Omaha daily bee., 1892-06-14
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votes registered in Minneapolis for MIR Har-
! rison were 535 all told OF these 2ll were
| from the south. The anti Harrison element
aggregated 3Tl of which eichty-three were
| from the south. Take 2ll from 535 and YOU
| have 324 votes for Harrison from the north.
| Take eighty-three from 37l and you have
| 2SS northern votes against Harrison. This
| leaves Harrison 236 of majority from the
| north. / have not considered West Virginia,
| which will assurediy go tepu bican this year.
But take it in as against him and he has still
q majority of the northern vote--which can
| elect him and will elect him."
MIR Douglass resumed his seat, while the
band played "The Red, White and Blue"
narblnger of Harmony.
| After MIR. Douglass had resumed his seat
and the applause had su bsided. Hon. John L.
| Webster again stepped to the front of the
| platform and said
Fellow Citizens; Long before this cam
| paign opened, and long before the call had
been issued for the district ana state conven-
| tiots, there was citizen III our state who,
| on all fitting occasions, took the oppor-
| tunlty to impress upon the people of
this state his preference for the man TO be
| nominated for president ana during the
| months that went by he took every favorable
| opportunity 10 speak word and write
| words of praises of the present administra-
| tion, and that person was Edward Rose
| water. When other OF our citizens were
inclined 10 look elsewhere for a presidential
| candidate, ii was his pen that seemed
1
| He pointed to the one star always as the
| great commander OF this pcople, and when
| he wrote his editorials they were always in
| favor OF Benjamin Rarrlson's administration,
| and pointing toward him as the person to be
| nominated. The same state convention that
| instructed the delegates at large in the con-
| vention at Minneapolis TO cast the vote of
| ibis state for the reno ninstion Of President
Harrison, made OF US one other request,
| which was that we should place
| Edward Rosewater upon the national com
| uiittee 10 help elect Mr.. Harrison. We have
| performed that duty We were requested to
| perform that duty for the purpose Of treak-
ing down the factional warfare which had
| been going on in the republican party of this
| state. which was upon the grand principle
| that in this campaign, regardless OF past his
tory, regardless of past disputes and regard
| less OF past friction we should come with
| united hands and united hearts to carry the
| party to success.
81 want, before introduce MIR Rosewater
to say to these people, that it may go out to
the people of the entire state, as 1t came
from the lips of Mr.. Rosewster to myself Oh
Yesterday morning on the way down
| from Minneapolis to the city of
Omaha, that the time had come when the
hatchet should be buried between the con-
tending factions, and that the white dove of
peace should hover over the republican party
all over the state of Nebraska. l was author
ized by him to say that he bore no i'll will
TO any one that had opposed him
and was authorized 10 deliver the
message furthermore TO those that
had been his bitterest enemies that he for
gave them, and be said from this time on
ward we will WORK shoulder to shoulder for
| the repu blcaH party and its success.
at gives me pleasure, ladies' and gentle
men, to introduce to these citizens OF Omaha
the great editor of the greatrepuolican paper
of the city of Omaha, Hon. Edward Rose =
| water"
Mr.. Rosewater's Speech.
When Mr.. Rosewater arose he was greeted
with hearty applause that gathered in force
as it swept thu ough the hall.
This continued for fully five minutes, only
to break out with renewed force and vigor.
In great wave it rolled through the build
ing and after it had subsidized Mr.. Rosewatef
said:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
Words fail me to express the sentiment of
appreciation that / feel at the warm recep-
tion that you have accorded me, and
the eulogy which the chairman of
bestow upon ma As / Listened
here tonight to theson of Stephen A Doug
lass, my memory recalls some of the incidents
OF my early boyhood. 1T was my fortune at
the first time to hear Stephen A. Douglass in
1856, when he made his speech in favor of
the candidacy of James Buchanan for
president of the United States. Ii was
again my fortune TO hear him when
| be was a candidate for the presidency
himself in 1860; 1 heard him at Cleveland
both times, and then again later on in that
, | campaign heard him in Alabama, where he
, was rotten egged for expressing senti-
ments of loyalty to the union and in favor
of free soil and the freedom of man
and the rights of the people to govern them
selves. will say right here that of all the
| great orators that. / have heard no man was
his equal as campaign speaker. He could
say more in few minutes than any man /
have ever heard. While / was at Nash
vile in the month of June 1861, the
message came that announced hls death
at Washington. l felt 1t almost as per-
sonal bereavement. i never agreed with
| Mr.. Douglass in his views regards tn c
slavery question, US was a republican from
the beginning, and ] believed that congress
l had right to exclude slavery from the ter
ritorics whether the people desired it SO or
not. AS theseloquent gentleman has stated
, | here, his old father not only held up
the hat of Lincoln be was being inau-
| gurated, but he held up the hands OF Lincoln
when the question came whether we should
g | have the people OF the north united for the
preservation of this government and main
tanning the republic, cost what ii might. lie
, | stood there and held up the hands OF Lincoln,
and pronounced for the union although
| nearly all his associates in the democratic
party, or at least all the leaders of the oemo
cratic party were at that time engaged IN
! reasonable conspiracy against the govern
ment.
Object of the Meeting.
$50 far as that Is concerned, it is a matter
I of history, aud tonight we have assembled
: | here TO ratify and endorse the nomira ations o.
. Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid fol
the presidency and vice presidency of tni.
republic We have assembled here not in
, perfunctory manner, not merely u
a show that we are repu blican
I but to show that We appreciate the goo(
: work that Benjamin Harrison has done il
4 the last four years, and we believe in honor
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