Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-24
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All Of the lengthy accounts OF the blaino
ratification meeting III Washington "u
Saturday night arc deficient III supplying
various interesting details which tho puo',o
would like To bo advised of Ihrceiourth
vt tho audience were colurod, aud ot this
largo proportion almost II not One'haI'
were females. Two Of tho three gentleman
who presided arc Clatm agents anu 100
byists, properly credited with making
Cuur rmOus annual Incomes, whlch thoy
would expect to largely increase unurt
an administration IN sympathy Win tue"
purposes and practices. Cue ol tue senat"tS
who spoke was like Mt Blnno twenty years
ago poDr rs "a church mouse, ana uSc WI
Blaine is now a duublU millionaire n Ie.-
low feeling makes us wundTuuS kihn'
and this senator, although ulsap
pointed aspiran. for tho hoth'ua'l'n
which MIR. Blaine received, was ohtitely
consistent IN lifting his vuico for him,
| In addition to the members Oi NohEteSS
and the lobbyists who spoke, there wcro
several who took part In tho meeting who
are known as old political hacks aud
chrunic office seekers Mr. SmalIs, tho
culurch congressmau from south Carolina,
| called the white people Of hIs state deHtls,
aud predicted war of vAces IN the ensuing
campaign, when. Ec said, they viii not
be all uiggcrs that arc killed either. Inc
absence of genuine enthusiasm was re
markable, and what ChteIlug occurred
was principally when the old war sougs
were played by tho band, Senators Shcr
man and llawley did what they could TO
| stimulate the crowd by leading oil several
times in waving their hats and cheering
When The band struck up Marching
Through Georgia Senator Hawlcy took
up the air with his fine baritone voice and
tho crowd Joined in. Senator Sherman
undertook To assist Mr. Hawley, but the
Ohio senator does not add ~ his numerous
Accomplishments, ucither any voice or any
| idea OF music aud made u fearful muss Of
It.
The speech Of the evening, Of which no
mention is made in an any of the reports,
was mado by Representative Bolford, OF
Colorado. Mr.. BIfnfd said It was time
to stop submitting to Wall street dlcta =
tiuu; that We had DOW wall street presi'
dent and u Wall street secretary OF tho
treasury. At this point some one III the
crowd yelled to the Colorado statesman To
"shut up" Mr.. BclIord said ho would
not shut up he Intended to givo his opiu-
ion of that mau III the White House, who
he said, was responsible for the broken
banks aud all the other financial troubles
which were nov ailllcting the country.
He IL now nuardlng up IN the treasury
:lGO. OOO. 600, which, waving his hand to
the crowd, ought To be distributed among
you labUring people" MIR. Beliord's
colorcd auditors began to warm up at
this. Long forgotten visions Of forty
acres and mulo" danced before their
eyes and they evidenced eaGeruess for more
elOQuence of the same sort. But those on
the stand with Mr.. Bedford did not sccm
to have as high an appreciation of his ei-
forts, and in some way which Mr.. BeIford
could not understand except that 1t was
not iu accord with Chestertieldlan tactics,
he was superseded in the middle Of his
polished sentences by the introduction Of
another speaker, and crowded into back
| seat.