Daily globe., 1880-09-29
BLAINE OF MAINE,
TELLING HIS WOES TO THE WEST VIRGINIA.

TELLING HIS WOES TO THE WEST vIRGINIANs.
WHEELING W. v, Sept Ex-senator Jas G..
Blaine, of Maine, spoke here this evening to
an audience of 10000 people. The affair was
the largest meeting and most enthusiastic dem
onstration of the campaign. The assembly was
massed on Chapline and Fifteenth streets and
on the vacantispace at tho north front of the
State house. Senator Blaine said that the present
campaign in the United States is an anomalous
one. Its character ana many of its aspects
without precedent. Never before in a free
government was party in power with abun-
dant prosperity all over The land, whose con-
tinued supremacy was ever seriously contested.
He expected the Republicans to be OF good
cheer, for the people of the United States know
enough to stand still when they stand well.
When the Spanish succession was involved aud
the continental powers of Europe in difficulty.
George the Second expressed a fear for the
safety of his ministry, but Sir Robert Wal
pole assured him that her majesty need have
no fears so long as wheat was sixteen
shillings quarter, and every man scould get
good day wages for good days work. The
Senator would make the same answer. Who
was afraid of the verdict of the people being
unfavorable to the Republicans in the present
campaign? This answer would be conclusive,
but that the Democratic party considers that
material interests, or the the desires of the
constituency, that they own 1873 solid electoral
votes, and, the speaker added, of this 1873 West
Virginia is drafted on for five. West Virginia
he thought needed new proclamation OF
emancipation. 1t needed to be free from this
bad body that is dragging it down
Asking what would happen if Hancock were
elected he gave as one of the evil results re-
volution in the supreme court brought about
to make it sustain the doctrine OF State sover-
eignity. If you elect General Hancock you
enevitably within the space of twelve months
i am not sure that it would not be within
the space of ninety days)-hand over to the
ern men, the control Of the
supreme court of the United States absolutely.
Five of those judges are to-day beyond seventy,
in that neighborhood. They may accept
retirement at full pay. IL they are reluctant
to othat a Democratic President backed by
Democratic Senate and House, would swamp
that court by superior numbers and by way of
advice to the north let me say that n bill is
pending on the calendar of the Senate to make
that court consist OF twenty members. Well,
says my inquiring friend, what of that. Sup
pose the court itself does become Democratic?
Ifyou have honest judges it can make no diff
ference about their politics No, but when
you came to that great class Of political cases
In which are points relative to upholding the
reconstruction of the Southern States, the up-
holding of the constitutional amendments in
which are garnered mp and preserved the fruits
of the war upon these questions, such judges
would be as inevitably and as radically wrong
as the men who fought in the ranks of the
rebel army. (Applause.)
beg you to remem ber that the Democrats
after 1884 bent all their energies to building up
a supreme court that would uphold the State
rights theory, and the first fruits of it was
the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which
slavery was made national. Don't believe for
one moment that you can entrust
though they are honest men. l may say their
honesty is their trouble. They believe in these
doctrines and it this which makes them SO
powerful for mischief.
He said that by fraud and violence the white
Democrats of the South mad prevented the
black Republicans from voting, and further
had by enumeratiug them on the basis of re-
presentation made one white mans vote in the
South as good as two in the North. In Missis-
sippi the vote of four men for Hancock went
as far toward the CD Dice of Pres
ident the votes of nine men
in Ohio for Garfield. He alluded to
the census frauds and said that Lincoln was
abused twenty years ago for saying that this
country could not be perpetuated half slave
and half free. he was now willing to say that
our republic cannot be perpetuated with these
gigantic and systematic frauds engraeftd upon
our INSTITUTIONS. 1t had taken three hundred
years to educate the Anglo Saxon race up to 2
position where they would submit to MAORI
ty of one or two and it was the only race that
will do it to-day. We have been educated to
believe the doctrine that majority of one is
just as strong as majority of million. ZAP
plause.l And say there Is not enough
strength in the allied armies of Europe nor
wealth enough in the united treasures of the
world to make US submit to fraudulent mi
uority. If that be radical make the most of
it. (Applause.l
The speaker reviewed the re cord of the two
parties in the past twenty years in regard to
the tariff and equal political rights, denounced
the interference of English clubs and associ-
ations in our affairs by sending free trade
tracts over here for circulation, saying that he
thought President Hayes would be justified in
instructing Secretary Evarts to protest against
such fragrant bereach of international court
esy.
Referring to Maine, he said if she had not
set the country good example, she had given
them terrible warning. He ascribed the re-
suit there to the liberal use of money in cor
rupt ways by the Fusionists. He warned
his hearers to be on their guard for the same
conduct of the campaign here. He closed with
warm eulogy to Gen. Garfield and an elo-
quent review of the past achievements of the
Republican party. Tonight monster torch
light demonstration is taking place. The res
licences of nearly all Republican citizens are
beautifully Illuminated and decorated and
some 200 uniformed men bearing torches are
in the line