St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30
FOUR OF A KIND.
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cago; Walker Blaine, Augusta, Me-, and
John A. Selicker, Albany.
Cyrus w. Field, Esq, from whose office
tickets of admission had been sent out. re-
ceived letters regretting the absence from
John Jay, who is out of the city in connec-
ton with business of the civil service COM
mission from John Sherman, who is speaking
at Springfield, Mass; from John G. Whit
tier, who hopes ''the coming election will call
your honored guest to the high place he is SO
well fitted to hll;" from Eugene Hale, who
was ais oaway owing TO campaign engage
ment.
The various tables were supplied with
| dainty designs intended to illustrate the
character of the industries of the country,
and in which the citizens were the formost
part engaged. One table was devoted to
sculpture and to arts, letters and science and
one to the iron interests. The menu was
printed on heavy crystal board. On the
front appears two national flags
with their stats crossed. Binding
the stats at the point where
they meet is a crimson ribbon, the folds of
which are tossed by the wind so that the
streaming ends are borne upwards Of the
crossed flags and form the initials ~. G. b."
Immediately below this design appears the
inscription, DINNER to the Hon. James g.
Blaine, Wednesday, Oct. 80, 1884, at Z p.
m, Delmonico's, Fifth avenue and Twenty
| sixth street" The flags, the ribbons, form
ing the initials of Mr.. Blaine's name and
the initial letters of inscription below, the
most conspicuous design, are hand painted
and exquisitely done. When the guests were
seated grace was said by Rev. DR.. Henry NJ.
Field.
1t was 9:40 when ex-Sec. Evarts raped
for order with his gavel and began his
address. AS he arose in his place loud ap-
plause greeted him, and as he closed there
were more cheers. Three cheers for James
6. Blaine were called for and given with
great enthusiasm, and were repeated in re-
Spouse to voice from the lower end of the
hall shouting "Three more" When Mr..
Blaine arose he was greeted with a Whirlwind
of applause. He said:
1t is great reversal of the positions, Mr..
President, that makes me hear YOU ascribe
leadership to me, for it has been nv duty
and my pleasure in these long years to fol-
low you, to learn from you wisdom in public
affairs, and to join with my countrymen in
ascribing to you not merely the great merit
OF leadership in the noblest
of professions, but to yield over
admiration for the singular success which
has given to you the opportunity to lead in
the three most important cases ever pleaded
by member of the American bar. First, in
resisting your own party in what YOU re-
garded the impolicy of the madness, of i'm
peaching president. Second, in maintain
ing before the greatest international tribunal
that has ever assembled in modern times,
the rights of your country and obtaining re-
dress for the wrongs to her that
grew out of the civil war.
And third, perhaps avoiding another civil
war by pleading before an electoral COM
mission for a peaceful settlement of the
angriest political controversy that ever rose
between parties in the United States. turn
from your president to thank you, merchants,
professional men, ladies in the great and
complex society of New York, to thank YOU
for receiving me not merely at this festive
board, but also in that far more impressive
reception which the close of this rainy day
witnessed, on your broad and beautiful avenue
could not, [ am sure, by any possible
stretch of vanity take this large and generous
demonstration to myself. 1t is given to me
only as for the time a representative of the
principles which you and l hold in common,
touching those great interests which under
lie as we believe the prosperity of the nation.
And it is fitting that the commercial metrop-
oils Of the continent should lead.
1t is fitting the financial center of the con-
tinent should lead. 1t is fitting that the
great city, second only in the world, should
give expression to the continent, of its views
and its judgment on the important questions
to be decided on Tuesday next by the Amer
lean people. And l venture, not that 1
know it as well as you, but that am spokes-
man for the present, venture to remind you
men OF New York, with your wealth
and your just influence and your magnifi-
cent prestige that 20 per cent. of the entire
prosperity of this city has been acquired
since Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on
the 4th of March, 1851. l should not men
ton fact of percentage and of statistics if
it did not carry with it an
argument and moral. The
common apprehension to New York
is that it is simply great commercial city
So great that its exports and imports repre-
sent largely the major part of all that is ex-
ported from or imported into the United
States. That we all know But we are often
apt to forget that New York is the largest
manufacturing city in the world, with per-
haps single exception And from these
facts comes that great sympathy,
that great identity of interest which has re-
moved previously existing conflicts between
what have been known as the manufactur-
ing and commercial interests, and has taught
us there can be no true prosperity in the
country unless the three great interests COM
pretended under agricultural, manufactures
and commerce are acting in harmony the
one with the other, ana joining together for
a common end and for the common good
[Cheers. 1t is usually thought change of
government means but little. That we come
together with our votes on a given day
and count them as the sun goes
down and q party goes out and
another comes in. But, gentlemen, it is
worth while to remember that the United
States is proceeding to-day upon given
basis of public policies, l might say upon a
given series of public policies. We have a
great financial system, we have great cur
rency system, we have an important national
credit, we have. levying of duties
as has been so well described by your
distinguished president of the evening.
so adjusted that the industries of the country
are fostered and encouraged thereby, We
have three important constitutional amend
ments, that grow out of the war, upon which
at this hour and in the hours and the DAYS,
and the weeks, and the years, to follow great
issues hung in this country. Are we. If we
should be invited to step down and out and
our opponents to step up and in, are we
to understand that these policies are
to be reversed Then if we are to under
stand that they are to be reversed we should
one and all prepare for a great disaster.
For single Illustration let me recall to YOUR
minds that the repeal Of ten lines in the
national banking act would restore to vital
ity and to vigor the old state bank system,
from which we had happily escaped, as we
thought, for all the remainder of our lives.
If these policies are to be reversed you will
have to rest your accounts and review your
ledgers and prepare for a new, and 1 NAV
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