Portraits of Republican and Democratic Candidates
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Portraits of Republican and Democratic Candidates: With the Nominating Speeches, and Sketches of the Lives of the Candidates The following is the speech of Judge West, of Ohio, presenting the name of Mr. Blaine as a candidate for the Presidency: As a delegate in the Chicago Convention of 1860, the proudest service of my life was performed by voting for the nomination of that inspired emancipator, the first Republican President of the United States. Applause. Four and twenty years of the grandest history of recorded times has distinguished the ascendancy of the Republican party. The skies have lowered, and reverses have threatened. Our flag is still there, waving above the mansion of the Presidency, not a stain on its folds, not a cloud on its glory. Whether it shall maintain that grand ascendancy, depends upon the action of this great council. With bated breath a nation awaits the result. On it are fixed the eyes of 20, 000, 000 of Republican freemen in the North. On it, or to it, rather, are stretched forth the imploring hands of 10, 090, 000 of political bondmen of the South applause while above, from the portals of light, is looking down the immortal spirit of the immortal martyr who first bore it to victory, bidding to us hail and God-speed. Applause. Six times in six campaigns has that banner triumphed that symbol of union, freedom, humanity and progress; some time by that silent man of destiny, the Wellington of American arms wild applause tlast by him at whose untimely taking-off a nation swelled the funeral cries and wept above great Garfields grave. Cheers and applause. Shall that banner triumph again? Commit it to the bearing of that chief a voice: James G.Blaine, of Maine. Cheers commit it to the bearing of that chief, the inspiration of whose illustrious character and great name will fire the hearts of our young men, stir the blood of our manhood and rekindle the fervor of the veteran, and the closing of the seventh campaign will see that holy ensign spanning the sky like a bow of promise. Cheers. Political conditions are changed since the accession of the Republican party to power. The mighty issues of struggling freedom and bleeding humanity which convulsed the continent and aroused the republic rallied, united and inspired the forces of patriotism and the forces of humanity into one consolidated phalanx. These great issues have ceased their contentions. The subordinate issues resulting therefrom are settled and buried away with the dead issues of the past. The arms of the Solid South are against us. Not an electoral gun can be expected from that section. If triumph come, the Republican States of the North must furnish the conquering battalions from the farm, the anvil, the loom; from the mine, the workshop and the desk; from the hut of the trapper on the snowy Sierra, from the hut of the fisherman on the banks of the Hudson. The Republican States must furnish these conquering battalions if triumph come. Does not sound political wisdom dictate and demand that a leader shall be given to them whom our people will follow, not as conscripts advancing by funereal marches to certain defeat, but a grand civic hero whom the souls of the people desire, and whom they will follow with all the enthusiasm of volunteers, as they sweep on and onward to certain victory? In this contention of forces, to whose candidate shall be intrusted our battle flag? Citizens, I am not here and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I abate one tithe from the just fame, integrity and public honor of Chester A. Arthur, our President. Applause. I abate not one tithe from the just fame and public integrity of George F.Edmunds applause of Joseph R.Hawley applause of John Sherman applause of that grand old black eagle of Illinois. Here the speaker was interrupted several moments by prolonged applause. And I am proud to know that these distinguished Senators whom I have named have borne li
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