Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-28
SENATOR HOAR'S TRIBUTE TO
JAMES G. BLAINE.

If there is any man in Massachu-
sets who should cherish any resent
ments to Mr.. Blaine for his alleged
disparagement of the old Bay State,
it is Senator Hoar; but the following
is his tribute to his friend and the
republican nominee for president:
The republican party has nominated it's
candidates and framed its platform. Your
delegates, in obedience to what they be-
lieved to be the wish of their constituents,
voted for distinguished statesman from
Vermont. But we are bound to say that
there never was a nomination made under
circumstances more entitled to respect.
The unit rule, which formerly threatened
to trammel the free choice of the people,
was overthrown. The holders of Office
were in almost solid column for another
candidate. 1 do not believe that until
within few days Mr.. Blaine either
sought or expected the result. 1t was
the irrepressible act of the people who
chad eyes and chose him."
Look at the states and the communities
who have made this choice. They are
| the very flower of America. You have
| thought that an educated people was fit
| to choose it's own rulers, Maine and Iowa,
| standing at the head of civilized commu-
| mites in this respect, led the column for
this nomination. The states of the great,
free northwest, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
| the first born of our freedom; Kansas and
Nebraska, fruits of your later conflict
with the slave power; the agricultural
| portions of New York and Pennsylvania,
Oregon and Washington, the larger New
England which is coming into life on the
| Pacific-it is these whose free voices
have spoken. Let me read to you where
the votes came from: California, 16 Hi
nois, "a; Indiana, 3d. Iowa, "a; Kansas,
Is; Maine, II; Michigan, %; Minnesota,
IA; Nebraska, 10; New Jersey, II; Ohio
AS; Oregon, s. Pennsylvania, 81; Rhode
Island, {; Wisconsin, 22 New York, 80
total, 365.
These are 365 of the All votes which
made choice.
Fellow citizens, this is the nomination
of what is best in our American life L
is the nomination of what is best in hu
man society the round world over. 1t il
the nomination of the great free states
, 1t is the nomination of the church and o
/ the school house. 1t is the nomination o
: the men who own and till their own farms
) 1t is the nomination of the men who per
f | form the skilled labor in the shops. It'll
: | the nomination of the soldier, of the me
r who went to the war and stayed a
' through. 1t is the nomination of tn
men who paid the debt and kept the cul
Y rency sound, and saved the nations hor
S or. 1t is the nomination of the men VIII
: saved the country in war and who mad
e it worth living in in peace. This, fello,
: citizens, is the s'riff-raff Of the republica
). party that surrounds James G. Blaine"
l. The people knew well what they wei
d doing. Mr.. Blaine, if we except our gres
l. soldiers, has been for nearly twenty yea
y the most conspicuous personal present
in the country. He has dwelt in his sir
d pie American home in Augusta and Was
is ington with wife and children. Into Il
j. inmost recesses of his life blazing lig
e, has been constantly poured. He is t
ld choice of what is best in character al
$. what is most progressive in opini'
| fb6 ,hoIo
OF men tell us that he has done nothing
r memorable public service. 1 had thong
L. otherwise. had thought him one of t
very greatest of the great leaders W
have conducted the American peol
at along the difficult pathway of danger a
of glory which they have travelled for [
= past twenty years. l had thought
n0 hand was found in the framing of the L
re and 10Th amendments. / had thong
an indeed had known, that he was in
re- very inmost councils when the resar
NO ton act was framed, and that his In
- ence carried it through the house o
i which he presided. / had thought t
% he had been speaker of the house of I
III. resentatives during six crowded
1u- eventful years. had thought that amt
eir the great orators of the country he
will been the very greatest and most pers
sive in the debate which satisfied
American people to take up the he
jus burden of the debt to take its cure
ent undepressed and its credit safe. l
md thought that when, in Maine, the an
,rt- tious larceny OF the democratic party
dertook to pilfer a whole state gov,
ment at once, it was his leadership t
are NV neacetp, and lawfuI methods b.,
nat the conspiracy and saved the state.
remember, too, the next year, when