St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-28

appreciation of their act, and include espe
ciallyin my thanks the ladies' who have lent
their gracious and skillful aid. The honor
represents three of the most potent infiuen-
ccs in the Republican campaign OF 1884,
the strength which comes from the soldiers
and from the young men, and the sympathy
expressed in so large a degree by the ladies
of the country. The soldiers and the young
men give their voice and their work, the la
dies their countenance and encouragement,
which carries with it Il powerful, wide spread
influence. Please bear back with you the
assurance of my grateful appreciation of the
kindness of those whom you represent on
the occasion, as well as my pleasant memory
of the great and enthusiastic demonstrations
with which the people honored me on the
occasion of my last visit to Rochester.
ELMIRA. n. Y, Oct. 81 At Horn ellsyille
there was a large and enthusiastic crowd.
Mr.. Blaine discussed at some length the re-
lations of the southern question of tariff to
protection substantially in the same vein as
his speech at Elmira in the evening. At
Canesto and Corning brief stops were made,
and at each place Blaine spoke very
briefly in acknowledgement of the re-
ception given him. At Corning there
was a large crowd. 1t was about o'clock
when the train araivcd at Elmira. Before
reaching the depot he left the train in COM
pany with ex-senator Platt and other gentle
men, and was driven to the house of Mr.. J
d. +. Slee, whose guest he is in Elmira.
After supper he came down to the stand
facing the public park. The park
and adjacent streets were crowded,
Indeed, the whole city was seeming
by so. When Mr.. Blaine appeared he was
received with tumultuous cheers. He had
come TO the stand to review torchlight pro-
cession, but the people demanded speech,
and in response he again, as at Horne ellsville,
spoke of the relation between the solid south
and the tariff question. In the course of
his remarks Blaine said:
The approaching election in the south will
exhibit an extraordinary spectacle for a re-
public to witness. The colored voters of the
southern states number almost a million.
They are a very large element in every one
of the eleven states of the late confederacy,
and in four of them, South Carolida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana they consti-
tute an absolute majority of the people. They
are with practical unanimity supporters of
the Republican party, yetso entirely is their
freedom of suffrage destroyed that no one
expects these states or any one of them to
Be carried by the Republican party, and this,
despite the fact that the colored majority is
sustained by not inconsidarable percent
age of white votes in each
of these states named. 1t is
not to be forgotten in this connection that
by the last census the southern states ac-
quired thirty seven electoral votes for presi-
dent and vice-prefident by reason of the col
ored population, and 1 submit that it is
rather CALLING to northern feelings and north
ern pride that these thirty-seven votes,
apportioned to the south by
reason of her colored population,
should be absolutely controlled by the
white people, and that the negro, notwithstand-
ing his vast numerical strength, should be
left unrepresented in the electoral college.
1t needs no demonstration to show how
greatly this increases the political power Of
the southern white man, as against the
northern white man. And how soldier of
the late Confederate army living at the south
is thus enabled to WELD a
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