Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-10

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your best thanks in the administration which
your candidate viii give the country.
| Ag.in, gentlemen. bid you Welcome. As
thends OF James G. Blaine you need no other
city of his home.
| Col. Horace Davis. chairman of the Cal
ifornia delegation, responded in an effective
manner and vas greeted With cheers.
Ex-soverner Davis
| NJ Chairman, Feiior Citizens of Maine.
ana fettoH RepH5iieans In behalf of the
California delegation and of the delegation of
sne racine slope. thank you from the bot
tom OF my heart for this very kind and hos
PIAnie welcome. I say delegation of the
acme slope, because We have with US men
nom Nevada and from other portions of the
racine slope who are as earnest as we are :;
VINO are as Jealous workers as we are; who
are as warmly entitled to your welcome as
we are. California clasped hands with you
across the continent in our earnest desire to
90 the same work. We are Joined together
IN one purpose, in one determination. and our
nearts beat in unison while we are working
ior tnat result Our people. | can assure
you, are terribly in earnest. Applause.
Ihey have been in earnest for a long time
Ihey began this thing in 20 and sent
SOLID delegation for James G Blaine
eight years ago. Applause. In 1880
some OF their men having failed them in 1876,
they again sent solid delegation. and not
SATISFIED with pledges. they gave them cast
IRON instructions. Laughter. Vote for
Blaine, first, last and all the time GAp-
plause. And so when we came on this time
they told US not to come back unless we
Drought Blaine. You perceive the circum
! stances under which We came, and the neces-
slty we felt OF carrying out those instructions,
we mad everything on our trip which would
inspire Us. When we came across Iowa il
was all ablaze with enthusiasm, from one
end OF the State to the other-receptions
bands Of music, companies of soldiers
everything in the nature of a warm and hearty
| greeting, and we were assured that their
hearts throbbed for Blaine. When we arrived
al chicago and went into that convention we
saw the enthusiasm there, and when the
name of Blaine was mentioned in that mighty
temple, $1,000 people rose to their feet with
| cheer upon cheer They waved their banker
chiefs and hats, and saw one man who took
OH his hat and his boots and threw
them into the air Laughter. He could
not find words in which to express his feel
ings. We were very much in earnest in this
matter. We meant to win, because our
| AN@'sS "SlC All luC WOTh. auu DcCdusc We uc-
lieved we were right. We believed that
James G. Blaine was the choice of the re-
publican party. We believed that ma
Jority of the party had already signified their
determination that he should be the nominee
OF their party for the presidency, and we felt
that we were entitled to demand his nomina-
tion of that convention. We have won, and
now permit me to add one more word before
close. You need not be worried about US.
We will take care of our side of the conti-
nent. Applause. You will know by No
vember how we take care of it. We will
carry California and Nevada We have al
ready carried Oregon on q preliminary cleo
ton, and we will carry it by an enlarged ma
Jority, for the name of Blaine will give US
thousands of votes that we could not have on
local election. If you will do as we'll in
September as Oregon has done in June 1 tell
you that when the time comes for the grand
crisis we will sweep the Union
as the prairie fire sweeps over
| the plain, and the work that was begun in
Chicago will be finished in November. and
the banner that we carried when we started
| from San Francisco we will throw to the
breeze again, and our motto shall end where
it began-Blaine and victory. [Applause.]
! Hardly had Col. Davis concluded when the
crowd, unable to restrain itself, gave three
stentorian cheers for the California delega-
at the top of their voices for Blaine and
Logan.
| Hon. Hannibal Hamln was the next
speaker He was received with a storm of
pithy speeches.
Ex-senator Hamitn.
| 1t stlrs tha blood of age and makes the
pulse beat and throb to be in a scene like
this. | rejoice to meet the gallant sons of
California who have made so gallant a fight
with the delegation of Maine, and who have
aided in accomplishing so important and
triumphant victory. 1t is such a triumph
as this country has never witnessed. 1t is a
triumph Of the people over the cohorts of or
ganized power. 1t wrs the raw militia against
the regular troops, and the volunteers won.
| You have acted wisely. We are happy to
greet you on this occasion. We will light
| our beacon fires which cover our hill tops,
and the freemen of Maine shall send up their
shouts from the valley. while our forests
shall be full of them. We will
prairie on fire. We appreciate most keenly
and most sincerely the gallant aid which the
Pacific coast has given us in joining hands
with the stalwart sons of Maine. You look
around you here and see the faces of those
who will appreciate your worth; who have
sympathized with you in all your efforts. We
| say 25, 900 majority for Blaine in Maine
| 1A voice-More. More, There is law
in Maine which Furnishes cruelty to animals.
and am not sure but that we should be iia-
BILE under that law if we exceeded that ma
jority. Lau9hter.l How We will send the
result of the election in Maine over the wire
to YOU good citizens of California who have
come here to join your cordial hands and
honest hearts with US. And we will sweep
not only California and Maine. but the Union
as we'll In the vocabulary of those en-
gagged in righteous cause as we are, there
is no such word as fail. and when the night
of our election shall be reached in November
next bear in mind that we are claiming here,
az YOU are in California, that right has tri-
umphed. and just principles have prevailed.
Applause
Judge Knight of the California delegation
delivered the next and final speech at the
depot Behold man of large frame and
commanding physique. dark hair and NOUS
tache. and a square resolute counteuance-
n -anrasant..;xa Californian His address