The Portland daily press., 1884-10-13
OUR CANDIDATES.
Cordial Reception Given Blaine
and Logan in the West.
MR.. BLAINE SPEAKS TO THE
HOOKING VALLEY MINERS.

OF q crowd composed largely of working men. Be.
SIDE the track they had erected platform of pic
iron on which Mr.. Blaine stood He began his
BRIEF speech by saying: 81 stand on the plat
form on which stood in Congress for 20 years. a
PLATFORM which enables iron to be made in our own
country instead of Ireland % This was received
with great cheering. The remainder of his speech
was devoted to the bearing of the tariff on the iron
| industry.
ATKINS, O.. Oct. 14.-At jackson there was a
| very large gathering. Mr. Blaine spoke few words
about bis interests in coal land and the bearing Of
tne taTif on the iron and coal trade. His remarks
| were favorably received and as the train moved of
the people eheered him repeatedly.
| LANCASTER, O., Oct. 14.-At Negsonville, the
centre OF the mining district In the Hooking Valley
Mr.: Blaine made the following speech
II am at home anywhere it is in coal region. l
was porn and brought up in coal region ia the
| Valley OF the Monongahela and know something
| about coal. have been an owner of coal lands
nearly all my adult life and the greater part Of
wnaI hbtls property have in this world is in coal
ianus nave also been to some extent engaged in
the mining of coal, and l am now interested as a
stockhoder and director in company in West
nection with the coal industry, and count L a
piece OF remarkable good fortune that neither my
sen nor any company with which have been con-
nected have ever had strike or quarrel or dis-
pute or trouble of any kind with any man. (Cheers
Further, have to say that during the last Is
months the company thar am connected with has
been able to pay an average of about $50 month
TO every one of its $50 men engaged (sGood
good You see, therefore, that am not talking
| acknowledge that am owner in the coal lands
Ia pennsylvania and in West Virginia am kindly
assured bya number of Democrats in Ohio that
own also large tract of coal land IN the Hooking
valley. Oaugnter) Now l think that when q
man has property attributed to him which he pro-
tests that he does not and when other pa rites
insist that he does own it they ought to be COM
PEELED by law to make it good to hfLl. daughter
ana eneers) Ihey say that am large holder in
the Hooking Valley syndicate; say that do not
own single share. They say again that do. Let
them come into court then and make the owner
snip snip good to me e'Good.'y If could bring them
gested could bankrupt great many Democratic
editors and speakers who insist that own property
that never did owD. daughter and cheers.) /
unders and that the miners in this region have had
some trouble with operators and our political op-
oosesaar. poaents say that at, am am one of the
never had any trouble with the men employed
In the mines in which am interested and never
the business without difficulties Of thar kind shall
abandon it, (Cheers) / think there is no disagree
ment that ever arises between an employer and the
men he employs that ought not to be settled by fair
and impartial arbitration, and think man who is
not willing to submit such matter to arbitration
ought to explain to the public why he is unwilling
10 90 IT, But because you are in temporary trouble
why should you turn your backs on the great pro-
tectlve system which for 20 years has promoted
ana secured the development of your valley? Are
you going TO remedy your troubles in that way?
Because You cannot have high tide of prosperity
All the time. do you therefore say that you will have
low tide OF adversity? (That's it, In this world
we have to take little bit of lean with the fat
(Laughterl You cannot have stream how down
lts PED without having an eddy now and then; you
cannot have Hood tide of the ocean without a
corresponding ebb These occasional disturbances
OF the even flow of prosperity to be inevitable
10. you want want to gst rid Of that Of course,
out the parties concerned should deal
with each other in a patient and concil-
iatory SPIRIT and in your anxiety to remedy
these passing troubles you should think of tear
ing up the very foundation which the prosperity
Of your state and of the whole country rests
SCheers2 appeal to you as workingmen, as miners
a Tuaf arffF Sc
coal and iron industries it is not good for anything
II It does not develop these it does not develop any
Thing ana II the protectiyetariff were repealed to
morrow these hills would be again wrapt in the
silence and desertion in which they rested during
the 70 years that preceded the enactment of pro-
tectlYe tariff But on the other hand if the protec
i've tariff is maintained, have full faith that your
troubles will soon be adjusted and that now era of
prosperity viii dawn upon you. (Renewed cheers.)
ested in the Union Furnace?'' Mr.. Blaine-ssNot
70 the extent OF single penny. will make il
stronger than that; never owned interest in
else in the civilized world, and (Cheers
never was engaged in the iron business at ALL but
have been engaged in the coal business and large
pro orton of the property own is invested in coal
to-day. am Interested with you ia this matter
II II tne coal business breaks down in ohio it cannot
pc maintained in Pennsylvania West Virginia.
