Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-29
Repetition Of Hayes Agony Over the
Poor Negro.
Characteristic Logic on the Wage
Question.

Characteristic Logic on the Wage
Question.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. 1s, 1ss4.-A
large number Of the devoted personal
and political friends of Mr.. Blaine ser-
enaded him this evening, as an express
sion Of personal good will and admira
ton of his conduct of the national
campaign. They marched through the
streets under the marshalship of Col.
Frank Nye. When they reached Mr..
Blaine's house their compliments and
friendly regards were expressed in
speech by Mr.. Herbert Nj. Heath, of
the Kennebec bar. Mr.. Blaine re-
sponded as follows, his speech being
continually interrupted by applause:
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBoRs-The ma
tional contest is over, and by the mar
rowest of margins we have lost. l
thank you for your call, which, if not
one of joyous congratulations, is one,
I am sure, of confidence and of San.
guine hope for the future. thank you
for the public opportunity you give me
to express my sense of obligation, not
only to you, but to all the republicans
of Maine. They responded to my NOM
ination with genuine enthusiasm and
ratified it by superb vote.
count it as one of the hOnOrs and
qualifications of my pub ic career that
the party in Maine, after struggling
hard for the last six years, and twice
within that period losing the state, has
come back in this campaign to an old
fashioned 10000 plurality. No other
expression of popular confidence and
esteem could equal that OF the people
among whom l have lived for thirty
years, and to whom am attached by
all the ties that ennoble human nature
and give joy and dignity to life. After
Maine-indeed along with Maine-my
first thought is always of Pennsylvania.
How can l fittingly express my thanks
for that unparalleled majority of more
than eighty thousand votes, popular
Endorsement which has deeply touched
my heart, and which has, if possible,
increased my affection for the grand
old commonwealth, an affection which
Inherited from my ancestry and which
shall transmit to my children. But l
do not limit my thanks to the state of
my residence and the state of my birth.
| owe much to the true and Jealous
friends in New England who worked
SO mobly for the republican party and
its candidates, and to the eminent
scholars and divines who, stepping
aside from their ordinary avoca,ions.
made my cause their cause, and to 10y
atty to principle added the special COM
pliment of standing rs my personal
representatives i'll tl.e national struggle.
But the achievements for the repub-
lican cause i'll the east are even snrpas-
sed by the splendid victories in the
west. In that magnificent Gordon of
states that stretches from the foothills
Of the Alleghanies to the Golden Gate
of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio
and ending with California, the repub.
lican banner was borne SO loftily that
but single state failed to join in the
wide acclaim of triumph.
THE EMPIRE STATE, TOO.
Nor should l do justice to my own
feelings if failed to thank the repub-
! licans of the Empire state, who en-
countered s1 many discouragements
and obstacles; who fought toes from
within and foes from without, and who
waged so strong a battle that a change
of one vote in every two thousand
would have gwen us the victory in the
nation. Indeed, change of little more
than five thousand votes would have
transferred New York, Indiana, New
Jersey and Connecticut to the republi-
can standard, and would have made the
north as solid as the south.
My thanks would still be incomplete
| ! / foS tn !, .i.,l
gratitude that great body of working
men, both native and foreign born, who
gave me their earnest support, break
ing from old personal and party ties,
and finding in the principles which
represented in the canvass the safe
guard and protection of their own fire.
side interests.
The result of the election, my friends,
will be regarded in the future, think,
rs extraordinary The northern states,
leaving out the cities of New York and
Brooklyn from the count, sustained the
republican cause by majority of more
than 400, ,000-almost half a million, in.
deed-of the popular vote. The cities
of New York and Brooklyn threw theii
great strength and influence with the
solid south and were the decisive ele.
ment which gave to that section the
control of the national government.
DEMAGOGUE ALWAYS.
Speaking now, not at all as defeat.
ell candidate, but simply as loyal and
devoted American, think tie transfer
OF the political power of the govern.
ment to the south is great national
misfortune. 1t is a misfortune because
it Introduces an element which cannot
insure harmony and prosperity to the
people, because it Introduces into re-
public he rule of minority. The first
instinct of an American is equality
equality OF right; equality of privilege,
equality of political power-that equal
ity which says to every citizen, "Your
vote is Just as good, just as potential as
the vote of any other CITIZEN" That
cannot be said to-day in the United
States. The course of affairs III the
South has crushed out the political pow.
er of more than six million American
citizens, and has transferred it by yio-
lence to others. Forty-two presidential
electors are assigned to the south on
account OF the colored population, and
yet the colored population, with more
than one million one hundred thou
| sand legal votes have been unahle n