The Republican journal., 1884-10-16

AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION THERE AND
| ELSEWHERE TO THE MAN FROM MAINE.
| BLAINE STRONGER THAN HIS PARTY IN OHIO
AND WEST VIRGINIA. DEMOCRATIC HOOD
LtMS. HANDSHAkING.
Correspondence of the Journal.
BELLAIRE, OHIO, October 4th, 1854. | was
here last night with Mr.. Blaine. His re-
ception was simply immense. More than
10000 people turned out to meet him. see him
and hear him speak. They came from all quar-
ters of the country hereabouts. The procession
was composed Of more than 5000 men. having
torches, bearing all sorts of devices, and wear
ing uniforms of various descriptions from the
handsomely appar elled Plumed Knights to the
simple white hats of the clubs. The enthusi-
| asm was unbounded. The wish to see Mr..
Blaine, to shake hands with him, if possible,
was almost beyond resistance, and sometimes
could not be prevented by the best efforts Of the
police. Old men struggled through the great
crowd to reach him. Young men came press
ing up to assure him of their first vote. Men
and women having their children made the
most strenuous efforts to secure an opportunity
for these little ones to take the hand Of the next
| president, that they might proudly state it in
| after years.
| As we looked out from the stand upon the
| great mass of people it seemed to be easier to
| estimate it by acres than by thousands. And
when Mr.. Blaine approached the front of the
| platform to speak the words which 50 correctly
aud graphically stated the great issues of the
campaign, all these many thousands Of people
| listened with almost the silence of profound
| reverence, and it seemed to me that his clear.
| ringing sentences must have been distinctly
heard at the farthest edge of the great multi
tude before him.
| 1t seems to me that it is impossible that any
| such political meeting could occur in the East
When it is remembered that this is city Of
only 10000 population, with no very large cit
| les near it one finds it difficult to understand
where all these 10000 people came from.
| Whatever may be the result of the campaign,
| whether Mr.. Blaine shall be finally crowned
with the greatest office in the gift of the people,
as now seems quite assured he is certainly re-
ceiving in Ohio such princey ovation as be-
lieve was never before given to any American
| civilian. One of which he and his children and
children's children must be proud. But if these
immense demonstrations signify anything, if
what you hear talked upon the trains, III the
hotels the barber shops, by commercial agents
and among working men. are straws pointing
which way the popular current runs then Mr..
Blanc's victory cannot be doubtful, Indeed,
if he were running here at the Oct. election the
state would not even be contested by the Dem
ocrats. They acknowledge that Mr.. Blaine is
at least $1,000 votes stronger than his ticket,
and will get at least that number more votes in
November than Robinson will get in October,
so that even should the state be lost by the Re
pubcans, by small majority one week from
| tomorrow it will not be given up; but that will
only occasion a still warmer fight for it at the
| National election.
came down on 4 train which brought an ex
cursion to the Cleveland 4 Hendricks meeting
at Wheeling. yesterday. 1t was in striking con-
tra~t with the orderly crowd here last night
| Such a rough, uproarous, drunken, lighting lot
have never seen. There was Il continual how
and half dozen fights in our car in going u
miles and finally we were obliged to leave it
The officers Of the train could have no contiu
over them. | have heard of hoodluns but
never before saw them in all their degrading
bcastly, ferocious brutality. | believe that il
Maine should be raked with line tooth conf
no such violent, vicious, ignorant mob could be
found within her borders And it is upor
these worse than cattle that the Democratic
party depends largely for It's votes in Ohio anc
West Virginia
BY the way Mr.. Blaine has great popularity
in West Virginia and it is not impossible tha
he may carry it, though as in Ohio, he is thcr,
much stronger than his party and HE Octoor
vote of the Republicans may not be equal y,
hundreds to that in November.
This is country Of great resources I'll,
Ohio river and its bottom land are skirtcd by
high ridge of hills upon both sides fuli Of Goa
and iron. predict that ere many years tner,
will be an almost continuous ci,y from Pitts
burg to Cincinnati and eventually to Cairo an,
New Orleans.
But there is now a continual cloud of btu
minous coal smoke as far along the river a.
have travelled il, which makes the next yirtu
to Godliness utterly impossible. | heard
young man upon the verlnda this morning re
mark that the whcSt men here We're negroes
That is hardly true, for they get covered witt
smoke and SCOT like all the rest of us; bu
every house and tree and object that YOU SCI
out Of doors is dinged and dirty. If a fre>l
breeze just from the ocean could sweep dowl
the valley of this great river ana djs>ipate it
bituminouS clouds il would be wonderfully re
frcshing.
purpose remaining in the State till oct. lttl
and then Shall 90 to New York to stay till th
November election. NIr. Blaine. who is re
naming here over sunday, is bearing tile grea
fatigue Of his journey in this hot and stiilin!
weather finely, ana though he came out Of -h
ordeal last night little tired, as we all We're
he looks fresh and elastic this morning.
hope that at some day not far in the future
the absurd and useless habit of hand -hakin!
will be vetoed and abolished. II iS a tcrrbl
bore and more eNhausting than one imagine
when done on 4 monumental scale rs Mr.. Blain
Is obliged to do it now every day. WHY is it no
as weli to look II and speak to one whom yo
want to recognize a> TO Shake his hand and il
the corda!y Of oyrrfioWing frendne>s hal
break his fingers. Geo. Francis Train neye
shakes hands, dld that is not the least wise o
| his tcCrntricitit>, :. l., MIIIIkE\