The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
SPEECH BY MIR. BLAINE.
Mr.. Blaine Serenaded at His Home
Makes the Most Noteworthy
Speech of the Year.
Danger to the Nation from Southern Dom
tnation-A Graceful A, usion to Gov
Cleveland

of devoted personal anu pOnUlcal lIlSlus VI
MI. Blaine serenaded him inns even as
exnression of personal good will and admira-
ton of his conduct in the national campaign
Thew marched through the streets under the
marshalship of Col. Frank Nye. When tney
reached Biaine's house their compliments
and friendly regards were expressed III u
speech by Herbert M. Heath, OF the heneDec
bar Mr.. Blaine responded as follows, his
speech being continually interrupted by ap-
plause:
is over, and by the ~narrowest OF margins we hayt
lost. thank you for your call, which, II not
one of JOYOUS cOngratulat1on, is one, L am sure
of confidence and OF sangulne nope TOT Ghe
future. / thank you for the public opportunity
Won give me to express my sense OF Obligation,
not only to you, but TO all the Republicans OF
Maine. They responded to my domination VIII
genuine enthusiasm and ratlled III Dy a supeIh
vote. / count IL as one of the hOnors and gratlti-
cations of my public career that the party IN
Maine, after struggling hard Tor the last SIX
years, and twice within that period losing the
state, has come back in this campaign TO the oid-
fashioned twenty thousand plurality. NO other
expression Of popular confidence and esteem
could equal that Of the people among whom l
have lived for thirty years, and to whom 1 am
attached by all the ties that enRoble h1-
man nature and give joy and dignity to
life. After Maine, indeed along with
Maine, my first thought is always of Pennsylva-
mia. How can Ifttingly express my thanks for
that unparalleled majority OF more than eighty
thousand yotes-a popular endorsement which
has deeply touched my hearU, ana winch mas, II
possible, increased my affection for the grand
old commonwealth, an affection which IN
herited from my ancestors, ana Which l. snail
transmit to my children? But l do not limit nv
thanks to the state of my residence and the
state of my birth. owe much TO the true and
jealous friends in New England, who worked so
nobly for the Republican party and its candi-
dates, and to the eminent scholars and dlvines
who, striding aside from their ordinary avoca-
lions, made my cause their cause, and to loyalty
to principle added the special compliment OF
- liz ~ wnwy WNnPanHnnt nTNrnGnnfnTIyaE I'm the
national struggle. But the achievements OF the
Republican cause in the East are even surpassed
by the
PLENDm VICTORIES IN THE WEST.
In that magnificent Gordon of states that
stretches from the foothills of the Alleghenies to
the golden gate of the Pacific, beginning with
Ohio and ending with California, the Republican
banner was borne so loftily that but a single
state failed to join in the wide acclaim OF
triumph. Nor should 1 do Justice TO my own
! feelings If / failed to thank the Republicans of
the Empire State, who encountered so many dis
: couragements and obstacles, who fought foes
from within and foes from without, and who
waged so strong a battle that a change OF one
vote in every two thousand would have given us
the victory in the nation. Indeed, a change of
/ little more than five thousand votes would have
transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey and
/ Connecticut to the Republican standard, and
would have made the North as solid as the
/ South. Ny thanks would still be incomplete If
J. should fail to recognize with special graft
tude that great body of workingmen, both
native and foreign born, who gave me their
earnest support, breaking from old personal and
party ties and finding In the principles which L
represented in the canvass the safeguard and
| protection of their own fireside interests. The
result of the election, my friends, will be re-
garded in the future, / think, ast extraordinary.
i The Northern states, leaving out the cities OF
New York and Brooklyn from the count, sus-
tanned the Republican cause by a majority of
more than four hundred thousand, almost half
a million, indeed, of the popular vote. The cit
les of New York and Brooklyn threw their great
strength and influence with the solid South and
were the decisive element which gave to that
section the control of the national government.
4 Speaking now not at all as a defeated candidate,
but simply as a loyal and devoted American,
/ think the transfer of the political power
of The government to the South Is a
great national misfortune. 1t is a misfortune
because it introduces an element which can not
ensure harmony and prosperity to the people
because 1t introduces into the republic the rule
of q minority. The first instinct of an Ameri-
can, equality, equality Of right, equality OF priv
ilege, equality OF political power, that equality
which says to every citizen, Your vote is just
as good, just as potentiaias the vote of any 9TH
er citizen, = that can not be said to-day in the
United States. The course of affairs In the
South has crushed out the political power OF
more than {, 1000, 900 American citizens and has
transferred 1t by violence to others. Forty-two
presidential electors are assigned to the South
on account Of the colored population, and yet
the colored population, with more thar ], 100,
600 votes, have been unable to choose a single
elector. Even In those states where they have a
majority of more than a hundred Thousand they
are
DEPRIVED OF FREE SUFFRAGE
and their rights as citizens are scornfully
trodden under foot. The eleven states that
comprised the rebellion federacy had by the CEN
sus Of 1886 1900. 600 white population and
5,3OO,OO0 colored population. The colorod pop
ulation almost to q man desire to support the
Republican party, but by a system of cruel in
timidation and by violence ana murder, when
I !, ever violence and murder are thought necessary.
they are absolutely deprived OF all political
power. III the outrage stopped there it would be
X bad enOuQl. hut il does not sion there for mt
only is the negro population disfranchised, but
the power which rightfully and constitutionally
belongs to them Is transferred to the white pop
~uiation, enabling the white pop ulation of the
South 30 exert sH electoral influence far
beyond that exerted by the same number OF
white people In the North. To illustrate just
how 1t works t osthe destruction OF oil fair cleo
tions, let me present 70 you five states in the
late confcdcracy and five loyal states Of the
! North. possessing In each section the same num-
Der of electoral votes. In the South the states OF
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and
South Carolina have in the aggregate forty-eight
people and over 5000 900 colored people. II
Che North the states Of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa. Kansas and California have likewise forty
population Of $780, 600. or just double the fve
Southern states which / have named. These
Northern states have practically no colored pop
nlation. IL is, therefore, evident that the
white men In those Southern states, bv ;isurp-
ing and absorbing the rights OF the colored men,
are exefting just double the political power Of
the white men in the Northern states Isubmit,
my friends, that such o condition OF affairs is
extraordinary, unjust and derogat0ry to the
manhood of Che North. Even those who are
deny that If presidential electors are assigned to
the South by reason Of the negro population,
that population ought to be permitted free suf
frage In election To deny that clear PROPOSE
ton is To affirm that a Southern white man In
the gulf states Is entitled to
DOUBLE THE poLITICAL POWER
OF ? Northern white man In che lake states. It