Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-23


have never misled you In presenting a sterling
Democrat to your favor. We gave you Horatio
seymour and our people endorsed i'm against
Cen Grant. We gave you Samuel Tilden and
In turn our state endorsed him. We acquiesoed.
we did not advise the nomination of 1888
THE convention was then asked to observe
the comfy between st ates, and the history {
the state convention and the "anti-snapn bolt
referred to, the speaker saying that the Syra.
cuse people were attempting to force upon New
York a candidate hostile to the Democratic or.
ganization there, which organization he de.
Tended as truly representing the party He
then continually:
Our pulses viii throb in unison with our
brothers from any state whose chosen SOB
shall be presented to the consideration of this
convention. We salute the rising leader from
Iowa, whose home victories shine upon ou1
arms like sun burst from out the parting
clouds of his far western sky. We bow to the
venerable sage of Illinois, or the rugged foe of
the tarln barons who stands by his side. We
appreciate the capacity which has organized
victory against the overwhelming odds in
Pennsylvania. We are at home with our
friends from Indiana. We fully sympathize
with the battle-stained and indomitable leader
IN Ohio. We watch with anxiety and affection
the wonderful power for organization and tri-
umph which characterizes the senator from
Maryland.
Whosoever of these may be selected. or
Whatsoever state may succeed in this convent
ion we shall Join in the exultation and bear our
part TO the uttermost in the ensuing contest
Hill beat Harrison in New York in
ISIS, under conditions less encouragine
than those which confront us today; anG
he can repeat the triumph with rodoubleG
effect. This is the conclusive point. Contem.
plate the ensuing controversy from whatever
standpoint You may choose, you cannot escape
the TACT that our state is the battle ground of
the campaign.
Is 10 Ai,r Of A. q
strategy, the very spot of victory or defeat.
We appreciate the responsibility of our
position and would speak to YOU
like men whose blood flows in their
words The common enemy is strongly en-
trenched in the capital You are til, generals
of the army of invasion in grand council as
sembled. We hail from Waterloo: and we
fearlessly proclaim that Hill is the Blucher
who can drive the Republican chieftain to St.
Helena in November.
Spoke for Iowa's Favorite.
As the clerk called iowa. Hon. Jno.
+. Duncombe took the platform and said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Cox.
vENTIoN: To-day. for the first.time in the hh,-
tory OF the American republic the name of a
man whose home Is west of tho Mississippi
river Will be presented to a Democratic
national convention for nomination to the ex.
allied position of Presid ent Of the United Statsv
heretofore the northern. the southern the
eastern and the middle states have furnished
all but one of the presidential nominees Of the
Democratic party. For thrty-fve years the
Repub'ican party has chosen all but one Of tts
candidates from the west. and the eastern candi-
date was defeated For thirty i've years the Dem.
ocratic party has chosen all its candidates from
the east and during that time only one Demo |
cratic president has been inaugurated. For over
quarter of a century no man residing outside |
OF the limits of the Empire State has had the |
honor of Democratic presidential nomination
of
day her honored statesmen might furnish nresj |
Dental candidates for quarter of a century tc |
come, and the Democracy of the great north |
west and the great southwest would not com |
plain or seek to pluck one honor from the bril- |
liant stars which New York has ulacad in the |
crown of the republic.
All democrats deeply regret that there is dis |
sention within her borders, which they fear, if |
candidate should be nominated from New York |
world imperil Democratic success.
Mr.. Duncombe then referred in glowing |
words t. the great west, northwest and south
west beyond the Mississippi river, and saidl:
In that land west of the Atississip,j |
Is state, larger than New York sur.
rounded by her elder sisters Missouri
and Illinois, and her younger sisters Ne.
hraska and Minnesota; a state bordered on
thu east and on the west by the father and |
mother Of waters and held in their embrace. a
state whose springs and brooks and rivers flow
on increasingly TO the southern gulf, emblem
attic Of the eternal love which should forever
Dind IN unity the dwelers in the great AIissis.
slppl valley In that state there lives a noble
son OF New York. honored by an election to her
legislature over a third of century ago; n son
worthy and well qualified for the highest honor |
which this great intelligent convention can
place upon him. y son, who, born and reared
In poverty, accustomed to hard labor has |
thereby learned 10 sympathize with the moor |
and distressed. with the laborers of the land |
The name Of that noble son of New York and
adopted son of Iowa, is Horace Boies.
LIhe speaker said that Boies up to 1881 was q |
Republican, but up to that time Iowa Republi.
cans were as ardent advocates of tariff reform |
as the Democrats. When the Republicans de.
serted their tariff principles and enacted |
sumptuary laws Boies refused to follow them.
and that at time when there was no hone Of
political reward
From that time he has fought increasingly fo, |
the cause of Democracy. His eminent legal
talents led the leaders of the party to offer him
the nomination for judge of the supreme court !
of Iowa, and his name has been frequently
mentioned for offices, but since he came IL |
Iowa and until 1882 he has declined to accept
any nomination. and only consented to accent
the nomination for governor then, at the ear |
nest solicitation of his friends and when chosen
by reclamation. He kindled the smouldering
embers of Democracy into a blaze of enthusi- |
asm on every hill and in every valley in the
state His scimitar flashed at the head of an |
army of Iowa Democrats, who had fought more
than thirty battles, only to be overpowered by
numbers, but never conquered. He infused
new courage in the hearts of all his followers
and the Iowa Democracy by the aid of tariff re-
formers, and the opponents of sumptuary laws
who have since become Democrats routed the
enemy and placed the laurel wreath of victory
upon the head of their hero, Horace Boies
Again, in 1890, his voice was heard rallvine
me forces of Democracy against the iniquities
Of the obnoxious Mckinley law; against intol. |
terence, against sumptuary legislation; against |
paternal government: against contradictions;
against that tyranically kingly invention, the
force and again the pennant of Democracy
waved aloft in victory. Again in 1891, he was
by reclamation placed at the head of the Demo |
cratic column for reelection; and in the most
fought political battle that Iowa
ever witnessed, when 1900 more votes were
polled than had ever been polled before in any
state election, and nearly that number more
han in any presidential election, his majority
or governor was increased from 6,523 to s2l6.
md the entire Democratic ticket was elected, |
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