Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-24
Massachusetts.
Blaine On the Maine Question.

Blaine On the Maine Question.
 BOSTON, Jan. 23.-James G. Blaine was the guest of the Massachusetts Club today. After dinner being called upon to speak, he said that whatever victory had been gained in Maine, and whatever value attached to that victory to that State and for other States, be- longed to the entire Republican party of the State. They resisted the outrage as one man aud the party knows no division. The Re- publican party of Maine fought the question not as one of party, but as one underlying the great rights of republican government throughout the country. After paying Gen. Chamberlain high compliment he said there was not day in the contest they were not vastly stronger party physically, in which had violence been used they should not have been able to quell it, and if it had been select ed as mode of decision they could at any time have been victorious. But the Rspubli- cans were anxious above all things to demon strate to themselves first and to the world outside that republican government, when put to the test, was strong enough in It's own laws to guard it's own place and secure it's own rights. He concluded by saying that it was not triumph of the men of Maine, but of that character which has been forming on lu0bo buOE05 huu uu06E buO AubblbutlOHs Ol LUG six New England States for two and quarter centuries, and which brought the fruit of peaceful victory under the forms of law.
 Speeches were made by Hon. M. P. Wilbur, Governor Jewell of Connecticut, and others. D. R. Locke Petroleum V. Nasby) made a humorous speech, in which he referred to Blaine as the greatest "-"; no, the second greatest man in the world. He said the Re- publicans owed the victory in Ohio to Blaine and the Toledo Blade. Hon. Harvey Jewell made speech concerning the Supreme Court Of Maine which brought Blaine again praise could not be given to the judfc- iary of Maine. My predecessor said Governor Garcelon undertook to apply the rigid exact ness of technicality to the returns. Now, the trouble was that rigid technical exactness was not followed at all, for there was not any rule of technicality given under heaven that, ap- piled clear through impartially, would not trouble was that technicality was applied in one town to defeat the people, an exactly opposite technicality in other towns. The rule that 8 vote for John Burnam was not @ vote for John Burnham was not operative. When Governor Garcelon and his Council came to as well those cast enormously for Alvord Oush- man. We asked the Governor and Council to lay down one rule and stick to it, but they would not. Now, say there is not a we'll meaning or we'll balanced mind in Maine who is not proud of that court, and it is the im- potent malice of defeat that ascribes parti- san character to that court. Our venerable Chief Justice has been thirty years on the bench. Judge Libby has never had any other connection in the world than that of pro- nounced Democrat, and various other of the judges are such moderate Republicans that in years they have scarcely cast 8 vote. Up to this year not the slightest description of par tiSanshiD has been put to them.