The Portland daily press., 1884-10-22
An Administr ration of Resent
ment.
How Such n Calamifp May be Averted.
ufr. Biaine's speech mt Fort Wayne,
Indiana.

The audience which gathered in Calhoun
street, Fort Wayne, Ind, Monday evening to
greet Mr.. Blaine was large one. His speech
we give in full; Mr.. Blaine said:
CItisens of Indiana:
The October elections in Ohio and West Virgin
ia have put phase on the national contest, ar
rather they have reproduced an old phase. The
Democratic party as of old consiter now hat they
have solid South again They believe that they
will surely get 50 electoral votes from 16 South.
ern ta es, and then they expect, or they h0ke, or
they dream, that they may secure New YORK and
Indians and III with New York and Indiana add
ed to the solid South they viii seize the govern
ment of the nation. They can't do it. / do not
believe that farmers. business men, manufacturers
me fcbants, mechanics and last of all aud most OF
ALL don't believe that the soldiers Of In0iana
Can be put to that use. Ido not believe that the
men who a ided lusi re and renown TO the name of
your state through four years of bloody war, can
be useh to cali into the administration OF the gov
ernment, men who org 4nized he great rebellion.
In the senate OF the United States, the Democrat
ic party have 81 members, of which number 81
come from the South. OF their strength In the
house of representatives the majority comes from
the SOU h, and now the intention is, with an alb
soutaly solidifed electoral vote from the Sonth,
added to the votes of the two States have named
TO seize the government q the Union mat means
great DEAL it means tha the South furnishes three
fsurtus of the Democratic strength It Will DO gwen
the lead and control OF the ration IN the event oil
a Democratic triumph; it means that the great
financial and industrial systems of the country Z
shall be placed under the direc ion OF the South;
that currency our banks. our ariffs our inter
nal revenue laws-in short, that our whole SYSTEM
upon which the business of the country depends }
Shall be placed under the control of that section 1T
means that the constitutional amendments toy
which they are so bitterly opposed, shall be en-
forced only so far as they may oeieve IN tnem, }
that the natio al credits guaranteed in the four
teenth amendment, that the payment of pensions to-
soldiers Of the Union, as guaranteed in the samei
amendment shall be under th lr control, and what
that control might mean be measured by the
bitterness with which these amendments were res
sisted by the Democra of the South. There is not
..F.ar n hank Of n n
public credit, of PENSIONS not one line of the adj
miuisuratiOn upon which The government is con
Quoted today 10 which the Democrats of the South I
are not recorded as hos lie, aud to give them the
control would mean change the like of which has
not been known in modern times. 1t would be a.
if the dead Stuarts recalled to the throne of
e gand as il the Bourbons were invited to admin
lister the government of the French Republic, al
though tue Florentne dukes should be called back Z
and empowered to govern the great kingdom OF Italy,
such a triumph would be fea full misfortune to-
the South itself That sectiou under the wise adj
ministra ion of the povernment by the Republican,
party has been steadily and rapidly gaining for the
past years in all the elements OF material pros
perty. 1t has added enormously to its wealth since
the close If ths war and has shared fully in the
general advance of the country. To call that Sec
tion tn the rulership of the nation would disturb
its own social and loitcal economy, and rekindey
smouldering psssions and under the peculiar leadN
ers ip which lt would be subjected, 1t would
ganize administration of resent ment, of reprisal
of revenge No greater misfortune than that could \
come to the nation or to the South. 1t would come
as reaction against the progress of liberal prinei
u 6S lu Indb Socbl IL, pfOST6eS 50 Edplu budb tue
Republicans are waging earnest contests in these
st tes whose interests most deInonstrabyl den-
titled with the policy of prot cton. Against the
banefll spectacle of solid South am that
lnuiana will protest and on the whole will Conclude
to stand where she has stood in the past. believe
that You viii stand where you Sc, ,od in the wars
that you VIII stand for principles and poilelesj
which have mad your STATE bloom aud blissonS
as a rose and which have made the Americant
republic in manufactures and in agr culture the
leading alton OF the wo Id CHEERS the leading
nation of the world not merely in material sense I
bat in moral and phanthropic sense, country
in which every m An has a good chance as every
other man, aud which, smong other great gifts, be-
absolutely frse suffrage, you enjoy That suf
frage, md the fourth day of November next you
say for for which party for which policy you
will cast your voJes. (LOud ;ries of "For Blaine,
for Baine') Not me personally. ('Yes, yes."J
No, am not speaking tor myself. No man ever
met with misfortune in being defeated for ths
Presidency while men have met with great mis-
fortunes in being elected to it. 1 am pleading no
personal cause. L am pleading the Cause of the
American people. l am pleading the cause of the
American lar er and the American manufacturer
and the American mechanic and the American la
borer against the world. l am repro4ched by some
exec lont pc pie for appearing before these multi
tudes of my countrymeu, upon the ground that it Is
Inconsistent with the dgnty OF the Office for which
am named 1hsre is no courtier in Europe 80
proud but that he is glad TO Uncover his head in the
presence of his sovereign. So uncover in the
presence OF the only earthly sovereign acknowl-
edge and bow with pride to the free people of
America.