Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-12
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HENBRlCks AT TOLEDO.
BY telegraph 20 Posr .ISrxtrayxcxs
koLEDo, Sept. ll.-Governor Hen.
oficks addressed 400 people at the fair
grounds this afternoon. his subject be-
ing Ihe Importance of Agriculture
qua the Mechanical Arts In the
evening he spoke At a Democratic mass
meeting IN toe Fifth Ward, an audi
ence OF 300 being present. In the
course OF his speech Hendricks said
Inc Democrats declare IA their plat
form that the revenue must be reduced
10 tie requirements Of a eoverumen.
economically administered. What do
you say TO that, my fellow citizens +?
are you Democrats. are you GranQers,
or are you IndeI endents ? Whatever
may De your party relations. what do
you say To the propos ition OF the Chiea-
20 Convention, that the revenue shall
De reduced to the Leeds Of a govern
Lnenr economically administered Ii
You do not like that. don't vote with
'he Democrats, for aGea Democracy
comes into power l undertake To say
tnat the machinery will be TUNED b ,ck-
ward Tor while. Backward, dld [
SAY No, forward, III favor of reform,
reuncinR taxation to the wants of "A
government economically administered
"nat are you going TO collect any more
tor Why should We have extraordi-
nary taxation 10 years after We have
passed away from a condition of war
Passing from this subject. Hendricks
said: The Republican party, under the
leadership of the chisftains who are at
ltS haad haUa fxor nd. .aA
tally their old friends, the Germans,
and they are laying hold of nv Irish
friends with a Zeal that is absolutely
beautiful. Cheers.l What have the
Germans done that they should be
abandoned by the Republican party
thnsf The only fault | know of In the
German Is that when he lived in Ger
many beside the Rhine he thought he
had right to decide for himself what
be would eat and drink and W wherewithal
he should be clothed. What say nv
German friends, IL prohibition right or
wrong?
A voics-Wrong.
Wrong, of course IL is. In my State
the Democracy has fought this battle
out on the idea that whether . man shall
take a drink Of beer or whisky belongs
to himself to decide.
Ihe Governor then recited at length
the kozsta case, in the administration
OF Pierce. and the McSweeney case, In
1881, when Blaine was Secretary of
otate, as tending to show which party
was the true friend Of the foreign born
citizen. Concerning the latter case he
said: In the month of June, 1882,
shortly before Dir. Garfield received his
deadly wound, McSweeny, an Irishman
by birth, having Six or seven American
born children, however, and having
lived IN San Francisco in pursuit of a
legitimate trade for II years, having
been completely naturalized and bear
ing all the honors of American citizen
ship, thought he would return for his
health to Ireland. He did 80, and in
the month of June was arrested in Ire
land by British oonstables and landed
IN British jail. No charge was pre-
fSrred against him no violation of law
was charged. DE was seized a free
man. Until then, without fault, with
ont crime, without any violation of
English law whatever seized and
thrown into a hideous dungeon. HIS
wife wrote letter to the State Depart
ment at Washington, informing the
Secretary of state that her husband
was then under arrest and imprisoned
without fault, without crime, without
charge. The letter was received ut the
State Department in Washington on
the 10th day of August. James q.
Blaine was then Secretary of State, and
WAS then acting IA President of the
United States, and Mr. Garfield was
laneuishing upon his bed of pain. That
letter was unopened, as far AS We know.
IL was at least unanswered. II never
Was known no long as Elaine continued
In the State Department, and he re-
laained until the month of December,
that being received in the August be-
fore. Four months he neglected an
appeal made by woman in a dis
tant land, applying to him for
the honor OF his country,
fer justice, for law, for the dignity of
her citizenship, that her husband should
te relieved. IL was CONDITION of ex-
press written law. fhe statutes OF the
country in force made il the duty of the
President. whenever any person from
this country should be held in unlawful
Imprisonment, to demand the cause of
Imprisonment, and il the answer did
not Justify the imprisonment. he should
demand a release; and yet Blaine was
uAsntnk, AN tuey say was American aS
they say; not a bit Irish, as | say.
Laughter. He neglected TO answer it.
aud during the whole of the four
months that he held that high office
and controlled the seal of our country,
no answer WAS made, and no instruc
tions were sent to oar Minister at Lon
don; and McSweeney did not come ont
of Jail till the spring following, under
another administration of the State
Department. am not speaking on
this subject to Irishmen. ! am speak
ing to my fellow citizens, to every man
who feels prouder and stronger when
the flag of his country floats over him.
To all such say. "Will you endorse the
conduct of Blaine. or will you rally un
der the banner which Marcy, under the
Pierce administration, erected over Us
air.
Governor Hendricks closed with an
allusion to the manner of his nomina-
tlou, and with q strong appeal 70 the
Democrats to carry Ohio in October, as
that would decide the contest in Novem-