The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-01
INGERsoLL NAMES BLAINE.
The Famous Speech at the Cincinnati
Convention Of 1875.

Convention of 1870.
Massachusetts may be satisfied with the 10y
atty OF Benjamin. H. Bristow; so am l; but If
any man nominated by this convention cau not
carry the state Of Massachusetts, am not salts
fed with the loyalty OF that state. II the NOM
inee of this convention can not carry the grand
old commonwealth of Massachusetts, by 10000
majority, would advise them to sell out Fam
euil hall as Democratic headquarters would
advise them to take from Bunker Hill that old
monument OF glory.
The Republicans of the United States demand
as their leader in the great contest in 1876 man
OF intelligence man of integrity. man of
well known and approved political opinions.
They demand a reforIner after, rs well as before,
election They demand a politician in the
highest, broadcast and best sense-a man OF SUI
perb moral courage. They demand man ac-
Qusinted with public affairs with the wants OF
the people; with not only the requirements OF
the hour, but with the demands OF the future.
They demand man broad enough to compre-
bend the relations OF this government to the
other nations OF the EARTH They demand a man
well versed In the powers, duties and preroga-
tives OF each and every department OF this gov
eminent.
They demand man who win sacredly pre-.
serve the financial honor OF the United States;
one who knows enough to know that the nation
al debt must be paid through the prosperity of
this people; one who knows enough to know
that all the financial theories in the world cam
not redeem a single dollar; one who knows
enough to know that all the money must be
paid, not by law. but by labor; 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 1t over just as fast they make
it.
The Republicans OF the United States demand
man who knows that prosperity and resump-
ton, when they come, must come together;
when thew m
hand through the golden harvest fields; hand
In hand by the whirling spindles aud the turn
Ing wheels; hand in hand past the open furnace
doors; hand in hand by the flaming FORCES;
hand in hand by the chimneys filled with eager
fire-greeted and grssped by the countless sons
of toll.
This money has to be dug out of the earth.
You cannot make 1t by passing resolutions in
political convention.
The Republicans of the United States want
man who knows that this government should
protect every citizen at home and abroad who
knows that any government that will not de-
fend its defenders and protect its protectors is
disgrace to the map OF the world. They de-
mand a man who believes in the eternal sepa-
ration and enforcement OF church and school.
They demand . man whose political reputation
is spotless as star; but they do not demand
that their candidate shall have . certificate OF
moral character signed by q Confederate con-
rounded measure all these splendid Qualifca-
lions is the present grand and gallant leader OF
the Republican party-James G. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vast and mar
velous achievements OF its first century, asks for
man worthy OF the past and prospective of her
future; asks for man who has the audacity OF
genius; asks for a man who 10 the grandest
combination of heart, conscious aud brain be-
meath her flag. Such man is James G. Blaine.
For the Republican host, led by this intrepid
man, there can be no defeat
This Is q grand year-a year filed with the
recollections of the Revolutions; filed with
proud and tender memories of the past; with
the sacred legends of liberty; q year in
which the sons OF freedom will drink from
the fountains of enthusiasm; a year in which
the people call for a man who has preserved
In congress what our soldiers won upon the
field; year in which they call for
the man who has torn from the throat OF trea-
son the tongue OF SANDER; for the man who has
snatched the mask of Democracy from the hid
eous face Of rebellion; for the man who, like an
intellectual athlete, has stood In the arena Of
debate and challenged all corners, and who is
still total stranger to defeat
Like an armed warrior, like plumed knight,
James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the
American congress and threw his shining lance
full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the
defamers OF his country and the maligners OF
his honor.
For the Republican party to desert this gallant
leader now is as though an army should desert
their general upon the field of battle.
James G. Blaine is now and has been for
years the bearer of the sacred stand ard of the
Republican party. l call it sacred because no
human being can stand beneath its folds with
out becoming and remaining free.
Gentlemen of the convention, in the name OF
the great republic, the only republic that ever
existed upon this earth: in the name OF all her
defenders and of all her supporters; in the name
of all her soldiers living; in the name Of all her
soldiers dead upon the field of battle,
and in the name OF those who persisted in the
skeleton clutch of famine at Andersonville and
Libby,w hose sufferings he SO wildly remembers,
Illinois-lllinois nominates for the next presi.
dent Of this country that prince OF parliamenta.
rians-that leader Of leaders-James G. Blaine