St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-22

Union, under a common constitution, look
ing to common destiny. But our oppo-
nents meet us in an entirely different spirit,
and with an entirely different course of ac-
ton. Instead of the memories of the Union
they invoke the prejudices of the rebellion
in their aid, and they ask that
New York and Indiana shall
join the unholy alliance and
turn the national government over to
the south. do not believe it can be done.
do not believe Indiana will do that under
its present leadership anymore than it would
have done the same thing under the leader
ship OF Oliver P. Morton, the badge of whose
memorial club / am proud to wear (placing
his hand on his breas). To say nothing of its
slgnlhcance in other aspects, the triumph of
the northern element in the Democratic
party clearly means the triumph of
free trade. 1t means the break
ing down of the great industrial
system which has enriched the United States
so marvelously in the last twenty three
years, and which has enriched your own
state in an equal degree with other states.
Indiana has grown into superb common
wealth, great in her population, great in her
enterprise, great in her wealth. Not even
known beyond her own borders as a manu-
featuring state when the Republican party
came into power in 1861, she now turns out
IN single year one hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars worth of manufactured products
The Development, therefore, of your manu-
featuring resources, dependent as that is
upon protective tariff, is of the highest in
terest to every citizen of the
state. A community that COM
bines agriculture and manufactures
has the necessary conditions for obtaining
an ideal prosperity. l can remember,
myself, and am not an old man, the time
when in my native state of PENNSYLVANIA
Governor Ritner was laughed at for saving
that the day would come when PENNSYLVANIA
would not be able to supply bread stuffs and
provisions to the miners in her mountains
and the factories in her towns. Yet that day
came long ago, and Pennsylvania, the first
wheat state in the Union, depends to-day
for large share of her bread stuffs
upon the granaries of the west.
When Indiana shall have developed
manufacturing enterprise to such degree as
to be able to consume her own agricultural
products, she will have attained an ideal
prosperity, and she can do that only by
means of protective tariff The issue is in
your hands. You are free men. You have
free ballot, but in the south we have mill
ion of friends who have not free ballot
The south to-day has thirty-seven
electoral votes, based upon the vote
! OF the colored men. Yet the colored
men of the south, though million in num-
Der, cannot choose a single presidential
elector. As a result of that the political
power of a white man in the south is enor-
mously increased beyond that of a white man
in Indiana or Maine for the time being. We
will not argue at all the question of negro
suffrage, but submit as fair proposition
to every man in the land that if the south is
to have thirty-seven presidential electors by
reason of the negro vote, then the negro him
self ought to be allowed to cast his ballot
The issue is in your hands. In
diana, as / said when 1 began,
Will have potential voice in the decision,
and from the popular demonstrations l have
witnessed since 1 crossed the border of your
state, / feel, know, indeed am sure that
upon the ground of patriotism and upon the
ground of enlightened self interest Indiana
may be relied upon to maintain protective
tariff, and to sustain, as the assurance
thereto, the Republican party.
From the park Mr.. Blaine was driven to
the residence of Senator Harrison, where he
dined, in company with several gentlemen
invited to meet him. After
dinner deputation of German
American citizens called upon him and pre-
sented the following address,:
Hon. James G.. Blaine: The Ger
man American Republican organiza
ton, of Indianapolis, have delegated
the undersigned to express to YOU
their confidence and esteem. The identity
of your public life with the rise and progress
Of our country and our party, the eminent
services you have rendered to both, are mat
tiers OF history, and make our duty pleasant,
as 1t is honorable. Your election to the pres
ideney will honor our country and our
party. Inspired by the love of liberty
and free government we left the
land of our fathers to find new home in
this republic, and looking toward the welfare
of the nation we have no other interests
other than American citizens. Looking over
the pages Of history we find the Republican
party to have been the party of liberty and
progress, and we trust it to be the same in
the future. Upon those pages we find your
name and that of the gallant Gen. Logan
inscribed in golden letters, and we feel that
as heretofore you will in the future, do
honor to the country. Please accept this
document as token of your
appreciation and endorsement of your life,
character and public services. We welcome
you to the capital of our great state.
Mr.. Blaine replied as follows:
Gentlemen: l am grateful for your
friendly call. / am grateful for your
friendly spirit. I am grateful for your ex
pressions of good will. The assurance of
German sympathy and German support in
Indiana is repetition of what received in
Ohio. My birth and my rearing were in a
state that made me familiar from childhood
with the German character, with its
steadiness, its industry, its fidelity,
its integrity, its truth, its friendship, it local
ity of government. Pennsylvania owes
much TO her German population. to the
Muhlenbergs, the Holsters, the VOLTS. thu,
Snyders, the Shunks, who have illustrated
her annals, and with whom am not uncon-
nectcd by ties OF friendship, of inherited as
sOciations and in some cases of kindred
blood. When / reached Ohio / sought con-
ference with my German friends, and was
assured, and subsequent events have con-
frmed the assurance, that so far from being
hostile to me personally my German fellow
citizens were, as | had right TO
expect, and as you so eloauently
declare, friendly and partial to me. Thank
ing you again, gentleman, for the cordial
expressions OF your address. am proud to
take each one of you by the hand in token
of a mutual friendship and esteem.
Later large delegation of cergymen,
about thirty in number, called on Blaine aud
presented an address as follows:
The Hon. James Ct. Blaine, Dear sir:
''As Christian ministers We extend to you,
irrespective of party considerations. a cor
dial welcome to our city and we bid
you hearty God speed. It seems
1sting now that you are in city from which.
for none other than partisan reasons.
poisoned arrows have been shot at you. that
We should at least have referred to that fact.
But let US assure you that the Christian peo-
pie Of this vicinity have no sympathy with