The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-23
MR.. BLAINE'S DEPARTURE.
An Immense Crowd to Speed the Parting
Guest-NOtes and Incidents of His Visit.


received a number of callers at Senator Harri
sons residence, among whom were all the Pres
byterian ministers of the city, who We're indi
vidualy introduced to him. Hon. Stanton j.
Peele, W. II. II. Miller, Miss Laura Reams
John B. Elan and Barnabus c. Hobbs. The
latter was presented to Mr. Blaine as "a Friend
and the distinguished visitor said to him: MANY
Of your denomination in Maine are my personal
friends and have reason to be thankful to
them as a class of people" At breakfast, be
sides Senator Harrisons family Mr. Blaine and
and his son Walker, there were present Or. Nc
Leod, James A. Wildman, John B. Elan, ". II.
H. Miller, II. c. Adams and Hon. L. T. Mich
ener
Long before Mr. Blaine went to the Union
Depot, yesterday morning, there was an inn
mense crowd there, and by 10 O'Clock there were
probably 5000 people there. While awaiting the
arrival of the Plumed Knight, they listened to
brief and spirited addresses by Gov Porter,
Congressman Mckinley, of Ohio; Gen. G. NJ
Goodloe of Kentucky; and Fred Douglass
When Mr.. Blaine appeared on the rear platform
some one in the crowd shouted: Hats Off"
and instantly every hat was removed. and then
there was a great and prolonged outburst of
cheering, during which Mr.. Blaine stood bowling
to them. He held out his hand to command
silence, and, when he got chance to speak,
said:
81 very glad to have an opportunity this
morning, when am about to depart from your
city, to express to so many of the people Of In
annapolis the great obligation feel. the great
thankfuness | offer, for the magnificent recep-
ton given me here yesterday Cheers. 1t is
one of the events of my life, and will be cher
ished in my remembrance as long as life lasts"
The train left promptly at 10 o'clock amidst
the most enthusiastic cheering of the multitude,
and Mr.. Blaine's visit to indianapolis was over,
AN INCIDENT OF MR.. BLAISE's VISIT.
AS is generally known in this city, the late
Thomas D. Walpole was a cousin of Mr.. Blaine,
their mothe RS being sisters. Their relationship
has been well known and recognized on both
sides Yesterday evening Luke, Margaret G.
and Lizzie the children, accompanied by their
uncle, Judge Julian, called on Mr.. Blaine at
General Harrison's, and Rad an exceedingly
pleasant interview with him, receiving from
him much information to their family on
their fathers part, before unknown to them,
their father having died when they were small
The greeting to these orphan children was cor
dial and sincere, and demonstrated the possession
on Mr. Blaines part of heart as well as brains.
Pressed for time as he was, it was not ex-
pecUeQ ItlaJ ne S0Ou1d call on Lne1@ IN return,
but he could not forego the pleasure, or the
obligation imposed on him to do so, and, accord
ing to previous appointment, gave them
friendly call at their residence on North Illinois
street. yesterday morning, before his departure.
These attentions to the children of near rea-
tive from whom, politically be can expect
nothing prove the sincerity of his m olives and
the genuine worth of his nature.
HUGHES EAsTs AsINGNE BREAK.
After the street parade at night 300 or 400
persons sought shelter in the Bates House, and
something like Republican jollifcation meet
ing was held. Hon. J. Warren Keller, ex
Speaker of the House. was called out and made
brief speech from the steps in the hotel. w.
n. Whiteley, the commander of the Springfield
Plug hat Brigade who is proprietor of the steel
rail mills at Springfield. delivered q brief ad-
dress, and while he was speaking he was inter
rupted by Hughes East, the oracle of Indiana
Democracy, who asked why Mr.. Whitley had
closed his mills. Mr.. Whitley promptly
answered that the legislation of the Democratic
Congress had made it necessity. East showed
a disposition to do all the talking, and he was
placed on a chair and told to deliver the speech
He said that Ohio and Indiana are different
States and added II now serve notice upon
you that all the money and all the United
States marshals in the country can't steal Ind
ana from Thomas A. Hendricks" His little
speech was received with an outburst of laugh
ter. and after he had got down from the
chair he was hurried outside the hotel IF
Republican had interrupted a Democratic meet
ing in that way" remarked a gentleman who
was present at the time, he would have been
mobbed."
NOTES.
With fully so, 600 visitors in the city, on Tues
day, there We're no more arrests than on ordin-
airy days.
One thousand four hundred and seventy-five
passenger cars brought strangers into the city
to see Mr.. Blaine on Tuesday.
There were over one thousand voters from
Dayton, O., in the city on Tuesday, and they
were fine appearing body of men. The dele
cation was composed of three organizations the
Garfele Club the Business Mems Club and the
Sherman Club.
In yesterdays account of the street decora-
tons at the Blaine reception the Journal was
made to say that the banner Blaine shall be
Garfeds Executor" was put out by Mr.. Scarlet
Such was not the case; it was the work of the
employees of Merrill, Meigs & Co.
The Morton Club is composed of magnanimous
young men. They thought they were treated
shabbily by the eitizens' committee for Mr.
Blaines reception but in spite of this fact, the
train Tuesday took up collection of $50 and
gave it to that committee to defray the expenses
In his trip through Indiana Mr. Blaine has
aroused no greater enthusiasm among any class
of men than the railroad employees. In coming
out of Fort Wayne on Tuesday all the men at
the Wabash shops, several hundred in all. came
out and waved their hats and cheered until the
train was out of sight
Great credit is duo General James r. Carna-
han, the chief marshal of the street parades, for
his management of the almost unweidy crowds
that thronged the streets during the demonstra-
ton. The men in the procession in the after
noon were kept standing for over two hours
awaiting Mr.. Blaines arrival, and yet they were
kept in line. In the march from the train to
Military Park the columns were so arranged
that way was opened through the crowd, and
Mr.. Blaine's carriage was protected. Mr.. Blaine
said that the arrangement and the management
of the crowd was better here than any other
place he had visited.
Evening News: The Indianapolis trip has far
exceeded the expectations of the Blaine party in
the immensely of the crowds called forth. Mr.
Blaine, this morning repeated his remark to the
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