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��hand past the open furnace doors ; hand in hand by the flaming forges ; hand in hand by the chim- neys filled with eager fire by the hands of the countless sons of toil. This money has got to be dug out of the earth. You can not make it by passing resolutions in a political meeting.

The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this government should pro- tect every citizen at home and abroad; who knows that any government that will defend its defenders and will not protect its protectors is a disgrace to the map of the world. They de- mand a man who believes in the eternal separa- ration and divorcement of church and school. They demand a man whose political reputation is spotless as a star; but they do not demand that their candidate shall have a certificate of moral character signed by a Confederate Con- gress. The man who has in full-heaped and rounded measure all of these splendid qualifica- tions is the present grand and gallant leader of the Republican party — James G. Blaine.

Our country, crowned with the vast and mar- velous achievements of its first century, asks for a man worthy of her past — prophetic of her future; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius; asks for a man who is the grandest combination of heart, conscience, and brains be- neath the flag. That man is James G. Blaine.

For the Republican host led by that intrepid man there can be no such thing as defeat.

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