St. Paul daily globe., 1884-10-24

striving for the industrial development of
that naturally rich section of the Union
which recognizes the necessity. of
tBrlff for protection, which costs the bitter
memories of the civil conflict behind, and
which is hopefully struggling in Virginia, in
North Carolina, in Tennessee, and in other
states of the late confederacy. This element
includes many men who served in the Con-
federate armies. 1t naturally affiliates with
the Republican party and it seeks TO lead the
people away from the prejudices of the past
to contemplation of the majestic future
which wise and magnanimous action NAV
bring to the south in common with the
north. The old south represents the spirit
of the rebellion and cherishes the sentiments
of sullen discomfort, is perpetually reaffirm-
ing its faith in the rights of ''the lost
south" 1t is full of bitter reproaches
against those who triumphed in the war for
the Union, regards negro suffrage with alb
horrence, maintains the ''white line' and is
ready to use whatever amount of intimida-
ton or violence may be necessary to preserve
its official and personal mastery in the
south. 1t is unquestionably dominant
in all the old slave states and
is open and avowed in affiliation with the
Democratic party of the north 1t consti-
tutes three-fourths of the effective Demo-
critic strength in the nation, and in the
event of Democratic triumph would be in
absolute and aud undisputed control of the
government. The struggle of the Republi-
cans is for the amelioration, Improvements
and progress of the SOUTH as well as of the
north, but they are confronted everywhere
by the determined and hitherto
triumphant southern Democrats. The
aim of the Democratic party, as 1
have already said is to conjoin the electoral
votes of New York and Indiana with the
electoral votes of the sixteen southern states
and it is for New York and Indiana to con-
slider just what that means, aud where it
would carry them. New York has greater
stake than that of any other state in the I'm
ion in maintaining the sound principles of
the government in upholding the national
credit in perpetuating the financial system
which embodies the matured wisdom
of the past twenty years. In sus-
tanning the protective policy Indiana has a
stake less than that of New York only as he
population and wealth are less. Do the citi-
zens of these two states fully comprehend
what it means to trust the national credit,
the national finances. the national pension,
the protective system, and all the great irl-
terests which are under the control of they
national government; to the old south with |
its bitterness, its unreconciled temper, its
narrowness of vision, its hostility to all
northern interests, its constant long
ing to revive an impossible party,
its absolute incapacity to meas
ure the sweep of our great future?
The north and the south, under Republican
administration, the government viii ulti-
mately bring into harmonious relations. In
the past ten years great progress has been
made toward that result, and the next ten
years may witness the effacement of all hos
tile lines and the absolute triumph of lust
and magnanimous policies. But all pros
pect of that result would be defeated and de-
stroyed by giving the old south possession
of the national power. Among the first of
the baleful effects that would follow
would be the crushing out of all
liberal patronage in the south, and
the practical nullifcation of all
that has been gained by the reconstruction
laws which followed the rebellion. The
people of New York and the people of In
diana are now asked to aid in bringing about
that deplorable result, to be followed by the |
Abandonment or the reversal of the great
financial and industrial policies under which
the nation has prospered so marvellousIy
since the close of the war. DO not, can |
not believe that you will do it, because such |
a course is forbidden by every instinct of |
patriotism, as well as by every consideration |
of enlightened self interest At Brazil. in
the Indiana coal mining district. there |
was great meeting, composed largely of |
miners. Mr.. Blaine made short speech on |
the tariff, which was very favorably received |
and when at the end he remarked that his |
auditors were free agents and suggested that |
those who preferred English free trade ought |
to vote with the Democratic party, there |
were loud shouts of ''no, no, never s'we |
are down on England"
At Green Castle there was another great |
meeting, where Blaine spoke substantially as
he had at Terre Haute.
AT CrawfordsVille he made brief speech |
in the course of which he paid tribute to |
the character of Henry s. Lane, whose home
was there.
1t was almost dark when the train arrived |
at Lafayette. Here Mr.. Blaine was received |
by an enthusiastic crowd. who pressed
around his carriage so closely that its pro-
gress was very slow. He was escorted to a
stand where he made speech similar to the
one at Terre Haute. He was then driven to
the house of Gen. Geo. B. Williams, where
he dined and will spend the night In the
evening he reviewed large torch light pro-
cession. Tomorrow he goes to Springfield,
Illinois. E,E
Peoples Dakota Convention.
TSnecial Tala0rarn fr ,ha (1ioho1 4