Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-24
THE TWO S0UTHS."
The LGGdiUg Theme Of BlaiHG'S Talk
to the BOOSTERS.
His Impressive Recital Of the
Situation,
The Old South with its Memo
ries of Rebellion.
The New South with High Strung
Ambitions.
Fostered by Pure Republican
Administration.
He Challenges Indiana Whether II
will Support "solid South" and
Democratic Mis-Rule.
BLAINE IN INDIANA,


T;sRRE HAurE, October 2S.-Blaine left Ev-
ansville at $50 this morning for Lafayette.
The first stop was at Sullivan. where two
thousand were assembled. Blaine made a
short speech which was received in the
usually enthusiastic manner. AT Terre Haute
there was a great demonstration, and a large
crowd, which greeted Blaine with rousing
cheers He was escorted by a reception com
mittee, headeo by the mayor, to q carriage and
driven in the procession through the crowded
streets for about an hour. After the return
TO the depot Re made a speech, in which he
made distinction between
THE NEW SOUTH AND THE OLD SOUTH,
The new seeking industrial development aud
leading the people away from the prejudices
of the past; the old, prejudiced, bitter, hostile
to northern interests, narrow of vision, unable
to take in the magnitude of great future.
The old south. he said, was the main element
of strength in the democratic party, and was
striving, with the aid Of Indiana and New
York, to get control of the national govt rn-
ment. 1t was for the people of those two
states to FAY whether they were prepared to
hand over the government to that eIement:
LAFAYETTE, Ind, October 23.-Ihe follow
ing is
BLAINE'S 81 EECH AT TERRE HAUTE.
"The southern question, as for years it has
been popularity termed. is precipitated into
this canvass by the south itself, and neglect to
notice it would be to overlook une of the most
powerful and dal gerous factors in the national
contest To understand that question pro-
perlyf it should be remembered that there are
politically two souths which we may term
respectively the new south and the old south.
THE NEW SOUTH
Represents that awakened liberal sentiment
which is striving for the industrial develop
ment of that naturally rich section of the
Union, which recognizes the necessity of
tariff for protection, which casts the bi tier
memories of the civil conflict behind, and
which is hop psfully struggling in Virginia, in
North Carolina, in Tennessee, and in 9th er
states of the late confederacy. This element
includes many men who served in the con-
federate armies. 1t mutually affliates with
the republican party, and 1t sesks to lead the
people away from prejudics Of the past
to contemplation of the majestic future
which by wise and maguanimous action
may be brought to the south in common with
the north.
THE OLD SOUTH.
represents the spirit of the rebellion and
chershes sentiments of sulleu discontent is
psrpetually reatfirming its faith in the right
fulness of the so cause", is full of bitter re-
proaches against those who triumphed in the
war for the union: regards negro suffrage with
aD0OTeuCb, biio "LlIS iiuO aiii 10
ready to use whatever amount of intimida-
ton or violence which may bs ne essary to
preserve its own political and personal master
in the south 1t is uuquestiouably dominant
in all the old slave states, and is in open and
avowed attiiation with the democratic party
of the north. 1t constitutes three-fouiths of
effective democratic strength in the nation,
and in the event of q democratic triumph
would be in absolute and undisputsd control
of the government
THE STRUGGLE OF THE REPUBLICANS
is for the ameloration. improvement and pro-
gress of the south as we'll as the north. But
they are confronted every where and resisted
every where by determined and hitherto tri-
umphant southern democracy. The aim is to
con join the electoral votes of New York and
indiana with the electoral ties of the south
ern states, and it is for New York and Indi-
ana to consider just what that means and
where it.wOuld carry them.
.-~ NEW YORK HAS GREATER STAKE
than any other state of the union in maintain
ing sound principles of government, in up
holding national credit, in perpetuating the
financial system which embodies the mstured
wisdom of the past twenty years, in sustaining
the protective policy. (Chcers
INDIANA HAS A STAKE
less than that of New York only as her pop
ulstiOn and wealth are less. DO the citizens
of those states fully comprehend what it
means to trust the national credit, the nation
al finances the national pensions, the protec-
tive system and all the great interests which
are under tho control OF national government
to the old south with its bitterness, its unrec-
onciled temper, It's narrowness of vision, its
hostility to all northern interests, its constant
longing to revive an impossible past, It's abso.
lutte incspacity to measure the sweep and mag.
nitude of our great future. Cheers
THE NORTH AND SOUTH
under republican administra-
ton of government will ultimate
ly come into harmonious relations
In the last ten years great progress ha, been
made towards that result, aud the next ten
years may witness the effacement of all hostile
ines and the absolute triumph of just and
magnanimous policy, renewed cheersI but all
pr1spsct of that result would be defeated and
destroyed by giving the Old south possession of
the national power. Among the first of
THE BALEFUL RFFRCIs
that would follow would be the crushing out
of all liberal progress in the south and the
practical nullihcatlon of all that has been
gained by the reconstruct lion law which follow
ed the reb lion The people of Now York
and the paople of Ind ana are not asked to aid
in bringing about that deploIable result to be
followed by an abandonment of the great
financial and industrial policies under which !
the nation has prospered 30 marvelOusly aimee