Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-20

One OF them, the citizen soldier, the war
rior statesman, the black eagle OF Illinois,
has been summoned by the silent mes
senger to report to his old command be-
yond the river, but although John A.
Logan is dead in body, yet he lives again
in the illuminated pages Of his country,
a splendid history, and lives in the CRATE
full love of a free people whose union he
so gallantly fought to preserve; he lives
in the blessings OF the downtrodden race
whose freedom he so manfully struggled
to achieves; be lives in the future song
and story Of hero-worshipping world,
and along the highway of the nations
| glory, side by side with old John Brown,
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant, his
soul goes marching on.
| The other, that gallant leader, the
chevalier Of American politics, the glory
of RepublicaDism and the nightmare Of
Democracy, our Henry of Navarro, is
| seeking in foreign travel long needed re-
Taxation and rest from the wearisome
burdens of public life and service. With
the sublime magnanimity OF his incom-
able greatness, he has denied us the in
finite pleasure of supp ,rting him in this
Convention. Desiring in all things party
harmony and success, he has stepped
from the certain ladder of his own laud-
able ambition, that some other man NAV
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-chief at the head OF the
forces in the field, where he will be in
vincible, and although 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,
honored 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 financier, statesman and
Senator from Ohio, and Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin present to us
gallant soldiers, while New Jersey, Kan
sas, Connecticut and other States offer
worthy and favorite SONS. From this
splendid galaxy of political store we
cannot choose amiss.
| The Republican party points with
pride to the great achievements of its
past, and offers as an earnest of its future
| faithfulness, an unbroken record Of SER
vices performed for freedom, union and
national prosperity. 1t is p:eem inently
the party of protection. 1t was born Of
an irrepressible desire to protect the
slave from the lash Of the master and to
save our civilization from the blighting
curse of this crime against human
ity. It performed the sacred mis-
sion of protecting the Republic from
secession and disunion, and in later
times it succeeded in protecting the
credit and currency OF the nation from
liquidation and initiation. Its platform,
epitomized, stands for the protection of
popular government on the American
continent; for the protection OF all gov
ernmental and international rights from
restriction or invasion for the protection
of life, liberty and property Of individ-
uals for the protection Of all the immuni-
ties and privileges Of American citizen
ship; for the protection Of the ballot-box
from the crimes Of intimidation, robbery
and substitution; for the protection Of
American commerce, American manu-
facture and American agriculture from
destructive foreign competition; for the
protection Of home invention, home skill
and home labor against free trade heretics
all; for the protection OF the people from
all the unjust and oppressive exactions
o. the combinations Of aggregated capital
and corporate power; it stands also for
the protection Of both capital and cor
poration from confiscation and mob vio-
Hence; and, above all, for the protection
of the sanctity and happiness Of the
American home.
1t welcomes to our shores the down.
trodden and oppressed Of every land, but
it insists that the inestimable blessing of
American citizenship, purchased with
the priceless blood of our heroes and mar
tyrs, shall be extended to those only who
are in full sympathy and accord with the
fundamental principles Of our Govern
ment and who will Loyalty support the
sacred provisions OF the Constitution of
the United States I; and it holds that Con-
gress has the power to save American
Icivilization and morality from the leprosy
Of Asatic paganism, with all its degreda-
ticn and contagion. 1t maintains that the
Nation should extend the benefits of free
government to all true lovers Of liberty,
but it demands that the law of the land
shall be shield to those only who obey
it and that for the anarchist, the COM
munst and the criminal American just
ice has nothing to offer but the sword.
The reconstructed Democracy has now
been in power nearly four years. Its ad-
ministration has been most satisfactory
to those who hold office under it. Its
loyalty has received tho approval of
every enemy Of the Government. The
courage Of its foreign policy has amused
the great powers and pleased every cow
ard. Its civil service has been SO thor
oughly reformed as to delight the bood-
lers. Its justice to disabled soldiers has
won golden opinions from those who gave
them their wounds. Its financial move-
ment has been safe because OF its in
ability to destroy the resulting prosperity
OF Republican legislation, and its unpar-
alleled straddle of the tariff question has
been source OF wonderment to "God
and men," 1t is strong in its imbecility
Of ''innocuous desuetude," and deserves
to live as reminescence of promises for
gotten and pledges unredeemed.
There are those in this land who seem
to believe that the mission of the Re-
publican party is at an end that the
emancipation proclamation, Appomatox
and its constitutional amendments are at
once the monuments q its glory and the
gravestones OF its demise. But the work
OF the Republican party will never be
done until every American citizen enters
into his unquestioned inheritance of lib
erty, equal rights and justice; until
representation in Congress is based upon
votes freely cast and fairly counted: un--
til adequate provision has been made for