The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-04

| trafnc nom being paralyxsd. the nation from
| convulsion and the most serious damage TO an
| unknown number of Individuals
wherever In all his life he has touched any
| thing IL has been improved beautined, or
| adorned. He has always had the happy faculty
Of quietly doing the right thing ut the right
time. and ne possesses In his own great char
| acter all the good qualities OF tho Republican
party. Under his leadership the campaign cry
| will be. Live aud let live. There will be no
attacks upon capital and no attacks upon lnbor,
| but the country will march on. with gigantic
strides In settlement, development. and growth:
| The true leveling system will be adopted OF
making all men equal before the law, and plac-
| ing all mems feet on n level Then the tall man
may thank God for his height, and the short man
must be contented with his shortness.
I'm personal characteristics. in the manner
| of his candidacy. aud In his relations To the
Presidential Office Judge Gresham is more like
Abraham Lincoln than any her living man.
| The movement in his behalf. like tho movoment
for Lincoln, 10 the spontaneous and unorganized
action of the people, Like Lincoln. Gresham Is
not We rking for the Presidential o:fice. He boz
| lieves this exalted Office should never be sought
and never declined. Like him. too. he believes
| that causes which tend 10 great consequences
should be left 10 work out their results unaide1.
and that they cannot DO materially hastened or
impeded by personal Interference. Like Lin
coin in character honest and simple. but robus 81,
fearless in danger, full OF Justice and OF noble
heart, he stands out in prominence as an ideal
candidate.
| MAY also be pardoned Cor saying in this
| august presence that back In 1919, at thu age OF
"a. FIRST met Abraham Lincoln, ho being Al.
| Il
Tarsus sat at the feet of CANAL l. and rer-
mitted walked together the Journos 81
] life to lean on his own great arm for support.
| / watched his thoughtful face when the news
| hrst reached him that he had received large
vote for Vice President at Philadelphia when
Fremont and Dayton were nominated, and when
the. thought of great political preferment hrs'
| took root in his mind.
Il know from this intimate relation how con-
hdence and sympathy may exist between n
| great leader and tho people without either
knowing the other. can never forget how in
momeI&s of great doubt he agoniZed, watched,
and listened for tokens OF guidance from the
/ common people, as the mariner watches for
| the sun, To learn whore he is and whittier he is
drifting through the darkness and mists OF the
storm.
"The same sympathy and confidence exist be-
| tween Gresham and the people that existed be-
| tween Lincoln and the people. His heart. also,
| has beaten in sympathy with the sons of toll,
| for he has labored with them in sunshine and
| In the cold He, too has been promoted from
| their ranks, and knows the taste OF poverty,
| and like them has earned his bread in the
sweat of his face He-has never forgotten their
| lives OF privation and self-denial in their hard
| struggles for existence. Whether bondmen or
| freemen he had that sublime faith in their hon.
esty and patriotism that, Like Lincoln, be was
| willing TO have his body pierced with bullets in
| their behalf.
-The rich, too, have found ample protection
and the adjustment OF every right,in the equi-
poise OF his character.
HE has always stood with his party for the
protection Of American labor against foreign
/
aHe has advocated liberal pensions for the
manned, worn, and dependent defenders OF the
| Union He knows by experience how the rebel
! bullet tears and hurts for no himself has been
| wounded and carried on n stretcher from the
| field of battle and has borne the pains and secs
the needs OF the decrepit and health-broken sol
| der.
I'VE should also not forget that this nation
has arrived at that stage OF civilization and de-
velopment that it has a right to demand COM
In Esxr,
pens TO acquire the prefix Of honorable TO his
name he has the right TO demand that that
shall not be the occasion OF explanation and
apology ever afterward. The people have a
| right to demand higher standard OF integrity
than that its President shall In his letter of ac-
| ceptance pledge himself TO one term, and then
by every official act afterward work for second
nomination and appeal TO them again for a re-
election. They have right TO demand that no
shall not promise civil-service reform with his
| lips and break every such promise in practice.
The strength of Judge Greshams candidacy lies
in the public belief that no will not do such
things, but that he will, IL elected. manage pub
lie affairs with the same common honesty he has
heretofore managed everything.
Therefore under the circumstances and ne
Sesities o. our party t ana WITHOUT
didates, offer to this convention the rarest OF
opportunities. But nominate Gresham and the
people will bear him on their shoulders TO the
White House and TO the official seat OF Wash
ington, Lincoln, Garfield and Grant. The reins
of government under the inspiration OF his
| leadership, viii be taken from those who inn
periled it's existence and placed in the hands OF
/ those who saved il in its hours of weakness and
danger.
I'm behalf OF the laboring man, OF whose strug-
| giles he is the living embodiment in behalf of
| capital whose rights ne has guarded and ad-
! justed; in behalf of the soldier, whose garb no
/ has worn with honor; in behalf OF patriotism
and loyalty, of which he is the shining repre-
sentative and example and for the State of Lin
coin, Grant, and Logan, nominate as candi-
1 date for President OF the United States the son
Of Illinois by adoption, Walter .. Gresham"