The Portland daily press., 1884-10-06
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
How Ohio Greets the Republican
Candidates.
TOwNs GIVEN UP TO FIREWORKS
AND ORATORY.

NEWARK, O., Oct. 4.-Mr Blaine and his
party left Columbus by special train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Road at 9 80 this morning.
At Columbus Ex-Governor Foster and Mr.
Hanna of the State Committee left the party,
and Hon. Charles Moore of Columbus and
Hon. Stuart l.. Woodford of New York Joined
it, The people in the depot cheered as the
train moved out, and Mr.. Blaine bowed his
acknowledgements from the rear platform,
ZANEsvILLE, Oct. 4.-Mr. Blaine and his
party left Columbus this morning. He was
loudly cheered at the depot at Newark. In
front of the Court House several thousand
persons were assembled COL Chas. Fl. Kibb-
Ter introduced the distinguished guest as
James g. Blaine, late of Maine, but now of
the United States of America" Blaine re-
sponded in short speech.
BELAIR, Oct. AT GAINESVILLE an enthusi-
astic crowd greeted Blaine. The lam was so
great that the party had difficulty in getting to
their carriages, and everybody appeared to be
cheering and shouting. The carriage pro-
vided for Blaine was drawn by IA gray horses
There was large escort of mounted pinned
knights, but the escort of men, women and
far larger. Around the stand was probably
10000 persons, SO denselv packed that the local
committee men and police seemed helpless,
and two or three of the speaker who were
accompanying him had to give mp the attempt
to get near the stand. When Bagley, secre-
tarv of the Muskingum county committee,
introduced Blaine, there was an outburst Of
wild chsering As it subsidized an Irishman
attracted general attention by shouting, "a
thousand welcomes, Mr.. Blaine, thousand
welcomes, sir"
Mr.. Blaine thanked the people for their kind
reception and made brief reference to the in
dustrial interests of Ohio and of the country at
large, presenting the tariff as the chief issue OF
ladies of GAINESVILLE presented q beautiful
floral ship of state for which MIR. Blaine re-
turned appropriate thanks
At Cambridge Mr.. Blaine was driven to the
fair ground whers there was largo meeting.
He was received with great cheering. He re-
turned thauks for the compliment and briefly
called attention to the tariff question 1t was
dark when the train reached Beair The little
town seemed to be absolutely full and almost
every building along the principal streets was
illuminated with Chinese lanterns, and the
streets themselves were well nigh impassable
The local committee found great difficulty in
getting Mr.. Blaine through the crowd into his
hotel. The people then crowded the hotel so
that guests could not pass to or from their
rooms, and the landlord and local authorities
appealed to the crowd to clear, at least q pas
sage way, but the people declined to move
until Mr.. Blaine should say few words.
The landlord having delivered this message
Mr.. Blaine appeared at the head Of the stairs
and bowed repeatedly. People cheered and
made general rush to shake hands with him
but he held out his hand too high TO be reached
from below. going through the motion Of
shaking hands.
The crowd gave three cheers, after which
passage was cleared. At s O'Clock Mr.. Blaine
was escorted to the stand from which he was to
view the procession. The town was given mp
to fire works and political oratory.
WHEELING, W. Va., Oct, 5.-Mr. Blaine
arrived here from Belar this afternoon. Be-
fore leaving there he was called upon by the
senior class OF Washington and Jefferson Col
lege (his Alma Matsr.) Quite an interesting
incident was the meeting between Mr.. Blaine
and his uncle Hon. John Ewing of Washing
ton, Pa, who came to HBelair expressly to see
his nephew. Mr.. Ewing is a venerable but re-
markaoly well preserved old gentleman of 8S.
He is said to be the oldest living graduate of
Washington and Jefferson College,
On Monday Mr.. Blaine will go up to Graf
ton.
DAYTON, o Oct. Gen. Logan left here
for Springfield this morning, where he spoke
this afternoon. From there he proceeded to
Chillicothe, where he addressed a tremendous
audience at night The people all along the
line saluted the train with cheers. At Circle
vile Gen. Logan left the train and made
few remarks.