Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05

resolutions in a political convention.
"The republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this govern
ment should protect every citizen. at
home and abroad; who knows that any
government that will not defend it's de-
tenders and protect its protectors is a
disgrace to the map of the world. They
demand a man who believes in the eter-
nal separation and enforcement of
church and school They demand a man
whose political reputation is spotless as a
star; but they do not demand that their
candidate shall have a certificate of
moral character signed by a confederate
congress. The man who has, in full,
heaped and round measure, all these
splendid qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leade of the republi-
can ~hOsts-James G. Blaine.
Our country, crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements of it's 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 a man who is the grand
est combination of heart, conscience and
James G.. Blaine.
For the republican hosts, led by this
intrepid man, there can be no defeat.
This is a grand year-a year filed
with proud and tender memories of
the past: with the sacred legends of lib
CITY, d year III WHICH the SONS OF IreeuO1n
Will drink from the fountains of enthusi-
assn; a year in which the people call for
a man who has preserved in congress
what our soldiers won upon the field; a
year in which they call for the man who
has torn from the throat of treason the
tongue of SANDER; for the man who has
snatched the mask of democracy from
the hideous face of rebellion; for the man
who. like an intellectual athlete, has
stood in the arena of debate and chal-
lenged all corners, and who is still a
total stranger to defeat.
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed
knight, James G.. 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
1t had got very warm for the friends
of other candidates by this time, and sew
eral delegates pulled out their watches
ana shouted, times up! Times ex-
pired!' The protest was loud to let him
go on. Give him 10 minutes more
shouted one. Give him all the time he
wants. shouted another. Then there
was a noisy demand from a thousand
throats that he have plenty of time to
finish what he had to say, and the chair
man bade him proceed, which he did in
these words:
For the republican party to desert
this gallant leader now is as if an army
should desert their general upon the field
of battle.
James G. Blaine is now and has been
for years the bearer of the sacred stand
ard of the republican party. ] call it sa-
cred because no human being can stand
beneath its folds without becoming and
without remaining free.
"Gentlemen Of this convention, in the
name OF the great republic, the only re-
public that ever existed upon this earth;
IN the name of her defenders and of all
her supporters; in the name of her sol
dlcrS living; in the name of her soldiers
dead upon the field of battle. and in the
name of those who persisted in the skeIe-
ton clutch of famine at AndersonyiIIe
and Libby, whose suffcrings he so vivid
~ remembers, 1llinols-Illinois nomin-
ates for the next president of this coun-
try that prince of parliamentarians-
that leader of leaders-James G.. Blaine,
The plaudits which followed shook the
building and lasted 10 minutes, despite
the chairman's efforts to restore order.
Men threw up their hats to the ceiling
and shouted, aides waved their hand
kerchiefS n screamed, and the entire
assemblage went temporarily insane
with enthusiasm. 1t is doubtful if any
speech ever produced a more profound
impression, and its result would posi-
lively have nominated Blaine had not an
opposing interest prevented an evening
session by turning off the gas from the
convention hall.