Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-20
HURRAH FOR HARMON II!
MAN, BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AT
PIEDMONT, sEooNDING THE NOMINATION OF
COL. GEORGE H. HARMON, OF GRANT
COUNTY, FOR CONGRESS.


When asked from whence comes candidates we
answer, From the fertile valleys with their forests of
waving corn from the grassy slopes and green hills
with their lowing herds and bleatng Aocks from the
quiet industrial and peaceful pastoral OF that
splendid little county, bearing the honored aud the
immortal name of Grant,!
Sir, We call yonr attention to the fact that in
looking back through the isles of the mighty past
find the Republican party was first organized by the
honest yeomanry OF the nation. The farmers of
Kansas and Nebraska spilled the first blood in defense
of our immortal principles and placing on the
Free Men, Free Labor Free Education and elevated
citizenship they called great Lincoln the humble rail
splitter, from the praires of Illinois and placing that
Banner in his hand bid him carry it to the imperial
heights of splendid victory and mperishabe renown.
And, Sir, from that day to this, in the hour of
your every conflict and in the dawn your every vic.
tory in your adversely and in your prosperity. the
great of wealth producers in your great free states
have ever been found fighting CALAMITY beneath the
banners of the Republican party and maintaining and
sustaining that splendid industrial policy which has
sent the fame of Great America Ringing Round The
World.
When in 1888 you were confronted by united
and successful Democracy, eutrenched behind the
TONS governmental machinery, and backed by the
aggregated capital of the Free Trade and degraded
labor nations of Europe, when the threat had been
hurled from the nations capitol that American Indus
tries to be fought 20 their DEATH then it was that
you appealed and not in uain to that great
tive element that mighty silent force, the nations hope
and the nations glory, and forth from the million
cottage homes of honest toll, forth from the million
sacred hearthsones of the study yeomanry the wealth
producers ofthe nation came marching in solid column
shoulder to shoulder, side by side, arm in ARM step by
step, and deposited in the such shower of sweat
stained ballots that swept into unocuous desuetude
and into illogical, inequitable and vicious silence
the Free Trade attorneys, the holy Mugwump of the
East, the cockade brgadiers of the South, and the
bowling anarchists Of Chicago.
Realizing their power, realizing their Importance,
these wealth producers have clasped hands round
Freedoms Splendid Circle and stand to day defenders
of their own interests and their counrys welfare low
ing the Republican party as they do, knowing that
they aud their fathers organized it frst believing in
its cardinal doctrines, and seeing inscribed its
Banners of today that other motto, Free Ballot and
a Fair Count, American Industry, American citizen
ship, and American labor, FIRST LAST, and forerer-
they come to you, gentlemen. the floor of this con
venton to day. and say to you, give as that Banner
and ace aoiU gire you uicory And in secondng the
county, present you with man round whose stand
ard the wealthproducers of the Second District will
rally for victory. man whose brown hands and sun.
burnt face emblematic of the toilmg masses who
produce your boosted wealth.
Nominate him here today and the morning
after the Fourth of November when Grants noble
their eternal mountains with victory inscribed across
its silken folds,-the gentleman from Monongalia,
the gentleman from Marion and Taylor, from Tucker
and Barbour and Randolph will join in bold acclaim
with the victorious legons of the Preston hills and as
it sweeps through the Aleghanes it will be caught up
by the Spartan bands of Hardy, Hampshire and JEFF
serson and answered back by the conquerng battal.
ions of Berkeley and Morgan and from the depths of
your manly hearts you will thank little Grant for the
splendid gift she bears you today, HER FARMER SON
FOR CONGRESS.