Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A BRILLIANT SCENE At The Banquet At Del
 monico's. BUSINESS AND THE ARTS Seated At The Festive
 Board. MIR. BLAINE 0UTD0ES HIMSELF. The Strongest Speech Of
 His -Four.
BLAINE AT DELmON1CO,s.

Business, the Arts and Sciences-NIass
 ter Minds of American Progress do
 Honor to the Coming President
 MT. Blaine Makes a Powerful Ad-
 dress-A Notable Event of the Cam
 paign.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-A large number of clergymen visited Mir Blaine at the Fifth av- enue Hotel to-day, and were received in the gentlemen's parlor. The Rev. Dr. James King, of the Eighteenth street M. E. church, called the assembly to order. The Rev. pr. Burchard, of the Murray Hill Presbyterian church, chosen chairman and Rev. Dr. McArthur secretary. Dr. King then pre- scented series of resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Blaine and Logan, expressing belief in the purity of their personal charac- ters; protesting against the coronation of conceded personal impurity as represented by the head of the Democratic ticket; declaring his nomination an insult to Christian civili- zation; opposing the putting of a premium upon disloyalty as represented by the candi- date for the vice presidency of the Democrat ic party and expecting their fel- low citizens to cast one vote for every sacred interest of our beloved country by voting the RepubI- can ticket at the ensuing election. MT. Blaine after several of the reverend gentle men had made brief remarks responded in substance as follows:
 Mir. chairman and reverend gentlemen-This is altogether very remarkable assemblage, renarka- ble beyond any of which have known in the histo- ry of political contests in the United States and it s,,1 does not & need my personal assurance that you do not feel that speaking to these hundreds of men merely eot am speaking to the great then and as they represent the great Christian which you say to me and of the influences which you tender to me. Were it to me personally I confess the weight of confdence Whichit carries but know that is extended to the representative of the Ra11nony With the churches The Republican party from it's very outset stood upon the impregnable slavery and itstood that platform until it dragged by thehos1lty it provoked into larger bloody conflict Hi-''- to maintain it. From that onward I defy any man to point can co pH Which eouid not theenge ehe he appreciation Of Christian ministers and the approv CTS here has said Inarrowed the issue when spoke of it's coming down to question of the tariff, did it, that great history of this party. Men can no more separate party from it's history than you that the great conflict of 1881 closes with the people of the United States standing face to face in the two parties, saying whether they will adhere to that policy of protection which has trebled the wealth of the United States in twenty years, whether they will abandon it and return more to the theory of free trade. It in wolves other issues too No nation can grow so powerful as this has grown and is growing without continually enlargng it's relations with other tions. The policy of the United States in the past and in the future must be one, in my judgment, which draws nearer within the circle of the sympathes of the United States those other struggling republics of North and South America, which bring them first into trade relations and then into closer personal and moral relations.