Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-26
Senator Hoar on Blaine,

Hon. George f. Hoar, the distinguished
United States Senator Of Massachusetts, in
speech at Salem, in that state, last Wednesday
evening, thus spoke of James G. Blaine:
You know something Of the principleg, the
policy, the purposes of the republican party
They are written in letters OF light ON yonr
country's history, as they are in the platform
adopted at Chicago, and James G. Blaine has
been selected to carry out the principles and
the policy and the purposes Of the republican
party. And he is about to do it. Has there
ever been candidate since the republican party
was organized SO well commended to you as
Mr.. Blaine? Did you know as much about
Abraham Lincoln when you voted for him?
Did you know as much about Grant, IN civil
life, mean, when you first voted for him: Did
you know as much about Hayes when you voted
for him? Did you know any more about
Garfield when You voted for him? I think the
choice OF the great Republican party OF this
country ought to count for something. They
have not made mistake even when they took
an obscure man, comparatively, for their can
didate. They knew what they were about.
And they have noe made q mistake when they
have taken the one n,ost conspicuous person III
civil life in america
Why, there's talk about these charges!
suppose You have heard country lawyers ar
on their side-and don't understand me az
speaking contemporary Of country lawyers,
becauseT arn one of that kind myself. Taught
er. But with almost any complicated state OF
shrewd and crafty man can get up and.
by shaking his head, and sneering,
and insinuating, and declaring that the
| thing you thought was innocent was
done for = guilty purpose, and with q guilty
| motive, can make out an apparently plausible
efr 1yh does m
| thing about the case And that is the attempt
in these charges against Mr.. Blaine. There
| ere four of these letters-all that Mr. Schurz
! quoted in his speech and in his lctter-and
| the hands Of every Republican voter in Massa
chuetts All there is of them is the charge that
! when Mr.. Blaine reminded his correspondent OF
! perfectly honest and righteous ruling, ne did it
not iunocently and honestly, but for a corrupt
purpose, and to imply that II ne could make
vor again. Now, think Nj Blaine is entitled
to the charity with which you would judge the
| hnnlbiest and the most obscure man in your
own neishborhood. Suppose these letters had
{ been written /" q Waterman in Lynn or q po-
liceman in HaYerbill, and not by 3 candidate
for the great Office OF prcsidonf> and all his
! neighbours came forward and said to yon,
| @'ThIs luan we have known from his youth up
through and through; he s perfectly honest
| man." suppose the men WHO had qunrreled
Wltn ulIu ana ICuSNb so idl hS LA tlleHi lay liio
| high honor whci. can only he G. ven in full by
the whole people OF the United States What
| they thiuk of him you can judge by the tre-
nlendoua ma jorit, il that state. What the
people OF the United States ttiuk Of him a
| similar result in November is sure to show
| rIhe applause which greeted this prediction
was suddenly hushed by binding flash Of
! Lightning, followed Instantly by a tremendous
roar Of thundcrl
The people Of the State of Maine have just
| spoken That is tho one colnln"nity an this
Aearth which would not tolerate a knave if they
| knew it, and from whose Intelligence 4 knave
could not hide himself if he tried. It stands, l
believe, 1t the head of all the communities on
and write in the education of its people 1t is
al unlnixod English blood and / speak Of that
only to show that they have been used to self
government aud to choose their rulers for two
centuries. Overland over again, Democrats
leaving tlnir party to do it, tho people
Of Maine have declared their love for
| and their confidence in this man. The
United States Senate was just halt
Democrat when Mr., Blaine was pro
posed to them by General Garfield for tbs Of
fee Of secretary Of state Now 1t would be
improper for me, under the rules Of tue senate,
to say whether he was unanimously confirmed,
and L say nothing about that anywhere; huS
have right to say under the rules Of the SEN
ate, that single objection would have com
PEELED that nomination to 60 over at least
twenty-four hours, and that he Was confirmed
| in two miuutec after his name went IN. DONE
YOU suppose that those democratic senators
| knew Whether Mr. Blame was IN honest man
Or a knave? And don't you suppose they would
have been swift to condemn him if they had en-.
tortained the latter opinion?