Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-26
people for their kind reception and then said

people for their kind reception and then said
could not but do injustice to nv feelings
TO pass through your beautiful town without
paying a tribute of respect to the late eminent
citizen whom you have lost. 1t was nv
fortune to know Judge Folger personally and
officially, to know him well and feel bound
to bear testimony that he was one among the
! public men of the United States who shorten.
ed his life BY unselish devotion to public
duty. l am sure that in bearing this testi-
mony am sustained by you who know him
so well and for SO many years enjoyed his
| friendship.
! Mr.. Blaine received q great ovation in
| Rochester. Uniform clubs extended in line
! for about three fourths of q mile from the
depot along the way to stand erected on the
court house steps. The streets were filed
with dense mass of men and women and
every door and window in the houses along
| the route was occupied. MIR. Blaine was
received with tremendous cheering. He said
am sure no desire TO offer personal COM
pliment to any living man could have brought
this vast audience together and have not the
vanity to accept it as offered to myself indi-
vidually. 1t is rather an expression by this
assemblage of people Of Western New York
by their confidence in those principles which
have brought prosperity to our country and
I
of the examples and illustrations of that
prosperity. The republican party embodies
in its creed four distinct and important doc
| trines. First-peace with the whole world
Second - commercial expansion in every
practical direction. Third -er couragement
of every form of American industry. En-
thusiastic applause. Fourth-protection to
every citizen, native or neutralized, at home
and abroad. Renewed cheers. Under these
policies the republican party strives to con
duct government; under these principles the
republican party submits itself to the judgment
of the American people; on these principles
we conquer, or on these we are conquered.
thank you, gentlemen, thank you from the
bottom of my heart for whatever in this
splendid ovation is personal to myself, but
ask your attention with especial emphasis to
the Importance of those position to which
have so briefly adverted. To the latest hour
of my life | can never forget this brilliant
scene nor can | mistake its wide significance.
[Cheers.
AT Batavia large crowd had gathered.
Mr.. Blaine made his usual speech of thanks
AT this point delegation from Lockport and
delegation of 720 from Buffalo came aboard
the train. When the party arrived in Buffalo
depot at s o'clock there was already great
crowd there. Mr.. Blaine, escorted by a local
committee, entered his carriage and passed
up between the rows of Pumed Knights and
other clubs bearing torches. He was driven
through the principal streets and loudly
cheered by the people as he passed. At some
points on the route there were cheers for
Cleveland and shouts of "Clevelands the
man." Everywhere the greatest good humor
prevailed. At few minutes past II the
procession passed the Tiff House, and Mr.
Blaine and party went in by the rear en-
trance, the crowd in front being too great
Almost Immediately Mr.. Blaine had 70 show
himself Cd the balcony, and for an hour he
stood reviewing the procession and bowling
acknowledgements. 1t was near midnight
when the end of the procession passed the
hotel, and Mr.. Blaine came in from the bal
cony but hardly had he got into the room
when the Buffalo glee club came to give him
a serenade.
Mr.. Blaine will leave here tomorrow noon,
reaching Erie, Pa, at 2.2O, stopping there l5
minutes, Ashtabula, o at 3 20, stopping one
hour. Painesville, o., at $50, stopping one
hour, and arriving at Cleveland at 6.55 F. NJ