The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-21
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Cdu AOI b6 uOuS1 budt 6eihut6 Cu1 never De
made That means a great deal. 1t means
that, as the South furnishes three-fourths of the
Democratic strength, it will be given the lead
and control of the Nation in the event of Dem
ocratic triumph 1t means that the great inan-
cial and industrial systems of the country shall
be placed under the direction of the South; that
our currency, our banks, tariffs, our internal
revenue laws in short that our whole system,
upon which the business of the country depends,
shall be placed under the control of that section
1t means that the constitutional amendments to
which they are so bitterly opposed, shall
be enforced only so far as they may believe in
them; that the national credit as guaranteed in
the Fourteenth amendment; the payment Of
pensions to the soldiers of the Union, as guar
anteed IN the same amendment, shall be under
their control, and what that control might
mean can be measured by the bitterness with
which those amendments were resisted by the
Democrats of the South. There is not one
measure of banking, of tariff, of finance of pub
lie credit, of pensions-not one line of admins
traton upon which the government is conducted
to-day, to which the Democrats of the South are
not recorded as hostile, and to give
them control would p,6al. a change, the like of
which has not been known in NJ 1dern times. 1t
would be as if the dead Stuarts WoTo recalled 70
the throne of England; as if the Bourbons should
be invited to administer the government of the
French republic; as though the Florentne dukes
should be called back and empowered to govern
the great kingdom of Italy. Cries of Good and
cheers. Such triumph would be q fearful
misfortune to the South itself. That
section, under the wise administration of the
government by the Republican party has been
steadily and rapidly gaining for the past ten
years i'll all the elements of material prosperity
1t has added enormous Y to it's wealth since the
close of the war, and has shared fully in the gem
eral advance of the country. To call that sec
ton now to the ruership Of the Nation would
disturb its own social and political economy
would rekindle smoldering passions, and, under
the peculiar leadership to which it would be sub.
jected it would organize an administration of
resentment of panpSal Of M
misfortune than that could come to the
Nation or to the south. 1t would
come as reaction against the progress of liberal
principles in that section-a progress so rapid
that the Republicans are waging earnest contests
in those States whose interests are not demon
strably identified with the pclicy of protection
Against the baeful spectacle of solid South l
am sure that Indiana will protest and on the
whole will conclude to stand where she has
stood in the past believe that you will stand
where you stood in the war; that you viii stand
for the principles and policies which have made
your State bloom and blossom as the rose, and
which have made the American Republic in-man-
ufactures, and in agriculture, the leading nation
of the world lgreat cheeringl; the leading ma
ton of the world not merely in material sense,
but in a moral and phianthrophic sense-a
country in which every has as good
chance us every other man, and which, among
other great gifts, bestows absolutely free suf-
frage. lCheers;l You enjoy that suffrage, and
on the 4th day of November next YOU are to say
for which party, for which policy, you will cast
your votes Loud cries of For Blaine
for Blaine. I Not me personally. Yes
yes. No, am not speaking for
myself No man ever met with a misfortune in
being defeated for the presidency while men
have met with great inisfortunes in being
elected to it. l am pleading no personal cause.
! am pleading the cause Of the American peo
pie [cries of That's IT, and cheersl; / am plead
ing the cause of the American farmer aud the
American manufacturer the American me-
chanic and the American laborer against the
world. Cries of Good Good Good and
great cheeringl am reprOached by
some excellent people for appearing before
upon the ground thar it is inconsistent with the
dignity of the Office for which l am named
lCries of NO. MOL do not feel it to be So
There is not a courtier in Europe so proud but
that he is glad to uncover his head in the pres
ence of his sovereign; so | uncover in the pres
ence of the only earthly sovereignty | acknowl-
edge, and bow with pride to the free people Of
America" Great and prolonged cheering.
Congressman Mckinley of Ohio, followed him
briefly and then Mr.. Blame was taken to the resi-
dence of Hon. Jesse L. Williams, whore he is be-
ing entertained. After he had left the hotel the
crowd at the Democratic meeting also left, for it
had accomplished its purpose of preventing him
from speaking in the central portion of the city.
Their conduct is regarded here as not only dis
courteous and undignifed but as outrageous in
the extreme, and it is openly condemned by all
the fair minded men OF their own party