Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-16
ABSOLUTELY PURE
INGERsoLL's TRIBUTE TO BLAINE.
The Nominating Speech in the Republican
National Convention of 1876.

National Convention of 1876.
Massachusetts may be satisfied with
the loyalty of Benjamin II. Bristow
so am l; but if any man nominated
by this convention cannot carry the
state of Massachusetts am not salts
| fed with the loyalty of that state. L
the nominee of this convention cannet
carry the grand old commonwealth OF
Massachusetts, by seventy-five thous.
and majority. l would advise them to
sell out Faneuil hall as Democratic
headquarters. would advise them to
take from Bunker Hill that old monu-
ment of glory.
The Republicans of the United States
demand as their leader in the great
contest OF 1876 a man of intelligence,
a man of integrity, a man of well
known and approved political opin-
ions. They demand a statesman; they
demand reformer after, as well as
before, the election. They demand a
politician in the highest, broadest and
best sense-a man of superb moral
courage. They demand man
acquainted with public affairs-with
the wants OF the people, with not only
the requirements of the hour, but with
the demands of the future. They de-
mand a man broad enough to compre-
hend the relations OF this government
to the other nations of the earth. They
demand a man well versed in the
powers, duties and prerogatives Of
each and every department OF this
government. They demand a man
who will sacredly preserve the finan-
cial honor of the United States; one
who knows enough to know that the
national debt must be paid through
the prosperity of this people; one
who knows enough to know that all
financial theories in the world cannot
redeem a single dollar; one who knows
enough to know that all the money
must be made, not by law, but by
labor; one who knows enough to know
that the people OF the United States
have the industry to make the money
and the honor to pay it over just as
tast as they make it.
The Republicans of the United States
| demand IL man who knows that pros
perity and resumption, when they
come must come together; that when
they come, they will come hand In hand
through the golden harvest fields;
hand il hand by the whirling spindies
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
fire, greeted and grasped by the count
| less sons OF toll.
This money has to be dug out OF the
earth. You can not make it by pass
ing resolutions in political conven-
ton.
The Republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this
government should protect every citi.
zen, at home and abroad. who knows
that any government that will not de.
fend it's defenders. and protect Its pro
tectors, is a disgrace to the map of the
world. They demand man who be.
lieves In the eternal separation and
enforcement of church and school
They demand man whose politIca
reputation is spotless as star; but
they do not demand that thsir candl
date shall have q certificate of mora
character signed by aconfederate con
gress. The man who has, In full
heaped and rounded measure, all th'
splendid qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leader of the Repub
lican party-JameS q. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vas
and marvellous achievements OF thi
its first century, asks for a mai
! worthy of the past and prophetic o
her future; asks for man who ha
the audacity of genius; asks tor a mai
who is the grandest combination Q
neart, conscience and brain beneatl
, her fiag-such. a man Is James u
Blaine.
For the Republican host, led by thi
intrepid man, there can be no defeat
This is grand year-a year file
t with the recollection OF the revolution
, filled with proud and tender memoI
les OF the past; with the sacred legend
of liberty-a year in which the sons {
: freedom will drink from the fountain
D OF enthusiasm; year In which tn
people call for a man who has pr,
served in congress what our soldier
won upon the field; q year in whic
e they call for a man who has torn froI
v the throat of treason the tongue {
!, slander-for the man who has snatche
the mask OF Democracy from the hid
Gus face of rebellion; for the man who
like an intellectual athlete, has stoo
lin the arena of debate and challenge
all comers, and who is still tott
q stranger to defeat.
Like an armed warrior, like a plume
knight, James g. Blaine marched dow
e the halls of the American congress, an
y threw his shining lance full and ia
against the brazen foreheads OF tt
Idefamers of his country and the mi
Iligners of his honor. For the Republ
can party to desert this gallant lead'
:, now, is as though an army should d
sert their general upon the field
battle.
t James G. Blaine is now and has bee
N for wears the bearer of the sacred sta
O. dard OF the Republican party. ca
it sacred, because no human being ca
e stand beneath its folds without b
n coming and without remaining free.
t Gentlemen of the convention, In Il
10 name of the great Republic, the on
Republic that ever existed upon Tn
III earth; in the name OF all her defende
Is and all her supporters; in the name
s. all her soldiers living; in the name
ie all her soldiers dead upon the field
r battle, and in the name OF those WI
N perished in the skeleton clutch of far
" inc at Andersonville and Libby, who
If sufferings he SO vividly remember
20 Illinois = Illinois nominates for Il
ne next president of this country, th'
in prince of parliamentarians = TIA
leader of leaders-James G. Blaine.