The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-19
BLAINE'S BA-A-A!
What the Great Defeated
Thinks he Knows.
AND WHY HE WAS BEATEN.
4 Frantic Waving of the "BIoody
Shirt" Which People Have Heard
Until They Are Tired.
BIaine's BIeat.

AUGUSTA, Ne, November ia large
number of devoted personal and politi-
cal friends of Blaine serenaded him this
evening, as an expression of personal
good will and admiration of his conduct
in the national campaign. They
marched through the streets under the
marshalship of Colonel Frank Nye.
When they reached Blaine's house their
compliments and friendly regards were
expressed in speech by Herbert NJ.
Heath, Esq, of Kennebec Bar. Blaine
responded as follows, his speech being
continually interrupted by applause:
Friends and NeiqhbOrS: The national
contest is over, and by the narrowest of
margins we have lost l thank you for
your call, which, if not one of joyous
congratulations, is one, l am sure. of
confidence and of sanguine hope for the
future. l thank you for the public OPP
portunity you give me to express my
sense OF obligation, not only to you, but
to all the Republicans of Maine They
responded to my nomination with gen
ulne enthusiasm, and ratified it bv a
superb vote I count it as one of the
hOnOrs and qualifications of my public
career that the party in Maine, after
struggling hard for the last six years,
and twice in that period losing the State,
has come back in this campaign to the
old-fashioned 10000 plurality. No other
expression of popular confidence and
esteem could equal that of the people
among whom | have lived for thirty
years, and to whom | am attached by
all the ties that enuOble human nature
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Maine, indeed along with Maine, my
first thought is always of Pennsylvania.
But the achievements for the Republi-
can cause in the east are even surpassed
by the splendid victories in the west. In
that magnificent Gordon OF States that
stretches from the foothills
of the AIleghenies to the Golden
Gate of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio
and ending with California, the Re
publican banner was borne so loftily
that but single State failed 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 50
much Encouragement and obstacles,
who fought foes from within and foes
from without, and who waged so
strong battle that the change of one
victory in the nation. Indeed, the
change of little more than 5000 votes
would have transferred New York,
Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut
TO the Republican standard. and
would have made the north as
solid as the south. Ny thanks would
still be incomplete, if / should fail to
recognize, with special gratitude, that
great body of wOrkingmen both native
and foreign born, who gave me their
earnest support, breaking from old per-
sOnal and party ties and finding in the
the principles which l represented in
the canvass, the safeguard and protec-
ton of their own fireside interests. The
result of the election, my friends, will
be regarded in the future, think, as ex-
traordinary. The northern States, leav-
ing out the cities of New York and
Brooklyn from the count, sustained
the Republican cause by majority of
more than 100000, almost half million
indeed of the popular vote. The cities of
New York and Brooklyn threw their
great strength and influence with the
solid south and were the decisive ele-
ment which gave to that section the
control of the national government.
Speaking not at all as defeated candi-
date, but simply as loyal and devoted
American, l think the transfer of the
political power of government to the
south is a great national misfortune
tits a misfortune, because il introduces
an element which cannot insure har-
mony and prosperity to the people,
because 1t introduces into the Republic
the rule of minority. The first instinct
of an American is equality: equality of
right, equality of privilege, equality of
political power; that equality which
says TO every citizen: "Your vote is
just as good, just as potential as the
vote of any other" That cannot be
said to-day in the United States. The
course of affairs in the south has crushed
out the political power of more than g.
000, 900 American citizens and has trans.
ferred it by violence to others. Forty
two presidential electors are assigned TO
the south on account of the colored
populat ton, and vet the colored popula-
ton, with more than 100000 legal
voters, have been unable to choose a
single elector Even in those States
where they have a majority OF more
than 100000. they are deprived of
free suffrage, and their rights as citizens
are scOrnfully trampled under foot.
The eleven States that comprised the
rebel confederacy had, by the census of
1880, 100000 white population and
:, 800, 900 eolored population The col
ored population, almost to a man. de
sire TO support the Republican party,
but by system OF cruel intinii-
dation, and by violence and
murder, whenever violence and muir
der are thought necessary, tbev
are absolutely deprived of ali political
power If the outrage stopped there II
would be bad enough. 1t does not stop
there, for not only is the negro popula-
ton disfranchised, but the power which
rightfully and conStitutionally belongs
to them is transferred to the white pop
ulatiOn, enabling the white population
OF the south TO exert an electoral infiu-
ence far beyond that executed by the
same number OF white people in the
north. To illustrate just how it works
to the destruction OF all fair elections,
let me present to you five States in the
late confederacy and five loyal States
in the north, possessing in each section
the same number of electoral votes: In
the south the States OF Louisiana Miss