Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-30

pie who hold up their hands to the great
chief magistrate named and endowed under |
the constitution. Cries of good We sub |
nit 10 no comparison between any ruler or |
digaatory abroad and the greatness of spon-
taneously chosen aud Amounted President of |
she United States
Mr.. Evarts address was satiricslly humor- |
ous throughout and concluded as follows
"And now Mr.. Blaine l shall ask this full |
company to fill their glasses in honorof your
health, Applause We have observed you |
for more than 20 years We have seen no.
body else fox the last months. Laughter
and applause. You have been everywhere;
nobody else anywhere, Laughter And
with hearty. sober and an earnest homsge
to our leader, we republicans join YOU with
the welfare of cur country in this toast. We
otier to you lSreat applause, during which
the speakeritook his seat. Three cheers for
James 6. Blaine were called for, and given
with great enthusiasm, and were repeated in
response to q voice from the lower end of the
hall. shoutiog "three more" When Blaine
arose he was greeted with a whirlwind of
applause.
Blaine said: "It is a great reversal of
positions, Mr.. President, addressing Mr..
Eyarts) Shat makes me hear you ascribe the
leadership to mes for il has been my duty
'sud my pleasure in these long years to fol-
low yoG, to learn from you wisdom in public
affairs and to join with my couutrymen in
ascribSng to you not merely the great merit
OF your leadership in the noblest of profes
sions, but to yield our admiration for the
singular success which has given to you the
opportunity to lead in three of the most i'm
portant cases ever pleaded by member of
the Americas bar; (applausel first, in resist
ing your own party in what you regarded As
impolicy if not madness, of impeaching the
President; second, in maintaining before the
gseatest International tribunal that has
ever assemhled in modern times, the rights
OF your covntry, and obtaining redress for
wrongs to her that grew out of the civil war;
and third, perhaps averting another civil war
by pleading before the ELECTORAL commission
tor peaceful settlement of the angriest
/ political controversy that ever arose between
the parties in the United States. Applause
and cheers. 1 turn now from your president
! to thank you, merchants, professional men
and leaders in the great and complex society
/ of New York, 10 thank you for receiving me,
! not merely at this festal board, but also IN
that far more impressive reception which the
close of this rainy day witnessed IN your
broad and besutitul avenue. could not,
am sure, by any possible stretch of vanity,
take this large and generous demonstration
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time representative of the principles which
| you and hold in common, touching those
great interests which underlie. as we beIieve,
the prosperity of the nation; applause and
/ II Is fitting that the commercial metropolis
of this continent should lead; it is fitting that
the financial centre of the continent should
lead; it is fitting that the great city second
only in the world should give expression TO
the continent OF its views and judgment on
the important questions to be decided on
Tuesday next by the American people, and
venture, not that know it so well as you.
but am the spokesman for the present
venture to remind you, men of New York,
that with your wealth and your Just influence
and your magnificent prestige, that 20 per
cent of the entire property of the city has
been acquired since Abraham Lincoln was
inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1861. I
| should not mention here the fact of percent
age and statistics if it did not carry argument
and moral with it. The common apprehension
in regard to New York is that it is simply the
great commercial city, so great that its ex-
ports and imports represent largely the major
portion of all that is exported from and i'm
ported inlo the United States. From this
fact comes that great sympathy, that
great identity Of interest which
has removed previously existing
financial system; we have great currency
system; we have an important national
credit; we have levying of duties as has been
so well described by the distinguished presi.
dent OF the evenings so adjusted the industries
OF the country, as fostered and encouraged
thereby. We have three important constitu-
tlonal amendments that grew out of the war
on which at this hour and in hours and days
and weeks and years to follow, the great
issues hung in this country are one If one
should be invited to step down and out and
our opponents to step up and in, Laughter
are we to understand that these policies are
to be reversed? Cries of yes. yes Then
If we are to understand they are to be revers-
ed, we should one and all prepare for the
great disaster. For single illustration let
me recall to your minds that a repeal of 10
lines in the national banking act would
restore to vitality and vigor the old State
bank system, from which we had happily
escaped, as we thought, for all the remainder
OF our lives. Applause. If these policies
are to be reversed, you will have to recast
your accounts and review your ledgers and
prepare for new and, may say, dangerous
departure and if those policies are not TO be
reversed they will certainly be better main.
tained by great party which originated them
and thus far sustained them with vigor and
success. applause AS i nave already |
said. we speak Of New York as a great
exporting and importing city and from that
perhaps we give an exaggerated Importance, |
relatively speaking. to foreign trade, because |
this metropolis never would have attained
grandeur and wealth on foreign trade alone. |
We should never forget, important as that |
trade is, representing the enormous sum of |
sl.5O0, ,000, 900 annually, that it sinks into |
insignificance and is dwarfed out of sight |
when we think of these vast exchanges, of
which New York is admitted the centre. and |
which annual exceeds twenty thousand
millions of dollars. Our foreign trade |
naturally brings to consideration the foreign
relations of this country, so well described
by my distinguished friend, as always simple
and sincere. Its safeguard of the replbIic |
that they are not adopted TO war. rCheers
mean aggressive war and its safe guard Of |
the republic; that in a defensive war we can
defy the world. Loud cheering. This ma
tion today is in profound peace with the
world, but, in my judgment, it has before il |
great duty which will not only make that
profound peace permanent but shall set such |
an example as will abolish war on this |
continent and by great example and moral
precedent shall ultimately abolish it in other
continents. Great and long con inued cheer |
ing. am justified in saying that every one 7
of the IL independent powers of North and |
South America is not only willing but ready, /