Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-30

| as if the trumpets had all announced the result
 But we do not mean from this night forward that
 until the sundown of the election day shall end the
 contest Great applause the guests rising to their
 heRepublican platform is based and continuing said
 f9 Re m f6s eoe a S ph e poeT tgreat cheering) Turning to Mir. Blaine the orator years. We have seen nobody else for the last four months (applause and laughter.) You have been With hearty, sober and earnest homage to our lead
 CT we Republicans join you with the welfare of our and tremendous applause, the company rising as MT. Blaine arose to bow his acknowledgements
 When the toast had been drunk the ap-
 plause was renewed to be succeeded E con
 certed cries of "Blaine, Blaine, James G.
 Blaine!" 70! O Ohiov etc. When quiet
 was restored Mr. Blaine, addressing MT.
 Evarts, said:
 It is great reversal of positions MT. President, for it has been my duty and my pleasure in these long years to follow you (applause1 to learn from countrymen in ascribing to you the great merit of leadership in the noblest of professions and ad
 has given to the YOU the saseers opportuny Mgin in the three most important cases ever pleaded by Of "good'0 First in resisting your own party in of an i@peaehment % of the fresident d @ (appauseS Second, in maintaining before the greatest inter- of your country and redress for the wrongs that grew out of the civil war, and third, perhaps avert toraI commission for tfe peaceful settlement of the angriest controversy that ever arose between the dent to thank you merchants T and profes- sionel men leaders eE v,,il in . the gpeat. .o and ceiving me not merely at this festai board but in that far more impressive reception which the close of this rainy day witnessed in your broad streets. venture to remind the men of New York with your great wealth and your just influence and your mag ncent prestige that seventy per cent of the entire property of this great city has been acquired since Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 1, 1860, of percentage and of statistics if it did not carry, with it an argument and is thatit is simply great commercial city, so great that it's exports and imports represent largely ede al9r part 1 pt all tna' & IS exporeed & ana N forget that New York is the largest manufacturing
 6ss hst of the of nh%aily nishss oneffth twelve hundred n3iIlions this Glfa5 eRppiansa5 spF9 e''' 'A's n"seO ''nS '''' government means but little; that we come togeth- CT with our votes on given day and count them at the evening, and one party goes out and another comes in. But, gentlemen, it worth while to re- upon given series of public policies. We have great financial system. We have a
 r I nave e1Yne hane a4 o @e n has been so vel described by yea9F dis distinguished ing try of the country is fostered and encouraged there ments that grew out of the war upon which at this hour and in the hours, days and weeks and the
 G foo @ pd d51b b nged 6 a sen ss doWn a5d out and our opponents to step up and in, to be Teversed3 Then if we are to understand that they to be reversed we should one and all pre- gie iliustrafion you may recall to your minds that the repeal of ten lines in the national banking act ing system from which we have escaped as we thought for all the remainder of our lives Gap plause.) If these policies are to be reversed you will have to recast your account and review your ledger and prepare for new and may say a dan gerous departure, and these policies are not to be reversed they will certainly be better maintained by the great party which originated them and has thus far sustained them with vigor and success (ap-
 The Republican party, gentlemen, cannot be said something to be tried for The Republican party in m @ oq 9t beToPd m thad of anv o it's predecessors in power. It has elevated the re 9ee beore 'ncrfesif S p
 may add never before dreamed oes of of 5geas y and have dwet So much upon them % in the last six weeks that they might be supposed to the e eEequenee of the figures Which tel us that the the wealth of this great empire State when the Repub was Msh esr estiated i0D at 1seo 5 million dollars and that twenty years afterward under the for which that party is proudly responsible (cheers the same tests which gave you $1 500 coo, 900 of long continued appla1se) There has never been in all the history of financial progress there has never this and sure, gentlemen, that the Republican party is not arrogant nor over confident and maintaining the industrial system which gave you and your associates in enterprise the equal and just laws which enabled you to make this mar vellous progress Great cheering As have said that mistakes they have been merged and which has corrected them. tCheersS If has had internal differences they laid aside. If it has (renewed cheering1 and I am equally sure that looking to the history of the party and to the great future which we are justified in prophesying this therefore will not reverse those great policies upon which it has grown and advanced from glory to thank that large number with whom I have already had the pleasure of exchanging Chants, the lawyers the professional men, the me chanics, the laboring men of New York (applause) which 1 in all the mutations of my future fife viii be to me among the proudest and most precious Of my memories.
 Mir. Blaine here took his seat amid loud and prolonged cheering MT. Evarts then read telegrams of regret from Hon. John Sherman and John G. Whittier This ended the formal proceedings, and at the sugges- tion of the chairman the guests left the tables and passed into the parlors, where for ah hour MT. Blame was surrounded by his friends and engaged in friendly conversation. It was midnight before the party dispersed.
 Among the prominent persons present at the banquet in addition to those before men toned were H. 20. Armour, William H. Rob ertson, Jessie SeIigman, Clarence A. Sew Mills, George Bliss, J. D. Ver1nilye, Andrew Carnegin, Lloyd Aspinwall Russell Sage, Jay Gould, w. D. Connor, August Kountze and C. L. Tiffany