Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-13
ROBERT G. INGERsOLL'S
ELOQUENCE.
Speech Nominating blaine at Gin
cinati in 1876.

the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow; SO
am /; but if any man nominated by
this convention cannot carry the State
of Massachusetts | am not satisfied
with the loyalty of that State. If the
nominee of this convention cannot
carry the grand old Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, by $4,000 majority
would advise him to sell out Faneuil
Hall as a Democratic headquarters.
would advise them to take from Bunker
Hill that old monument of glory.
The Republicans of the United States
demand as their leader in the great
contest of 1876 man of intelligence, a
man of integrity, a man of well known
and approved political opinions. They
demand reformer after as well as be-
fore the election. They demand a
politician in the highest, broadcast and
best sense-a man of superb moral
courage. They demand a man ac-
Guainted with public affairs, with the
wants of the people; with not only the
requirements of the hour, but the de-
mands of the future. They demand a
man broad enough to comprehend the
relations of this government to the
other nations of the earth They de-
mand man well versed in the powers.
duties, and prerogatives of each and
every department of this government
they demand man who will sacredIy
preserve the financial honor of the
United State; one who knows enough
to know that the national debt must
be paid through the prosperity of this
people; one who knows enough to
known 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
1t over just as fast as they make it.
The Republicans of the United
States demand a man who knows that
prosperity and resumption, when thcv
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 spind!es
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 our of
the earth. You cannot make ii by lass
ing resolutions in a political conven-
ton.
The Republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this gov
eminent should protect every citizen
at home and abroad; who knows that
any government that will not defend
its defenders, and protect its protec-
tors, is a disgrace to the map % the
world. They demand a man who be-
lieves in the eternal separation and
enforcement of church and school.
They demand man whose political
reputation is spotless as a star; but
they do not demand that their candi-
date shall have a certificate of moral
character signed by Confederate Con
gress. The man who has, in full,
heaped and rounded measure. ali these
splendid qualifications, is the present
grand and gallant leader of the Repub-
hcan 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 propheJlc of her future;
asks for a 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
Such a man is James G. Blaine.
For the Republican host, led by this
intrepid man, there can be no defeat
This is grand year-7a year filed
with the recollections of the revolution:
filed 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; a year in which the
people call for a man who has pre-
served in Congress what our sold
iers won upon the field; a
year in which they call for
the man who has torn from the
throat of treason the tongue of SLAM
der; for the man who has snatched the
mask of Democracy from the hideous
face of rebellion; for the man who, like
ar intellectual athlete, has stood in
the arena of debate and challenged all
corners, and who is still total stranger
to defeat.
Like an armed warrior, like a plum
et knight, James G. Baine marched
down the halls of the American Con-
gress, 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 Republican party to desert