The state journal. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-01

Mr.. Blaine was formerly introduced the
enthusiasm broke out anew, and cheer
after cheer. with several tigers" were
given.
Mr. Blaine said: Citizens of Brooklyn:
AS am to be followed by my distin-
guished friend Senator Sherman, of Ohio,
Applause ], in a speech, take it as my
only duty of the evening to furnish the
text [applausel, and that text shall be a
brief summary of the effects that are to
follow from continuance of the Repub-
lican party in power. [Cheers. What is
to be assured? What is to be held?
To begin with, the currency sys-
tenn of the United States, which
was brought back to a par
with gold by my distinguished friend,
then the eminent Secretary of the Treas
ury, will be held at this point [Great
applause. Secondhand system of du-
ties which affords encouragement and
protection alike to the laborer and the
capitalist in the United States will be
maintained. LApplause. Third-A just
system of settlement on the public lands
[renewed applause ], and the conservation
of those lands for the benefit of actual
settlers will be upheld. [Great applause.
Fourth-That the munificent and mag
nificent system of pensions which has re-
warded the tortitude and the valor of our
soldiers will be retained in honorable
faith. And fifth-That encouraging i'm.
prOVement in the civil service of the
United States will be continued and fur
Their developed, as experience shall point
the way. Applause
Mr.. Blaine continued in this strain,
saying, among other things, that the Re-
publican party is the only party that ever
had the resolution and the courage to
limit its own political power which it did
by initiating the civil service system. He
closed amid applause long continued.
At the Grand Opera House.
From the Academy of Music Mr..
Blaine and General Fremont were driven
to the Grand Opera House, where there
was another great crowd outside and
very large audience inside. Upon MI.
Blaine's appearance there was repeti-
ton on smaller scale of the scenes at
the Academy. Being introduced by the
chairman of the evening, Assistant Pas
tor Halliday, of Beecher's church, Mr..
Blaine delivered speech Of some length,
concluding as follows: cit is the
peculiar merit of the Republican
party that while from its hostil-
ity to slave labor with its natural
consequence, protection to free labor,
it has earned the right to the suffrage and
support of the great industrial class, it has
never done it in that demagogic spirit
which seeks to arouse the prejudice of la
Dor against the rights of capital. [Ap-
plause. 1t has continually taught the
wise doctrine that capital and labor were
friends, not enemies renewed applause ];
that in cooperation they can produce
prosperity, but that in hostility they can
produce only adversely. The Republican
party has taken care that capital shall not
encroach upon labor, and that labor shall
be so protected that it shall have no cause
of enmity to capital. Prolonged ap-
plause
Other issues, gentlemen, are involved
in the great national contest of 1884, but
here and now l dwell only upon this one,
for of all issues, that must be held to be
first which insures bread to the hungry
and clothing TO the naked. GOOD, "
good" and cheers That issue must
be held to be first which insures to the
industrious man a home, with home COM
forts for his wife and children [applause],
and which gives to a population devoted
to industry all the protection that can be
offered or guaranteed by human law
Loud and long continued applause and
cheering
A ROusinS Meeting in Williamsburg.
From the Grand Opera House Mr.
Blaine was taken to a carriage and driven
to Williamsburg, where he addressed a
large open air meeting. Notwithstanding
the rain, the great meeting had held its
ground for two hours waiting Tor Mr..
Blaine, and when he appeared the en-
thuSiaSm was so great that for some tin e
he could not get an opportunity to speak.
When order was restored he delivered a
speech, in which he touched on the cause
of the Republican party, which he de-
clared to be the cause of wellpaid
labor, of the men who need the sue
COrlng protection of the tariff, Of the men
who represent the bone and sinew of the
nation, and upon whose intelligence and
well directed labor the progress of the
Republican party depends. He also allu-
ded to the wealth and the business and
industrial interests of Brooklyn, and to
the necessity of sustaining the Republican
party if the prosperity of the past is to
be continued. The speech was frequently
interrupted with applause.
The brooklyn Parade Reviewed.
From Williamsburg Mr.. Blaine re-
turned TO the Academy of Music in Brook
Ign, where he reviewed the procession
from stand erected in front of the main
entrance of the building Although it
was still raining hard and the streets were
full of mud, fully 5000 men took part in
the parade. There were clubs from
nearly every assembly district in the city,
and it was after II O'Clock when the last
file of men passed Mr.. Blaine's stand and
the candidate was driven to the home of
s. Y. White, whose guest he is while in
Brooklyn,