performing this service, of great
value to his state, he selected LOCO
young neighbors and friends and
MARCHED AT THEIR HEAD
into Kentucky with Gen. Sherman, at
the very beginning of the war. These
forces aided the loyal element there in
holding true to the Union, the northern
part of that state, while the southern
part broke off and went with the re-
bellion. But for the presence of these
troops the Ohio river would have proba-
bly, been the dividing line and southern
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would have
been the first battle-ground. He served