Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-23
MORE COMMENTS ON SPEAKER
BLAINE'S SPEECH.


The comments upon Mr.. Blaine's Sara
toga speech are remarkably commendato-
ry, especially from the New York papers,
where its force and pdngency are better
felt, on account of its adaptation to mat
tiers in that State. We copy the following
editorials in two more of the leading pa
pers of the State. The Commercial Adj
yertiser says:
The Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives used to be a very important parsonage
in the United States His position is next to
that of President. In shaping the Legislature
of the country he is even more powerful thar
the President We have had more ability il
the Speakers chair than we have had in thu
White House in the last eighty years. Grea
men have better chance for the Speaker
chair than for the Blue Room. Mr.. Blaine
is among the most accomplished presiding
officers who have honored the office of Speak.
er. He is a gentleman of great purity Of
character, clear headed, sagacious, broad,
grasping and elevated in his views, and among
the most astute politicians of the country.
He has greater honors before him. OF
course, when a man of position speaks the
country listens. His Speech last evening, at
Saratoga, was in all respects what might be
expected from Mr.. Blaine. He is what Arte-
mus Ward would have called mo SLOUGH.
q He has the happy faculty of getting at the
truth of thing, that is in refreshing contrast
to the habit Of those orators WHO sail airily
around subject, and leave their readers in
as much ignorance of it at the end as they
were at the beginning. Yesterday he re-
lieved the ennui of the Saratogians by little
speech that abounds in nudgets of political
wisdom.
The next which we copy is from the
Albany journal. Such encomiums as
these, and from such sources, speak well
for Mr.. Blaine, but the writhing of the
democratic editors under his plain truths
are the best evidence of the power of his
speech.
We publish in another column the able and
admirable address of Speaker Blaine in re-
Spouse to the complimentary serenade at Sar.
atoga last evening. Like all the efforts OF
that robust and vigorous statesman, it is crisp
pungent and weighty. 1t sweeps with rapit
but searching glance ever the salient ques
tions of the hour, and draws the contrast OF
Republican honesty and Democratic profiga
cy in sharp and vivid outlines.
Mr.. Blaine strikes the keynote of the cam
paign in his pregnant reference to Washing
ton and New York. 1t is but touch, vet !,
trenshant touch which tells the story. l
suggests to every mind the whole compass O
opposing character and radical difference
involved in the contrast. The Republican
party supreme at Washington with two hun
dred and fifty millions of the debt paid in tw
years and half-the Democratic party su
preme at New York with hundred million
added to the debt in the same time. Look OF
this picture and on that AS the Speaker hap
PLY says, the facts carry their own argumen
and enforce their 0axn conclusions. All in
telligent men perceive the one and no homes
man can resist the other. The Republican
party stands before the people, approved ant
applauded in record which is impregnable-
the Democratic party, odious, rotten and con
demned. tss 4st
Vital as is the difference upon this point
it is only specimen of that which extend
over the whole range Of public questions. 1
Democracy means plumber at the North, il
means terrorism st the South If it signifies
warfare upon religious freedom, and upon
the common right of assemblage in New
ioIk, 1t signifies crusade against equal
rights and the just protection of all classes OF
ciuzens IN Charleston. Tammany and the
hu,hiux are twin progeny of Democratic
laithiuiness In the obligations which rest upon
All men and all parties, Mr.. Blaine pointed
~ charges the Democracy of the North with
being the sponsors of the wrongs which
prevail at the South, and emphasizes the in
dictmeDts with the strong but Just declare
ton that the representatives of the party
could by a single manly, expression command
peace.
One fact was impressed upon every person
present. Mr.. Blaine addressed an audience
made up Of intelligent men of both parties
coming from every section. He INDUCED in nc
indiscriminate and reckless denunciations o.
his political adversaries. Recognizing homes
individual democrats, he appealed to the can
did Judgment of his hearers when he charged
these wrongs upon the undoubted representa-
tives and controlling leaders of the party
And the suggestive fact was that with such al
audience bis strong rebuke Of the TammaDy
and his sharp criticisms upon the
10 the New York mob evoked
bursts Of enthusiastic applause which came
from the whole assemblage.--