The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-10-31
miscellaneous.
Henry W. Beecher on Blaine.
A Scathing Fire at the Great Official
JObber.

A large meeting of Independent Republicans
was held in Brooklyn, on the 22d instant, at
which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke at
length. He referred to his devotion to the
Republican party from its earliest days, and
added II am now opposing the party
whose cradle rocked because l don't mean
to be pallbearer to carry the coffin of the
party to the grave" Other extracts from his
| speech are as follows:
| DANGER FROM oFFICE-HoLDERs.
"The great danger to which the Govern
ment is exposed is the organizing of the Of
| fice.holders and drilling them into compact
body, not for the public good but for the ben
eft of the party. These ffice.holders are
under the control of the party and in the year
1900 there will be multitudes more than the
| 1000 900 who do the wish of the Republican
party. Civil-service reform has been estab-
lished to meet this end. W hen first it was
originated the politicians were opposed to it.
1t became system nevertheless. The system
has been heretofore to give public Office as a
reward for service to the party. Has Mr..
Blaine ever done anything for Civil Service
Reform9 From under his roof one of the
| greatest of women writers has issued publ.
cation ridiculing this Civil Service Reform
issue and the men who champion it. 1t was
composed under Mr.. Blaine's roof l say and
under his very eye in my judgment. Did he
ever advocate this reform? Did he ever do
anything in its behalf but praise Garfield and
accept the platform which Endorsed him."
| ATTEMPTING TO BUY THE PRESIDENCY.
ave hear good deal of the protection of
the workingman, when the government seems
to be only one vast scheme of taxation. One
hundred millions lie in the treasury to-day
useless, powerless, motionless. 1t is sur
| prisng that it is not used to grind
out voters for the great Republican
party. Thousands of men are holding out
their hands to be bought, and after they have
put their ballots into the box they 60 home
with smiling faces and say their prayers.
Money makes the mayor to go-and the cleo
tons. To-day an attempt is being made to
buy candidate into the presidential cbaiy
with money. One or two millions of dollars
have been rolled into Ohio to get it, and now
another million is to be rolled into Indiana.
| BLAINE AS A REFoRMER.
"What reformer Mr. Blaine would make
in all these matters, wouldn't he? daughter
He wouldn't let Dudley go out West to teach
the people of Ohio how to vote, would he :?
teaching them how to bow down before the
golden calf. He wouldn't allow Congress to
| give lands to speculative railroads, would he !?
| Uaughter) He would not allow corpora
| tons to cheat the Government of its Just
dues, would he? (Laughter) He would seize
the great transcontinental railroad by the
throat and help Thurman (applause)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to strike it down.
You know he would, don't you? Great
laughter) What sort of candidate is it
whose name connected with an honest trans
action is laughed to scorn by hundreds of
thousands all over the land? If the sluices
are to be opened; if bribery is to be the order
of politics if excessive taxation is to be kept
up, there can be no better selection for Pres.
ident than James G. Blaine. He advised re-
pudiation in West Virginia, and he advised
making the whisky tax permanent for educa-
tional purposes. Every step he has taken in
finance has been followed by a roar of laugh
ter over the whole continent, and yet we are
| talking of the craftsmanship of Mr.. Blaine
| Derisive laughter.)
| NOT THE RIGHT MAN.
| For twelve years l have watched him,
anxious that he should be the right man that
he is not. (Applause.) For more than ten
years have been afraid of the mana man
that needed Congressional committee 10 in
vestigate whether lie was honest or not; a
man rejected by one convention, rejected by
another convention because it feared that the
stories that men around him would make
public would prevent his election, us it will
now that the third convention has nomi-
mated him.
| MAN OF STERLING HONESTY.
| "a man of sterling honesty is Grover
Cleveland. If the Government is to be freed
| from the dangers of complex combination
| that will endanger its future, Cleveland is the
man that will do it, (Applause.) Since he
has become Governor lie has turned one man
out of office. Gov. Cornell had substituted
Stalwart for one-armed soldier. Cleveland
put out the Stalwart and restored the warrior
to his position, (Applause) That's the man
| tor Washington. Some of our friends say:
~ don't like Blaine he was not my choice !;
but he has been nominated by my party and
must not desert the party nominee" What
kind ola party man are you when you will
see your party degraded and damaged, but do
not put forth an effort to save it? AS vet
the Republican party has not, like the man
in the Bible, fallen among thieves, but the
thieves are after it. (Applause) If you are
faithful Republicans, see to it that the party
suffers no detriment. No more injury could
be done than to choose bad leader first
(Applause) Would you vote for Tweed
logic of this is infamous. The man who
practses such principles ought not to go
home until he has bathed and cleansed him
self thoroughly. (Applause) They say we
don't wish to leave our party. We don't
wish you to do so. We wish you to become
Independent Republicans. (Applause.) They
seek to raise the party to higher moral
grounds. (Applause) They are the men
who seek TO maintain the purity of the party.
(Applause) They are trying to get it out of
the mud. Applause
THOSE DAMNING CHARGES.
"To elect Mr.. Blaine under all the charges
made against him, and under his history now
published to the world, is to say to every i'm
pure man, no matter what your life, if you
get the regular nomination, we will put you
into the Presidential chair. (Applause.) Will
you teach your children that lying is not a
i ain2 The truth is the cohesive thing which