The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-21

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to be subdued, and in the name
of the Kansas delegation declined to be
responsible for the action of the ma
tional convention in this matter and
regarded it as great mistake misses. }
He desired the roll of states to be
called in order that the Kansas delega-
ton might cast its vote for the Hon.
William Warner of Missouri. No
attention was paid to his demand
ately began his address.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
1 am deeply sensible of the distin-
guished honor you have conferred upon
me, as the presiding officer of your tenn
porary organization. / am also mind
| full of the grave responsibilities of the
position, and If they are successfully
met it will be due to the continuance
Of your generous favor and the bestow-
al of your loyal assistance. / have no
words in which to fittingly express my
heartfelt appreciation of your conf
dence- 1 thank you, gentlemen, not
for myself alone, but for that grand,
/ growing west, which never disappoint-
ed the expectations of the republican
party. / come from a state whose vast
domain has Deen largely appropriated
by the surviving veterans of the army
of the republic, under the benifcept
1 DLONl6tOub VI JuO IlOulCSIcdQ anu pre-
| emption laws enacted by republican
congress, and, true to the heroic recol-
lections OF the past, the homesteadels
of the west still march on under the
banner of republicanism. In victory
and defeat, in sunshine and in storm,
in prosperity and in adversely, this
mighty west retains the courage of its
convictions, and holds that devotion to
principle, though it brings defeat. is
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vows and national dishonor.
We are met in national convention
and conference. The republican party
/ of the United States relies upon the
wisdom of its assembled delegates for
such action as will insure success. If
we are prepared to honestly and fairly
meet the issues of the hour with a
clear. fearless and ringing declaration
of principles, and to nominate ticket
which will commend itself to the loyal
/ ty and intelligence of the country, we
can grandly win. To enter upon the
proceedings of this convention pre-
pared to sacrifice individual judgment
to the wisdom of the majority and to lay
down personal preferences on the altar
of party success, when our candi-
| dates are chosen, we will all join with
heart and soul in the grand chorus of
rejoicing and the rainbow of our har-
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glory of victorious morning in No
vember.
i When the democratic party, at the
close of the last presidential election,
robbed us of victory honestly and
fairly won, we patiently waited for the
/ certain coming of the justice of the
years. We hoped and believed that
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
would right the great national wrong
of eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Right it, not only for the republican
glorious candidates whose names were
the inspiration OF that wonderful
campaign. The infinite wisdom of an
all-Wise providence has otherwise de-
creed. One of them, the citizen, sol
der, the warrior, statesmen, the Black
Eagle of Illinois, has been summoned
by the silent messenger to re-
port to his old commander be-
You'd the river. But although
body, yet he lives again in the illumi-
mated pages of his country's most
splendid history; lives in the grateful
love of free people, whose union he
SO calamity fought to preserves; lVe.
in the blessings of a dOwn-trodden
race, whose freedom he so manfully
struggled to achieve; lives in the future
Snff and St9 e ssa SsS%n1 IF Ing
mati6dI 3 glory, side by Side with ola
John Brown, AbraiIa... Glncoln and
Ulysses S. Grant, the souls marching
on. The other, that gallant leader.
the chevalier of American politics, the
glory Of republicanism and the night
mare of democracy, our Henry OF
Navarro, is seeking in foreign travel
the long needed relaxation and rest
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lite and service. With the sublime
magnanity of his Incompatible great
ness he has denied us the infinite
pleasure of supporting him in this
convention. Desiring above al
things party hOrmOny and sue
cess he has stepped from
; the certain ladder of his own laudablC
ambition that some other may climb u
power. AS his true friends we cannot
dare not commit the political crime o.
diSobedience to his expressed will. We
cannot place him at the head of thu
, ticket, but we will make him Command
! er-in-chief at the head of the forces il
. the field, where he will be inYlnclble
!, and though James G. Blaine may no
> be our president, yet he remains oul
uncrowned king, welding the baton o
, acknowledged leadership; supreme il
. the allegiance of his devoted followers
honored and respected by all honest ant
loyal men, the greatest living Amer
! can, and the worthy object of on
undying love. The republican part,
is not left without great men to put up
) on its ticket. We have that honest
able and experienced financier, states
!, man and senator from Ohio, and hi
: no less distinguished colleague from
I Iowa. Indiana, Michigan and Wis
q consin present to us gallant soldiers
. 1 In
/. Connecticut and other states one
worthy and favorite sons. From thii
= splendid galaxy of political stars WI
q cannot choose amiSS- The republican
party points with pride to the grea
4 achievements of its past, and offers a
!. an earnest of its future faithfulness Al
. unbroken record of services performei
!. for freedom. union and national pros
: perity: It is prominently the part
!, of protection. 1t was born of the IRE
!. preSsible desire to protect the slav
: from the lash of the master, and t
save our civilization from the blightin
curse of its crime against humanity
It performed the sacred miSSiO
q of protecting the republic from Sc
Q cessiOn and disunion; and in the latte
time it succeeded in protecting tn
9 credit and currency of the nation frOI
/ Reputation and imitation. Its plat
/
!. lection of popular government on tn
8 American continent; stands for tn
J protection of all governmental and il
2 ternatlonal rights from restriction c
y invasion; stands for the protection {
y the life liberty and property of I'll
q individual; stands for the protection {
81 all the immunities and privileges {
y American citizenship; stands for I'll
II protection of the ballot from Il
4 crimes of intimidation, robbel
T. and substitution; stands for IL
n protection of American con
s. merce, American manufacture al
American agriculture from destructi'
n foreign competition; stands for the pr
IS lection of home invention, home SIX
as and home labor against the free ira,
n heresies which would pauperiZe N
OF degrade them all; stands for the pr
II lection of the PEOPLE from the Unju
as and oppressive exactiOns and combiu
'c- tions of aggregated capital and CT
G Dorat0 power: stands also for the ID