St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-10
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO.
lngersoll's Famous Speech
Placing Blaine in Nomi-
nation at Cincinnati.
In This Speech the Maine Man
Was First Dubbed the
Plumed Knight.
Styled Also Prince of Parlla-
mentarians and Intellect
ual Athlete.
The Resources of Hyperbole
Exhausted in Praise OF the
LetteP-Writer.


n view of recent events, reprOduc-
tiOn of the speech in which James u.
Blaine was first placed in nomination
for the presidency before national lie
publican convention will interest many
readers. The speech was made by Rob
FRI G. Ingersoll at the Cincinnati con-
ventlon of 1876. 1t is given below eX-
actly as it was printed in the news
papers the morning after It's dellNery.
Col Ingersoll said:
p" Massachusetts, may be satisfied with
the LOYALTY of Benjamin IL. BrlStoW' 50
am |. Applause. But If any man
nominated 10y this convention cannot
carry the state of Massachusetts, am
not satisfied with the loyalty OF that
state. Cheers, applause and laughter.I
If the nominee of this convention can
not carry the grand old commonwealth
of Massachusetts by $4,000 majority l
would advise them TO sell out faneull
hall as a Democratic headquarters
Cheers and laughter. L would advise
Them to take from Bunker Hill that ola
monument of glory. The Republicans
of the United States demand as their
of intellect, a man of integrity Lcheersl,
a man of well known and approved po-
iilical opinion. Cheers.
What Republicans Demand.
They demand a statesman. They
demand & refOrmer after as well as pc
fore the election Cheers. They de-
mand a politician in the highest, and
broadcast, and best sense of that word.
ICheers.l They demand a man &C
9uainted with public affairs, and the
wants of the people. with not only the
requirements OF the hour, but with the
demands of the future. They demands
man broad enough to comprehend the
relations of this government to the
other nations of the earth. Applause
They demand man well versed in the
powers. duties and prerOgatlVeS or each
and every department of this govern
ment. LApplause.l They demand man
who will sacredly preserve the financial
honor of the United States. Cheers
One who knows enough to know that
through the prosperity OF the
people: one who knows enough
to know that all the financial
heories in the world cannot redeem
single dollar [applause]; one who knows
enough to know that all the money
must be made, not by law, but by labor
Icheersl: one who knows enough to
know that the people of the United
States have the industry to make the
money and the honor to pay it over just
as fast as they make it. Applause The
Republicans of the United States de-
mand man who knows that Prosperity
and Resumption, when they can come,
must come together. Cheers. When
no in
hand in hand through the golden har-
vest fields; hand in hand by the whirl-
ing spindle and the turning wheels;
hand in hand past the open furnace
doors: hand in hand by the flaming
forces; hand in hand by the chin Ieys
Tiled with eager fires.
Grand and Gallant Leader.
This money has got to be dug out of
the earth. You cannot make it by pass
ing resolutions in a political meeting.
Applause. The Republicans of the
United States want man who knows
that his government should protect
every citizen at home and abroad
IcheerSl who knows that any govern
ment that will not defend its defenders
and will not protect its protectors is a
disgrace to the map of the world. APP
plause. They demand man who be-
lieveS in the eternal separation and
enforcement of church and schools.
They demand a man whose political
reputation is SpOtless as star, but they
do not demand that their candidate
shall have a certificate of moral charac-
ter signed by Confederate congress.
Great cheering The man who has in
full habit and Unbounded measure all
of these qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leader of the Repub-
lican party. James q. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century, asks for man worthy of the
past and prophetic of her future; asks
for man who has the audacity Of gen.
JUS Tapplausel: asks for man who is
the grandest combination of heart, con-
science and brain beneath the flag. APP
plauSe.l That man is James g. Blaine.
Applause. For the Republican hosts
ed by this intrepid man there can be no
such thing as defeat. Applause. This
is a grand year-a year filled with the
recollection of the revolution [applausel;
filled with proud and tender memories
of the sacred past; filled with the le-
gends of liberty year in which the
sons of freedom will drink from the
fountain of enthusiasm [applausel;
year in which the people call for man
who has preserved IL congress what our
soldiers won upon the field cheers; a
year in which we call for the man who
has torn from the throat of treason the
tongue of SANDER [applausel; a man
that has snatched the mask of DemOc
racy from the hideous face of rebellion;
man who,
Like an Intellectual Athlete.
stood in the arena of debate, challenged
all Corners, and who up to the present mo-
ment is a total stranger to defeat. APP
plause. Like an armed warrior, like a
plumed knight, james G.Blaine marched
down the halls of the American congress
and threw his shining lance full and
fair against the braZen forehead of
every 0efamer of this country and ma
ligner of its honor. For the Republican
party to desert that gallant man now is
AS though an army should desert their
general upon the field of battle.
[Cheers.l James q. Blaine is now and
has been for years the bearer of the
sacred standard of the republic. [Cheers.
| call it sacred because no human being
can stand beneath its folds without
becoming and without remaining free.
[Cheers.]
Gentlemen of the convention, in the
name of the great republic, the only re-
public that ever existed upon this earth;
in the name OF all her defenders and of
all her supporters; in the name of al
her soldiers living; in the name of al!
her soldiers that died upon the field of
battle, and in the name of those that
persisted in the skeleton cluteSes of
famine at Andel sonville and Lisa
lcheerSl. whose SufferingS he so elo-
Quently remembers, Illinois dominates
for the next president of this country
that prince of parliamentarians, that
leader of leaders, James q. Blaine"
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