Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-03
Enthusiasm UnrepresSed by For
hidden Weather.
Mr.. Blaine Speaks at Hartford and
New Haven.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. l,

New York, this morning in q special car
attached to the regular train to visit the prin-
, cipal places in Connecticut Although the
New York parade had kept him out of bed
until o'clock this morning he was in his car
sometime before il left the Grand Central
depot at 8 A. NJ. Gen. Fremont accompanied
him. Miss Margaret Blaine and James G.
Blaine, jr.,were also in the party. At several
points along the way where the train made
its regular stops. groups gathered around the
car and cheered. when. looking through the
car window. they discovered Mr.. Blaine but
he did not appear in public until the train
reached Hartford. On the way a number of
gentlemen who had come to meet him were
presented Gen. Hawley boarded the train
at Bridgeport
MERIDIAN, Conn, Nov. l.
At New Haven the usual stay was made,
and although Mr. Blaine. according to the
program was not to have Il reception here
until his return, yet considerable crowd
waited the arrival of the train and greeted
Mr.. Blaine, who appeared for Z moment on
| the rear platform. and was enthusiastically
| cheered.
HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. |.
At Meriden Senator Plaut Joined the party.
| Hartford was reached at ten minutes after
noon. As the train came TO a stop there was
a cannon salu'e and loud cheering. Blaine,
Gen. Fremont, accompanied by Senator
Hawley, entered carriage and were driven
to stand in front of the Court House, around
which several thousand people were waiting
All along the route were lines of Plumed
knights and other clubs and the sidewalks
we're crowded with spectators. Gen Hawley
introduced Mr.. Blaine, who was loudly
cheered. He spoke as follows:
The people of that splendid section of the
Sfafn nf t.l. Vl..ih h.-
from Connecticut, commissioned me by their
vote in Oct, to bear 20 the mother State in
whose capital | now stand, the assurance of
their loyalty to New England teachings and
to New England principles. Good, good.
and cheers. | am here today to receive
| from YOU the assurance that the mother State
is prepared to prove her fidelity to her own
history and her own example. Renew ed
cheering. If there be any State in the Union
profoundly interested in industrial and tinan-
cial system OF the United States, as these
systems exist today, Connecticut is that com
monwealth, for her marvellous industries
have been built up under a protective tariff
and her great financial centre. from which
radlate influences coexteDsive with the union.
has received in full measure the benefit and
blessing of the great financial system which
the republican party has given to this country.
[Cheers The national canvass now so near
its close in the wide sweep of its great issue
involves every man, woman and child in the
land. There is not an industry that will not
be affected by its decision. There is not a
paper dollar whose value may not be changed
by a wrong decision. The industrial system
and financial system under which our great
national progress has been achieved during
the last twenty three years are particularly
the work of the republican party, for at every
step in their enactment, they were resisted
by the democratic party. Have the voters of
Connecticut stopped to reflect what would be
the influence upon their State of such a
change in the tariff as the democratic party
in Congress came within two votes of effecting
last winter? Have the voters of Connecticut
stopped to think what would be the effect of
an abandonment of the present currency
system of the United States which would
certainly follow if the democratic party
should come into power and that the currency
system as il stands today is certainly the
most remarkable in the financial history of
the world. The greenback circulation of be-
tween three and four hundred millions is kept
steadily at par with gold. by the readiness of
the government with its surplus coin in the
treasury, to redeem every cent on presenta-
ton by exchanging gold dollar for paper
dollar, while the national banks stand ready
to pay over their counters for their bills,
either the coin or the greenbsck note which
is Immediately convertible into coin. On a
suggestion which has come from the demo-
cratic party during this campaign, directly
bearing on this important question, is the
continually repeated question of Mr.. Hen
bricks, (the democratic candidate for Vice
President) that the first measure of his party,
if elected to power, would be to get rid of the
surplus held in the vaults of the treasury for
the purpose which have indicated There
| is not q man in the United States who has
made even q slight study of our existing
financial system, who does not know that il
Mr.. Hendricks recommendation should be
adopted, the government would be unable to
redeem greenbacks in coin. The specie stand
ard on which the business of the country rests
would be destroyed and the national banks
credit impaired. Hendricks would frankly
admit, for he is frank gentleman, that he is
not friend to the national bank system and
that as a member of the Senate of the United
States, he opposed the legislation which
favored that system. Perhap. one of the
first measures of State Rights democrats. if
given control of the government, would be to
restore TO the States power to establish State
banks. We are justified in this assumption
by the arguments of the democrats in Congress
for 20 years past, and by their conduct and
hostility to the national banking srstem In
this connection let me remind you that when
/ Abraham Lincoln was elected there were
nearly eight hundred broken State banks in
the Union, whose successive failures had cost
the people yearly per cent of the total
paper circulation of the country. and had
involved, during the last twenty years of
democratic rule in this country. a total loss
to the people Of s200, ,000, 900 If you place
this fact against the experience of the last
twenty years of our history during which no
man has lost single dollar by the circulation
of the National Bank, you will find, | think
a conclusive argument in favor of maintain
ing our financial system. Cheers ] Before
an audience of this character these facts do
not require argument or illustration.
content myself with stating them and bid YOU
with many thanks for your generous reception
a cordial good bye"
Gen. Fremont was next introduced and
/ very enthusiastically received. Chauncey NJ.
Depew spoke briefly. The party returned to
the train through streets even more crowded
than those first traversed.
The reception TO Mr.. Blaine this morning
was one of the largest Hartford has ever SEEN