Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-03
lngersOlfs Memorable Speech for
Blaine at the convention
in 1876.
Origin OF the Famous Expression
" Plumed Knight" as Applied
to the Maine Man.
EulOgy of Sherman by Garfield when
the Latter, However, was
Nominated.

1876, made especially interesting on the
eve of the approaching National Conven-
ton:
Massachusetts may be satisfied with
the loyalty OF Ben amin Fl. Bristow; so am
| L; bat II any man nominated by this con-
| vent1on cannot carry the state of Massa-
chusetts, | am not satisfied with the 10y
atty of that state. If tie nominee of this
| convention cannot carry the grand old
| commonwealth of 4 Massachusetts by $4,000
majority, | would advise them to sell out
Faneull 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 inlthe great contest
IN 1916 ran OF Intelligence, man of
integrity, man Of well known and ap.
! proved political opinions. They demand
refornler after as well as before the cleo
ton. they demand politician In the
highest, broadcast and best sense-a man of
superb moral courage. They demand a
man acquainted with public affairs, with
the wants of the people; with mot SonIy
the requirements ofssthe hour, but with the
the demands of the future. They demand
man broad enough to comprehend the
relations or this government to the other
/ nations OF the earth. They demand man
well versedsin the powers, duties and pre-
negatives OF each and every department o.
| this government.
''They demand a man who will sacredly
preserve the financial honor of the Unite d
States; one who knows enough to know
that the national debt must be paid
| through the pros perity of this people: one
who knows enou b know that all t. e
financial theories in the world cannot re-
deem a single dollar; one who knows
enough to know that all the money mu t
| be paid, not by law, but by labor; one
who knows enough to know that The
people of the United States have the in
dustry to make the money and the honor
| to pay 1t over just as fast as they make
| it.
The republicans of the United States
demand man who knows that prosperity
and resumption, when they come, must
come together; that when they come they
will come hand in hand through the
golden harvest fields; hand in hand by, he
whirling spindles and the turning wheels
hand in hand past the open furnace
doors; hand in hand by the flaming
forges; hand in hand by the chimneys
filled with eager fre-greeted and grasped
by the countless sors of toll.
This money has to be dug out of the
earth. You cannot make it by passing
resolutions In a political convention.
The republicans of the United States
want man who knows that this govern
ment should protect every citizen at home
and abroad; who knows that any govern
ment that will not defend its defenders
and protect its protectors is disgrace to
the map of the world. They demand a
man who believes in the eternal separation
and enforcement of church and school
They demand a man whose political rep
utatlon Is spotless as a star; but they do
noe demand that their candidate shall
have a certificate of moral char
acter signed by confederate congress.
The man who has in full, heaped and
rounded measure all these splendid quail
ltications is the present grand and gallant
leader of the republican party-James 6.
Blaine.
''Our country, crowned.with tbe.vast and
marvellous achievements of its 6rst century,
asks for man worthy Of the past and
prophetic of her future; asks for a man
who has the audacity of genius; asks for a
man who is the grandest combination of
flag. Such man is James G. Blaine.
7For the republican host, led by this in
trepid man, there can be no defeat
This is grand year-a year filled with
the recollections of the revolution; filed
with proud and tender memories of the
past; with the sacred legends of liberty; a
year in which the sons of freedom will
drink from the fountain of enthusiasm: a
year in which the people call for 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 thloat of treason the tongue of
SANDER; for the man who has snatched the
mask of democracy from the hideous face
of rebellion; for the man who, like an in
telIectual 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 &. Blaine marched down
the halls of the American congress and
threw his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen foreheads Of the de-
trainers of his country and the maligners
of his honor.
gallant leader now Is as though an army
of battle.
flames q. Blaine is now and has been
for years the bearer of the sacred stand :
ard of the republican party. | call it
sacred because no human being can stand
beneath its folds without becoming and
remaining free.
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 living; 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 of Anderson
vile and Libby, whose sufferings he so
wildly remembers, Illinois = Illinois
dominates for the next president of this
country that prince OF parliamentarians-
that leader of leaders-Jam es G. Blaine.
Thus gravely spoke Gen. Garfield in the
Chicago convention in 1880:
81 have witnessed the extraordinary
| scenes of this convention with deep solicit
tude. No emotion touches my heart more
| quickly than a sentiment in honor Of a
| great and noble character But as | sat
on these seats and witnessed these demon
STATIONS it seemed to me you were a
human ocean In tempest. | have seen
the sea dashed into fury and tossed into
a spray, and its grandeur moves the soul
| of the dullest man. But remember that
it is moi the pillows, but the calm level of
the sea from which all heights and depths
are measured. When the storm has
passed and the hour OF calm settles on
/ the ocean, when sunlight bathes its