Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-08
CARL sCHuRZ ANSWERED.
G.. f. Hoar's Tribute to Blaine
Earnest Words for Irish
American Citizens.
How Cleveland Has Been Voting for
the Last Twenty -four
Years.

Years.
At recent Republican rally at Salem, Mass,
MT. Blaine has been called a lingo. think
he is very much such a lingo as the last Massa-
Gh%setts John GnGy AGams %s
with every other nation, especially with those OF
the American continent, and he means to have
Whether by birth or by adoption, goes anywhere
on the face of the earth, he is to be respected
accordingly. He means. I think, to sum up his
p sad IN
Now I should like to ask any Englishman, or
Scotchman, or Irishman in the County Of Essex
if the picture have drawn OF the condition OF
the workingman that he left behind him, and
the condition Of the w0rkingman here, Is not
true to the letter. And should like to ask, and
I should like to have you ask your Irish neigh
here to get out from under the heel Of England,
for voting for the policy which England is eager
to have this country adopt: The lrishman was
an American vote. The Irishman who votes the
Democratic ticket in Essex County is ten times
a British subject, and, unfortunately, in that
Our Democratic brethren offer to our SURFACES
Grover Cleveland and Gov. Hendricks. And
what do you know Of either of them? Do you
publicly discussed, except that he has been all
his lifetime blind and obedient follower Of
party always in the wrong? He is 80 years old.
whether he voted for jeff Davis or for what
other of the Democratic candidates of that
year, but he didn't vote for Abraham Lincoln.
e cae n @
grace; shall this war stop; shall the South go:
shall the flag be folded up and laid away: shall
fo0 Rhe was Put TO the
people in 1868, "Shall the slave continue slave;
shall the old rebel set his heel on his neck again.
or shall the constitutional amendment. which
man a citizen, and Of the citizen voter, be in
scribed on the CONSTITUTIONS" NO." said Grow
e e., geyeland The question came in 1876.
rency continue to be debased; shall the Amer
lean coin, with which the workmen's wages, and
the soldiers pensions, and the savings banks
rency?" Aye" said Grover Cleveland. And,
Hsrs are and pea hts speech G sSs
Shall the great Mormon cancer spread over the
breast of this continent? Shall the South con-
tinue fraudulent voting and criminal practices?
mans wages and the comfort of his home de-
as to these questions? i: he says not one word
He says simply, Il am chosen to execute the
Party"!:and if he is elected he wiz do it. And
ception that while Cleveland has been in OBJ
security, Hendricks has been a leader and an
actor in all the Democratic policies of the past
barrassing Abraham Line DIN by every vote he
cast and every speech he made his votes re-
corded against the constitutional amendment
every proposition to raise troops; and he COM
mends himself to the civil service reformers by
the declaration that the first thing to be done by
Democratic administration is to turn out
$4,000 Republican offceholders and put $4,000
Democrats in their stead.
Now. fellow citizens, I thank God that we
We have candidates-both Of them-worthy Of
the enthusiastic support OF every man. You
l know something Of the principles the policy,
are wrtten in letters Of light on your ccuntrys
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
is about to do it. Has there ever been candi-
date since the Republican party was organized
so well commended to you as Mr.. Blaine? Did
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
think the choice of the great Republican party
OF this country ought to count for something.
They have not made mistake even when they
candidate. They knew what they were about.
And they have not made mistake when they
nave taken the one most conspicuous person in
Why, they talk about their chargesl sup
pose you have heard country lawyers argue a
case when they hadn't got much evidence on
ing contemptuously Of country lawyers, because
I am one of that kind myself. Laughter.] But
with almost any complicated state Of facts, and
figures and correspondence shrewd and crafty
man can get up and, by shaking his head, and
sneering, and declaring that the thing you
thought was innocent was done for guilty
-: rno1ro
out an apparently plausible story before some
body who does not know anything about the
case. And that is the attempt in these charges
against MI Bne There four r. Of these let
and in his letter-and I should like to have them
printed and put into the hands Of every Repub-
lican voter in Massachusetts All there is of
them is the charge that when Mr.. Blaine re-
minded his correspondent Of perfectly honest
and righteous ruling, he did it not innocently
and honestly. but for corrupt purpose. and to
imply that if he could make a trade with the
man he would do him such favor again. Now,
think Mr.. Blaine is entitled to the charity with
which you would judge the humblest and the
most obscure man in your own neighbOrhOOd.
Suppose these letters had been written by q
Waterman in Lynn or a policeman in Haver-
hill, and not by q candidate for the great office
ward and said to you: This man we have known
from his youth up, through and through; he is
a perfectly honest man. Suppose the men who
them lay the high honor which can only be Civ
en- in full by the whole people of the United
States. What they think Of him you can judge
by the tremendous majority in that State.
What the people of the United States think of
him similar result in November is certain to
show. [.Ehe applause which greeted this pre-
diction was suddenly hushed by a binding flash
oflightning, followed instantly by a tremendous
roar of thunder.]
The people Of the State of Name have just
spoken. That 1s the one community on this
earth which would not tolerate a knave If they
knew it. and from whose intelligence a knaVe
could not hide himself it he tried. 1t stands I
believe, at the head of all the communities on
the face of the globe in the capacity to read and
write, in the education of it's people. It is an
unmixed English blood, and speak of that only
to show that they have been used to self-govern-
ment and to choose their rulers for two centu-
ries. Over and over again Democrats leaving
their party to do it, the people of Maine have
declared their love for and their confidence in
this man. The United States Senate was just
half Democratic when Mr. Blaine was proposed
to them by Gen. Garfield for the office of Secre-
tary of State. Now it would be improper for
me, under the rules of the Senate, to say
whether he was unanimously confirmed, and I
say nothing about that anywhere; but I have a
right to say, under the rules of the Senate, that
single objection would have compelled that
nomination to go over at least twenty-fOur
hours, and that he was confirmed in two min
utes after his name went in. Don't you suppose
that these Democratic Senators knew whether
Mr.. Blaine was an honest man or a knave?
And don't you suppose they would have been
swift to condemn him if they had entertained
the latter opinion?