Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-26

approved ponrlcal opanions- They de-
mand rekorrner after - wen Is before
the election They demand politician
Ii the highest. broadcast and bsss sense-
. man Of superb moral courage. They
demand . man acquainted with public
Affairs. with tho wants Of tho people;
with not only the requirements Of the
hour. but with the demands Of the fu-
ture- They demand man broad enough
10 comprehend the relations Of this gov
eminent 70 the other nations Of the earth
They demand man well versed in the
powers. duties and prerogatives Of each
and every department Of this. govern
ment.
They demand man who will sacredly
preserve the financial honor Of the
10 know that the national debt must be
paid through the prosperity Of this peo-
pie; one who knows enough To know
that all the financial theories In the
world cannot redeem single dollar;
one who knows enough 10 know that all
the money must be paid. not by law, but
by labor; one who knows enough to
know thar the people Of tho United
States have the industry 10 make the
money aud the honor to pay it over just
as fast as they make it.
The Republicans Of the United States
demand man VINO knows that pros
perity and resumption. when they come,
must come together; that when they
come they viii como hand in hand
through the golden harvest fields: hand
in hand by the whiriing spindles and the
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 fire
greeted and grasped by the countless
sons 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 a man who knows that this gov
ernrnent shoEid protect every citizen at
home and abroad: who knows that any
government that will not defend its de-
tenders and protect its protectors is a
disgrace to the map of the world. They
demand man who believes in the eter-
nal separation and enforcement of church
and school. They demand man whose
political reputation is spotless as star;
but they do not demand that their can
didate shall have q certificate of moral
character signed by confederate con-
gress The man who has in full, heaped
and rounded measure all these splendid
qualifications is the pre- IT grand and
gallant leader of the Republican party
James q. Blaine.
Our country. crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements of its first
century. asks for a man worthy Of the
past and prophetic of her future; asks
for a man who has the audacity Of
genius: asks for man who is the grand
est com binatiou of heart. conscience
and brain beneath her flag. Such = man
is James q. Blame.
For the Republican host, led by this
intrepid man. there can be no defeat.
This is q 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; year in which the sons Of free
dom will drink from the fountains Of
enthusiasm: year in which the people
call for q man who has preserved in
congress what our soldiers won upon
the field: u year in which they call for
kxav rA f<xvv ho y,
Of treason the tongue Of Islander: for the
man who has snatched the mask of
Demusrscy from the hldeous face Of re-
bellion: for the man WHO. like an intel
lectual 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 q. Blaine marched down
the halls of the American congress and
threw his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen foreheads Of the de-
famers 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 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 becom-
ing 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: 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 An
Jacksonville and Libby, whose sufferinge
he 50 vividly remembers. nlinois--Illi-
nois dominates for tho next president of
this country that prince of parliamenta-
rians-thas leader Of leaders--Jsmes q.
Blaine.
COMBINES GREAT EFFORT.