Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-10-31
ELAINE AT FORT WAYNE.

rhe Republican Candidate strikos a New
Load Mt Fort wayne and Talks or the
noiidsouth. Nf
Mr.. Blaine was accorded grand re-
ception at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the
goth. Tho burden OF his remarks at
that point was the solid South and the
menace that condition indicated toward
the rest OF the States. He said:
"Cltlzens OF Indiann-The October elections
In Ohio and Wost Virginia have put new
phase on the National contest, or, rather, they
party, as Of old, consider, now that they have
got tho South solid again, that they will surely
get l53 Electoral votes from the sixteen
hope or thcy drcam that they may eccurc
New York and Indiana, and that with Now
York and Indiana added TO tho solid South,
they will seizo the Government OF tho Nation.
[Cries of grhoy can't do it, 'never.J do not
boliove that the farmers, the business mon,
the mainufacturrers, the merchants, the
not believe that tho soldiers of Indiana can be
put TO that use. tGrent cheering and cries of
men who added luster and renown to TO the the
name of your State through four years of
bloody war can be used 10 call TO tho admin
lstrnticn OF the Government rebellion. lCries
IN tho SO senate 81 the United States tho
Democratic party have thirty-seven members,
south. or their strength in the House of
Representatives, the majority comes from the
South and nSW the Intention Is with an ab
south, added to tho votes of the two States
have named, to seize the Government of the
g1p of bs s not Be SopS that
great deal 1t means that, as the South fur
nishes threefourths Of the, Democratic
Of the Nation in the event Of a Democratic
triumph. 1t means that the great financial
and industrial systems of the country
of the South; that our currency, our
banks, our tariffs, our internal revenue
laws, in short, that our whole system,
ponds, shall be placed under the control of
that section. 1t means that the constitutions
nj amendments to which they are so bitterly
opposed, shall be enforced only so far as they
may believe in them; that the National credit,
as guaranteed in the Fourteenth amendment
the payment of pensions to the soldiers of the
Union, as guaranteed In the same amendment,
shall be under their control, and what that
control might mean can be measured by the
resisted by the Democrats of the South.
There ls not one measure of banking,
of tariff, Of finance, of public credit. of
upon which the Government is conducted
to-day, to which the Democrats of the South
are not recorded as hostile, and to give them
control would moan change tho like of
which has not been known in modern times.
1t would be as If the dead Stuarts were re-
called to the throne of England; as if the
Government of the French Republics; as
though tho Florentine Dukes should be called
back and empowered to govern the great
cheers.l Such n triumph would be a fearful
misfortune to the South itself. That section,
under the wise administration of the Govern
mcnt by the Republican party has been stead
lily and rapidly gaining for the past ten years
in nll the elements of material prosperity. 1t
has adden enormously to It's wealth since the
clOep n thn and has lbarpd fully m ha
general advance of the country. To call that
section now to the rulership of the Nation
economy, would rekindle smoldering passions,
and, under the peculiar leadership to which 1t
would be subjected, 1t would organize an ad
ministration of resentment, of reprisal, of re
venge No greater misfortune than that could
come to the Nation or to the South. Itwould
come as reaction against the progress of lib
rapid that the Republicans are waging
terests arc not demonstrably identified
the baleful spectacle Of a solid South, I
am sure that Indiana will protest, and, on the
whole, will conclude to stand where she has
stand where you stood In the war; that you
will stand for the principles and policies which
have made your State bloom and blossom as
the rose, and which have made the American
Republic in manufactures, and in agriculture,
the leading nation of the world fgreat cheer
| ingl; the leading nation of the world not
and philanthropic sense-a country in which
every man has rs good a chance as every
other man, and which, among other gifts,
bestows absolutely free suffrage. [Cheers. ]
You enjoy that suffrage and op the 4th
day of November next you, are to say
for which party, for which policy, you will
cast your votes. loud cries of 8 For Blaine,
For Bane;l Not me, personally. .Yes,
Yes.1 No, am not speaking for myself. No
man ever met with misfortune in being de-
feated for the Presidency, while men have
met with great misfortunes in being elected
to it.. am pleading no personal cause. 1 am
pleading the cause of the American people
| lCries of That's it, and cheers;l / am plead.
| ing the cause of the American farmer and the
| American manufacturer, the American me
| chanc and the. American laborer against the
world. [Cries of Good Good Good and
| great cheering.l l am reproached by some
excellent people for appearing before these
| multitudes of my countrymen upon the
ground that it is Inconsistent with the dignity
| of the office for which am named. [Cres o.
| No., MOL 1 do not feel it to be so. There /;
| not a courtier in Europe so proud but that ht
| is glad to uncover his head in the presence o.
| his sovereign; so uncover in the presence Of
the, only earthly Sovereignty I acknowledge
| and bow with pride to the free people o
| America" [Great and prolonged cheering.