The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-03-12
INGERSOLL'S
GREAT Speech
Delivered at Rep. National
Convention 1876.
AS Reported by New York Times
Day After Its De-
livery.

bert G. Ingersoll, nominating James
G. Blaine for the presidency at the
Republican National Convention in
Cincinnati, June Is, 1876. Col. In
gersoll's fame as an orator is known
throughout the world. He was born
in 1888 and died in 1899. Col. In
persOll began his career as lawyer
in 1857 at Peoria. Illinois. During
the Civil War he served as Colonel
of Cavalry, and following the con-
fliet, in 1866. became Attorney
General of Illinois. Later he removed
to New York where he gained an in
ternational reputation as lawyer
and lecturer.
Col. Ingersoll's convention speech,
as printed i'm the New York Times
on the day after the convention.
follows:
Massachusetts, may be satisfied
with the loyalty of Benjaman II.
Bristow-so am l; but If any man
nominated by this convention cannot
carry the State of Massachusetts l
am not satisfied with the loyalty OF
that State. If the nomination of this
convention cannot carry the grand
old Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
by seventy five thousand majority,
| would advise them to sell out
Fapeuil Hall as a Democratic head
uarters. l would advise them to take
from Bunker Hill that old monu-
ment of glory.
The Republicans OF the United
States demand as their leader in the
great cotest of 1876 a man of in
tellect, a man of integrity, a man
OF well-known and approved politi-
cal opinion. They demand a states
man. They demand reformer after,
as well as before, the election. They
demand a politician in the highest
and broadest and best sense of that
word. They demand a man acquaint-
ed 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 man broad
enough to comprehend the relations
Of this government to other nations
of the earth. They demand a man
well versed in the powers duties,
and prerogatives of each and every
department of this government.
They demand a man who will sa-
crealy preserve the financial honor
of the United States. One who knows
enough to know that the national
debt must be paid through the pros
perity of this people. One who knows
enough to know that all financial
theories in the world can not redeem
e single dollar. One who knows
enough to know that all the money
must be made, not by law, but by Ia
Dor. 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.
The Republicans of the United
States demand a man who knows
that prosperity and resumption. when
they come, must come together.
When they come they will come hand
in hand through the golden harvest
fields; hand in hand by the whirlins
spindle and the turning wheel; hand
in and past the open furnace doors;
hand in hand by the flaming forges;
hand in hand by the chimneys filled
with eager fire by the hands of the
countless sons of toll. This money
has got TO be dug out of the earth. !
You can not make it by passing res
buttons in Il political meeting.
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 will
ufAfA lA III anu "iAi nv
protect its protectors is disgrace to
the map OF the world. They demand
a man who believes 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
hat their candidate shall have a GER
ificate OF moral character signed by
, Confederate Congress. The man
who has in full-heaped and rounded
measure all of these splendid quail
icatiOns is the present grand and
;ailaut leader of the Republican par
y-James G. Blaine,
Our country crowded with the
asst and marvellous achievements of
Is first century. asks for man
rorthy of her past-prophetic of her
uture: asks for a man who has the
udacity of genius; asks for man
tho is the grandest combination OF
aart conscieneq and brains beneath