Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-22
WALTSR Q. GRESHAM.
SWEET OF Illinois Places Gresham Before
tn. Cnnyenii..n

| tH6 convention.
The name of Walter @ Gresham was placed
| before the Convention by Leonard SWEET of Chi
| cago IN tn following speech
| Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Clare3tiOn.
| inns presence recalls a scene enacted in this
| city twenty-cight years ago-that was the sec
| ond National Republican Convention Which h
| nominated Lincoln At his inauguration the
| Republican party first assumed the reigns of
! Government ntrol. With unimpor, ant inter-
| ruptionS the Democratic party had controlled
our national policy for thifty-two years The
country in 1851 sto on the verge of political
ana 1ndnclal rum, and the most deadly conflict
| OF arms ever known Succ- eded. We have had
| OF Republican rule since then four years of war
| and twenty ears OF peace The four years of
| war produced heroes, sacrifices and suffering
| without parallel, ald reunited the country
| The twenty years OF peace increased population
internal Improvements, IN tnufac lories useful
| Inventions, comfort in homes and the general
| development of all classes with a rapidity me
qualed since the history of the world in the
| time named. In the language of Daniel Web
ster, we say OF tins Republican rule, the suffer
ing and the fruit of war and the uuparalI Ieled
prosperity of this peace, the past is at last Sc
cure"
| A REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATE.
We have assembled again to select President
for sixty millions OF Tree people Who most in
character is the very essence of those pc ,ple !?
Who of all names suggested will re Give support
the most largely from all classes? Who can best
briug together and reunitc the broken fragments
OF our own party? Who by personal courage
and sublime confidence in his own cOnyictions
is the ideal | ader of the American neonle ,
Who most st ikingly stands for the cosmopo itan
Republican character? These are questions of
| the hour, addre sed to us all. | suggest the
| name of Waiter @ Gresham of Indiana and in
vlte thoughtful consideration of some of the
| reasons why he should be nominated
THE LIFE Of GRESHAM
He was born of sturdy and rugged parents in
Harrison county, md, fifty seven Fears ago and
| spent one-third OF his life in labor on the farm
ne acquired by nature and education a pro-
found belief in the fundamental doctrines OF
| Government and the union of States lone ard
lnseparable. as taught Dy tie lives and the ex-
ample OF Washington and Hamilton, Clay and
webster, Lincoln and Thad, Stevens, and dis.
oellef IN and aversion for the political htresies
| OF John C. Calhoun. Breckinridge Jefferson
DAVIS and Lamar, of property in man and the
right of secession. He has always been an un-
| sWerving and lnfexible Republican.
HIS POLITICAL COURSE
One-third of a century ago he organized a
| party of Fremont and Dayton in his native
county, which consisted ali told OF four people.
IN 1851, then at the age of 20, he was elected to
e one state legislature, at the same time Mr. Lin
coin was elected President, from strong Demo-
cratic county and by the aid of German votes
| lhere ne organized and passed tie law which
aGutnorlzed Oliver 2 Morton, our greatest war
| GoVernor, to orsanize and arm at the expense of
| the State any regiment anywhere in the State
| We owe the peace and loyalty of Indiana at
I'M this rltical period, to the admirable working of
TINS law and 10 the fact that she was not behind
the call OF the President one moment in fur
| nshlng her quota of men.
| As A SOLDIER.
After performing this service of great yalue To
ms state he selected 600 yourg neighbors and
| friends and marched at their head into Ken
| lucky with General Sherman at the very be-
ginning of the re served with Grant al
| Shiloh and Nicksburg and was a distinguished
| hguie with Sherman in his march upon Atlanta
IN 1864. He was frequently promoter for gallant
conduct on the battlefield, and was called upon
when sharp work was to be done and fina tlv
I q al TalSr aa.s hN-s srTa In1I ~
diVlsion into the shot and shell of the enemy nj
the bloody tight of Leggetts Hill in the suburbs
| of Atlanta.
HIS ACTS WHILE IN THE CABINET
But 1t is not in his military career. dashine
and brilliant as i is. that e find the Growing
| reasons Tor his nomination. For him seryi &
| hath her victory no less renowned than war
| ter his relations with the army were volun
tarlly severed he was called by Pres dent A
thur into his Cabinet to the offire of Postmas
| General. Here be grealy pr NOTED the rapid
| expedition of the mails shortening material III
the time of their transit across the continent
\ He also aided in reducing letter newspaper and
parcel postage, thus saving millions TO the pub
lie and encouraging the dissemination of litera
| ture aid intelligence
AS JUDGE.
1t Is, however, in discharge of his duties as
United states Judge that the higher and crown
IN giorles OF his character appear. The image