Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06
A MATCHLESS BLAINE.
bow Ingersoll Nominated the Maine
Man Sixteen Years Ago.
WHAT THE NATION ! DEMANDED.
The Prince of Parliamentaris1s. the Leader
of Leaders and the
INTEIT EnTU AL ATHJ FTE OF ORR EOIITICS
WHAT THE NATION , DEMANDED.
INTELLECTUAL ATHLETE OF OURROLITICS

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soils great speech nominating james u
blaine for the Presidency in 1876. just as il
wasSgiven by the newspapers on the follow
ing nuorning 1t is already familiar to
thousands of our readers, but theSwhole
country will be glad to read it again, for il
is appropriate to the situation to-day as il
was in 1876. Mr.. Ingersoll said:
'sMassachus. its may be satisfied with thu
LOYALTY cf Ben, amin H. Bristow; SO am L
TApplause.l Bu,> if any man nominated by
this convention ca pnot carry the State OF
Massachusetts. / AMI not satisfied with the
LOYALTY of that State. tCheers, applause
and laughter. If the nominee of this con-
vention cannot carry the grand old CON-
monwealth of Massachuse it's by $4,000 ma
iority, l would advise tbem to sell out
Faneuil Hall as Democrat headquarters.
lCheers and laughter 1 would advise
them to take from Bunker -dlll that olo
monument of glory. The Republicans OF
the United States demand as their leader IN
the great contest of 1876 man OF lutellect,
man of integrity [cheersl, man III well
known and approved political olunlon.
lCheers
What Republicans Demand.
''They demand a statesman. They df
mand reforIner after as well as before tht
election. lCheers. They demand poiItl-
clan in the highest, and broadest, and best
sense of that woru. [Cheers. They de-
mand man acquainted 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 comprehend the relations
OF this Government to the other nations OF
the earth. [Applause. They demand
man well versed in the powers, duties and
prerogatives of each and every department
of this Government Applause. They
demand a man who will sacredly preserve
the financial honor of the United States.
GCheers One who knows enough to know
that the national debt must be paid through
the prosperity of the people; enc who knows
enough to know that all the financial
theories in the world cannot redeem
single dollar [applausel: one who knows
enough to know that all the money must be
made, not by law, but by labor [cheers];
one who knows enough to know that the
people of the United States have the indus
try to make the money and the honor to pay
it over just as fast as they make it. lAp-
plause. The Republicans of the United
States demand a man who knows that pros
perity and resumption, when they can
come, must come together. Cheers
When they come they will come hand in
hand; hand in hand through the golden
harvest fields; hand in hand BY the whirling
spindle and tie turning 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 fires
A Grand and Gallant Leader.
'sThis money has got to be dug out of the
earth You cannot make 1t by passing reso-
lutions in a political meeting (Applause.
The Republicans of the United States want
q man who knows that his Government
should protect every citizen at home and
Abroad cheers who knows that any Gov
ernment that will not defend its defenders
and will not protect its protectors is a dis
grace to the map of the world. [Applause. ]
They demand a man who believes in the
eternal separation and divorcement of
church and schools They demand a man
whose political reputation is spotless as a
star, but they do not demand that their can
didate shall have a certificate of moral char
/acter signed by a confederate congress.
fGreat cheering. The man who has in full
habit and unbounded measure all of these
qualifications is the present grand and gal
liant leader of the Republican party, James
c. Blaine
Our country, crowned with the vast and
marvellous achievements of its first century,
"
prophetic of her future; asks for a man who
has the audacity of genius [applause]; asks
for man who is the grandest combination
of heart, conscience and brain beneath the
flag. [Applause. That man is James G.
Blaine Applause. For the Republican
hosts led by this intrepid man there can be
no such thing as defeat [Applause.l This
is a grand year-a year filled with the
recollection of the revolution [appla use1;
Id ~, la- q
the sacred past; filled with the legends of
liberty-a year in which the sons of freedom
will drink from the fountain of enthusiasm
[applause] ]; year in which the people call
ior a man who has preserved in Congress
what our soldiers won upon the field
[cheers]; year in which we call for the
man who has torn from the throat of treason
the tongue of slander [applausel; a man
that has snatched the mask of democracy
from the hideous face of rebellion; a man
who,
Like an intellectual Athlete,
stood in the arena of debate challenged all |
comers, and who up to the present moment |
is a total stranger to defeat. [Applause.
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 defamer of this |
country and maligner 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 |
lCheers.l James G. Blaine is now and has |
been for years the bearer of the sacred |
standard of the Republic. ICheers. 1 |
call it sacred because no human being can |
stand beneath its folds without becoming
and without remaining free. IChe ers
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 sup
porters; in the name OF all her soldiers Iiv- |
ing; in the name of all her soldiers that died |
upon the field of battle, and in the name of
those that perished in the skeleton clutches
Of famine at Andersonville and Libby
[cheersl, whose suferings he SO eloquently |
remembers. Illinois nomInates for the next |
President of this country that prince of par
liamentarians, that leader of leaders, James
G. Blaine. Loud and protracted cheers
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