Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-22
ALLISON, GRESHAM, ALGER.
The Speeches Placing Their Names Be-
fore the Convention.

hort inc NonNontAVAs
MR. HEPBURN PLACING IN NOMINATION
SENATOR ALLISON.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: It
Is the laudable ambition of every
member Of the convention that to-day we
pursue such q course as to deserve and
win success at the end of this campaign.
Is there such course open to our choice?
We remember that we enter upon this
struggle q beaten party-that We were
not beaten for want Of numbers, but for
want of harmony. We are strong enough
to compel triumph, but it will require
the united efforts Of rs all to clutch it.
Is it possible for rs to-day to name q can
didate for whom all Republicans will VOTE?
If we do we shall succeed. II We fail to
name such an one our flag goes down in
defeat before the organized appetite for
spoils and its allies. The candidate of
the convention must be Of spotless charac-
ter and with unblemished political
record. He must be man in whose armor
Of integrity there is no place or erevasse
for the Judgment of censure or calumny.
He must be man versed in the public
business, schooled in the public service,
fitted to the high Office to which We conse-
crate him by broad experience and observa-
ton. He must be man of affairs. The
Republican party is one Of deeds as well as
of doctrine-results no less than lofty
sentiments It's Just pride and browning
glory is to be found in the long record OF
what it has accomplished. 1t loves liberty
and il aided in writing this record. Some
one whose recorded votes show that upon
all questions that for quarter of century
have tried to encourage the wisdom Of pat
riotic men he has been upon the right side
the right side, as time has determined
the right in the honest conviction Of
the Republican party Of this day.
Gentlemen, the State Of Iowa bids me to
name to you this man-fit to be Your can
didate, VIM. b. Allison, of Iowa. or all
living men he is the one we most do honor
Iowa asks his selection. It Is the prayer
of that State that has been more true to
Republication than all others that have
been truest. All others have sometimes
wayered. Iowa never. In all others ut
some time in your history some part of
your ticket has met defeat. In Iowa
never. In 81 years Of consecutive victory
no man has been indicted into State Of
flee or been accredited to the National
Seuste who did not follow your command
aud march in your columns. Fortunately
for our candidate in the Republic we rec
oguize TO right of pedigree or ancestry.
There is no primogeuiture or entail upon
the honors OF the State, save those OF
worth and genius. 10 these he is richly
4 endowed. He was called to the public
service in the early days of 1861. The
times needed high courage, hopefulness,
/ integrity, practical common sense, and I'M
| limited capacity for work. His early life
and experience has taught him that these
qualities were the antidote for the rigors
/ of lowly birth and humble fortune. He
! determined to deserve much at the hands
of the people, and they, recognizing the
value of his services, have been honored by
| his presence in the Congress for more than
twenty-five years. Twenty-Five years Of
most eventful history, and every page Of
the legislative portion of the record VIM.
B. Allison has helped to write. 1t is in
/ these records that You will tind the attes-
tatiOn of his worth. When he entered
Congress ne recognized the psrils of tn %
| situation. A continent at war, human
liberty, mans capacity for self-govern-
ment, the issues. He knew that il was
only by the uss of all the resources Of the
nation that success could be won. So We
ind him in the legislature Of that day,
aiding by marshslling the men and grant
| ing the treasures Of the nation with I'M
stinted hand to meet all the acquisitions
of the Commander-in-Chief. Aud when
peace was won, we find him striving on
all occasions to pay, 50 far as payments
| can be made, the lust claims of the heroes,
mutilated and war worD, who by imperish-
able deeds had saved the State. When he
cams into public life the country was
reaping the fruits that followed that Woe
| ful experiment, the tariff Of 1853 The
| conditions had not changed for the better
fIom those a little earlier described By
| President Buchanan, in his annual mes
ssge, when ha said: I'VE have possessed all
the elements of material wealth that create
| free States. 1t loves mankind and 1t strikes
| the shsckles from the bond and makes
free men. 1t loves equality and it places
the ballot in the hands of the humble and
bids him stand unabashed by the side OF
him VINO is the strongest. 1t loves the
flag and the union of the States, and 1t
builds navies, it calls into being vast
armies and tramples rebellion under its
conquering feet. 1t sympathizes with the
struggling poor, and it germs the prairie
with q million happy, prosperous home
steads. 1t feels the dignity Of labor and
| il protects the nations industries and the
mill and the factory and the forge are
erected, the children are schooled, and
prosperity smiles on every home. 1t loves
honesty and it pays the National debt. 1t
| is filed with an exalted sense Of justice
and in mercy, after the sword is sheathed,
it restores its PROSTATE foe to the high
station of untrammelled citizenship. 1t
is party of lofty sentiment and
| il preserves the national credit, fills the
national treasury with abundant revenue
and gives the nation almost two billions
of currency, the equivalent of gold. 1t is
iadeed party in which ennoblipg senti-
ment abounds, but they have been followed
| by grand achievements, as in the economy
of Gods fulfllment as follows prophecy.
Have we among our number some one
who, in his public service, has been con-
tributor to this rehearsal of Republican
endorsements? Some one who, in the
legislation of the generation. has in rich
abundance, and yet, Notwithstanding all
these advantages. our eountry at this mo-
ment is in a deplorable condition. In the
midst of unsurpassed plenty, in all pro-
auctions of agriculture. and in all the ele-
msnts of national wealth, we find our man.
ufactories suspended, our public
works retarded, our private enter
prises abandoned and thousands
of useful laborers thrown out of employ
ment and reduced to want. The revenue
Of the Government which is chiefly de-
rived from duties on imports from abroad,
has been greatly reduced, under the cir
eumstances, loan may be required before
she close of your present session. But
mis-, although deeply to be regretted,
1uld prove to be only slight misfortune
zen compared with the suffering and
ssss prevailing among the people"
picture of the languishing indus
A1uld seem to be dark enough, but
Gtion WAS aggravated by the fact
eight hundred millions Of gold
y California had been sent abroad
the imported necessaries Of life,
4 have been produced at home
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