Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-07
BLAINE IN WESTVIRGINIA
THE BEAUTIES OF PROTECTION
HIS SOLE TOPIC.

Increased Wealth and the General
Prosperity Attributed Solely to the
High Tariff Policy of the Republicans
-Tammany Includes Cox, Hewitt and
Pulitzer Among Its Congressional
Nominees.
FAIRMoUNT, w. VA, Oct. 6.-Mr.
Blaine's party left Wheeling at O'Clock
this morning by a special train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for Grafton.
The first stop was made at Moundsville,
where Mr.. Blaine was warmly received.
He said:
am glad to be in West Virginia. consider
II one OF the encouraging signs of the times
that an earnest contest Is going on In what
was once slave state Tor the ascendancy OF
Republican principles, which this year mean
a tarlh for the protection of American labor.
Cheers II West Virginia Is in favor of that
she IS Republican. If she IS opposed to it she
rs not. Your rich beds of coal and iron. and
your vast forests and all your natural re-
sources favor great development Of manufac-
turing industries. They can be developed
under the protective tariG. They can't be
without it.
AT Cameron, Littleton, Mannington and
Pennington there were brief stops, and
at each place Mr.. Blaine spoke of the i'm
pOrtance to West Virginia of a protective
tariff. At Paramount there was large
hACCIAHEs NIL DldluG lGlI LUc Train anu
addressed the people from a stand.
HIS SPEECH AT GRAFTON.
At Grafton there was large meeting.
The little mountain town was filled with
people from the surrounding country.
Mr.. Blaine was escorted TO a stand, when
Hon. John W. Mason introduced him to
the people. Mr.. Blaine said:
Citizens of West Tjrginia: As your dis
tlnguished Chairman has intimated, am not
a stranger to your State. 1 have known il
personally for more than forty years, and
have known this section of it well. / was
born on the banks of yOnder river, a
few miles below the point where it
enters Pennsylyania,, and you do not
need to be told by me that there
was always unity of feeling among the peO-
pie of the MOnOngahela valley. but | don't
sec before me the West Virginia which knew
in my boyhOOd. The West Virginia of forty
wears ago was comparatively a wilderness.
The West Virginia Of to-day is a prosperous
industrial centre in the United States. APP
plause.
THE STATES INCREASED WEALTH.
West Virginia as an independent common
wealth began her existence during the civil
war, ana at that day the most liberal estimate
of the total property, according 10 the emu
meratlon Of the United States census,
the census gave you an aggregate of
l90,O00OO0, and in 1880 il showed that you
possessed capitalized wealth to the amount of
W
year 1850 West Virginia had therefore gained
IN wealth the enormous sum of S250,O00,O 900.
1Ou have Jared pretty well, therefore, under
Republican administration. Laughter and
cheers Probably some political opponent
does me the honor to listen to me, and would
ask him, as candid man, what agency was
1t that nerved the arm of industry to smite
the mountains and create this wealth in West
Virginia? 1t was the protective tariff and the
financial system that gave You good money.
LCheers. Before the war you never had cir
cUlarInu in midst hill that vVOuld
current 800 miles from home.
THE MONEY OF TO-DAY.
You do not to-day have a single piece of
paper money circulating in West Virginia
that is not good all around the globe; not a
bill that viii not pass in the money markets
of Europe as well as in New York or Balti-
more, so that the man who works for days
wages knows when Saturday night comes
that he is to be paid in good money. Under
the protective tariff your coal industries and
your iron industries and the wealth of your
forests have been brought out, and it is for
you voters of West Virginia t. say whether
You want this to continue or whether you
want to try free trade. \ voice, mo, we
DON'T
| make bold to say, with all respect, that
there Is not Democratic statesman on the
stump in West Virginia conspicuous enough
10 be known to the nation, l speak only of
those l know, who advocate "a protective
tariff; not one [ 90 further. l don't know
Democratic statesman who will acknOwl-
edge that tariff for protection is cOnstitu
tiOnal, and that, therefore, as hon
est men, they are bound to
oppose it. The Morrison tariff bill would
have struck at the interest of West Virginia
IN many vital points, and it is an amazing
fact that the Representatives in Congress from
West Virginia voted for that bill. There is a
good old adage, which beg TO recall to your
mind, that "GOd helps those who help them
selves" and if West Virginia is not willing to
sustain the protective tariff, she must not eX-
pect 1t TO be sustained for her by others. If
she wants the benefit of protective tariff she
must give to the protective tariff the benefit
of her support. lCheersl.
TALKING TO THE NEW SOUTH.
am glad am addressing Southern people,
a community that were Shareholders, a com
munity that is made up of those who were
masters ami those who were slaves. But l
am addressing a slave State no longer.
ICheers.l | am appealing to the new South,
and am appealing to West Virginia not to
vote on tradition or prejudice, not to keep her
eyes to the rear, but to look to the front, to
to the other Southern States to
old Virginia, to North Carolina, to Georgia,
u Alabama, to Tennessee and to louisiana.
They are all interested in protective tariff,
and the question is which do they prefer-tO
crafty prejudice or to promote general pros
perity. West Virginia can lead the way, she
can break this seemingly impregnable barrier
of the solid South. [Cheers Solid on what?
Solid in prejudice. solid in tradition, solid in
doctrines that separate the different parts of
the Union. Here l invite you to join in
Union, not merely in form, but a Union in
fact, and to take your part in the solution of
the industrial and financial problems of the
times.
AN OMINoUs DAY.
If West Virginia takes that course on Oct.
H. she will do much to settle the cOntrOver-
sizes that now agItate the country. The rule
of protection, according to the Morrison bill,
would cost West Virginia vast sum of
money. But l ask any business man If he
believes you can do it with free trade.
Here / close my words Of counsel, leaving
the action to YOU. l leave YOU not as a COM
munity influenced by sectional feeling,
but as cOmmuniS, broadly national.
| leave YOU as a State a led one side to
PENNSYLVANIA, and on me other to Ohio
rcheersl as much as SOu are to Virginia
and Kentucky. l leave you as a State that
stands in the van of the new South. inviting
the whole South u join in the great national
movement, which shall make ! one people,
with one Union, one constitution and one
destiny. lCheers.l
LOGAN'S MARCH THROUGH WEST VIR-
GINA.
CHARLESTOwN, W. VA, Oct. 6.-Gen.
John A. Logan arrived here from Hunting
ton at - O'Clock, on his way through the
southern part of the State. Large crowds
are greeting him along the route. Gen.
Logan stopped off here and made speech
TO a large audience. He left two hours
later. He will stop at all the towns up
the valley and through to the Virginia
| line. There was much enthusiasm mani
tested and firing of cannon was general.