The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-21
WELCOME TO JAMES G, BLAINE.

WELCOME TO JAMES G. BLAINE.
To-day at least, indianapolis is the center
of the Republic. The presence Of the peoples
tribune and American statesman, James G.
Blaine, and the grand reception that will be
given him to-day by the people of central In
diana, draw toward this city the eyes of all
the people, That the city, reinforced by the
country, will reflect credit upon Indiana in
this demonstration there is no question.
Realizing the full stature of the man from
Maine, the people everywhere have been quick
to show their appreciation. Even the oppo
sition has been compelled to admit his tower
ing proportions and to honor him as orator
and statesman. Not since the days of Henry
Clay has man arisen SO eminently fitted for
leadership, so thoroughly equipped as an
orator and diplomatic, so popular with the
masses on account of his achievements in the
halls of national legislation, as is James G.
Blaine, the present guest Of the Hoosier State.
Breasting tide of calumny that would in
steadily and confidently upward to the high
Office to which he is about to be called. AS
sured of the justice and wisdom of his posi-
ton on all the great questions of the day, he
has seen fit to go out among the people and to
freely talk with them face to face,
winning new friends and admirers
wherever he goes. Orator, statesman,
diplomatic, historian, President-such will be
the record of this wonderful man. Twenty
years already in national public life, and no
blot upon the record from title page to the last
line written. His enemies and the enemies of
his party have searched the record in vain.
Defeated in the attempt to find something in
his life as public servant on which to hang
an excuse for his rejection by the people, they
have been driven to the production of his pri-
vate business affairs, and even in that, aided
by garbled correspondence and suborned wit
nesses, the worst that has been shown is that
he was once interested in a railway specula-
ton in which he lost considerable money!
His record, written before the eyes of all the
people, and compared with that of any other
man who has accomplished or attempted to
accomplish the 1.-THE of what he has, is abso-
lutely unsurpassed. In ability the peer of
the largest men of his time, in aggressiveness
possessed Of a spirit that brooks no opposition,
he has already won inperishable fame
Scholarly, eloquent, prince among soeiable
men, he stands nearer the great body Of the
people in this Republic than any other living
man. To the honor of the country let it be
said that his election seems to be already as
sured; that this mighty, ambitious, progressive
people will choose as their representative be-
fore the world a man the peer of the worlds
great leaders; that Americans have selected a
man who shall be to them what Bismarck is
to Germany, what Gambetta was to France
what Gladstone is to England, what Gortscha
koff was to Russia; man fit to represent the
great American Republic in any court in the
world, in any council of empires and king
doms; man tall in the age in which he lives
and qualified in every essential for every duty
that may devolVe upon the chosen head Of
this people That his reception here will be
generous and in proportion to the significance
of the coming of so distinguished a publcist
as Blaine has proved himself to be there re-
mains no doubt. Let the city's hospitality be
lavishly displayed, and every effort made to
the city and the man with their presence.