The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-27
its heaven ordained destiny. have no
doubt of the result.

RED the kepubncan nag toWaru the
White House. and heralded the triumph
which came 10 Abraham Lincoln in 1860,
stood up beside the Chairman with g.
A. r.. button in the lapel of his coat, and
as his face appeared above the desk the
audience and the convention alike greet
cd him with enthusiastic cheers. When
the cheers subsidized, Chairman Thurston
said
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNyESrIoN-l in
troduce to you the old hero, patriot and
statesman. General John c. Fremont.
lCheen.l
General Fremont addressed the con-
vention as follows: Mr. Chairman and
Gentlemen-l am unwilling to delay the
business of the convention, and, there
fore, will occupy only a very few min
u.es of its time, but if | fail to respond
to this splendid greeting, | should feel
that | carry an insensible clod and not
warm, sympathetic heart in my breast. l
am sensibly grateful for your welcome.
am happy and proud to receive here, in
this great National assembly, the well
come given by my frierids and compan-
ions of many years, by my party friends
and by the song of the men with whom
had the conspicuous honor to be asso-
ciated in our first opening campaign in
1856. [Cheers.l 1t rejoices me now TO
see the party moving firmly forward on
its natural ground of advanced opinion
and action. | am glad 10 see il looking
upon American interests and American
industries from an American standpoint
[Cheers. The policy of the party has
been a continuous one :. four years ago
was among the men who made the can
vass of Michigan with Mr. Blaine. The
same policy upon which the party stands
to-day was then urged upon the warm
hearted and patriotic people of that State
by him. If we had been successful in
that election We should have had a dis
tinctive American administration. | trust
that this policy, related as it is to the in
terests of the people in their daily affairs,
will soon bring the party TO charge itself
with the solution of tire labor problem
of to-day [Cheers. Success now will
pave easily the way to important meas
ures and be continuation of power
This present election will carry to the
successful party the political power of
the great Territories which are now
awaiting admission. 1t is not too much
to say that the conditions of the country
Justify the belief that the result of the
election will be favorable conclusiyely to
the Republican party. tCheers
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the
conventional am glad to receive to-day
this evidence of your regard. am hap
py TO know that il has resisted the tests
of time and that it has come down to me
with all its old-time eordiality. Zap
plausel
ADDRESS PROM FRED DOUGLASS.
Fred Douglass was here recognized as
he came upon the stage back of the speak
er's desk, he was introduced by the chair
man as follows:
Gentlemen Of he Contention Il have
the honor to present to you man who
needs no introduction-our old friend,
Fred Douglass. [Cheers.
Mr.. Douglass-Mr President, had the
misfortune last night to speak to a vast
audience in Armory little below here
or above here, and broke my voice so
that feel wholly unable TO address you
any more than to express my thanks to
you for the cordial welcome, the earnest
call you have given me TO this platform
have only one word to say, and it is
this, that | hope this convention will
make such record in its proceedings as
to put it entirely out of the power of the
leaders of the Democratic party and the
leaders of the Mugwump party laughter
to say that they see indifference between
the Republican party in respect to the
class | represent and the Democratic par
ty. [Applause.l l have great respect
for certain quality :hat have seen dis
tinguished in the Democratic party. 1t is
its fidelity to its friends [lasghterl It's
faithfulness to those whom it has ac-
knowledged as its masters for the last
four years. Laughter and applause
They were faithful mean the Demo-
Gratis were faithful to the slave-holding
class during the existence of slavery
They were faithful before the war. They
were faithful during the war. They gave
them all the encouragement that they
possibly could without drawing their
own necks into the halter Laughter
and applause They were faithful dur
ing the period of reconstruction they
have been faithful ever since They are
faithful to-day 10 the solid South. | be-
lieye that the Republican party will
prove itself equally faithful to its friends
[cries of good, good, y and those friends
during the war who were men with black
faces. [Cries of That's right"] They
were eyes to your blind: they were shell
ter to Your shelterless they escaped
from the line of the rebels they are
faithful to-day, and when this great Re-
public was at its EXTREMIST need, when its
fate seemed to tremble in the bal
ance and the crowned heads and the
enemies of Republican institutions
were saying in Europe: Aha, aha, this
great republican bubble is about to burst,
when your armies were melting away be-
fore the fire and pestilenee of rebellion,
you called upon your friends, your black
friends, when your star-spangled banner
now glorious, was trailing in the dust
heavy with patriot blood, you called upon
the negro-ves, Abraham Lincoln called
upon the negro [great applausel to reach
forth his iron arm and clutch with his
steel fingers your faltering banner, and
they came, they came 100000 strong.
TLoud cheers Let us remember those
black in the platform that ycu are about
to promulgate and let us remember these
black men are stripped of the eonstitu-
tional right to vote. [Cheers.l In the
grand standard bearer which you will
present to the country leave these men
no longer to wade TO the ballot box
through blood, extend over them the
arm of this republicand make their path