Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-22
Blaine Among the Hoosiers.


Blaine Among the Hoosiers.
LoGANsPoRr Qnd.l, October 2lst.-Mr Blaine
leit Fort Wayne at Sa5 4. NJ. for Indianapolis
ana intervening places. In the party accom-
palIylng MN were Senator Harrison, Hon. VIM.
Mckinley, of Ohio, and JOIN c. New AT HINT
ington there was large crowd. who cheered
Mr. biGlne when he appeared on the rear plat
form. He spoke briefly, urging the great i'm
portanee to the State OF Indiana of having the
protective policy continued. AT Wabash he left
the train, and was driven TO a platform from
which he made another brief speech in the
same vein. The meeting here was also very
large and the people evidently enthusiastic
SECOND DISPATCHl
INDIANAPOLIS, October 2Ist-At Peru. Iogans-
port, kokomo. Upton and NobleSville there
were very large crowds, probably averaging
1900 each, and Blaine was everywhere received
with the most enthusiastic demonstrations Al
each place he spoke briefly upon the great i'm
portance TO Indiana. and to other States that
are developing manufactures, of maintaining
the protective tariff
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
II was about o'clock when the train arrived
i'll indianapolis. The demonstration here II
not the greatest that has yet been made on
hot af been exeeed tour bY HAS otSat certainly
either magnitude or enthusiasm I'M
mediately upon leaving the train Blaine
entered a carriage with Governor Porter, and
was driven in procession, escorted by a large
body of Plumed Knights, through Washington
street, the principal street of Indianapolis Ell
tirely across the city TO Military Park Along
the entire route nearly every building was gaily
decorated. Arrived at the park. Blaine ascend
ed the stand, from which he faced Il great multi
| tude and thereupon being introduced by GOV
ernor Porter, he spoke rs follows:
Friends aud ftlOG cni=eRS. / feel that such
magnificent reception as that which
have had to-day in the capital OF Indiana, is
so complete in itself that speech cannot add 10
its effect, and that should content myself with
nff.A Il,
thanks. I"Go on and cheers In no State OF
the Union, i'll no city of the Union could such
a reception and such a welcome be more sigmiti-
cant in itself, or more grateful 70 me personally
| tGreat cheering We stand ON the eve of an
important national election an election in whose
decision Indiana will have a potential voice.
f. Wen settle il" She is looked to by our
opponents, as she has been in former wears rs
az ally of the " solid South against her sister
States of the North. ['' EeyerH1 Since the
election in West Virginia, the Democratic party
count upon solid vote in the South, and may
| be permitted to express an opinion that no more
unpatriotic thing can be done than for North.
| ern men to urge continued sOlidification based
upon memories of the rebellion Great cheer
| ing.l It has been the aim and desire of tht
Republican party to develop the materia
| interests of the South. and to make
her people forget, and the nation forget thai
| we have ever been foes; remembering only thai
we are citizens of common Union, under Il
| common Constitution, looking to Il common
| destiny. Cheers But our opponents meet II.
| in an entirely different course of action. In
| stead of memories of the Union, they invoke
| the prejudces of the rebellion in their aid and
they ask that New York and Indiana shall joir
the unholy alliance, and turn the National
Government over to the South. Never
never do not believe Indiana will do that
| under its present leadership, any more than il
would have done the same thing under the
! leadership of Oliver p Morton. the badge oi
whose memorial club am proud to wear (pac-
| ing his hand on his breast. Enthusiastic
oh. of
other aspects the triumph of the Northern ele-
ment in the Democratic party clearly means the
| triumph of free trade. 1t means the breaking
down of the great industrial system which has
enriched the United States so maryelousiy i'll
the last twenty-three years, and which has en-
riched your own State in au equal degree with
other States. Indiana has grown into Il superb
| commonwealth, great in her population
| She was not even known beyond her borders as
| Il manufacturing State when the Republican
| party came into power i'll 1860. She now turns
out in single year $50 600 0C0 worth Of manu-
featured products. lCheers.l The development
| therefore of your manufacturing resources de
pendent as it is upon protective tariff is of the
highest interest to every citizen of the State.
/ community that combines agriculture and man
| ufactures has the necessary conditions for at
| tanning an ideal prosperity. | can remember
| myself, and | am not an old man, a
time when, in my native State of Pennsyl
| vania, Governor Ritner was laughed at for say
| ing that day would come when Pennsylvania
would not be able to supply breadstufis and
provisions to the miners i'll her mountains and
the factories in her towns yet that day came
| long ago, and Pennsylvania, the first wheat
State in the Union late as 1880 depends to dan
! for large share of her breadStuffS upon the
granares of the West. Cheers. When Indians
| shall have developed her manufacturing en-
! terprises to such Il degree rs to be able to con
/ sumo her own agricultural products she will
have attained an ideal prosperity; and she cal
! do that only by means of a protective tariff
! lRenewed cheering. The issue is in you
hands. You are free men. You have a free
friends who have not free ballot. The South
to-day has thiTty-seven electoral votes based
upon the vote of colored men yet the cOlored
men of the South, though a million in number
cannot choose Il single Presidential elector
r. That's so. As Il result of that the
political power OF the white man i'll the
South is enormously increased beyond
that of the white man in Indiana
or in Maine. For the time being we will not
argue at all the question of negro suffrage, but
submit, as a fair proposition to every man in
the land that if the South is TO have 81 Presi-
dental electors by reason of the negro vote,
then the negro himself ought to be allowed to
cast his ballot. - That's it and checrsl The
issue is in your hands. Indiapa, as said when
l began, will have potential voice in the de
have witnessed since | crossed the border of
your State feel, know indeed ] am sure
that upon the ground of patriotism. and upon
the ground of enlightened sclfntercst. Indiana
may be relied upon TO maintain the protective
tariff. and to sustain, as an assurance thereto.
the Republican party. [Great and prolonged
cheering.