Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-10-24
BLAINE IN INDIANA.
His Journey from Evansville TO Lafay.
ette one Continued Oyation-A Mas.
teriy speech at Terre Haute-
Springfield, HIs., to be
Visited Today.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Oct %.
Blaine left Evansville at 80 A. NJ. The
first stop was at Sullivan, a small station
where there-were about 200 people assem-
eled. Blaine made short speech and it was
received in the usual enthusiastic manner.
At Terre Haute there was a great demon
stration. As the train came into the city
steam whistles on the factories and on loco
motives sounded a welcome, and when il
reached the depot the crowd received Blaine
with wild cheering. He was escorted by a
reception committee headed BY the mayor, to
carriage, and drawn in the procession
through the crowded city for about an hour.
Upon returning to the depot he made short
speech.
Mr.. Blaine said: The Southern question.
as for years it has been popularity termed, is
precipitated into this canvass by the South
itself and TO neglect to notice it would be to
overlook one of the most powerful and dan
gerous factions in the national contest. To
understand that question properly il should
be remembered that there are politically two
Souths, which we may term respectively as
the new South and the old South. The new
South represents that awakened liberal SEN
timent which is striking for the industrial
development ofthat naturally rich section of
the Union which recognizes the necessity of
tariff protection, which casts bitter memories
of the civil conflict, and which is hopefully
struggling in Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee and other States of the late confed
eracy. This element includes many men
who served in the confederate army. 1t
naturally affiliAtes with the republican party
and seeks to lead people away from the pre-
iudices of the past to the contemplation of a
majestic future which wise and magnanimous
action may bring the South in common with
the North. The old South represents the
spirit of rebellion, and cherishes the senti-
ments of sullen discomfort. 1t is perpetually
reaftirming faith in the rightfulness of the
lost cause, full of bitter reproach and against
those who triumphed in the war OF the Union;
regards negro suffrage with adherence;
maintains the ''whita line" and is ready to
use whatever amount of intimidation or
violence that may become necessary to pre-
serve its own political mastery in the South
1t is unquestionably dominant in all the old
slave States. and its open and avOwed affiia-
ton with the democratic party in the North.
1t constitutes three-fourths of the effective
democratic strength in the nation, and in the
event of a democratic triumph it would be in
absolute control of the government.
The struggle of the republicans is for
amelioration, improvement and progress of
the South as well as the North, but they are
contected everywhere and resisted everywhere
by determined and hitherto triumphant
Southern democracy. The aim of the dem
ocratic party, as have already said, is to
conjoin the electoral votes of New York and
Indiana with the electoral votes of the l6
Southern States, and it is for New York and
Indiana to consider just what this means and
where it would carry them. New York has
a greater stake than any other State OF the
Union in maintaining sound principles of
government, in upholding national credit, in
perpetuating financial system which en-
bodies matured wisdom of the past 20 years
in sustaining a protective policy. Indiana
has has a stake less than that of New York
only as her population and wealth are less
The citizens of these states fully comprehend
what it means to trust national credits,
national finances, national pensionng protec-
tive system and the great interests which are
in control of the national government, to the
old South, with its bitterness, its unreconciled
temper, its narrowness of vision, its hostility
to all northern interests, its constant longing
to revive an impossible past. its absolute
incapacity to measure the sweeping magni
tude of our great future. Great cheering
The North and South, under republican
administration of government, will ultimately
come into harmonious relations. In the last
10 years great progress has been made toward
that and the next 10 years may witness the
effacement of hostile lines and the absolute
triumph of Just and magnanimous policies.
Renewed cheering.] But all prospect of
that result would be defeated and destroyed
by giving the old South possession of national
power Among the first of the hateful effects
that would follow would be the crushing out
of all liberal progress in the South and the
practical notification of all that has been
gained by the reconstruction laws which fol-
lowed the rebellion. The people of New
York and the people of Indiana are now
asked to aid in bringing about that deplorable
result to be followed by the abandonment of
the revisal of the great financial and indus
trial policies, under which the nation has
prospered so marvellously since the close of
the war TCries of "Never. never."l
| do not, | cannot believe that you will do
this because such course is forbidden by
every instinct of patriotism, as well as by
every consideration of enlightened self in
terest." Cheers.
At Brazil, in Indiana coal mining district,
there was great crowd, composed largely of
miners Blaine made q short speech on
tariff. which was very favorably received and
when at the end he remarked that his auditors
were free agents and suggested that those
who preferred English free trade ought to
vote with the democratic party. There were
loud shouts of No neveri we are down on
England
At Greeucastle there was another great
meeting. Blaine spoke substantially the
same as he spoke at Terre Haute.
At Charlottesville he made brief speech,
in the course of which he paid tribute to the
character of Henry L. Lane, whose home was
there.
Ii was about dark when the train arrived
at Lafayette. Here he was received by a
large crowd.
He was escorted to the stand where he
made a speech similar to the one at Terre
Haute He was then driven to the house of
Gen. George B. Williams where be dined and
will spend the night, In the evening he re-
viewed large torchlight procession. To-
morrow he goes to Springfield, Ill.
RUN TOGETHER.