The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-23
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
An Eloquent Campaign Speech by Elk
Attorney General Hoar.
Mr.. Blaine's Great Services to his Country
and to his Party-Gen. Logan's
brilliant Rpcnr1

can mass meeting at Worcester, Mass, on I'll
22d ult He said:
Mr.. President and fellow citizens: It
many years since | have had the pleasure @
addressing a meeting in this city. 1t is n cit
TO which am attached by many associations
1t was here that more than forty years ago,
finished my early professional training. Thei
II was country village, not much larger THAI
the little one in which my home is found.
have watched your magnificent growth; hay,
taken still greater pride in yox answering
fidelity to public interest and public principles
Applause. ] am glad to have a chance from
the Kindness of your committee to come over
here tonight and look in your faces and con
slider for few minutes with you the question
that now present themselves in public aiTairss
Our party and its candidates. Our party, the
republican party of the United States. What
does 1t mean to us! Why my friends, to take
the admission of an independent writer, the
republican party means to us country, honor,
reputation, the sacrifice of our very flesh and
blood, tender memories of friends and kins-
men who gave up their lives for the sake Of
justice and right. 1t means to US the Just re-
nown of Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan,
and Meade, and Logan, and the great Virgin
IAN Geo. II. Thomas. 1t means the memories
called up when annually on decoration day We
go to adorn the graves Of those whom we nave
lost. II means TO me the memory of a father
who forty years go, at the risk of his life, took
his white hairs to Charleston, s. c., to vindi-
cate the rights OF the pcople-colored sailors
whom South Carolina was imprisoning and
selling Applause. Ii means to me all the
dreams of my youth and all the work of the
triumphs of my mature years. "With great
price obtained we this freedom" Gentlemen
who talk hippantly about bringing in the dem
ocratc party and letting the republican party
go don't seem to be aware with what toll, with
what labor. with what effort this great dixie
was built which we set up in this country
against the encroachment OF tyranny and the
Shareholder. The older men in this audience
m d fDuuuipU pf
the republican party l stood by its cradle,
and by no act or consent OF mine do | propose
ever to follow its hearse. [Great applause.
We know what master laid its keel
WHAT workmen wroughtits ribs of steel,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what forge, at what a heat,
Were cast the anchors of its hope.
And we come together tonight, fellow-cti-
zcns, to renew our allegiance TO it, to say that |
we propose here in Massachusetts, here in
Worcester, to stand by our colors Applause. |
And what is there that is offered to US why we
should not. Has not the republican party
saved the union! Has not il carried the nation
through war! has it not preserved the public
faith against all the assaults of the southern
rebels or their democratic allies by paying to
every public creditor his full due according to
the letter and spirit of the contract! HASN'T
1t maintained a system in collecting this great
revenue, which the American people have
gladly paid for the extinguishment of the war
debt-a spectacle which in foreign countries is
pointed at as something when the world never
before saw-a free people masters of their own
action, with load of debt upon them at the
close of the war that seemed crush.
Ing and almost hopeless. or would
forward and bv the blessing of God prosner.
inc as they went: and have moi they colledted ,
this great revenue and gone on with the nav !
ment of this public debt SO shapnp the tariff !
that it has been an encouragement and pro- I
moter of the happiness of the peoplel That is /
the record of the republican partyl Has If no; y
drawn from England. i'm the treaty of Wash 4;
ington On apology for her conduct toward us =
during the ware fAnnlause Whom do Won, 4
think the "Solid South y with their domocrat r.
ic hackers would ever have cot an apoIogy i,
from England for nclpinr them durin0 t5c y
war! [Derisye laughter n
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:. THE CANDIDATES. n
Meaning, as l know you do, to stand by our II
party, whom have we for candidates. | will N N
aud nothing to the magnificent tribute of your a,
presiding oincer, but IN regard to Gen. Logan m
et me explain that which was told me of him =;
y President Grant. He said that when George ", ",
4. Thomas was making his preparations for ~,
ne battle OF Nashville he seemed TO he very IN
low. 1t took great while; he didn't seem to go
lasten much on sending urgent messages o. o.
men Graut sent Logan out there with a com fin Fl,
MSS on IN his pocket TO supercede Thomas In
M take command of that army, and Logan +,
ent out there with that commission in his m
ocket, and when he got there he found that an
homas had been most prudentlv, and careful y
Y, and diligently making his preparations, 20
nj That the time was very near at which he "a
ltended to move, and he kept the commission ~
bis pocket and said nothing about it, and Cr'
III Thomas to gloriously finish the work he va
begun. Applause Now we have all dec
al experience OF men who get into the public rat
'rvice in one way and another, and think pal
ave known some officers who have been in the
re war, who, with opportunity of that the
ind, would have expanded themselves. The
AN who did this is a sterling man Iapplausel, /
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,ano ra,,,iaiI Ioi tne Plesiuency, MI mo
,an mno Is fe' once repuD snd
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~ tho t; men ~, I,nsiclleu .e MAJOR sia,
q ,os tho, oels ~ VIC "heh t t;,
c cose OF that congress he made that touch SUI
:, uignuiec, ana affecting farewell speech TO sia'
mousse undertake 10 say 10 you, gentle .vre
oitad ST. Nv, ""S n, ny icpuuhean IN tne IL;
,s o,,o, ~, va. VIZ NOV 81. snu. MI piaine O.
Is among the foremost, the most trusty, the geo
nee t5en hn ho s h ou, acaueas, lapplause.I sub
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