The San Francisco call., 1899-07-22
.INGERSOLL THE
AGNOST|C DIES
Continued from First Page.

and were every one for whom he did some
/ loving service to bring a blossom to his
grave he would sleep tonight beneath
! a Wilderness of flowers Life is q narrow
vale between the cold and barren peaks
of two eternities. We strive in vain to
/ look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
and the only answer is the echo Of our
wailing cry. From the Voiceless lips OF
the utreplying dead there comes no word;
/ but in the night of death hope sees a star
/ and listening love can hear the rustic of a
! wing. He who sleeps here when dying
mistaking the approach of death for the
return of health, whispered with his lat
est breath. I am better now Let US be
lieve, in spite of doubts and dOgmas and
/ tears and fears that these dear words are
/ true Of all the countless dead. And now,
. to you who have been chosen from among
the many men he loved to do the last sad
office for the dead, we give his sacred
dust. Speech cannot contain our love.
There was-there is-no gentler. stronger,
manlier man"
In his speech nominating Blaine Colonel
. IngersoH said:
The Republicans of the United States
demand as their leader in the great con-
/ test of 1876 a man of intelligence, man
of integrity, a man OF well-known and
approved political opinions. They de-
mand a statesman; they demand re-
former after as well as before the cleo
ton. They demand a politician in the
highest. broadest and best sense-a man
Of superb moral courage They demand
I a 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
demand a man broad enough to compre-
hend the relations of this Government to
the other nations of the earth. They de-
mand 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 financial 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 the 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 fast as they make it.
This is grand year-a year filled with
the reColIections 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 enthusi-
asm; a year in which the people. e.cau 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 slander-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 COmers, 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 malgners
! Of her honor For the Republican party
to desert this gallant leader now is as
/ though an army should desert their gen
! eral 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. 1 call it
! sacred, because no human being can
! stand beneath it's folds without becoming
! and without remaining free.
gentlemen of the convention, in the
/ name of the great republic; the only re-
! public that ever existed upon this earth
| in the name of all her defenders and OF
! all her supporters; in the name of all
! her soldiers living: In the name of all
| her soldiers dead upon the field of pattle
! and in the name of those who perished
| in the skeleton clutch of famine at An
| dersonville and Libby, whose sufferings
he so wildly remembers, Illinois-Illinois
nonninates that prince Of parliameuta-
rans-that leader of leaders-James O.
Blaine"
Colonel Ingersoll's retorts were as quick
as a fashlght and as searching. One oil
them was startling and 50 effective
as to give a certain famous, long-drawn-
| out railroad suit the nickname of the
'.Ananias and Sapphira case" Ingersol
was speaking and had made certain state
ments highly damaging to the other side
| in such a way as TO thoroughly anger a
member of the opposing counsel, who sud
| denly interrupted the speaker with the
abrupt and sarcastic remark:
II suppose the colonel, in the nature OF
| things, never heard of the story of Ana
Mas and Sapphira."
There were those present who expected
10 witness an angry outburst on the part
/ Of IngersoH in response to this plain i'm
plication that his statement had not the
! quality of veracity, but they were disap-
pointed. Ingersoll didn't even get angry
He turned slightly, fixed his limpid blue
eyes upon the interrupter and smiled
cherubically. Then he gently drawled out
ooh, yes, 1 have; yes, I have. And I've
! watched the gentleman who has just
spoken all through this case with a curl
Gus interest. I've been expecting every
once and awhile to see him drop dead
but he seems to be all right down to the
! present moment"
Ingersol never became angry when in.
terrupted, even If in the middle of an ad.
dress or a lecture. A man interrupted
him in Cincinnati once, cutting right into
the lecturers most resonant periods with
a yell:
That's a lie, Bob Ingersoll, and yor
know it,
The audience was in an uproar in an in
slant, and cries of Put him out!' Throw
him downstairs!" and the like were hearc
from all parts of the house. Ingersol
| stopped talking for q moment and helc
up his hands, smiling.
Don't hurt the man" he said "Ht
thinks he is right. But let me explair
this thing for his especial benefit"
Then he reasoned the matter out in Ian