The Portland daily press., 1884-06-23

army which on 800 battlefelds helped to de-
| strOY and break down the idea of State lines
| in all such a sense as that. He favored Sher-
| man because his judgment was that his nom
| nation was best calculated to promote the
| interests and secure the success OF the Re
publican party i'm this Campaign of 'S4. We
| came away, said he, Blaine men simply
because that convention persuaded us that
| we were mistaken in our judgment. The
people had preceded us there, and that voice
that came up from all the States and Terri
tories and the District of Columbia, which
| you must never forget Qaughter) was that
your illuStriOus fellow citizen should have
his turn in 1884 You might as well try to
dam the waters of the Mississippi river as to
have tried to prevent the nomination of
James G. Blaine. (Applause) When we
went there we had right to have our prefer
ences. Yea, it was our duty as delegates
representing our several constituencies to
there give voice to whatever our preference
might be. Itwas our duty to carefully and
dispassiOnately consider the merits Of all the
names mentioned in connection with the
nomination, and at the same time it was our
duty to submit that question to the deter
mination of the convention, and when deter
mined 1t then became the duty of every
Republican, OF every man who calls himself
q Republican, no matter whether he sat as q
delegate or not, to see to it that everything
that is possible for him to do is done to
secure the election of the nominee of that
convention, Great applause.) You are here
tonight in the line of that duty. am re.
joiced that am able tonight to eonscien-
tiously say that in my Judgment it is duty
most easy to perform. The election of James
G. Blaine is not only not a difficult thing to
perform, but in my opinion it is already prac-
tieally accomplished. (Applause) About
regard to it is to await election day and then
go through the ceremony of election. The
labor of procuring the votes to secure that
election has already been done by James G.
Blaine himself (Applause,) He has done it
by twenty-five years of arduous public ser
vice, by an illustriOuS public career that has
made him the idol of the American people,
q career that has made for him a name and
fame that is known not only all over the
United States, but all over the civilized
world; a man who is everywhere, by Demo
Gratis as well as Republicans, regarded as the
foremost American statesman of modern
times. Applause)
But as my friend Mr. Filley has said, thera
are some men that won't vote for Mr.. Blaine.
have no doubt about that. On the contrary,
l never really expected that we should be able
to get for James G. Blaine the entire unani-
nous vote OF the Democratic party daughter
and applauss.) Neither do expect we shall
get for him the vote Of every man who calls
himself a Republican. expect history in re-
gard to this matter as in all other cases will re-
psat itself. remember in 1864, when this ma
ton was encompassed by war, and when the
integrity Of the Union depended on the cleo
ton of Abraham Lincoln there we're men who
called themselves Republicans who said thss
would not and who did not vote for him. And
so it has been until Grant and Hayes and Gar
field. II there is any Republican in this coun-
try who is so short-sighted as to refuse TO lend
his support to Blaine in this campaign, he will
not have to live very long before he will regret
that act on his part (Applause) Talk Of not
eecting Blainel Why it needed only Eve DAYS
to beat the old ticket and knock Samuel j.
Tilden out of the ring. (Applause) And
when he beat the old ticket he had already
beaten the new one. read an editorial In
New York paper the other day in which the
editor demanded the nomination of Grover
Cleveland and Mr.. Hoadly. One the Governor
of New York, and the other Governor Of the
state l ought to have been Governor of.
(Laughter.) He wanted Cleveland because
among other many virtues he possessed the
great one of having no record whatever on the
tariff question. just think Of i'll A man who
has lived to be fifty years old, long enough to
have been Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of
the State of New York, and hasn't lived long
enough to have taken any position whatever
on question of such vital importance that it
comes home to every manufacturer, every me-
chanic: every artisan and every farmer
He recommended Mr.. Hoadly for the sec
ond place on the ground that while it was true
he had tariff record, yet he stood on that Pc
culiar plank called the Ohio platform. The
popularity Of that plank is that it is a double
ender Laughter) 1t looks both ways. II
you want free trade man, here am, I am
standing on the platform, on the free trade
end. II you want protective tariff man am
standing on the protective end of the same
plank. Oaughter) Judge Foraker continu-
ed in the same line for some time and 1t was
twenty minutes past ten when he closed amid
round Of applause.
Immediately after the meeting the visitors
took carriages from City Hall to the Eastern
railroad station, and left for Boston on a spec
ial train at lilo p. m.