Word: republican
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Over 200 persons assembled in Sever 11 on Thursday evening to hear the Union debate the question: Resolved, That the best interests of the Republican party require the renomination of J. G. Blaine for President...
...Griffin opened the argument for the affirmative. The first object of the Republican party, said he, is to carry the national elections in 1888, and this can be done with the greatest certainty by nominating James G. Blaine for President. (Applause.) The speaker then traced the honorable course of Mr. Blaine in the Maine legislature during the war, and his career afterwards in the House of Representatives where he was three times elected speaker. He was prominently connected with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. His popularity with the Republican party was evinced...
...Blaine would go before the country as a defeated candidate, and he would have a divided party behind him. Those who have once become mugwumps never go back, and in 1888 it will be far easier to break party affiliations than ever before. If Blaine is nominated, the Republican party, except in name, will be at an end. (Applause...
Question: "Resolved, That the Best Interests of the Republican Party require the Nomination of James G. Blaine...
...Resolved, That the best interests of the Republican party requires in 1888 the nomination of James G. Blaine...