The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-29
MIR. BLAINE IN NEW YORK.
Conclusion of the Tour-Speeches at Bing-
hamton and Port Jervis.

| Conclusion of the TOur-Speeches at Bing-
! hamton and Port Jervis.
| New YORK, Oct 28.-The special train bear
ing Mr., Blaine and party left Elmira promptly
at 8 A. NJ. The first stop was at Waverly, where
| there large gathering for so early an hour.
Mr.. Blaine spoke briefly upon the illustration
afforded by the State of New York of the bene
| fits of the protective tariff
1t was raining when the train reached Owego,
but there was very large meeting at the depot.
Mr.. Blaine stepped out on fiat car decorated for
the occasion, and was received in the usual en-
thusiastic manner. Elk Senator L. G. Platt in
troduced him Mr. Blaine said:
| Nothing has caused me more regret than
that pass through southern New York IN
raiD-storm Cries of We can stand the rain.
| wanted to meet the people without causing dis
| comfort to them; yet nothing has impressed me
more than the fact that at jamestown to this
hour, the rain has not suficed to quench or
abate the enthusiasm of the Republican masses.
| lGreat cheering AS said yesterday at James
| town. it shows that we are not dry-weather
party" Renewed cheering
Mr. Blaine spoke of the great growth in wealth
of the State of New York from 81 800 O0O, 900 in
1860 10 Sc 300, OOO 900 in $780, an increase great
er, relatively, than the increase of population,
and said that no intelligent man, Democrat or
Republican, would deny that it was due, in
| large degree, to the influence of the protective
tariff
| At Bnghamton the crowd and the enthusi-
asm were both immense. Mr. Blaine in his
speech, paid tribute to the memory of Daniel
s. Dickinson as patriot, which evoked great
applause. He spoke as follows
II am sure that no man who loves the Ameri-
can Union ever visit the city of Bnghamton
without an honorable remembrance of Daniel S.
Dickinson lcheers and no man who was con-
temporary with the great civil struggle which
involved the fate of American nationality can
ever forget the strength, the encouragement and
the enthusiasm which he brought to the loyal
cause when he forsook his party for his country.
lGreat cheering.
Not precisely in the same phase, but involv-
ing like issues is the contest in which we are en-
gagged to-day for, as we then confronted the
South arrayed in war against the Union, so we
confront it now in an attempt by great combi-
nation to seize the government of the United
States, and control it by the same men who re-
belled against it. The reason l refer to
that here and now is that that combination
will be absolutely Ineffective unless aided by the
vote of New York, and am sure that the county
of Broome and the valley of the Susquehanna
will enter an indignant protest against the En-
pire State, being taken out of the great Gordon of
free States always loyal to the Union to be
Joined with the States of the solid South.
Cries of You right, and cheers This is
not mere question of sentiment; it is not
mere question of patriotism. 1t is also ques-
ton of material interest. The triumph of the
South in this contest would mean the triumph of
free trade and the destruction of the protective
system. In the whole history of that marvellous
prosperity which has made New York the most
populous and most wealthy State in the Union
you have never made any progress comparable
to that which you have made since 1861.
When Buchanan, the last Democratic
President, went out of Office, tho wealth
e o-1-
the national census Twenty years later under
continuous protective tariff the enactment of
which was the first work of the Republican party
after it gained power your progress was so rapid
that your wealth had advanced from 81, 800 000-
900 to S. 800 600 O00 as shown by the census of
1880. Cheers. No such progress was ever
made before in the history of human govern
ment, and there is not an intelligent man of any
party who does not know that that progress was
in large measure due to the influence of the pro-
tective tariff. Renewed cheers Is New York
ready to give it upl Cries of MOI 'norl Is
New York ready to join the solid South for free
to stand by the Republican party and the pro
tective tariff? Cries of yesF yes!l l see you
realize your responsibility, and need no stimulus
from words of mine"
At Deposit after reciting the same facts as to
the great increase of the wealth of New York
from 1860 to 1880, Mr.. Blaine said ''There is
no intelligent Democrat who will not tell YOU
behind the door, that the most potent agent in
producing InlS marvellous prosperity has been
the protective tariff. Now. ask that intelligent
Democrat to come out from behind the door
onto the front steps, aid vote the Republican
ticket, because in that way, and in that way
alone can he aid in maintaining the protective
system" [Great cheers
AT Susquehanna, where the principal shops of
the Erie railroad are located there was great
crowd composed largely of workmen Mr.
Blaine spoke briefly of the benefits of the pro
tective policy to American labor
PORT JBRvIs TO JERSEY CITY
At Port Jervis Mr.. Blaine addressed the crowd
as follows
'"rhis town is a centre of railway industry
and l want to call the attention of the railway
men, who do the honor to listen to me- to
the fact that when the Republican party came
into power in the Nation there were not 80 900
miles of railway in the country. That was
900 miles, and the railway industry not
merely the capital employed in the running
of trains, but the general employment
of men, has increased in even larger
proportion than the four fold ratio
of the mileage of the roads, Is there any man
here who doubts that that outgrowth of the
railway system of the country is simply the ac
curate measure of the growth of the industries
of the country-industries whose growth was
stimulated by the protective TARIFF see before
me men engaged in various avocatons; some of
you in the railway business, some of you in
manufactures and some of you in farming but
there is not one of you whose prosperity is not
affec ted not whose Preside is not reached
by the influence of the protective tariff. Men
speak of the city of New York as in
terested in free trade because it is a great
commercial metropolis. Why, there are five
men-I do not know but might safely say that
there are ten men-in the city of New York,
whose bread depends ultimately upon protect
i've tariff, to every one who depends upon free
trade. We are in the habit of speaking of the
commercial cities as though they had interests
antagonistic to the protective system, but New
York had so nS l.nn