The Arizona sentinel., 1884-06-21
THE NAME OF MAINE,
The Blind Mans Speech and the Mention of Blaine at the Chicago Conven-
 tIOn-

1 y luO ptVJ Ou'NO' AAS OANNio o0 !" descriptive writer, however, as the following Convention sketch es abundantly testify:
 At the name of Maine sh Till yell as of thousands of wild ani- mals went through the hali and i fully fiVe-siXths of all the people sprang to their feet. It was the soul of Blaine abroad among the people. No organization could have packed the hall in that in- terest, as the people all oyer the house were up at once. The waving of white hankerchiefs was all over the area of the place from the depth of the stage to the back of the far gallery, dis tance of many hundred feet, and every foot of the intervening dis tance was alive with excited peo- pie. Hats, hands, umbrellas, figs, coats, whatever would wave, Were flung up. Nearly all the people sprang on their chairs and pende- mOnium seemed to have come. The music burst forth, but it was no more h card than a piano. For many minutes the convention was literally broken. Women as well as men had the craze. It was greater than the great de- monstratiOn made for Grant at the same hall four years ago. The simple word of Maine" had told the popular secret. Even the re- formers got up to see the sight. Mir. Curtis stood on chair, but he found everywhere he looked no more comfort than the raven in the deluge. The staged seemed as alive as the Test of the audien- ce. Some people took out their watches and timed the demon stration, and put them back again before settling the question.
 THE BLIND MANS SPEECH.
 In the midst of it all the blind man West went on the platform and had a chair fixed for himself. lie was a tall man, with high shoulders, of a funeral aspect; eyes which by turn looked full of ] light and again empty of expres
 sion, and gray hair over a narrow
 f0reh cad. He had high cheek
 bones, a small chin, gray goatee, and seemed to be more Southern
 than Northern in type. Leading cn stick, carry ing d palm-leaf
 fan and bearing on his black suit
 the purple eand gold badge of Ohio
 he prepared to speak, alternately
 sitting and rising. When the
 terrible clamor had spent itself,
 this man began to speal in d
 shrill voice, shrill and sharp, yet , not always pleasant to hear. The \ matter of the speech was well , considered. and some of it's sen
 tences made the New York Inde- , pendentS wines, as he said that a
 Wall-street or a lawyers candi e date would not find grave big !. enough for the majority against Q him. All of the candidates he 2 spoke Of by name cOurteously, e reserving Blaine's name for the l. last. Then the huge scene of a few minutes before was repeated e on scale only less buisterous be- ? cause the people had already 7. z worn themselves out. Music at. 5 tempted to drown the demonstra-
 ton, but had no more effect upon . it than tune to still the ocean . Ten thousand little white nautil.
 uses. sailing on sea, seemed the + flying of hankerchiefs. Let me z. not be too fast.
 A SECOND DEMONSTRATION. The second demonstration eX. 5 ceeds the first; it takes every pos |. sible form of expression; all the n flags are torn off and waved; the ;. flags around Henderson, who sits e half-sulIen, are plucked up and ,. waved in his face. Suddenly on