The Portland daily press., 1892-06-08

Mr.. Clarkson presented Chairman Fas-
I sett to the convention. The expected
Blaine demonstration was forthcoming
when Mr.. Fassett advanced to the front.
| One prolonged cheer resounded through
| the hall and galleries. The Blaine dele
| gates arose to man tosalute their chair
man. MI. Fassett spoke as follows:
Mr.. Fassctt's Speech.
M. Chairman and Felloao Republicans:
For the distinguished honor which you
have conferred upon me, am very CRATE
full. assume the duties of presiding
officer with extreme diffidence, and am
sustained by reliance upon your gen.
crosby, forbearance and cooperation. 1t
is eminently fitting that Republican
| convention should be held in a temple
erected for the display of the products
OF protection to American industries, and
in this beautiful city of Minneapolis, the
JOY and the pride of the giant West This
city, Which just about equals in age the
Republican party, with it's prosperous
mills and factories and workshops and
its generous and happy homes, abounds
in object lessons, teaching clearer than
in any words the sound wisdom of Re
publican doctrines. We are met to ex-
ercise one of the highest privileges of
our citizenship. AS trustees of 1000, 900
voting Republicans, gathering from
! every state and territory of the Union it
becomes our duty to formulate for the
inspection of the people the belief and
purposes of our party relative to all the
living political questions of national i'm
portance, and to choose that man for
leader under whose guidance we feel we
shall be most sure of establishing this
belief in the form of laws. We are here
not as warning factions, struggling to win
supremacy under favorite leaders, but as
co-members of one great party seeking
to select from the roll of our honored
great men the type of statesman who
| shall be regarded as the most complete
embodiment of cardinal doctrines of our
party. There is not a Republican in this
convention whose heart does not burn
with ardor for triumph in the impending
campaign. We are all eager for success:
we are here to make the necessary pre-
liminary arrangements, and we all pro-
pose to make them in the right way and
in the right spirit. If there is ever a
time for Republicans to differ, it is espe-
cially in such conventions as this, when
we are met together to express the pur-
purpose of reaching ultimate unity
| through the contest of present differ
|
business of agreeing upon the standard
bearers for a great party there is a grand
opportunity for men to hear
and express honest differences of opin-
| ion, and the more earnest the men and
the more honest the opinions, the more
determined will be the contests and col
| lisions and the more complete the final
unanimity. The air is always sweeter.
1t is our right now to oppose each other;
it will be our duty to unite tomorrow.
Every difference should end at the con-
vention doors, and will end there. When
the convention shall have concluded it's
labors, we shall have but one choice, and
that the nominees of this convention;
but one purpose, their election. The
nomination does not end the campaign;
| it begins it, The campaign
which is to be made will not be
| candidates and for the candidates. but of
all the party, by ali the party and for all
the party in the interests of the whole
| people. With malice then toward none,
! but with federation and respect toward
| all, each of us, according to his light, os
| God gives him to see the light, should
! subordinate all merely local and personal
considerations to earnest endeavor to Sc
cure the best in the Republican party
| throughout the entire sisterhood of
| Stotes., None of our trusted leaders are
weak men; all of them are strong. Some
may be stronger than others. If as each
delegate views the field there is some
man whose figure seems to him larger,
whose stature higher, whose fame more
commanding, whose name more inspir-
ing than that of any other man, then the
pathway of each delegate should be
broad and easy.
The eyes of the Republicans at home
and the eyes of all our adversaries every
| where are intently fixed upon this con-
vention. A nation is watching us, our
enemies criticise, our friends ratify. The
responsibility is enormous. but you will
meet it wisely. The Republican party
| has never yet made a mistake in its
choice of candidates; it will not make a
mistake here. Ali over this broad land
| the bonfres are set to be lighted. The
flags are ready to be unfurled and the
Republicans are waiting to shout approx
al of your nominee.
1.-THE history of our party since 1856 is
the history Of our country. There is not
single page but shines brighter for
some act or some word of some great
Republican. Count over our chosen
whom we are teaching our children to
love, emulate anu reverence, ana you
shall name Republicans. Lincoln, Sew
ard, Grant, Sherman, Garfield, Logan,
Harrison, and Blaine. These are few
of our jewels; and we may proudly turn
to our Democratic friends with the def
ance to match them. These men were great
through their belief and advocacy of the
enrolling and inspiring doctrines of the
Republican faith. Name me over the
great. masterpieces of sssconstructive and
progressive legislation, enacted since the
| Civil War, and there, one by one, their
authors and finishers will be found Re-
publicans. have not the time even to
catalogue the long list of great works
undertaken and performed. You are all
familiar with the story of the irrepressi-
bic conflict undertaken and concluded;
slavery abolished; public credit estab-
lished; the Constitution and the Union
restored and reconstructed; the old flag
washed clean of every stain and new
stars added to it's glory; the wild West
thrown open to easy access and settle
ment; the policy of
Protection to American Labor.
and American industries established, de-