The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-07
Making Short Speeches En- Route, and at
Grafton Delivering Pointed and Pow
erful Argument on the Tariff,
In the Benefits of Which the Whole
South Is Invited to Participate.
Belief that the Democrats Are Soliciting
Campaign Funds in England-DemOc-
racy and Pensions for Rebel Soldiers.
MIR. BLAINE'S TOUR.
A Visit to West Virginia-A Powerful Argu-
ment for Protection.

| A Visit to West Virginia-A Powerful Argu-
| ment for Protection.
| PARAMOUNT w. Va, Oct. 6-Mr Blaine's
party left Wheeling at 8 o'clock this morning, by
special train over the Baltimore & Ohio road for
Grafton. AT the Wheeling depot there was quite
a demonstrative crowd, and as the train moved
slowly out of the city, workmen came out of the
shops and people out of their houses and
cheered The first stop was at Moundville,
where the chairman of the Republican State
committee introduced Mr.. Blaine, who was
well received. He said:
II am glad to meet the citizens of Marshall
county; am glad to be in West Virginia l con-
sider it one of the encouraging signs of the time
that earnest contest is going on, in what was
once slave State, for the ascendency of Re
| publican principles, and Republican principles
this year mean tariff for the protection of
American labor Cheers. If West Virginia is
in favor of that she is Republican, if she is op
| posed to it, she is not Republican. The decision
rests with her citizens know no State in the
Union more directly interested in the promotion
| of manufactures than your State. Your rich
beds of coal and iron, your vast forests, all your
| natural resources, favor great development of
manufacturing industries. They he de-
veloped under protective tariff; they cannot be
without it"
At Cameron, Littleton, Warrington, and
Pennington there were brief stops, and at each
point Mr.. Blaine spoke briefly of the Importance
to West Virginia of a protective tariff. At
Fairmont there was quite large meeting and
Mr.. Blaine left the train and addressed the pee
pie from stand. Here, as at all preceding
points, the people were very enthusiastic.
AT Cation there was q very large and remark
ably enthusiastic meeting The little mountain
town was packed full of people from the sur
stand, and Hon. John Mason introduced him
to the people, When the demonstrations with
which he was received had subsided, he said:
Citizens of West Virginia: As your distin-
| guished chairman has intimated | am not
| stranger to your State. | have known it per-
sonaly for more than thirty years and | have
known this section of it we'll l born
| the banks of yonder river, few miles below
the point where it enters Pennsylvania, and you
do not need to be told by me that there was al
ways unity of feeling among the inhabitants of
the Monongahela valley. Cheers. But l do
knew in my boy hood. The West Virginia of forty
years ago was comparatively a wilderness; the
West Virginia of to-day is as prosperous any
industrial center in the United States. APP
plause. West Virginia, as an independent Com
monwealth, began her existence during the
civil war, and at that day the most
liberal estimate of the total prop
erty according to the enumeration
/
800 900 900. In 1870 the census gave you an
aggregate of $3.50, 900, 900, and in 1880 it showed
that you possessed capitalized wealth to the
amount of $3.50, ,OOO OOO From the close of the
war to the year 1880 West Virginia had, there
fore, gained in wealth the enormous sum of
$3.50 600 600. You have Jared pretty well, there
fore, under Republican administration. Laugh
ter and cheers. Probably some political oppon-
ent does me the honor to listen to me, and
would ask him. as a candid man, what agency
was it that nerved the arm of industry TO smte
the mountains and create this wealth in West
Virginial 1t was the protective tariff [great
you good money. Renewed cheering. Before
the war you never had, circulating in your
midst, bank bill that would pass current 500
miles from home. Cries of That's so,' and
cheers. You do not day have single piece
of paper money circulating in West Virginia
that is not good all around the globe. GGreat
cheering. Not bill that will not pass as GER
tainly in the money markets of Europe as in
New York or Baltimore. So that the man who
works for days wages knows, when Saturday
night comes, that he is to be paid in good money.
Renewed cheers. Under the protective tariff
your coal industries and your iron industries,
and the wealth of your forests have been
brought out, and, it is for you voters of West
Virginia to say whether y ou want this to continue
or whether you want to try free trade. [Cries
of No, we don't.1 l make bold to say, with all
respect that there is not Democratic states
man on the stump in West Virginia conspc-
uously known to the Nation-I speak only of
those / know-who advocates protective tariff.
[Cries, Not one, Not one. go further-I do
not know Democratic statesman who will ac-
knowledge that tariff for protection is constitu-
tional, and therefore, honest men, they are
bound to oppose it. The Morrison tariff bill
[Cries we won't have it THE Morrison tariff
bill would have struck at the interests of West
Virginia in many vital points, and it is an amaz-
ing fact that the Representatives in Congress from
West Virginia voted for that bill. There is a
good old adage which beg to recall TO your
IL ~. II.
selves and if West Virginia is not willing to
sustain protective tariff by her vote and her
influence, she must not expect to be sustained
by others. If she wants the benefit of pro
tective tariff, she must give to protective tariff
the benefit of her support Cheers.
Il am glad that | am addressing Southern
people, a community that were Shareholders, a
community made up of those who were masters
and those who were slaves; but l am addressing
a slave State no longer. Great cheering. l
am appealing to the new South, and am appeal
ing to West Virginia not to vote upon tradi-
tion or a prejudice, not to keep her eyes to the
rear, but to look to the front and the future.
Cries, We will doit and wild cheering. If could
be heard, l would make the same appeal to
other Southern States-to old Virginia, to North
Carolina, to Georgia, to Alabama, to Tennessee
and to Louisiana They are all interested in
protective tariff, and the question is, which do
they prefer-to crafty prejudice or to promote
general prosperity West Virginia can lead the
way; she can break this seemingly impregnable
barrier Of the solid South. Cheers, and cries of
We will do it; we will do It. Solid on whatl
Solid on prejudice, solid on tradition, solid
upon doctrines that separate the different por
tions OF the Union, whereas invite you to join
in union, not merely in form, but union in
fact, and take your part in the solution of the
industrial and financial problems of the time.
Great cheering If West Virginia takes that
course on the l4th of October, she will do much
to settle the controversies that now agitate us.
"A repeal of the protective tariff according to
the terms of the Morrison bill. would cost West
Virginia vast of money. Between 1870
and 1880 you gained in this State 500, 100000.