Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-06

every Grant Republican and every anti
Grant Republican In America, Of every
Blaine man and every anti Blaine man.
I The vote of every follower of every candi
date is needed to make our success
certain, therefore say, gentlemen and
brethren, we are here to take calm coun,
sci together and inquire what we shall do
| We want man whose life and opinions
embody all the achievements of which
| have spoken We want a man who,
standing on a mountain height, sees all
the achievements Of our past history, and
carries in his heart the memory of all it's
| glorious deeds, and who. looking forward,
4 prepares to meet thelabor and the dangers
| TO come. We wait one who will act In
no spirit of unkindness toward those we
lately met in battle The Republican
party offers to our brethren of the south
the olive branch of peace and wishes
them to return to brotherhood on this su
preme condition, that 1t shall be admitted
forever and forevermore that in the war
for the Union we were right and they
were wrong On that supreme condition
we meet them as brethren, and on no
other. We ask them to share with us
the blessings and honors Of this great re.
public.
Now, gentlemen, not to worry you, am
about to present a name for your consid-
eration-the name of man who was the
comrade and associate and friend of nearly
all those noble dead whose faces look
down upon us from these walls tonight;
a man who began his career of public ser.
vice twentys6ve years ago, whose first
duty was courageously done in the days
of peril on the plains OF Kansas, when the
first t'red drops Of that bloody shower be-
gan to fall which finally swelled into the
deluge of war. He bravely stood by
young Kansas then, and. returning to his
duty In the national legislature. through
all subsequent time, his pathway has been
marked by labors performed in every de-
partment of legislation. You ask for his
monuments. point you to twenty five
years of national statutes. Not one grea.
benefcent statute has been placed in our
statute books without his intelligent and
powerful aid. He aided these men to
formulate the laws that raised our great
armies and carried us through the war
His hand was seen In the workmanship
of those statutes that created the
war currency, and in q still greater
work that redeemed the promises of
the government, and made the currency
eGsal to gold And when at last, called
from the halls of legislation into high
executive ollice. he displayed that expert
ence. intelligence, frmness and poise of
character which has carried us through a
stormy period of three years. With one
half the public press crying Cruelty him, ;
and hostile congress seeking to prevent
success. in ali this he remained unmoved
until victory crowned him The great
fiscal affairs Of the nation, and the great
business interests of the country, he has
guarded and preserved, while executing
the law of resumption and effecting its
object without a jar, and against the false
prophecies of one half of the press and
all the Democracy OF this continent. He
has shown himself able to meet with
calmness the great emergencies of the
government for twenty five years. He
has trodden the perilcus heights of pub.
lie duty. and against all the shafts of
malice has borne his breast unharmed.
He has stood in the blaze of ''that fierce
light that heats against the throne" but
its fercest ray has found no flaw in his
ar1nor. no stain on his shield. do not
present him as better Republican or as a
better man than thousands of others We
honor, bu. present him for your deliber
ate consideration nominate John Sher
man, of Ohio