The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-24
TWO NOTABLE SPEECHES.
1ngersoll Nominating Blaine and the
Tribute to His Dead Brother.

colonel Robert u. lnSerSOll delivered
many notable speeches, but from them
all two stand out conspicuously. The
first of these is his speech nominating
James G. Blaine for president in the
Republican natioral convention held In
Cincinnati in June, 1876. which nrst
gave MIN a national reputation, and the
second delivered over the dead body OF
his brother. The first of these follows;
Massachusetts may be satisfied with
the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow; so
am l but if any man nominated by this
convention cannot carry the state Oh
Massachusetts, / am not satisfied with
the loyalty of that state. II the NOM
inee OF this convention cannot carry the
grand old commonwealth of Massachu-
sets by $1,000 majority, would advise
them to sell out Faneuil hall as DEM
ocratic headquarters. l would ADVISE
them to sell out Faneuil hall as DEM
ocratic headquarters.
The Republicans of the United states
demand as their leader in the great
contest of 1876 a man of intelligence, a
man of integrity, man of we'll known
and approved political opinions. They
demand reformer after as well as be-
fore the election. They demand poll
tician 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 the demands of the fu-
ture. They demand a man broad
enough to comprehend the relations of
this government to the other nations or
the earth. They demand a man well
versed in the powers. duties and pre-
negatives of each and every department
of this government. They demand a
man who will sacredly preserve the
finacial honor of the United States:
one who knows enough to know that
the national debt must be paid through
the prosperity of the people; one who
knows enough to know that all the IL
nancial theories in the world cannot re-
deem 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.
1.-The Republicans of the United States
demand a 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
in hand by the whirling spindles and
the turning wheels; hand in hand past
the open furnace doors; hand in hand
by the flaming FORCES; hand in hand by
the chimneys filed with eager fire
greeted and grasped by the countless
sons of toll.
This money has to be dug out of the
earth. You cannot make it by passing
resolutions in political convention.
The Republicans of the United States
want man who knows that this gov
eminent should protect every citizen,
at home and abroad: who knows that
any government who will not defend
its defenders. and protect its protect
ors, is disgrace to the map of the
world. They demand a man who be-
lleves in the eternal separation and
enforcement of church and school. They
demand man whose political reputa-
ton Is spotlesS as star; but they do
not demand that their candidate shall
have 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 a man worthy of the
past and prophetic of her future: for a
man who is the grandest combination
her flag. Such a man is James CT.
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; year in which the sons of
freedom will drink from the fountains
a in u-h Oh, ha
people call for man who has pre-
served 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
challenged 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
defamers of his country and the ma
iSners of her honor.
For the Republican party to desert
this gallant leader now is as though 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
standard of the Republican party
call IL 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 defend
ers 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 battle, and in the name of
those who persisted in the skeleton
clutch of famine at Andersonville and
Libby, whose sufferings we so wildly
remember, Illinois-Illinois dominates
for the next president of this country
that prince of parliamentarians-
leader of leaders-James G. Blaine"
Grafton of His Brothers Funeral.
The funeral of Hon. Eben e. Inger-
soil, brother of Colonel Robert G.. IN
gersoll. took place in his residence in
Washington, d. c., June ., 1879 The
ceremonies were extremely simple, con-
sisting merely Of viewing the remains
by relatives and friends, and funeral
Grafton by Colonel Ingersoll. a
large number of distinguished gen.
tlemen We're present. Soon after Mr..
Ingersoll began to read his eloquent
characterization of the dead his eyes
filled with tears. He tried to hide them