The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
An Eloquent Campaign Speech by Ex-
Attorney General HOar.
Mr. BIaine's Great Services to his Country
and to his Party-Gen- Logan's.
Brilliant Record.

can mass meeting at Worcester, Mass, on the
22d ult. He said:
Mr.. President and fellow citizens 1t is
many Yeas since | have had the pleasure OF
addressing a meeting in this city. IL is city
to which am attached by many associations.
1t was here that more than forty years ago, |
flushed nv early professional training. Then
il was a country village, not much larger than
thu little one in which my home is found.
have watched your magnificent growth; have
taken a still greater pride in your answering
fidelity to public interest and public principles IS.
[Applause.l am glad to have chance from
the kindness Of your committee to come over
here tonight and look in your faces and con-
slider for few minutes with you the question;
that now present themselves in public affairss
Our party and its candidates. Our party, the
republican party OF the United States. What
does it mean to usl Why, my friends, to take
the admission of an independent writer, the
republican party means to us country, honor,
| reputation, the sacrifice of our very flesh and
Blood tender memories of friends and Iins-
men who gave up their lives for the sake OF
| Justice and right 1t means to us the just re-
| nown of Grant and Sherman, and Sheridan,
and Meade, and Logan, and the great Virgin
ian, Geo. II. Thomas. 1t means the memories
called up when annually on decoration day we
90 to adorn the graves of those whom We nave
lost. 1t means to me the memory of a father
who forty years go, at the risk of his life, took
his white hairs to Charleston, S. G., to vidi-
cate the rights of the peOple-cOlOrcd sailors
whom South Carolina was imprisoning and
selling. Applause. 1t means t. me all the
dreams of my youth and all the work Of the
triumphs of my mature years. with grcrt
price obtained we this Freedom" Gentlemen
who talk fippanty about bringing IN the dem'
Ccratic party and letting the republican party
go don't seem to be aware with what toll. with
what labor, with what effort this great dixie
was built which we set up in this country
against the encroachment Of tyranny and The
STAKEHOLDER. The older men in this audience
remember with me the days Of the founnlng of
the republican party / stood by its cradle,
and by no act or consent of mine do propose
ever to follow its hearse Great applause
We know what master laid its keel,
WHAT wOrkmen wroughtits ribs of Steel
What anvils rang what hammers beat,
In what It forge, at what heat,
Were cast the anchors of IFS hope.
And we come together to hight, fellow-c'ti-
zens, TO renew our allegiance 10 it, to say that
we propose here in Massachusetts,, here ia
Worcester, to stand by our cOlors. Applau- ..
And what is there that is offered to us why We
should not2 Has not the republican party
saved the union! Has not it carried the nation
through war! has it not reserved the public
faith against all the assaults of the southern
rebels or their democratic allies by paying to
every public creditor his full due according TO
the letter and spirit of the contract. Hasn't
II maintained a system in collecting this great
gladly paid for the eXtinguishment of the war
debt-a spectacle which in foreign cOun rics is
pointed at as something which the world never
before saw-a free people. masters of their own
action, with load of debt upon them at the
close of the war that seemed crush
ing and almoct hopcless, or would
seem so elsewhere; going siea'lilv
forward and by the blessing of ID prosper
ing as they went; and have not they collected |
this great revenue and gone on with the pay |
IL l..l,f
that it has been an encouragement and pro- |
moter of the happiness of the people. That is |
the record of the republican party. Has ii not |
drawn from England, in the treaty of VASE
ington, on apology for her conduct toward us
during the war! Applause. When do you
think the ''Solid South with their democrat
ic hackers, would ever have got an apol gy |
from England for helping them during the
war. [Dersiye laughter.
THE CANDIDATES.
Meaning, as | know you do, TO stand by our
party, whom have we for candidates! | will
add nothing to the magnificent tribute of your
presiding officer, but in regard TO Gen. Logan
ct me explain that which was told me of him
BY President Grant. He said that when George
thomas was making his preparations for
he battle of Nashville he seemed 10 be very
slew. 1t took great while; he didn't seem to
hasten much on sending urgent messages.
Then Grant sent Logan out there with a COM
mis- on in his pocket to supercede Thomas
ma take commard of that army, and Logan
ent out there with that commission in his
lccket and when he got there he found that
Thomas had been most prudently, and careful
y, and diligently making his preparations,
md that the time was very near at which he
Intended to move, and he lept the commission
n bis pock( and said nothing about it, and ,
eft Thomas to gloriously finish the work he
"a begun. [Applausel Now We have all
lad experience of men who get into the public
srvice in one way and another, and | think
ave known some officers who have been in
he war, who, with an opportunity of that |
ind, would have expanded themselves. The
nan who did this is a sterling man Tapplausel,
nd is entitled to public gratitude. {
But our candidate for the presidency, Mr..
Elaine lapplausel, who is hel Once repub- {
can journalist, efficient fearless, true; then {
member of congress- of the house of repre-
in which he rapidly rose by courage, {
)rce and fidelity to the speakers position; y
re spe aker of the house for four terms, and
hen the election which transferred the major t
y for the time being to the democrats, when at s
ie close of that congress he made that touch 6
~, dignified, and affecting farewell speech to s
he house, undertake to say to you, gentle t
zen, that there was not a republican in the
nted States that did not say that Mr.. Blaine i
as among the foremost the most trusty, the
ost gallant Of our leaders. Applause. s
nee then he has been senator in congress, S
: has been secretary of state. When our MUIR a
cred president lay on that protracted death @
d the whole country, without distinction of t
irty looked to Mr.. Blaine with honor, and t
and trust. Applause. Practical a
the administration for the time being was in C
S hands,. a
And, gentlemen, there is another statement Il
be made about Mr. Blaine which l want you Il
think of. In the last three conventions of p
e republican party to nominate president e
r. Blaine has been each time, If not the lead s.
g candidate, at least leading candidate. Twice s.
has not been successful, twice 1t has seemed a
tier to a majority of the convention that p,
me other man should be their standard-bear- n
|, and each time Mr.. Blaine and his friends 81
tn = sincere and hearty earnestness, adher- "
10 the party and its principles, fighting for f.
: cause, and not regarding the question Of re
IN, have given their best services to make 81
: party triumphant. GApplause.l His en- Z
lsiastic following was as great as that of any is
IN who might have been disappointed in re re
I'd to their favorite candidate, but what | u
sh to say Is that this support in three success u
e republican national conventions is not a In
ng which can be acquired without sterling ell
aities in the man In whose favor these ST
nifestations are made. Applause. til
1.-THE KICKERs.n al
Now, we have, as has already been said, a th
lie COMPANY OF gentlemen In Boston and
mbridge, with here and there little inroad
the country towns. who have concluded W
t they cannot support Mr.. Blaine, and are pc
anzing for an attack upon him. Most Of ri'
m are men who at sOme time or usually | co