The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

Hon. George f.. Hoar, the distinguished
United States Senator of Massachusetts,, in a
speech at Salem, in that state, last Wednesday
evening, thus spoke of James G. Blaine:
You know something of the principles, the
policy, the purposes Of the republican party.
They are written in letters of light on your
country's history, as they are in the platform
adopted at Chicago, and James @. Blaine has
been selected to carry out the principles and
the policy and the purposes Of the republican
party. And he is about to do it Has there
ever beena candidate since the republican party
was organized SO well commended to you as
Mr.. Blaines Did you know as much about
Abraham Lincoln whom you voted for him
Did you know as much about Grant, in civil
life, l mean, when you first voted for himg Did
you know as much about Hayes when you voted
for him. Did you know any more about
Garfield when you voted for him? l think the
choice of the great Republican party of this
country ought to count for something. They
have not made amistake even when they took
an obscure man, comparatively, for their cam
didate. They knew what they were about
And they have not made a mistake when they
have taken the one most conspicuous person IN
civil life in America.
Why, there's talk about these chargesl I
suppose You have heard country lawyers ar
que a case when they hadn't got much evidence
on their side-and don't understand me as
speaking CONTEMPORARY of country lawyers,
because / am one of that kind myself. Taught
err But with almost any complicated state of
facts and figures, and correspondence, a
shrewd and crafty man can get up and.
by shaking his head, and sneering,
and insinuating, and declaring that the
done for q guilty purpose, and with a guilty
motive, can make out an apparently plausible
story before somebody who does not know any
thing about the case. And that is the attempt
in these charges against Mr.. Blaine. There
are four OF these letters-al that Mr. Schurz
quoted in his speech and in his letter-and L
should like TO have them printed and put into
the hands Of every Republican voter in Massa-
chuetts. ALI there is of themis the charge that
when Mr.. Blaine reminded his correspondent of
a perfectly honest and righteous ruling, he didit
not innocentiy and honestly, butfor a corrupt
purpose, and to imply that If he could make a
trade with the man he would do him such a IA
yor again. Now, / think Mr.. Blaine is entitled
to the charity with which you would judge the
humblest and the most obscure man in your
own neighborhood. Suppose these letters had
been written by o Waterman IN Lynn or q po-
liceman in Haverhill, and not by q candidate
for the great Office of president and all his
neighbors came forward and said TO you,
'This man we have known from his youth up
through and through; he is a perfectly honest
mans suppose the men who had quarreled
with him and fought so far as in them lay the
high honor which can only be given in full by
the whole people of the United States. What
they think of him you can judge by the ire
mendous majority in that state. What the
people of the United States think of him q
similar result in November is sure to show.
! rThe applause which greeted this prediction
was Suddenly hushed by a binding fash of
lightning, followed instantly by a tremendous
roar of thunder
The people of the State Of Maine have just
spoken. That is the one community on this
| earth which would not tolerate a knaven they
knew il. and from whose intelligence q knaye
could not hide himself il he tried. It stands, !
believe, at the head of all the communities on
| the face of the globe in the capacity to read
and write. In the education of its people. IL IL
an unmixed English blood, and | speak OF that
| only to show that they have been used to self
government and to choose their rulers for two
centuries. Over and over again, Democrats
Of Maine have declared their love for
and their confidence in this man, The
United States Senate was just half
Democrat when Mr.. Blaine was pro-
posed to them by General Garfield for the Of
Ace Of secretary of state. Now 1t would be
improper for me, under the rules Of the senate,
10 Bay whether nc war unanimously connrmeu,
| and / say nothing about that anywhere; but !
have s. right to say, under the rules OF the sem
ate, that a single objection would have COM
PEELED that nomination to go over at least
4weutr-fonr hasrs. and that he WAS confirmed
| in two minutee after his name went in Don't
Won suppose that those democratic senators
| knew whether Mr.. Blaine was an honest man
or a knaveg And dom you suppose they would
have been swirl to condemn him II they laden
tertained the latter opinion!