The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-08
BLAIAE'S ADDRESS.
The Ex-Secretary Opens the Maine
Campaign in Speech at
Portland.
The Record Of the Republican Party
Most Earnestly and EIOquently
Defended.


Maine and the State Council he said:
MY particular personal excuse for making
this issue publicly with the Governor is that
he says he is doing precisely with the Coun-
Gil of Maine what the late lamented PreSi-
dent did with the Senate of the United
States; that is, as President Garfield had
great issue with the Senate, so he has one
with the Council Now, to begin with, Pres
ident Garfield never had an issue with the
Senate of the United States; there never was
any difference between them; each respected
the power of the other: each kept within its
own power What the President of the
United States objected to was that Senator
of the United States outside of the Senate
should be dictator OF appointments in
worth anything Gov. PlaiSted would
have to present these seven
Executive Councillors, each demanding
that Apprentices in his Councillor district be-
longed to him Then we would have a par
alel case. But the President of the United
States never made a nomination TO the Sen
ate that he did not accompany it with an
understanding, and when there grew up a
dispute about one nominated he acCompa-
MED it with the repeated declaration that
the Senate had Just as clear a right to con-
firm or reject as he had to noninate that g..
each was absolute within his own sphere.
What the President asked was in a certain
throughout the country; what the President
asked was that the Senate would either con-
firm it or reject it. 1t was demanded that it
should be withdrawn. The President refused
to do this, and said The nomination is
before you, Senators; deal with it in your
discretion. | have no right to ask you to
confirm it; | have no right to ask you
to reject it; but I have the right to
ask you that you will do one or the other,
because the constitution gives me the right
to ask that. Where analogy varies is that
Gov Plaisted wanted to strike grand heroic
position, and parade himself as the shadow
of the late President Garfield President
Garfield nominated William E. Chandler,
present Secretary of the Navy, for Solicitor
General-the second Office in the Law De-
partInent of the Government, next i'll rank
to that of Attorney General-and, after q
contest in the Senate, the nomination OF
Chandler was defeated What does the Pres
ident say inasnuch as Gov Plasted has put
himself on a parallel line ? Did he turn
around and say to the Senate, well you re-
jected Chandler, and | viii not pay Phillips a
dollar You can't force upon me Solicitor
General" II he had been playing Plaisted,
he would have said, You have got to take
Chandler for Solicitor General or there shall
not be another paid so long rs l am Presi-
dent" Mr. Blaine eulogiZed the Republican
party as follows:
This country tonight, from ocean to
ocean, from lake to gulf, presents degree
of prosperity wide spread, more general,
more firmly based and founded than ever be-
fore in its history Now, do not say that
legislation has brought about all that, but
legislation has aided it, and it certainly has
not hindered it. If you wait for the law to
grow crops, OF to spin cotton, or to forge iron
and steel you wait for a long time; but il
you feel that the law is behind you and above
you and around you, protecting and encom-
aging you, you raise crops and spin cotton
and forge the steel with good deal OF more
assurance of good prices and fair market,
and all that the law could do, and all that u
wise administration of law has been able to
effect can be claimed by the Republican party
without title of dividing the honor with any
other party of the country.
For twenty-oue years past last March the
destiny of the United States of America, in
so far as that destiny ca1f be controlled by %
political party, has been in the keeping OF
the Republican party of the United States,
and if there be greater chapter OF history
written in the annals of human kind would
like for Gov fiaisted, or any other gentle
man sTpp9rng f Mere e Re be SE knd a s3n2Pq II TO
tory in which human progress has been so
rapid in which human rights have been
guaranteed so firmly and enlarged so grand
IL as within that period, l am ignorant OF
where to look for it OF where to find it; and
in this blessed year Of 1882, we find
an opposition made up of two or
three parties. What do they propose to
do? Nothing. The positive measures the
aggressive policies, the definition Of the line,
and the metes and bounds of legislation have
all been taken and subscribed by the Nepub-
lican party, and outside of it we have had
objection and cayilaud bubble aud san1e~,
and all manner of dislIoDOrable ard mean
critics, following, as camp-followers after a
great procession that has gone ahead but
challenge any gentleman to show that in the
whole of the twenty-one years the Demo
cratic party and its various side issues, like
Greenback, and Labor, and other OrganiZa-
tiOnS, has ever proposed a measure that was
able to be materialized i'll the form of a bill
or resolve of the Congress OF the United
States for the advancement Of any public
good.
Whatever may be said of the Republican
party, and that party could be in power
tWenty-one years and not make mistakes,
would be absurd. That party could have
millions of people and not have a dishonest
man among them would be absurd, but,
whatever may be said of the Republican
party, there is one thing that never can be
truthfully said 1t never can be said chat it
was not a brave party 1t never can
be said that it had a drop of towards
blood in it's whole organization. Never
thousand million of dollars incased in the
preiudices of two centuries and representing
the labor element of fifteen States and
Is, 600 of people, stood in the way of the
Union, the Republican party met it with the
sword of justice, and never from that hour
to this never in any crisis that in these full
twenty-one years Of the Republican party's
majority, never in one case has it been un-
willing or unable or afraid to take the re-
sponsibility, and, gentlemen, you pirate Of
the South and of the wrongs done to it,
Why, since Maine was asState, aye, identicaliy
since Maine was State, the date serves me
precisely, coming in on the top of the great
Missouri compromise-tha first wide and
deep agitation of the slavery question-ncy-
er from that hour to this in the sixty-twO
wears that have interviewed, has the feeling
between the North and South been as cordial
.ie tim been when in every county aud d.
ct anil settlement Of the South tlc yer'c*5
.botiOnist and blacklist Republican and
iuskiest African could come and 90 under
inc guarantee of this great constitutional
amendment which the Republican party en-
RATED on the organic law, and we have held
the faith