Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-11-04
BLAINE In BOSTON.


Mr.. James Il. Blaine on Monday
closed his personal canvass for the
Presidency by making speeches at
Springfield, Palmer, Worcester, Natick,
Newtown and Boston. In Boston he at.
tended dinner given In his honor In
the evening, and made final speech.
He will rsach homo to-day.
The only place where there was any
attempt made 70 insult Mr.. Blaine to-
day WAS ut Natick. Here q half dozen
street boys had been hired to burn pa-
pers as Mr.. Blaine alighted from tho
train and CRY ont +" Burn this letter."
The crowd here which WA very large
brushed these boys out Of the way In q
moment, 70 that the meeting was per-
mitt ed TO proceed without further in
terruption.
There WAS great interest In the last
plnce Of stopping before reaching Bos-
nn-Newton. This 10 the homo of the
principal mugwumps Of Eastern Mas
sachusetts. Mr.. Blaine had been warn
cd that he NJ light meet with q very cool
reception here, yet when be camo to
leave the train he found 10000 people
about the station and one Of the war m
est welcomes of the day. just as Mr..
Blaine was about to begin an answer to
the welcome given him the stand fell.
Mr.. Blaine was thrown down in . pil6
Of fallen lumber under several gentle
men near him, but be scram bled out
nimbly unhurt, and proceeded as IL
nothing out of the way had happened.
The following 10 Mr.. Blaine's closing
speech Of the campaign made At the
Boston banquet
MIR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN {:
For reasons which l need not stop to
detail, q reception OF this character in
the city Of Boston ut the close Of the
national campaign Ia peculiarly grate-
full to me, and / thank Mr.. Lodge for
giving me the opportunity to thank
you. lApplause. 1t is too late to Ar.
que or oven TO state the great issues In
vOlved in the canvass which closes to-
n light, but am sure that those issues
constitute difference between parties
30 broad and 30 deep that their decision
the one way or the other will affect for
veal or for woe the history Of the Uni
ted States for many years TO come. APP
plause.
am sure that the great constitution
al amendments which have grown out
of the civic struggle, aud which have in
80 many respects, might say, changed
the very framework of our Government
have been made by the Republican
party, and are now in it's keeping, and,
AZ have frequently said elsewhere, /
here now repeat that to transfer the
political power of the country to the
Democratic party ct this time would by
no means be one Of those ordinary
transfers Of the Government from one
party to another, which the gray haired
men within my view witnessed many
years ago.
1t would not be merely case Of one
party going out and another coming In /;
It. would be rather reversal and over.
turning of great organic changes in the
Government, Of great industrial sys-
TENS, of great financial systems, and 1t
would be = transfer of the sovereignty
of the country tar more vital and far
reaoning than Of the ordinary changes
of dynasty which occur in those Euro
pean governments Of . different form
from ours.
And close this canvass, in which
have had some active participation,
with q sound conviction that, intelli.
gent A. the voters Of the United States
and am certainly addressing some
of the most Intelligent of them-that
Intelligent as the mass Of voters are,
tCCuStUuuou 90 tuUy hAo W 8ANO ho0A w
the weight and tendency OF the ques-
tions to be decided, the people OF the
United States have not yet measured
nor, as l believe, yet fully compre-
hended what 1t would mean to transfer
this Government TO the absolute con-
troll Of the Southern States Of this
Union. Nor do here and now stop to
give my own idea of what such change
would mean. 1t we're out Of place.
| should refrain for the additional
reason that anything might now say
would be too late to influence popular
Judgment In any direction, and for the
third reason that In 50 far ~ my own
voice could reach and influence the
just judgment OF the people Of the Uni
ted States have exerted 1t very freely.
have never offered any apology or
exp lanatiou for taking what some OF
my closest friends regarded as an ex-
traordinary step In going before the
people somewhat more freely and OK.
Iendedly than has been the habit OF
those chosen as the Presidential candi-
dates of great parties. But l will say
now that did it-and desire TO put
this on record-I did it because l
thought that the peculiar character OF
the canvass was my personal justifica-
tion for doing II.
am profound believer In q popular
government and know no reason why
l should not face the American people.
did it, too, for the more specific rea.
son that believe there was danger OF
the great leading question which related
to the industrial and protective system
of America being partially, perhaps
wholly excluded from that considers
ton by the people which Its merits de-
served. and, entrusted ss l was with
the great function Of representing you
and all the members Of the Republican
party, felt that would. In an es-
pecial degree, myself obtain q hearing.
! l have returned somewhat weary
somewhat broken In voice, % your earl
have already detected. but have re
turned with even more profound be
lief than had In the judgment, in the
fairness. in the impartiality, in the
generosity of the great mass of Ameri
can citizenship, and I go to my house
tomorrow not without q strong conf
dence In the result Of the ballot. but
with heart that shall not In the least
degree be troubled by any verdict thai
may be returned by the great American
, people. For have In my entire can
vass unoOnsciously and completely
lost sight Of myself and of whatever
personal fortune have at stake in 9
far greater and far grander and fai
more enduring issue which, for thu
time, 1 was submitting to popular judg
ment. [Cheers.
WOFking Day and Might.
Preparations are now being made TO
| uninterrupted work on the temporar.