. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. he entered thatbody ; and while he was there, without any disrespect toanybody else, whenever a stranger was called on to pointout a great man, one of the Senate of the United States, heinvariably pointed to Allen G. Thurman, who carried hisred bandana handkerchief. [Loud applause.] Gentlemen,we are entering upon the battle, the war is on. We wantno Plumed Knight, clad in holiday armor of tournamentfighting for his fair ladys braid of hair. You want anAjax, with helmet and spear, to thunder along the lin
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. he entered thatbody ; and while he was there, without any disrespect toanybody else, whenever a stranger was called on to pointout a great man, one of the Senate of the United States, heinvariably pointed to Allen G. Thurman, who carried hisred bandana handkerchief. [Loud applause.] Gentlemen,we are entering upon the battle, the war is on. We wantno Plumed Knight, clad in holiday armor of tournamentfighting for his fair ladys braid of hair. You want anAjax, with helmet and spear, to thunder along the line anddeal death-giving blows to foes w^hom we meet. [Applause.]Allen G. Thurman is a man in thought, in intellect, incourage, in statesmanship, in adherence to constitutionallaw, in defience of the rights of the masses, in defiance ofthe power of monopoly, in defiance of the corruptions of theage. Who to-day stands as the peer of Allen G. Thurman,unless it be that man who has passed away from the arenaof politics, Mr. Tildcn?* [Applause.] When Delaware was called, Mr. Gray of Delaware. 544 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ascended the platform, and being introduced by the Chair-man, said: *Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: —I am instructed to present to you the name of a man worthyto receive the nomination for the exalted position of Presi-dent of these United States. [Loud applause.] I do so,Mr. President and gentlemen, with a deep and realizingsense of the great responsibility that rests upon this Con-vention, and upon every member of it, to so act that thegreat opportunity that God Himself, we reverently believe,has given us, may not pass away unimproved—act that thelight which illuminates our horizon may not be darkened,but may grow and increase into the noon-day splendor ofvictory in November. **The career of the Republican party, marked as it hasbeen by reckless disregard of every constitutional right andevery dear right that belongs to the people, fittingly c
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