Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-10-14
Mr.. Blaine's Triumphant Tour
Through OhiO-The Republi.
cans Aroused and Ready
for Victory.
A Democratic Corruption Fund Raised and
Distributed in Every Section Of
the State.
Especial to the Kennebec Journal ]

TOLEDO, o., Oct. Is.
Sunday was spent by Mr. Blaine at Lam
caster as the guest of his old friend and
cousin, Judge P. B. Ewing. He attended
service at the Presbyterian church in the
morning and in the afternoon drove over the
town and visited the sons of his boyhood.
He was accompanied on his drive by Mr..
Ewing of Lancaster. Mr.. Devine of Washing
ton and Mr.. j. Ii. Manley of Maine. Although
it was forty-three years since Mr.. Blaine had
visited the spots he visited, the locations and
scenes were as familiar 10 him, as when he had
been an old inhabitant. He left Lancaster
this morning at 9. 10 on the regular train for
Toledo. Prior 10 leaving, the regular train
arrived from Columbus, having among its
passengers Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, who
made short speech TO bis friends who
assembled to see him. In the few words that
he uttered he significantly said, If we fail
to carry Ohio then the fight will go on in
Indiana and New York. His friends were
disappointed and regarded it as a fatal admis-
sion of defeat. As Mr. Blaine lef the depot
he was greeted by hearty cheers as he also
was as he passed through Winchester,
Grovesport, and Columbus. At the latter city
he was met by Hon. }. +. OGilvee, chair
man of the State committe and Gen. VIM. NJ.
Dudley, who had long conference with Mr..
Blaine Mr.. O'Gilvee is very confident Of a
sweeping victory and says Ohio will astonish
the country tomorrow. Mr.. Blaine has now
completed his tour of Ohio. He entered the
State on the twenty-sivth day of September
and will leave it tomorrow, having spent II
days within its borders. He has visited 4S
counties and seventy cities and towns and no
man, either in the old or new world ever
received such ovations from the people. The
tributes paid to king or emperor, are the
offerings of subjects, but the greetings that
have been given to James G. Blaine have
been the spontaneous welcome of free peo-
pie to one of their own members. While the
greetings have been, in measure, party
greetings, they have, in a great degree, been
tributes to Mr.. Blaine. His trip through this
State has been a triumphial tour and he has
received greater homesge than was ever be-
fore paid to any man. Probably ten millions
of people have honored him with their pres
ence at his various meetings in the State.
Today has been no exception and the people
have gathered in great numbers, at every
station from Lancaster to Toledo, to bid him
God speed and assure him of their friendship.
1t is admitted on every hand that when Mr..
Blaine entered Ohio, the,S State was lost to the
republicans. His presence has aroused the
people and when the republicans of Ohio are
aroused they always achieve a victory. The
democrats have conducted a very bitter cam
paign. They have resorted to every trick
brought from the slums of the great cities
and places in various portions of the COM
monwealth. A large corruption fund has
been raised and distributed in every section
of the State, and an order has been issued that
twenty votes must be purchased in each of
the thirteen hundred townships of the state.
In spite of all this, if the republicans do
their duty and rally to the polls, Ohio will
place its seal of condemnation upon the dem
ocrstic party. Every indication and sign
points to a grand republican victory. The
canvass made by the State committee has been
very thorough and the poll shows q very
handsome majority. Mr.. Blaine has been
absent from his home twenty-six DAYS and he
has undergone enough fatigue to break down
most men. He is in perfect health and is the
only man in the party who has not had a sick
day since leaving home. He goes tomorrow
to Michigan, where he will spend ten days.
He will then make a trip through Indiana,
visit Illinois. Wisconsin and return home by
way Of New York. He will be accompanied
on the remainder of his trip as he has
been since leaving home, by his son Walker
Blaine, J. II. Manley of Augusta, Maine. and
by Judge Tenny of Brooklyn. While. in
Michigan, Hon. Eugene Hale will accompany
the party.