We all stand or fall together. When they were
about to sign the Declaration of Independence some
one eaid TO Dr. W1therspoon fWell, we must hang
together" "Yes,' said he s'If we do not George sd
Will see that we hang separately daughter and
cneersl. 50 my friends engaged In the coal indus
try, Il we do not stand together shall fall togeth-
or. (Cbeers9 thank you for the very kind re-
cepton you have given me, and leave you in the
nope and expectation that we shall have better
times 1or the mining interests throughout the
whole United States. (Renewed cheering1
AT Logan, town in the mining district, there
was very large crowd which cheered Mr. Blaine's
remarks enthusiastically. In the evening at lane
caster he was escorted to the house of his cousin
Juoge Ewing, and later at meeting held in his
honor he made speech.
CTNCINyEATr n Oo+ II ~. r.... -...,
this city this afternoon and was met at the depot
by body of 400 veteran soldiers n no with a baI
OF music escorted the General to his hotel. Upon
MS arrival there the square quickly filed with
a uense crowd, TO whom Gen. Logan appeared and
made brief address, which was received with loud
applause. He was then escorted to Music Hall
where an audience filing the whole house was wait,
ing. Many ladies were present On the appearance
ot Gen' Logan at tie main entrance scene of the
Wliuesb enthusiasm ensued and was kept up for
iully ten minutes. Gen. Hickinlooper introduced
ten. Logan to the audience who received his re-
marks with enthusiastic applause. The General
devoted considerable time to replying to the
charges made by Gov. Hendricks and Senator
Bayard.
YogEesTowN, o., Oct. 49, Gen. Logan arrived
here this evening. He will be the guest of c. H.
Andrews until Wednesday afternoon, when he viii
go to Chicago. General Logan speaks at the Opera
House tomorrow night. There will also be torch
light parade.
given him Saturday night here, Mr.. Blaine deliver
cd the following speech:
"My friends confess that in this place and at
this time hardly feel disposed to make any alluson
10 public affairs. Recoections that rush upon me
as stand here carry me back through many years
TO a time before most of you were born. In 1S4l /
W MsS M Doy In tns town attending the school
younger brother of DIR. Lyons, and uncle i believe
OF the British minister at Washington who taught
WIN great success the youth of this vicinity. l
know not whether he be living. If he is beg to
make my Acknowledgements to him for his etfectiye
excellence e as an instructor. As look upon your
n douc 70
as II then was In these rows of dwellings on the
opposite side of the street. in one of which am
now guest lived at that time the first three law
and Hooking Hunter yiyidly recall
their persons and pecuiarities Shortly before that
Time there had come home from West Point tall
ana very slender Young man, straight as an arrow
with sharp face and fun suit of red hair: his name
was sherman and he had in his pocket an order to
JOIN the army in Florida. You have heard of him
since. daughter and cheers) You have heard of
MIN and he will be heard of SO long as that march
the same time from countryto wn to the Southwest
OF tnls plaeelthe was sent to West Point sturdy
strong headed youth who also was heard of in the
war and whose fame has since encircled the globe;
bis name is Ulysses S. Grant. Great cheersJ
Right in the adjoining county of Perry there lived
short stout boy who has since become known to the
world as Phil Sheridan. (Three cheers were called
for and given for Sheridan) Combative vet gentle
IN nature, he achieved reputation not unlike that
member another youth of this town, slender, tail
and stately, who had Just left school
Anu was civil engineer of the Muskin-
guon river improvements; you have since heard of
MIN; his name was John Sherman. (Cheers) at
that time this town seemed to my boyisn vision to
De the centre of the universe My idea was that
tne world was under deep obligation for being per-
mitted to revolve around Lancaster. daughter
and cheers.) recall these scenes and when |
think of those days, of the deep attachments in
herited and have since maintained feel more like
dwelling npon old stories connected with these
scenes than talking upon political contests.
But a1ter all these things are gone by for more
than forty years and new generation meets in a
new era and under new responsibilities. We meet
upon the eve OF an important election and the peo
pie OIL Ohlo, as 10 their wont and has been their
fortune, are placed in the vanguard of the fight. /
am satisfied that on Tuesday next you Will show as
you have shown in preceding Presidential elections
mat ONO IS MT TO be intrusted with the RESPONSE
Dliity OF leader in the great national contests.
your duty Tuesday next as becomes men of your
lineage and your Inheritance the Republican admin.
1stration of this government will be Continued
Cheers. The protective tariff will be upheld the
patriotism aud fruits of the civil struggle will be
maintained and the government of the Union pre-
served by the loyalty of the Union, and win CON
tinue to be administered in loyalty to the Union.
Good night. (Cheers).
Mr.. Blaine spent quiet Sunday as the guest of
his cousin, Hon. p. B. Ewing. In the forenoon he
attended the Presbyterian church anu the after
noon he devoted to visiting, in company with Judge
Ewing, his relatives and old friends of whom he
has large number In this vicinity.
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