St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-30
He responded very briefly paying marked tribute
10 the character and career of General McPher-
son, whose remains repose in cemetery near
bv
AT FREMONT.

AT FREMONT.
At Fremont ex-President Hayes escorted Mr..
Blaine 10 the platform and introduced him to his
friends and neighbors as the king for him, cor
dial reception as an old friend and as the stan
dard bearer of the Republican party whose
cess he believed was essential to the prosperity
of the country. Mr.. Blaine was received with
great demonstrations of applause, and spoke as
follows
at gives me great pleasure to be thus well
coined to Fremont and to be introduced by ex-
President Hayes to his neighbors and friends /
am glad to have an opportunity TO say here that
1t was the enviable fortune of your distinguished
fellow citizen as president of the Quilted States
to leave the people of the country in far more
prosperous condition at the close of his admin
istration than that in which he found them on
the day of his inauguration, and that he steadily
gained in public esteem throughout his whole
term of office. ! thank him and thank you for
the personal compliment and for its public sig
nificance, and ask of you the considerate judg
ment which know you viii give TO the weight
of Ohio's voice in October
AT TOLEDO.
Immediately upon arriving at Toledo Mr..
Blaine was escorted by the local committee to
League park, on the outskirts of the city, where
meeting was in progress. AS soon as it was
known that Mr.. Blaine had come the people
crowded into the park in large numers, SO that
in a short time there were probably 10000 in and
| around the enclosure. Mr.. Blaine's appearance
on the stand was the signal for most enthusias-
/ tic cheering. Mr.. James NJ Brown, chairman
of the county committee, welcomed Mr. Blaine
! in q brief speech and introduced him to the au-
! dience. Mr.. Blaine said:
mir. Chairman and gentlemen: / should at
any time deem it improbable to speak ds$e-
spectfully of political opponents. L should in
| NV hpr
| improper. / should rather be the victim Of
SANDER than the author of it. But there are
some things which do not deem 1t unbeconing
to me holding the position do, to call your at
tention to. The Republican party has governed
the country for tweuty-four years in the spirit
and according to the measures of a broad nation
ality. The progress under government in
that spirit has far transcribed all the progress
| made in all the previous years of the nation 5
history. To reward the government now TO the
control of our opponents who do not believe in
the constitutionality Of the measures which have
| given this progress, would be o step backward
! into the dark. When argue the, question of
| protective tariff we not permitted
| to regard it merely to be settled
| OH the basis of eXpediency, because the large
majority of our opponents hold protective tariff
to be unconstitutional. There is not one great
measure that the Republican party has adopted,
nor great step the party has taken since the
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln i'll 1861 that
the Democratic party mas not opposed anu mas
not considered unconstitutional So that to-day
to remand the government of the United States
to the control of the Democracy is not merely to
an ordinary change of parties. 1t is total re-
versal of the policy that has distinguished the
government of the United States since 1861. 1t
is giving to the narrowing dogma of atate rights
the precedence in that grand march which has
been made, and which could only be made un-
der the banner of broad nationality. 1t is on
the great plane that the Republican party has
done me the honor to present me as a candidate
before you. 1t is on that plane, with all that i
implies, that am before you and before all the
people of the United States to-day
Judge West followed Mr.. Blaine. His remarks
were loudly applauded. The meeting then ad
adjourned and Mr.. Blaine driven to the
hotel. Many of the houses along the way were
decorated with Republican flags and banners.
Immediately after dinner he waited upon by
the local committee and taken to the headq uar-
ters of the Boys in Blue, where he was very
warmly received, He made few informal re
marks and then went to the rooms of ''The Silye
Grays,'' an organization of gray haired Republi.
cans, where there was a similar scene. Then he
was driven 10 the grand stand from which he re-
viewed great torch light procession, many O.
organizations coming from the adjacent country
and some from quite distant towns. The Repub
lican demonstration was TO have taken place OF
Saturday evening, and its postponement till Mon
day brought il on the same evening with pre-
arranged Democratic parade, which also YER
large. The rival professions, between them
seemed to have taken possession OF the entir
city, but everything passed of peaceably.
To-DAY's PROGRAMME.
The programme is to leave Toledo at o'clocl
on Tuesday and reach Dayton in the evening
making brief stops ut Intervening places.