Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. 'MR. BLAINE SPEAKS On the Causes of His
 Defeat.
 THE SOLID SOUTH TO BLAME Where the Majority Has
 No Voice. AN AST0R AT THE ALTAR. New York Society in a
 Flutter.
N AsTOR AT THE ALTAR.
ELAINE MAKES A SPEECH.

l AUGUSTA, Me, Nov. 19-A large number of the devoted personal and political friends | of Mir Blaine serenaded him this evening as | an expression of personal good will. They | marched through the streets under the mar | shalship of Colonel Frank Nye. When they reached MT. Blaine's house their friendly re- | gards were expressed in handsome speech | by Herbert M. Heath of the Kennebec bar. 1 MT. Blaine responded as follows, his speech being continually interrupted by applause: | Friends and ndsNeighbors- nations contest is over and by the narrowest of margins have lost. ous conEratuiation is one am sure of confidence | and of sanguine hope for the future I thank you my sense of obgationS S04 not only ' to yeu but to all the Republicans of Maine They : responded to my nomination with genuine enthu- sasm and ratified it by superb effort. count it as one of the honors and qualification of my public hard for the last six years and twice within that period losing the State has come back in this cam paign with an old-faShioned 10000 majority. No other expression of popular confidence and esteem could equal that of the people among whom have | lived for thirty years and to whom am attached by all the ties that ennoble human nature and give
 y and dignl Msi1s T1 human man a life b af6eT Maine M n of Pennsylvania. How can f1ttingly express my thanks for that unparaieled majority of votes | my heart and which has if possible S c6 1e fo o @ cestry and which shall transmit to my children. readence nc 16 and the ste of y birth owe 0 mue to the true and zeaous friends in New England who candidates and to the eminent scholars and divines who, stepping aside from their ordinary avocations, made my cause their and to loyalty to prnci- pie added the special compliment of standing my personal representatives in the national struggle But the achievements for the Republican cause in the East are surpassed by the splendid victo- ries in the West M In that that A magnificent the Aleghanies to the Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California the Republican banner was borne so loftily that but single State failed to join in the wide acclaim of triumph. Nor should do justice to my own feel ings if 1 failed to thank the Republicans of the Empire State who encountered many discourage ments and obstacles who fought against foes from strong battle that a change of vote in every
 you'd nave gwen @ us & the victory m the 0 nation would have transferred New York Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Republican standard, and have made the North solid as the South. My thanks would be still incomplete if should fail to recognize with special gratitude that great body of workingmen both native and foreign born who gave me their earnest support, breaking from old per- which represented in the canvass the safegliard ! and protection of their f1reside interest
 ! garded in the future, think, as extraordinary. The northern States leaving out the cities of New \ Republican cause by majority of more than 400, | oOO, almost half million indeed of the popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw their great strength and influence with the solid South and were the decisive elements which gave Speaking not at all defeated candidate, but \ simply as loyal and devoted American, think to the south great natienal misfoT element which cannot insure harmony and pros perity to the people, because it introduces into a I of an American is equality equality of right, equality of privilege equality of political power vote is just as good just as potential as the vote of 5 Hfs sFes That % a cannot % be said today h in South has crushed out the political power of more than six million American citizens and has trans presidential electors are assigned to the s1gth oGg n vet f of thG color
 more than one million legal votes have been unable where they have majority of more than one hun dred thousand they are deprived of free suffrage der foot. The eleven States that comprised tie belion federacy had by the census of 18s0 7OO 0OC The coIored population almost to a man desired tc | support the Republican party, but by system ot \ whenever violence and murder thought neces sary they are absolutely deprived of all politica enough but does stop there for not only is the negro population disfranchised but the power whicI ! population, enabling the white population of tht South to exert an electoral I influence s far beyo1t in the North. To illustrate just how that works thu 3f all far t af elections let me present t al States of the North possessing in each section thu
 o fas so9a sh | and South Carolina have in the aggregate forty peopie Td and ozer eooreG people 1n thu 1 North the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa the aggregate forty-eight electoral vote and od they hsTS tS do ts f bp population 1 sobe | States which I have named These northern State have practically colored population. It is there fore evident that the white men in those souther \ States by usurpng and absorbing the rights of thu colored men are exerting just double the politca submit my friends that such condition of affair extraoTdinary unjust and derogatory to the man ly opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that presidential elections are assigned to the South b ought to permitted free suffrage in the election To deny that clear proposition is to affirm that
 in the Lake States; it is to affirm that confederat 1 nation that Union soldier can, that a perpetus s and % @ ggea Wt a m f shall 1e
 of the Union If that be quietly conceded in th h sadge of nferiority will M attach to the norther G white man as odiously as ever Norman nobl r men of the North With the southern Democrac l negro will be compelled to work for such wages l l the whites may decree, wages which will amour equal in cash perhaps, to thirty five cents per da if, averaged over the entire South; IT
 the O0dsE desuesye a h erect 0r of ths @ |, his own wages. The Republican party has clear wages in the South must be raised to just recon pense of the laborer, or wages in the North ru | ously lowered, and 1t has steadily worked for tf former result. The reverse will now be set in m
 ton and that condition reproduced which yea | ago Mir. Lincoln warned the free laboring men the North will prove hostile to their independent and inevitably lead to a runous S reduction of wage
 suffice to maintain an entirely different standard
 vony % Be eopeed t ye to the
 tary. So completely have the colored men in u
 
 of the United States that they regard the advent
 sS ene a1d are becaae th @ think all legal protection for them is gone. Fe
 Chiefs of the he rebellion wield the political bow
 which has triumphed in the late election. It is
 who come from the States of the late confederae
 all, and say all without single exception, Pe @ national government. It is a still more sgnifica fact that in those States no man man who Tas loyal may be today has the slightest chance of polite
 The The goss zons S hSn0r n t
 in the war against the government. It
 Ssedn Kn which rssSRp tSs fSs unan ast in
 day of It's trial and agony is still political disqus
 ion. All tbis taxes place during the lifetime of
 generation that fought the war and elevates in
 identoI men %6o % organized for it's desnc
 and plunged us into the bloodiest contest of mode
 have spoken of the South as placed by the Ia
 election in possession of the government and me-
 
 three-euarseEs of the electoral votes that defeat
 the Republican party and they will step to the col
 mand of the Democratic party as unchallenged al
 unrestrained as they held the same position
 thirty years before the civil war. Gentlemen, the
 cannot be political inequality among the citizens
 free republic; there cannot be a minori
 of white men in the South ruling majority white men in the Norln. Patriotism, self-Fespet " pride protection for person and safety for count
 all cry out against it, The very thought of it st
 the blood of men who inherit equally from the D
 eFEims who first stood on Plymouth Rock and fro | liberty loving patriots who came to the Delawa
 with William Penn It becomes the primal questi
 of American manhood. It demands hearing a
 a settlement and that settlement will vindicate t eoualitv of American citizens in all personal a
 civil rights It will at least establish the equali | 1 of white men under the national government a . l will give to the nnrthern man who fou
 to DreSerye the Union as large voice in it's g6 1 ernInent as may be exercised by the southern m 1 who fought to destroy the Union. The contest il
 closed ufterly dwarfs the fortunes and fate of ca l Ciidates whether successful unsuccessful Pl
 posely I may say instinctively, have discussed t so ssslles and consequences of that contest withc ,er reference to my defeat, without the remot I reference to the gentleman who is elected to l rresidency Toward him personally have
 cause for the slightest in-wi and it is with cordi l ity express the wish that his official career ID l prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to [ | country and that his administration may oyerco