The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-21
MT. Thurman Speaks.

MT. Thurman Speaks.
 The s. J. Randall Club of Phila- delphia, en route home from the St. Louis convention, called on Judge Thurman, at his residence in Colum bus, to congratulate him on his nom- ination for vice president. MT. Thurman spoke as follows:
 My friends, I should be the most insensible and cold blooded man in the world if did not feel grateful for the kindness you have manifest ed toward me tonight; yes, and l may say that you have manifested toward me before tonight and yet l do not know about that quite. l say kindness-was it kindness? l was living in my own quiet home, with my good old wife and my chil- dren and grandchildren and friends around me, wishing for nothing in this world but peace and quiet when you and others like you forced me once more into the political arena. Whether that was kind or not time will tell; whether it was well-advised or not. time will disclose, but one thing l need not walt for time to dis close, and that is that 1 owe you the deepest and profoundest gratitude from the very bottom of my heart
 Great applause.
 So long as God gives me strength to speak to my fellow men, so long shall 1 talk to them the good honest Democracy in which l was schooled and in whicn 1 believe. Now my friends, l should be playing the part of Hamlet with Hamlet left off l did not say another thing that l am go ing to say which l have observed from the teaching of the New Testa ment that the master of the feast brings on the best wine last. 1 tell you my friends that the St. Louis convention did the thing itself that should immortalIze it. It did one which of itself should command es- teem and respect and gratitude of of the American people. It did one thing which set magnificent exam pie for all time to come to the Amer jean people, and, indeed, to all other people who have anything to do in the choice of the rulers and that thing was to renominate Grover Cleveland by the unanimous voice of the convention. Cheering.
 "Now, my friends, when speak of Grover Cleveland l do not speak of a stranger to me. l never saw hlm until after he was lnaugurated presi
 dent of the United States, but l have seen him many times since, talked to him much, consulted with him much, and although I have not seen him for months past l know that man think, and l know him well, and If there is brave, honest, up right, courageous, patriotic man on the face of Gods earth, Grover Cleye- land is snch 2 man. Great ap plause Why, my friends, if he is not such man, fhis administration has not been a grand success, if the people have not found that he was worthy to sit in the chair that lief ferson and Madison and Monroe and Jackson occupied--if such is not the fact, how can it be accounted for that he received every vote in the convention at St. Louis and there was not a dissenter from one end of the Uuion to the other Great ap plause. tell you second rate men do not get such indorsements as that; traitors to their country and their party do not get such an indoTse ment SIS that; men of small bralns do not get such an indorsement as that; men of doubtful integrity do not get such an iudorsement as that. No, it is because Grover Cleveland is an upright, honorable, brave and an able man, that the whole Demo cratic party in the United States from one end to the other, be it State or be it Territory, be 1t on the Atlantic wave or be it where the Pa cIiic rolls her mighty volume of wa ters against our western coast, be it on the great lakes or be it on the gulf, every man of the Democratic party, every one who has the least claim to honesty himself is heard to exclaim, "Giye us Cleveland for four years more" Applause. Now, my friends, l have spoken to you longer than there was any ne- cessity for me to speak, and longer than l ought to have spoken, considering that our Pennsylvania friends have so long a march to make and little In time in which to catch the train. l give you my heartiest thanks for the kind 1zazm4muzz~zas
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