Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-19
BLAlNE'S BITTERNESS.
HiS Astonishing Speech Before His
Fellow -POWlSmGn.
The Dsspairing Cry Of Stranded
Hopes.
The Bevengeful InveCtive Of
Thwarted Ambitions.
His Sad Betrayal Of Bitter Dis
appointment.
StuDg to Resentment By the
Pangs of Defeat.
Blaine's Ante-Bellum TRADE Against
the south and Language of
Sinister Menace.
BLAINE AND HIS NEIGHBoRs

BLAINE AND HIS NEIGHBORS
AUGUSTA, November 1S.-A large number
of the devoted personal and political friends
of Blaine serenaded him this evening as an
expression of personal good will and adpirs-
tion for his conduct in the national campaign.
In response to the speech of one of his friends,
Blaine said: Friends and neigh bors-The
national contest is over, and by the narrowest
of margins, we have lost. thank you for
your call, which, if not one of joyous con-
gratulations, is one, am sure, of confidence
and of sanguine hope for the future. 1 thank
you for tho public opportunity you give me
to express my sense of obligation, not only to
you, but to all republicans of Maine. They
responded to my nomination with genuine
enthusiasm and ratified it by a superb VOTE
1 count it as one of the honors and gratitca-
tions of my public career that the
party in Maine after struggling hard
within this period losing. the state has ccme
back in this campaign by 10000 plurality
No other expression of popular confidence and
could equal that of the people among whom
have lived for thirty years and to whom 1 am
attached by all the ties that ennoble human
uabuTb RlNt JDy duu ulBuiby 10 lltb AL
ter Maine-indeed, along with Maine-my
first thought is always of Pennsylvania How
can fttingly express my thanks for chat I'M
paralelled majority of more than so. 600 votes
II popular endorsement which has deeply
touched my heart aud which has, If possible
increased my affection for the grand
old commonwealth, an affection which
I inherited from my ancestry and
which l shall transmit to my children. But
l do not limit my thanks to the state of my
residence and state of my birth. I owe much
to the true and Jealous friends in New Eng
land who worked so nobly for the republican
party and its candidates and to the eminent
scholars and divines who, stepping aside from
their ordinary avocations, made my
cause their cause and to loyal
ty and principle added the compliment
OF standing as my personal representatives in
the national struggle. But the achievenen
for the republic III cause in the east even
surpassed by the splendid victories in the
west. In that magnificent cordln of states
that stretches from the foothills of the
Alleghenies to the Golden Gate of the
Poetic, beginning with Ohio and ending with
California, the republican banner was borne
SO loftily that tut single state fai' ed to join
in the wide acclaim of triumph. Nor should
| do Justice TO- my own feelings
if / failed to thank the republicans
of the Empire State who encountered
many discoura2ements and obstacles,
who fought the foe from within and the foe
rom wlthouC anu Who wageu so serong pat
tie tnaI chahge oi ene vote IN every Two
thousahu w9u,u nave glSeh US a. victofy IN the
aI,on. no ihueeJ, N more ehah
Indiana, New Jersey and Come sticut to the
republican standard and would have made
the north as scld as the south. My thanks
would still be incompetent 1 should fail to
recoenize r3 with special gratitude that great
oo1y l "orKlngmeh' Doth native
anu anu ioreigh poin VINO gave me
Ine.l earnest supPoIG pleahlns rom al
peisonIi persona, anu plrIy sies anu II nudine IN tne
prihropes winch S tepresenIeu III the CANVASS
s"iesua H'u ,pi PLo~'oe1lpn ~ " sueir own hre-
slae lh1eIeiIs. iI lne result OF the eiecI2n my
lliehas wiz pe reg Sraeu I'd tle future, thihK
as eHItaoluihary. or. Ne M hoySh STATES, leaV
tnB ouI Une ol..es oi Sew ork anu brooklyn,
troii Sne oGn' sus.aineu Cae teptU,icaii cause
ny na;TiiSy ;I;y u oa hoe snHn ioO'Vot aiin9st n
nitta attt ~ W' uiuIeu VI PoPuar sGtes me
crraet st..t 'I ana Dloohiyn tnie" Ihsis
ssutb and Snra aH tha dao;S;. ~i. "I Sae gona
800 t .at .o 'eI,ai'e eieii9h' wh.Gn M
Sat;onaI oonsrrn,eut Tnau snsal,in. r ro u 1ne
III "n s;o % - "1S: Po"nins INV, ho1 h'
inrai ond uoa dn,'etaS Suios, a,n Itt siaPly as
fay ns tha ,IN .ne tfans
80 T. s. ~ .iio aou'i 10 haetoi"i
tnnd'aos 1o't oecauno i" III
O,,,, 81 a., aaa,;. ~ iIsute mar
;....l'l,,,a. =. - .L - S1.--.-In -
ilrto TI vie iepupnc tiie rue ol the
- ino niSt ihs.ih ~ VI an Aneilcan
10 'y-equi'y VI tiHh', equaiCy Oh
Pi;no, Vi Pot'o'e" Po"eiuSua0
,dta ~ 80 "Aaen 1 nay1 ~ e'siy , oiTn?n, our
,,ote 'uSO 40 b tbon Juso aS Pl Ppii'cai as Ihe
81 ~ da'ry 'i tba Ir;tI%t ihAH m oai'io1 pe
ss'u ~ .iie " ohiteuoIaIes. t Inc course
i;tani ~ ene sou'ii ifas ciusheu ouS the po-
In;II;n, I,tIai pomei vi more thah SIX
,Jn ,ran0farrod AnefiSan !. hs i.iSens, ana mas
Tar,Ttwo 'iHiehce tinet 70 ene osher
tba SSth on eccnnt nf th Sae assgneu "
t;nn W;th 49, tho.' ~ neo on Siofeu PoPula
hora hsen mnahIe W ehan,se ,0oooo1 i1sai noeo'
Even in those statss wbera tbau hasS,a eno;or' ;
itv of more than bnndred }bnnsona iAaIo,, atnr
are denriyed of free snffr.ae and tbeir oroy
citi1ans are scornfnIiv froJdan ,,ndass So
The aIsyan states tb AZ conanr;Sa tha roIa,i;"'.
confederaev had by ths cansns of 1870 savsn
and a half million whits nannIatibn and
4 400 q a coIorad nonmiat;orp p"Ran RTha nilorad "
ponnlation almost tn man dasi,a 70 snnnort
The Republican marty hnt bv - sv.tein of
cruel Intimidation and NV yo enee
and murder ,yhensy.r ,,;oIonoo yo,d 49,