Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-09-10
mates that Blaine will poll 2nO, 600 votes this
year. The fusionists cannot poll more than
IT'S, 900.
!. GOV. PORTER.
A Rousing Speech Before 4 Mass. Meet
ing in Indiana.
ttshertv nna ! Cor ch,cao, Trfbnne1

Liberty und.l Cor Chicago Trtbune.I
Gov. Albert y, Porter addressed, tonight, an
immense Republican mass-meetin9 ana deliv-
cred a lengthy and able speech, most OF which,
however, was taken up In discussing questions
relative to she State. He presented q scathing
arragnment Of the professions OF the Demo-
cratic State Convention, yindicating Republican
management Of public institutions, and com
,nending some valuable suggestions TO the com
ing Legislature He showed that the Republic
can party in tntiisna deserved credit for taking
measures toward securing mechanics by first
lien upon work done for wages thereon per-
formed. and he recalled in the s&nie connection
that Grover Cleveland had vetoed a mechanics
lien hill, and was fully sustained in IL by his
party friends The speaker suggested that a.
the burden OF taxation fell upon the farmers
and the owners OF small homesteads IL wo lid bc
well for experienced men shOsen by the people
TO meet in convention and discnss measures of
n y I'd! NJ ss,sssIss . III basSs /, Is I:s.y
in recent years Is that 1t ia party without con-
public questions It has repeatedly approved
And pledged itself not to distarb measures
achieved ,, the Republican s. party against
il sA Is always asking that iss psss may be for
gotten. Its enemy Is memory. The lrst. sem
tence in its recent platform shows its soreness
Union, through it's representatives in national
convention assemheaf recognize that as nations
grow older, new issues are topn Of time and
progress aud old issues crish ia WY remind mind
nnished2 Banquo perished, but his ghost took
u seat 1T the banquet table, and the ghost was
hundred times s "ss sa'pwng than . bsngno a. ,no
trouble. 1t is these memories come with
the old issues that will not down, that haunt
and pester the party The Hepuiican
nectea with past issues that put 1t in
dread that the past viii be referred to. A vast
| territory-motiier Sf many st3ses-preserved
| from the presence and taint OF urreeompensed
labor: an enemy overcome by the sword vet
| more benefited by war than it had ever been by
| peace, by being ridded Of n destructive system
| Of labor and Of having had opened to il, 8 by
doors flying wide apart, an enlightened system,
| of free and diversified industries: o national
| credit, through tine exercise OF an underwriting
! good faith, unexampled in the history OF ma
tiops: n CURRENCY since the issuing Of which no
billholder has ever lost dollar; al arbitration
| of o great national dispute, through which as
national redress for wrongdoing, there was wrung
| from The most warlike nation of Europe sl5, ,0W,
600 of treasure; tariff system which. at the be-
| oinning of our great civil strife, by setting on
| foot vast system OF msnnfae turing industries,
slsn,.ed The darkest clouds Of with the rain
| bow of promise, These past issuts have left
| no ghosts to terrify the Republicans. We never
beg that they shall not be fefnemDefed
| asm, particularly the closing tribute to the he,
| publican standard bearer. If MIR. Cleveland
cannot len snid the speaker where e he stamds n
| whose trumpet has neveI stvru forth an uncer-
tain sound-its notes being ever clear ana reso
nant. You KNOW very WeH WHoH ! "san
James G. Blaine answers to the description be
| rif,tpg lie in the humble occupation OF !
schooimassef nc has, by the force OF his talents
by the strength and vissT Of his character, D,
his personal intrepdity by bis irresistible socia
charms, by that combination OF high aud sym
pathetic qualities which belongs to rare and NM
NATURES, made himself one OF the best KNOW
| aid best beloved of all the public men ~ ou
history As Speaker of the House OF Repre-
sentatives OF his adopted state ana o
| Congress-, distinguished always for the fa1r
ness and unersing clearness OF his decisions
| as debater on the floor of each House. when
ever he entered the lists hts plume shining u
front OF the combat: as q statesman, iont
known for the Surprising breadth ana accurac.
OF his political knowledge: as a writer, uepict
ing the incidents and scenes OF long pubii
life, in which he has borne most consr1cuou
part rich and perspicuous in style, coplous an
accurate in information, just and generous =
every one with whom he has ever crOsssM
sword: his home the abode OF domestic blis
and hospitality--its hospitable doors open alik
10 friend and foe the bitterert adversary In hi
warm and Joyous presence forgetting his feu'
and dssolving into Kindness: n citizen or IN
United States, broad minded and just towaf
the whole world, yet his whole being peryade'
and burning with the American Instinct; .
frank and open that he IL transparent as he AZ
| this is the man whose banner IL In our front
whose plime mods at the head OF the coiu mn
and under whose leadership we cxpect 10 NOV
| on to victory