The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-22
MR.. BLA1NE's SPEECH.
He Is Overwhelmed by the Magnifeence o.
the Gity's Greeting.

He Is Overwhelmed by the Magnifeence of
the Gity's Greeting.
Immediately upon Mr.. Blaine reaching the
stand he was presented by Governor Porter,
and SO soon as the tremendous cheering sub
sided, spoke as follows:
Friends and Fellow citizens: l feel that such
o magnificent reception as that which have had
to-day in the capital of Indiana is so complete
Ia itself that speech cannot add to its effect,
and that should content myself with Offering
you, as do, my profound and heartfelt thanks.
IiCso on!' and cheers In no State of the Union,
in no city of the Union could such a reception
and such a welcome be more significant in
itself, or more eratefulto me personally. lGreat
eheefing1
1--WE stand onthe eve of an important national
election, an election in whose decision Indiana
viii have potential voice. Well settle it ]
She is looked to by our opponents, she has
been in former years, as an ally of the solid
South against her sister States of the North
[tNever.
tsSince the election in West Virginia the Dem
oeratic party count upon solid vote in the
South, and may bepermitted to express the
opinion that no more unpatrotic thing
can be done than for the Northern men to
urge continued qualification, based upon the
memories of the rebellion tGreat cheering. /
1t has been the aim and the desire of the Repub-
sican party to develop the material interests of
the South and TO make her people forget, and the
Nation forget that we have ever been foes; re-
membering only that we are citizens of Accom-
mon Union, under a common Constitution, look
ing to a common destiny. tCheers. But
our opponents meet us in an entirely
| different spirit and with an entiPely different
cause of action. Instead of the memories of
the Union, they invoke the prejudices of the
rebellion in their aid, and they ask that New
York and Indiana shall Join the I'M
holy alliance, and turn the national gov
eminent over to the South. Never 'never ]
| i do not believe 1t can be done. No no,
never'l l do notlbelieve Indiana will do that
under its present leadership any more than it
would have done the same thing under the lead
ership of Oliver P. Morton, the badge of whose
memorial club am proud towear. Placing his
hand on his breast Enthusiastic cheeringl
ITO say nothing of its significance in other as
pects the triumph of the Southern element in
the Democratic party clearly means the triumph
of freeltrade. Itemeans the breaking down Of
the great industrial system which has enriched
the United States so marvelously in the
last twenty three years, and which has enriched
your own State ia equal degree with other States
Indiana has grown into superb Commonwealth
great in her population. great in her enterprise
great in her wealth. Not even known beyond
her own borders as manufacturing State
when the Republican party came into power in
1861, she now turns outl in single year one
hundred and fifty million dollars worth of
manufactured products. Cheers The devel-
opment, therefore, of your manufacturing re-
sources, dependent, as it Is, upon q protective
of the State. A community that combines agr-
culture and manufactures has the necessary CON
ditions for attaining anideal prosperity. j can
remember mysef-and / am not an old man
the time when, in my native State of Pennsyl-
vaiiia, Governor Ritner was laughed at for say
ing that the day would come when Pennsylva-
MIA would not be able to supply breadstufs and
provisions to the miners in her mountains and
Che factories in her towns yet that day came
long ago, and Pennsylvania, the first wheat
State in tine Union as late as 1885, depends to-
dav for large share of her breadstufs upon the
granaries of the West Cheers When Indiana
shall huve developed manufacturing enterprise
to such o degree as to be able to consume her
own agricultural products, she will have attained
an ideal prosperity, and she can do that only by
means of q protective tariff. Renewed cheers
1.-THE issue rs in your hands. You are free
men. You have a free ballot; but in the South,
we have million of friends who have not a free
ballot The South to-day has 81 electoral votes,
based upon the vote of tho colored men, yet
the eoloTbd men Of the South, though million
in number, cannot choose a single presidential
electtr T'ThaTs sol AS result Of that, the
political power of a white man in the South is
enormously increased beyond that of a
white man In Indiana or in
Mime For the time being we will
not argue at all the question of negro suffrage,
but submit as fair proposition, to every man
in tae dand that if the South is 90 have thirty
seven presidential electors by reason Of the negro
vote then the negro himself ought to be allowed
to cast his ballot. That's it,! and cheers
The issue is in your hands. Indiana. as said
when began, will have a potential voice in the
decision, and from the popular demonstrations