The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-26
THE GREAT SPEECHES

opetCu uOLlluANAub lAAAAS ASA a AN'AF
dent In the Republican national con-
yention at Cincinnati. June Is, 1876:
Massachusetts, may be satisfied with
the loyalty OF Benjamin H. Bristow; so
am /: but II any man nominated By
this convention can not carry the
state Of Massachusetts. I am not salts
ned with the loyalty OF that state. II
the nominee Of this convention cannot
carry the grand old commonwealth of
Massachusetts by 5000 majority. I
would advise them to sell out Faneuil
hall as a Democratic Headquarters; /
would advise them to take from Bunker
Inn that old monument of glory. The
Republicans Of the United States de-
mand as their leader in the great con-
test Of 1875 a man OF intelligence.
man of Integrity. a man Of well known
and approved political opinions. They
demand statesman: they demand a
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 a man acquainted with public
aHairs-with the wants of the people
with not only the requirements Of the
hour, but with the demands Of the fu-
ture: they demand q man broad enough
to comprehend the relations Of this
government to the other nations Of the
earth; they demand a man well versed
In the powers, duties and prerogatlves
Of each and every department of this
government: they demand man who
win sacredly preserve the financial hon
or 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 the financial theories in
the world can not redeem a single dol
lar; 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 fast as they make 1t.
The Republicans OF the United States
demand a man who knows that pros
perIty and resumption, when they
come they Will come hand In hand
through the golden harvest fields; hand
in hand by the whlrling spindles and
turning wheels; hand in hand past the
open furnace doors; hand in hand by
the flaming FORCES; hand In hand by
the chimneys filled with eager fire
greeted and grHsped by the countless
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
citizen at home and abroad; who
knows that any government that viii
not defend It's defenders and protect its
protectors is a disgrace to the map of
the world. They demand man who
believes In the eternal separation and
enforcement Of church and school. They
demand a man whose political reputa-
tIon is spotless Us star; but they do
not demand that their candidate shall
have a certificate OF moral character
signed by Confederate Congress. The
man who has. In full, heaped and
rounded measure. all these splendid
qualifications is the present grand and
gallant leader OF the Republican party
James G. Blaine.
our country. crowned with the vast
and marvellous achievements Of Its
first century, asks for man worthy OF
the past and prophetic Of her future;
asks for u man who has the audacity
of genius; asks for a man who is the
grandest combination OF heart, con-
science and brain beneath her flag.
That man Is James G. Blaine.
For the Republican host, led by this
intrepid man, there can be no defeat.
This is a grand year; a year filled
with the recollections Of the revolution,
filled with proud and tender memories
of the past, with the sacred legends Of
liberty; a year in which the sons Of
freedom will drink from the fountains
Of enthusiasm; year in which the
people call for q man who has preserv-
ed in Congress what our soldiers won
upon the field; year In which we call
for the man who has torn from the
throat Of treason the tongue Of Islander
for the man who, like an intellectual
athlete, has stood in the arena Of de-
bate and challenged all corners, and
who. up to the present moment, is a to-
tai 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 defamers of his country and the
malIgners Of his honor. For the Re
puhllcans to desert this gallant leader
now is as though an army should de-
sert their general upon the field of bat
tie. James G. Blaine is now. and has
been for years, the bearer of the sacred
standard OF the Republican party. 1
call II sacred because no human being
can stand beneath Its folds without
becoming and without remaining free.
Gentlemen OF the convention, In the
name OF the great republic, the only
republic that ever existed upon this
earth; in the name OF all her defenders