The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-11
GOV. PORTER.

Liberty qndJ Cor. Chico 90 Trlbu


Gov. Albert e.. Porter addressed, tonight, an
immense Republican mass-sneeting and deliv-
cred lengthy and able speech. most OF which,
however, was taken up in discussing questions
relative to the State. He presented scathing
arraignment OF the professions of the Demo-
cratic State Convention, vindcating Republican
management OF public institutions and COM
mending some valuable suggestions to the COM
ing Legislature He showed that the kepubli-
can party I'm Indiana deserved credit for taking
measures toward securing mechanics by first
lien upon work done for wages thereon per-
formed and he recalled in the same connection
that Grover Cleveland had vetoed a mechanics
lien BILL and was fully Sustained in IL by his
party friends The speaker suggested that "a
the burden OF taxation fell upon the farmers
and the owners of small homesteads il wo aid be
well for experienced men chosen by the people
to meet In convention and discuss measures of
reform.
Touching the general issues of the campaign
he said: My objection to the Democratc'party
in recent years is that it is party without con-
victions. IL has had no settled belief upon any
public questions. IL has repeatedly approved
and pledged itself not to disturb measures
achieved by the Republican party, against
which it had waged the fiercest party warfare.
1t is always asking that its past may be for
gotten It's enemy Is memory. The first SEN
tence in its recent platform shows its soreness
about the past The Democratic party of the
Union, through its representatives in national
convention assembled, recognize that as nations
grow older, new issues are born OF time and
progress, and old issues perish Why remind
the people anxiously OF the old issue having
persisted? Banquo perished but his ghost took
| a seat at the banquet table, and the ghost was a
hundred times more narrowing than Dar9uo
had ever been himself. That Is what is the
trouble. 1t is these memories connected with
the old issues that will not down, that haunt
and poster the party. The republican
party has no ghosts OF memory con-
nected with past issues that put it In
dread that the past will be referred TO. A vast
| territory-mother of many States-preserved
| from the presence and faint of unrecompensed
labor; an enemy overcome by the sword vet
more benefited by war than 10 had ever been by
| peace, by being ridded of a destructive system
| of labor and of having had opened to it, IS by
| doors flying wide apart, an enlightened system
| of free and diversified industries: a national
| credit, through the exercise of an undertaking
| good faith, unexampled in the history of ma
! tions: currency, since the issuing OF which no
billholder has ever lost dollar; arbitration
| of a great national dispute. through which, as a
national redress for wrongdOing, there was wrung
from the most warlike nation OF Europe s15, 900,
900 OF treasure; tariff system which, at the be-
ginning of our great civil strife, by setting on
| foot vast system of manufacturing industries
spanned the darkest clouds OF war with the rain
| bow of promise. These past issues have left
| no ghosts to terrify the Republicans. We never
| beg that they shall not be remembered"
| The speech was received with great enthusi-
| asm, particularly the closing tribute to the Re-
publican standard-bearer. If Mr.. Cleveland
| cannot tell, said the speaker, where he stands
| upon this great question, there is one man
whose trumpet has never given forth an uncer-
tain sound--its notes being ever clear and reso-
! nant. You know very well whom i mean
James G. Blaine answers to the description. Be-
ginning life in the humble occupation of
schoolmaster, he has, by the force of his talents
| by the strength and vigor of his character, by
his personal intrepidty, by his irresistible socia
| charms, by that combination OF high and SYM
| pathetic qualities which belongs to rare and fine
natures, made himself one OF the best known
| and best beloved of all the public men in oul
| history. AS Speaker of the House OF Repre-
| sentatives of his adopted State and OF
Congress, distinguished always for the fair
| ness and unerring clearness OF his decisions
| as debater on the floor of each House, when
| ever he entered the lists his plume shining In
front OF the combat as a statesman, long
| known for the surprising breadth and accuracy
| of his political knowledge; as a writer, depict
| ing the incidents and scenes OF a long public
| life, in which he has borne a most conspicuous
| part, rich and perspicuous IN style, copious ano
| accurate in information, just and generous &c
| every one with whom he has ever crossed {
| sword: his home the abode of domestic bliss
| and hospitality-its hospitable doors open alike
| 10 friend and foe-the btterest adversary in his
warm and JOYOUS presence forgetting his feuC
| and dssolving into kindness; a citizen of tn,
] United States, broad minded and just towarC
the whole world, vet his whole being pervadeC
| and burning with the American instinct; sc
| frank and open that he Is transparent as the ali
this Is the man whose banner is in our front
| whose plume mods at the head of the colu mn
and under whose leadership we expect TO move
| To victory"