The Portland daily press., 1884-10-24
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
More Receptions and Great En-
thusiasm.
MIR. BLAINE's ABLE SPEECH AT
TERRE MAUTE. IND.

PEORIA, H., Oct. 23.-There was general
pubic demonstration hers last evening in
honor OF General Logan, public and private
buildings being protusely decorated. Over
6000 torch bearers MARCHED through the streets
AID 10000 people witnessed the procession.
There we're addresses at the wigwam.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. % Mr.. Blaine
left Eyausvllls at 80 this morning. The first
stop was at Sullivan. small station, where
there were about 1000 people assembled Mr.
Blaine made short speech aud was received
in the usual enthusiastic manner. At Terre
Haute there was a great demonstration. las
the train came intI tue city the steam whistles
IN factories and on locomotives sounded
welcome and when it reached the depot the
crowd received Mr. Blaine with wild cheers.
He was escorted by a ption committee
headed by the mayor to a carriage and drawn
in procession through the crowded city for
about an hour.
Upon returning 10 the depot he made
the following speech: The Southern question,
as for years it has been pupularly ttrmed, ia
Drecipitated into this canvass by the South it.
self aud to neglect to notiGe it would be to
overlook one OF he most powerful and dam
gerous factors in ths national contest. To un-
dersand that question properly it should be
remembered that there are politically two
Souths which We terln respectively the New
South and the Old South. The New South
represents that awakened liberal sentiment
which is stocking for the industrial develop
ment OF that naturally rich section of the Un-
ion, which recognizes the necessity of tar II
protection, when casts aside the bitter memo
ries of the civil conflict and which is hopefully
struggling in Virginia, North Caroina, Ten
nessee and other States OF the late Confedera-
co. This element includes many mon who
served in tbs Confederate armies and it natur-
ally afiliates with the Republican party and
seeks to lead people away from the prejadices
of the past to the contemplation OF the msjes-
tic future which wise and magnaDimous ac-
tion may bring to the South in common with
the North.
Tue Old South represents the spirit Of rebel
lion aud cherlSheS sentiments OF sallen dis
content: is perpetually reafirming its faith in
the rightfulness of the "lost cause; is full of
bitter reproach aud is against those who tri-
umphad in the war for the Union; regards me-
gro suffrage with abhorrence; maintains the
white line," and is ready to use whatever
amount of intimidation or violence may be-
come necessary to preserve its own gpolitical
and personal mastery in the South. 1t is un-
questonably dominant ia all the old slave
States aud it is in open and avowed affiliation
with the Democratic party in tha North. It
constitutes lhree-fourths OF the effective DEM
ocratic strength ia the Nation, and In the
event of a Democratic triumph would be iu
absolute and undisputsd control of the gov
ernment. The struggle of the Republicans is
the amelioration, Improvement and progress of
the South as we'll as the North but they are
confronted everywhere and resisted every
where by a Determined and hitherto trium-
pbant Southern Democracy.
The aim of the Democratic party, as have
already said, is to coDjoin the electoral votes
of New York and Indana with the electoral
votes of the sixteen Southern States, and it is
for New York and Iadiana to consider just
what this means and where it would carry
them. New York has greater stake than any
other State of the Union in maibt tanning sound
principles of government, in upholding the
nAl N nnia al
system which embodies the mature3 wisdom
of the past twenty years, in sustaining a pro-
teetive policy. Indiana has az stake less
than has New York only as her population
and wealth are less. The citizens of these two
States fully comprehend what 1T means to trust
national credits, national fuances, national
pensioning, the protective system and the
great interests which are in control of the na-
tional government TO the Old South with its
bitterness, its unreconcilable temper, its mar
rowness of vision, its hostility to all Northern
interests, its constant longing to revive an i'm
possible past, and its absolute incapacity to
measure the sweeping magnitude of our fu-
ture. (Great cheers
The North and South under a Republican
administration of the government will ulii-
mately come into harmonious relations. In
the last ten years great progress has been made
towards that, and the next ten years may Wit
ness the effacement of all hostile lines and ab-
solute triumph of just and msgnanmous poll
cies. (Renewed ehtering) But all prospect
OF that result would be defeated and destroyed
by giving the Old South possession of the na-
tional power. Among the first of the hateful
effects that won Id follow would be the crush~
ing out of all liberal progress in the South and
practical Dullifcstion of all that has been
gained by the reconstruction laws which fol-
lowed the rebellion
The people of New York and the people of
InIiaua ara now asked TO aid in bringing
about that deplorable result. 10 be followed by
the abandonment or reversal of the great hnan-
cial and industrial policies under which the
nation has prospered so marvelously since the
close of the war. (Cries of "Neyer!" "NeverP') }
I do not, cannot believe that you will do it,
because such course is forbidden by every in
stiDct of patriotism, as we'll as by every consid-
Grafton of enlightened self-interest (Cheers)
At Brazil, IN the Indiana coal-mining dis
trict, there was great crowd, composed large
ly Of miners. Mr.. Blaine made short speech
on the tariff, which was very favorably receiv-
ed, aud when at the end he remarked that his
auditors were free agents, and suggested that
those who preferred Euglish free trade ought
to vote with the Democratic party, there we're
loud shouts of "No, never!" "We are down on
England!"
At Greencastle there was another great
meeting at which Mr.. Blaine spoke substan-
TALLY as he spoke at Terre Haute.
At Charlottesville he made brief speech
in the course of which paid tribute to the
character of Hepry S. Lane, whose home was
there
It was almost dark when the train arrived at
Lafayette. Here MIR. Blaine was received by a
large crowd. He was escorted to the stand
where he made speech similar to the one at
Terre Rsute. He was then driven to the
house of Gen. George 3. Williams, where he
diced and will spend the night. In the eve-
ming he reviewed large torchligbt procession.
Tomorrow he goes to Springfield, Ill.
NEW WORK