The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-12

the aepuollean party doesn't turn out we'll this
year Well the Republicans had meeting up
i IN the State of Maine on Monday. the first one
for long time, and the Democrats intended to
i nave meeting at the Same time. The Republic
ans had their meeting and not a single county
i IN Maine got away. The Republican party will
never be satisfied until due punishment is meeted
out to slanderers hbelers and forgers
MI. Butler then made a handsome showing of
the honest and manly stand Of the Republican
party IN its platform. and oy its nominees on the
i question OF protection to American industry
/ and the interests of the american laborer. He
showed IN contrast to this, the silence of Mr..
1 Cleveland, on this all-important question,
and the pltltul demagogy of Mr.. Hendricks
| and Colonel Gray. The victory in Maine
meant that the Republican party is In favor o.
the American laborer; that it means to protect
] HIM IN his wages, as against over worked and
under-paid labor of free-trade England; that it
meant protection to mining to manufactures to
/ the farmer whose market is in this country
It meant the good of the American
! Nation-the Nation, with big N. He said
tn at England is leagued with the Democratic
party and interested in its success Within a
few months the Golden Club has distributed
through this country over 100000 free-trade
| pamphlets. England doesn't like our foreign
policy. She doesn't like James G. Blaine, and
she is interested in the defeat of the party that
opposes Democracy and free trade.
Mr.. Buffers speech was forcible presentation
of the benefits of protective tariff, and was
heartily cheered.
MISS NELLIE HoLBRooK
Miss Nellie Holbrook MRS. Blinn), of Cali
fornia, was then INTRODUCED to the audience This
lady took part in the campaigns of 1876 and
1880, and has voice Of wonderful power She
delivered a recitation on the Democratic kan
CARGO ticket that was received with most tumult
uous applause and, being recalled, she recited
| Sheridan's Ride in a way that evoked even
| greater applause than followed her first effort
She explained that owing to tlA late hour, she
would not be able to address the audience, but
that her voice would be heard in Indiana during
the canvass She said that California had
longed for James g. Blaine to be the standard
bearer of the Republican party ever since 1876,
and when the news came that he had been NOM
mated at Chicago the enthusiasm in the Golden
State knew no bounds.
DIR. LEVI RITTER.
The next speaker was DIR. Levi Ritter, who
spoke as follows:
The occasion that calls us together is one
of such significance as well may call for
rejoicing. At the home of our candidate for
President, from State that four years ago cast
its vote against his party and the policy he had
so eloquently advocated, now comes laundering
over the mountains to the Western plains the
voice of an unprecedented majority The result
is doubly encouraging 1t shows that the peo-
pie must return to our principles for safety and
to obtain returning prosperity. 1t proclaims the
great esteem James @. Blaine has commanded
from his neighbors.9 Both causes pushed this
majority up from zero to over IL. 600. Let Re
publicans rejoice as becomes thankful citizens for
great blessings Let Democrats bewail as BELTS
their calamity. History has shown that man,
or evencoin1nunites of men, that have been
usedSto walking on narrow plank, and seeking
| light from star, because passing cloud may
have3 to their vision obscured the glories of the
sum- occasionally fall off the Republican plat
| form into the ocean of chaos around and be-
meath. But all such who have really sought sal
walton have found it by boarding again the Re
/ publican Cunarder and not by grabbing the
/ cork preserver stolen by the Democratic party
/ from a dead rebellion. This is the fact learned
/ by our friends in Maine The Republican party
i is national 1t may not prescribe the township or
county, nor yet all State views of its members
Its platform is broad enough for every citizen of
/ the Nation to stand upon, and vet the brother
so concerned about local issues will not be hurt
4 If he will only jump overheard in time of dam
4 ger The success of the Democratic party at
one election always pursuades the people that 1T
i should be defeated the next. 1t knows only how
to advocate the wrong measure at the wrong
time and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.
1t was for war, but not until the war was over.
/ 1t was for hard money when 1t could not be had.
and for soft money when the greenbacks had
i tective tariff, after by it we have built up man
/ ufactories, opened the continent to settlement,
and spanned it with railroads-diversifed the
/ industries of the country, so that we produce
almost everything that man can desire. and by
home market have advanced the price of labor
and eheapened the expense of living. 1t HOW
! advocates free trade, which will enrich British
manufacturers and benefit foreign laborers,
over whom we have no. jurisdiction, and all this
4 at the expense of our own citizens over whom
we have control7forFgo 1t wanted to pay all
/ the national debt at once, when we did not have
! the money, and were borrowing at per cent
\ 1t now laments that there is 300 100000 in the
Treasury interest is only 3 per cent and we
are ready to pay the national debt
faster than it falls due 1t is
pious when urging the Prohibitionist
when 1T desires that party to get votes enough
/ to defeat the Republicans but damns his prin-
/ ciples and takes free whisky straight when it
comes to action For thirty years they have adj
vocated no measure and done no act of which
! they should be proud Mr.. Hendricks wants to
| go back only twenty years. We waive his plea
of the statute of limitation. and declare that for
| thirty years no good has ever come from that
| party's success.
The candidates of the two parties fitly repre-
! sent their history and principles So far as we
know Cleveland filled no public trust during the
war He had an opportunity to go in,D but
! did not He could have married but
has not. He was elected Governor of u great
| State by the accident of discussions in our
| party, and thus had opportunity to oppose the
! force of monopolies in his State but did not
He was nominated for what he had not done,
! and is being blown into Importance like rub,
Der bag, because he is full of emptiness. Like
unto him is our clever and affable neighbor the
candidate for Vice president on the Democratic
Il ticket Always in public life. yet not a law, or
| a section of a law, Oh any statute book is the
result of his thought and labor. His whole life
has been opposition to progress fit illustration
of the ways definition of Democrat:
"a fellow sitting on the coat-tail of progress
| yelling whoal.
Open any page of the Nations history for
| more than twenty years and it is vocal with the
i thoughts of James G. Blaine. When the Ma
! ton was set upon by treason, and was wounded
| and bleeding and faint, his majestic hand gave
new life and inspired it with new courage
The child on the Pacific coast, the cowboy in
/ his tent on the plains and every laborer in the
| field and shop have heard with pride of this
cnam a q Ire s 81, ana free labor And ev-