The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-06-23
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEN-
TION OF 1876.
Speech of Ingersoll Presenting Name
of James G. Blaine.

With the loyalty OI benjamin II. BITS
tow. So am l. But if any man
nominated by this convention cannot
carry the state of Massachusetts,
am not satisfied with the loyalty of
Massachusetts.
If the nominee of this convention
cannot carry the grand old common
wealth by seventy-five thousand ma
jority, l would advise them to sell
out Faneuil Hall as democratic
headquarters. l would advise them
to take from Bunker Hill their old
monument of glory.
The republicans of the United
States demand as their leader in the
great contest of 1876 a man of in
tellect, a man of integrity, man of
wellknown and approved political
opinions. They demand a statesman.
They demand a reformer after as
well as before the election. They
demand politician in the highest
the broadcast and the best sense of
that word. They demand a man ac-
quainted with public affairs. with the
wants of the people, with the require
ments of the hour, not only, but with
the demands of the future.
They demand a man broad enough
to comprehend the relation of this
government to the other nations of
the earth. They demand a man well
versed in his powers, duties and pre-
negatives of each and every depart
ment of this government. They de-
mand a man who will sacredly pre-
serve the financial honor of the
United States; one who knows suffi
cient to know that the national debt
must be paid through the prosperity
of this people: one who knows that
all financial theories in the world
cannot redeem a single dollar; one
who knows enough 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 soon as they can.
The republicans of the United
States demand a man who knows
that prosperity and resumption,
when they come, must come together;
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 CHM
neys filled with eager fire, raked and
grasped by the hands of the count
less sons of toll.
The republicans of the United
States want a man who knows that
this government should protect ev-
cry citizen at home or abroad; who
knows that any government that will
not defend its defenders, and will not
protect its protectors, is disgrace
to the map of the world.
They demand a man who believes
in the eternal separation and divorce
ment of church ana school. They
demand man whose political repu-
tation is spotless as a star; but they
do not demand that their candidate
shall have a certificate of moral char
acter signed by the Confederate Con-
gress.
The man who has, in full, complete
and rounded measure, all of these
splendid qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leader of the re-
publican parry, James G. Blaine.
Our country crowned by the vast
and marvellous achievements Of its
first century asks for a man worthy
of her past and prophetic of her tu-
ture; asks for a man who has the
of genius; asks for the man
who has the granjest combination of
heart, and conscience and brain the
world ever saw. That man is James
G. Blaine. For the republican hosts
led by this intrepid man, there can
be no such thing as defeat.
This is grand year-a year filled
with the recollections of the Revolu-
ton; filled with proud and tender
Of the sacred past; filled
with legends of liberty; year in
which the sons of freedom will drink
from the fountain of enthusiasm; a
year in which the people will call
for the man who has torn from the
throat of treason the tongue of SIAN
der; the man who has snatched the
mask of democracy from the hiieous
face of rebellion; the man who, like
the intellectual athlete, hath stood
in the arena of debate challenging all
corners. and who up to the present
is a total stranger to defeat.
Like an armed warrior-like al
plumed knight-James G. Blaine
down the halls of the Amer
lean Congress ana threw his shining
lance full and fair against the brazen
forehead of every traitor to his
country and every maligner of his
fair reputation.
For the republican party to desert
that gallant man 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 sa-
"red stan lard of the republican partv.
I call it sacred, because no human
being can stand beneath its foias
without becoming and without re-
naming free.
Gentlemen of the Convention, in
the name of the great republic-the
only republic that ever existed upon
the face of the earth; in the name of
all her defenders and of all her SUD-